According to Wikipedia, China is as a country the third largest book publisher in the world, and some of these books have wonderful covers. Ephemera Assemblyman has a post with a great list of cool vintage chinese books covers.
Type designers often try to make analogies between fonts and people or other objects, for example “if fonts were humans” or “dogs as typefaces“. Mary Huang took this idea one step further, she created a software that turns your face into a font. Basically, what this program does is to translate your facial dimensions to turn it into a custom font. Check out the project on this page.
One of my favorite aspects of design in general is that it helps to improve the most commons items of our daily life. The following electric plugs and concepts illustrate this quite well, they all try to improve the usability and/or the look-and-feel of an appliance we use every day.
1. Plug & Play
Handing out your business card is a more crucial moment than it appears, it’s the perfect time for you to make a good first impression on your prospects. For your inspiration, take a look at these cool and creative business cards.
1. Apalacorp
Infographics are visual illustrations communicating information by means of signs, symbols, icons, maps and diagrams. When these graphics are animated they can be used to represent complex situations and tell stories, or they can address social comment, satire and subversion. At their best, infographics in motion can be informative, involving, funny and at times surprisingly touching. This post brings together fourteen examples of these stunning animations.
1. Grand Tour of the Known Universe
This is a truly awesome infographic animation revealing the scale of the known universe in relation to our home planet. Astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History have mapped and constantly update and maintain the Digital Universe Atlas, a four-dimensional map of the cosmos, created using the latest scientific data. Based on this map, the movie takes the viewer on a mesmerising voyage from the Himalayas to the furthest reaches of known space and time, with every galaxy, star, planet, moon and satellite accurately scaled and positioned according to current knowledge.
As consumers, we are literally overwhelmed with advertisement everywhere. Hopefuly, from time to time some advertising agencies get very creative and give us some very cool ads. The following examples are what I would call some very creative advertisements.
1. FedEx Express
Photography by Manolo Moran.
Paul Sumit is an excellent designer with skills in pretty much every field of visual design. Check out his portfolio and get inspired, also take a look at his blog.
E-commerce is a term used to describe buying and selling of products and services in the web. Unsurprisingly, because of the rise of modern technology, more and more people are indulging in e-commerce. Nowadays, organizations of all types are into creating their websites for expansion of business and of course for greater customer service. It’s quite important, for this type of interaction to customers, that the site will be user-friendly as possible. Undeniably, icons are far easier to understand and creates more life to the site. It also produces a feeling of invitation to explore the site more.
To all business-minded bloggers out there, we have compiled Free E-Commerce Services in the Web Icon Sets for you. Feel free to download this icons and use it for your sites. You can also use this icons for personal usage. There are no limits, actually, to the ways you can make use of this icons. May it be for personal and business usage, take your pick… Have fun!
200 Free Exclusive Icons: Siena
The set contains 200 icons.
Typography is possibly one of the most important design aspects of any project; using typography that doesn’t compliment your design can be incredibly detrimental to the design and effect usability and obviously the aesthetic properties of the project. There are thousands of fonts from many foundries available, as well as custom fonts that people wish to create and share. Common sense will tell us that the paid fonts will be of a much higher quality, and have the full character sets but there of course exceptions to the rule. (Museo and Chunk are a couple of great examples.)
With every element of design there are trends. One typography trend that we have seen quite a bit, is of handwritten fonts. This style can be used in many ways, for example client testimonials, signatures and in grunge designs. I have gathered 15 handwritten fonts that particularly stand out for me; the notable part worth mentioning is they are all free. But please do read the usage rights regarding commercial designs and projects.
March was a busy month in my Vector Character land. I had at least 5 days where I was totally stumped and had to sit for half an hour to collect my thoughts. I wonder if the inspiration gets harder to come by as the days progress. I find creating the vector characters quite a breeze, but the stories keep getting harder to come by. I almost gave up several times and thought of just making the characters and not attaching a fun little story to each and every one of them. But then, that would be giving up right? And we just can’t have that!
Some Things I Learnt This Month
- It is alright to not have detailed eyes every single time. I have now experimented with different shaped eyes and eyes that are just small, non-consequential dots and they have ended making my characters appear different and more involved in the stories I create for them. See Mono & Big Lou.
- I experimented with lack of facial features like eyes and nose and even mouth. I supplemented the lack of features by posture and body movement to express an emotion. See Hi Yai Yai & Pug.
- I tried out unusual proportions and loved it! I love the big head over a small body look. See Polka.
- In the past I have always thought of a storyline first before developing the character. This month, I took to Illustrator several times, playing with shapes and coming up with characters. Once they were created, I would stare at them for a while, willing my mind to conjure up names and stories, even trying to fit them into previous storylines. See Papa & Eko.
