Wednesday Design Digest
Posted by Jennifer Farley | July 31, 2008 | Leave A Comment
Ok, it’s Thursday but I did start this post on Wednesday but called away to more pressing matters, like sleep. Anyhoooo, here’s some links to some design inspiration, design resources and some interesting visual oddbits!
Super duper post of 50 Movie Posters by Thomas at Sharebrain.
Same Photo Twenty Years Apart - This is pretty bizzare and cool.
The amazing body painting of Guido Daniele.
Create your own fonts online with Fontstruct. It’s free and the editor is pretty simple to use.
Design Resources: iStockphoto Freebies
Posted by Jennifer Farley | July 24, 2008 | Leave A Comment
A couple of nice freebies for your image library, courtesy of iStockphoto.
Design Resources : Vector Magic
Posted by Jennifer Farley | July 23, 2008 | 4 Comments
If you haven’t come across the Vector Magic website before, and you’re interested in creating vector graphics, then go and visit it now! You can upload your rasterised images to the site and they will be converted to a good quality vector. It’s particularly useful if you have a logo in jpg or gif format and you need to get it into a vector form. It saves you quite a bit of time over trying to reproduce the same thing in Illustrator.
In the example below you can see a scanned image of a monkey (yes that’s supposed to be a monkey!) I drew on a piece of paper. On the right hand side is the vector created on the vector magic website.
When you upload your image you’ll find there are several settings you can choose from to get the best quality vector. There are various price plans available for using the service and there is also a desktop version available. If you find you’re converting a lot of bitmaps to vector, I think it would be worth paying for this service.
Wednesday Design Digest
Posted by Jennifer Farley | July 16, 2008 | Leave A Comment
Here’s a collection of articles and blog posts that I found interesting/funny/inspiring/useful. All are related to design in some shape or form and are not necessarily new.
Designers Tell How Music Influences Creativity from HOW magazine.
It’s, ehm, art, apparently. Minimilist Design Packaging on the Dieline blog.
Inspirational Eye Candy on the Best of Phirebrush 2005 website. There’s also links to the best of 06 and 07.
A List Apart has tons of good articles, including this one. Designing Through The Storm.
A short article on the use of the hyphen. Using Dashes in Typography
Design Inspiration : Illustration Class and Von Glitschka
Posted by Jennifer Farley | July 11, 2008 | 2 Comments
Illustration Class is a superb site for anyone interested in illustration and design. It’s written by Von Glitschka, a very experienced designer and illustrator and includes tutorials, tips and pdf downloads.
Von spoke at the HOW Design Conference about his design process and gave many tips and pointers about things to do and things to avoid. Even if you’re not interested specifically in illustration, I think this talk is invaluable for anyone who works or is interested in any creative field. You can download the entire session as an mp3 and also the presentation, so it’s almost like being there!
Illustrative Design Session - HOW Design Conference with Von Glitschka.
Von also has a blog called Artbackwash.
Logo Links
Posted by Jennifer Farley | June 27, 2008 | 3 Comments
Yesterday I posted about the Upstarts Programme available for new designers and advertisers in Ireland. To get a place on the workshop, it’s necessary to respond to a design brief to create a logo for the Dublin Olympics of 2016 (let’s hope keeping your cool in traffic is an olympic sport by then!). So here’s some links to logo design that you may find useful, either for this brief or for logo design in general.
Olympic Council of Ireland - Site provides information on the use of olympic rings and imagery.
All of the Summer Olympic Logos since 1896.
David Airey on the London Olympics Logo - Lots of great comments on this one too.
Logo Design Trends for 2008 from Logoorange.
LogoBlog has tons of good articles and posts on all things logo-related.
Neatorama - has an interesting article on some of the big-name companies’ logos have evolved over time.
Another to add to the list is the Logo Design New Zealand blog - lots of good resources and inspiration for designers and even some free logos to download.
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