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Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Friday, 25 January 2013
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Business Cards of Famous People
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| Bill Gates (circa 1979) |
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Steve Jobs (circa 1979)
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| Arnold Schwarzenegger |
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| Fidel Castro |
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| Kofi Annan |
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| Donald Trump |
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| Richard Nixon |
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| Albert Einstein |
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| Harry Houdini |
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| Abraham Lincoln |
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| Barack Obama |
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| Walt Disney |
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| Andy Warhol |
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| The Wright Brothers |
Tuscano's Home Page (Design)
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| Website Design for Tuscano's Home Page |
www.tuscanoslondon.com
Friday, 18 January 2013
New Business Card Design for Ontario Supply Teacher
A Business Card Design for a local Ontario District School Board Supply Teacher
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| FRONT |
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| BACK |
Monday, 14 January 2013
Word As Image
"This project started nearly twenty years ago as an assignment in my typography class at art school. Students were encouraged to see letters beyond their dull, practical functionality.
The challenge is to visualize the meaning of a word, using only the graphic elements of the letters forming the word, without adding any outside parts. The challenge was very hard, but the reward of “cracking” a word felt great. So this became a lifelong project for me."
Ji Lee
Monday, 26 November 2012
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Only Helvetica
Why Helvetica Is The Only Typeface Businesses Will Use In The Future - Business Insider:
"Steve Hicks, the chief digital creative officer at McGarryBowen, wrote a thoughtful essay for Adweek about the way Helvetica — the typeface used by Business Insider and dozens of other brands — will dominate the future in advertising. Hicks' theory is that the typeface looks familiar to anyone who has used Facebook, and thus easily welcomes the foreigner, whether in Indiana or Istanbul. It is true that Helvetica has come to dominate the language of marketing and commerce. We recently pointed out that Avis, Microsoft, Apple, and dozens of other brands now all use Helvetica (and variations thereof) for their corporate logos. But it is not the case, as Hicks argues, that Helvetica dominates because it's the social media typeface of choice. Rather, as Stanford University recently discovered— triggering an Helvetica-esque redesign of its own logo — serif fonts with thin stems, and curly risers and descenders, tend to become muddy and indistinct in small digital spaces, like phones and Twitter icons. Helvetica, by contrast, remains bold and obvious, even in point sizes below 12. In other words, it's bold and easy to read for a real, physical reason, not just because it's trendy."
(Via.)
Monday, 5 November 2012
Important Web Design Suggestions For Your Web site
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Thursday, 25 October 2012
What we're busy with...
Logo Design for a client in the U.S.A.
Saturday, 25 August 2012
Microsoft's new logo (Yawn)
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Not sure if this is better or worse than what Gap dished out just a few months ago. Microsoft's new logo is incredibly boring. Like no-butter-on-your-toast boring. Yes, I know, it does follow the design precedent the company has employed with it's "Metro" branding (i.e. plenty of squares and rectangles interspersed with liberal use of the Segoe font), but truly, no-one could ever accuse the folks over in Redmond of trying anything new. Just look at this:
Then consider that this move represents the company's first modernization (logo wise) in twenty years! Forgive us for expecting something just a little more exciting. Also remember that this, er... logo looks more like a Ludo board than the exciting products the software giant is releasing this year. Seriously, check this out: Ludo board left, Microsoft's new Surface at right:
The real problem isn't just the 4 squares. Its the combination of that plain configuration in startlingly dull primary colours (plus green), that moves the new logo firmly out of brilliantly designed simplicity territory and straight into kindergarten colour-by-numbers stuff.
Perhaps even the designers themselves at Microsoft know. I suspect they and the whole marketing department must have. Over on the Microsoft blog, the very short introductory clip of the new logo only incorporates the hideous colour selection all together in one instance - when the inclusion of the logo itself demands it.
It seems the company is in some serious design direction turmoil, with many questions about the demise and future of "Metro" itself still unanswered. Nevertheless one could almost imagine how the process ran its course, and how in typical Microsoft fashion, the slow-and-steady engineers won the day and the bold move this logo redesign could have been, was watered down into the weak offering we see today. It's just plain disappointing to see Microsoft play itself in such a predictable role and in such predictably boring style.
It will be very interesting to see whether Microsoft will face the same kind of social media backlash that forced the Gap to revert back to their old logo. Leave your feelings in the comment section. We'd love to hear your views.
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