A bitmap is a type of graphic composed of pixels (picture element) in a grid. In many designs today, bitmap graphics is also used in various images and creative artworks. In this post, bitmap is used in such a way that more designers will be able to use them. The following is a collection of 50 Bitmap and Pixel Fonts that you surely wouldn’t want to miss!!!
Grab your mouse and get ready to download the fonts of your choice and start using them to your designs, now… Have fun!!
50 Bitmap and Pixel Fonts
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A logo is a graphic mark or emblem commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition. Logo design is an important area of graphic design, and one of the most difficult to perfect. The logo is the image embodying an organization. Because logos are meant to represent companies’ brands or corporate identities and foster their immediate customer recognition.
In this post, we’ve collected 50 beautiful logos inspired by birds. Take a glimpse of these compilation and be inspired.
Effective Use Of Bird In Logo Design
Birdy
Colors depict moods and emotions. Often, it is the gateway of true feelings. The brighter the color is, the lighter the mood and the aura is. On the other hand, dark colors illustrates mystery and moodier outset. With design, colors are used as a tool to define the theme of an image…
Today, we have collected Inspiring Examples of Dark Websites to illustrate the effects created by darker color scheme. The following collection will surely impress you… So sit back and enjoy this wonderful collection we have compiled… Enjoy!!!
40 Dark Websites
Martijnvreugde
28+ Inspired Photo Manipulations Tutorials with Photoshop
| Label: Inspirations, Photoshops, TutorialsInspired by the 30+ Weirdest Animal Photo Manipulations, I made a list of Photoshop Tutorials for you to learn how to make your own photo manipulation. Here is a 30+ Most Wanted Photo Manipulation Tutorials in Photoshop to help you enhance more techniques on manipulating images. There will be a Part II on this showcase so make sure to watch out for it.
How to Create a Flaming Photo Manipulation
On this tutorial, you’ll manipulate a picture so it looks like a woman burning in flames. The idea behind this manipulation was to create a nice looking illustration, only by using simple techniques and tools such as the Brush tool and Warp command.
Paper is a not only used to write but it can be also useful as a texture in doing some web design or graphic projects as well. In fact you can see some websites on the web applying more paper concept now a days and come up with a neat and grungy results.
Looking for some High Quality Paper Textures? Here I compiled 200+ High Quality Paper Textures for everyone to Grab for FREE. These Paper Textures are made by some of our talented designers. Most of these Textures are grunge looking,vintage and even some are neat.Check them out.
23 Paper Based Textures
A set of 23 Paper Textures
I remember the time I was making vector cupcakes for my Gel’s Kitchen logo. Those were fun times indeed. Creating vector food art, especially one that is so yummy and candy-flossed that you just want to reach out and take a bite is absolutely fun. Most food vectors are overloaded with cute, gooey, sugar-coated goodness. They are just too hard to resist, just like in the real world. Some others, that are not so sweet are equally delicious in all their savory glory. Feast your eyes on this awesome roundup of 29 beautiful and yummy vectors that will make your tummy absolutely rumble!
Today, I am going to show you how to create a vector, cartoon monster eye in 5 extremely easy steps. This is another one of those beginner tutorials that can be achieved in under 5 minutes flat, with a little bit of practice. I like to use this kind of technique to create a library of vectors that I can then later use and reuse in my illustration pieces. You can also experiment with gradients, different eye colors and placements to get a different eye each time.
RSS At Sea is a quirky and fun vector icon pack consisting of 7 RSS vector icons. All Aboard the RSS Boat! You can easily spot the RSS Whale while you sip on your cool RSS cocktails, tanning your pale "always behind the desk" bodies under the RSS sun. See the Beach? See that cute little sandcastle with the RSS flag fluttering away while the RSS Lighthouse beams down on a sexy RSS surfboard clamped down in the sand.
I am very very very excited to release my newest and 4th Twitter Icon Pack. Can you tell how excited I am? This set is called "Tweet Me Up Scotty" and took me a few days to design on and off. It has 6 high resolution vector icons in PNG format and follows the "Space" theme as you can see in the preview image. I am even using one of these twitter icons in my blog header. Each icon comes in 512×512, 256×256, 128×128 and 64×64 sizes. Please leave me a comment if you like these icons or use them anywhere. It is no mandatory, but it feels great!
In a new section cluttering up the blog even more, I will be sharing with you fantastic design tricks that I am picking up everyday that are making my creative life a lot easier and opening up new worlds of design possibilities. In Tricks, I’ll show you how a little trickery can go a long way. Hopefully for those who don’t already know about them, these will help you as they did me. So you love a photo to death. I know, I know .. we’ve all been there. How many times were you wowed by a picture so much that you wanted to capture and lock away some part of it, any part? Well, how about the colors? Trick No 1 shows you how to create a Swatch Palette from a photo in 2 minutes. You can then use that palette as you see fancy in any of your layout and recapture that look and spectrum you loved so much.
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