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New design for the blog 2008-05-21 15:41:09 If you are reading this for a RSS reader, you can drop by to take a look at the new template for Designer Daily. Your comment are welcome of course.
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A great looking logo is not enough, chosing a good name is important too 2008-05-19 13:58:02 In this hilarious video, Georges Carlin takes on guys with names like Todd or Taylor. Even though it wasn’t his purpose, he points out the fact that branding does start at birth, and that unfortunatly you won’t be able to have control over your name. I think that it’s the same for business.
We all had [...]
Design links for the week 2008-05-18 08:43:12 Fatal attractions
Smart contextual advertising
Cute little typographic illustration
Pixel style graphic design layout
Photoshop HDR tutorial
Beautiful vinyl turntable
Design is thinking made visual
Great wall-painted animatio
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Inhabitat according to Antti Lovag 2008-05-17 14:56:01 Organic is the first word that came to my mind the first time I saw the Bubble house. Actually that’s a good thing, because one of the goals of Antti Lovag when conceiving his houses was precisely to be in adequation with nature.
Antti Lovag is a strange mix between a jewish russian father and a [...]
The flowery world of Kiyoshi Kuroda 2008-05-16 10:41:07 In my last post, I was wondering whether beautiful design is always good. My answer that is isn’t, but Kiyoshi Kuroda is the kind of man that will make one reconsider this kind of statement.
Kuroda is a japanese illustrator and art director born in Tokyo in 1975. He studied at the Tama Art University, then [...]
Is beautiful design always good? 2008-05-14 03:39:39 When I first saw the above piece of furniture by Takeshi Miyakawa, my first thoughts were: wow, what a brilliant design
! Then I did some more practical thinking and realized that it wouldn’t fit in most standard appartments, as well as I wouldn’t know what to put in it.
A question that I never could answer [...] Read more:always
When infographics get funny 2008-05-12 16:10:52 Infographics are surely a great topic for a thesis, but they get even better when they are funny, like on the above picture comparing the effect of LSD and alcohol. This one is part of an amazing serie of graphics showing different substances and how we behave towards trees after using them (not sure if [...]
Design links for the week 2008-05-11 15:13:34 The baby giraffe is here
CSS shorthand guide
Daily drawings from the New York Times crosswords
SEO guide for designers
Zebra striping, does it really help?
Brilliant ad for knives
The most dangerous species in the mediterranean
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Information design patterns 2008-05-10 16:32:23 The information design
patterns application is a collection of 55 design patterns that describe the functional aspect of graphic components for the display, behavior and user interaction of complex infographics.
For each pattern, you’ll find an extensive description, a layout example and a real-world example. A left menu allows you to see other patterns that have [...]
OurType: fine typography from Europe 2008-05-08 15:17:53 Founded in 2002, OurType.be is a collaborative font publishing website initiated by Fred Smeijers, a first generation digital type designer.
The website, all in flash (argh…), can seem a bit strange to navigate at first, but is very nice. In fact you can easily try the font live and see it at different sizes.
Every font you’ll [...] Read more:Europe
Frutiger Serif, extending the Frutiger family 2008-05-23 08:51:12 For Adrian Frutiger’s 80st birthday, Linotype released a new font: the Frutiger Serif. It’s been developped by Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi. It’s basically a revision of the Meridien, the favorite font of the superstar typographer.
With many weights and styles, the Frutiger Serif is perfect to be used with the sans-serif Frutiger and its corresponding [...]
Picturing disasters 2008-05-22 09:00:44 The strongest picture I have seen about the quake, no blood shown, but a very explicit and sad picture of the consequences
Before reading this, please consider showing your solidarity with chinese people by donating to the Red Cross to help the rescuing.
War photographers are a group of people that I’ve always admired, and in my [...]
Design links for the week 2008-05-25 09:52:38 Tiny street art project
Photos of Nudibranchs
Photoshop to get GPU and physics acceleration
Playing with the sky in pictures
My document bag
The pixel couch
Smart-Models Infographics
Extraordinary art from metal
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Design & Design 2008-05-25 02:41:42 Design and Design is a community for sharing your designs, whether you are a graphic designer or a product designer. You’ll see there some great work, and you can register to submit your own. Doing so, you might end up in their yearly publication: the Design and Design Book of the Year.
Join me on Netvibes 2008-05-27 07:46:52 If you are both a designer and a Netvibes
user, you’ll probably be interested in my public profile on this website. What you will find there: Design news and inspiration from blogs and social networks, and also my own stuff.
For the non-users of Netvibes out there, I strongly recommend you to give it a shot. [...]
10 inspirational quotes about design 2008-05-29 11:55:05 Great design
ers or artists have this curious habit to inspire us with their work. Amazingly, some of them are even inspiring when they are talking, that’s why I am sharing this little collection of quotes by designers and artists.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.
David [...]
Design links for the week 2008-06-01 09:41:09 A nifty carry-bag for coffees
Vintage japanese robots
WWF - When animal rights meet wrestling
Hurdle fight, nice illustration
Poor cookies monster, the comic that made my week
A design is finished when…
Why you shouldn’t be afraid of sharpening your photos
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Say нет to alcohol 2008-05-31 15:38:32 I just happened to stumble on this funny Museum of Anti-Alcohol Posters, a gallery of anti-alcohol soviet propaganda (did you notice how the word propaganda is quickly used to describe russian or chinese advertising, but hardly ever for american stuff?).
One thing that always strikes me in these vintage russian ads is the graphic power that [...]
How to get the most out of Photoshop 2008-06-04 08:42:26 Photoshop has become an absolute need for most designers nowadays. The learning curve never really stops in this program, partially because of its huge range of capabilities, but also because of software updates. It is important to acknowledge that fact, otherwise you quickly end up using it only for your everyday use and limit yourself. [...] Read more:Photoshop
The future of search? 2008-06-05 16:11:50 One more proof that innovation doesn’t only rely on engineers, even in the field of web search. This designer shows that being creative and sharing the impossible is a good thing, it becomes then a challenge for geeks around the world.
Mac Funamizu shares on his blogs his mockups of a gadget that could contextualize search [...]
Wordpress theme: Happy Cyclope 2008-06-05 01:15:44 Happy Cyclope is a 2 columns, easy-to-customize wordpress theme. It is of course widget ready and Wordpress
2.5 ready, but hasn’t been tested with previous versions.
Categories and archives pages are presented as lists, which makes it nice for sites with a lot of content. The header is made of two images, one for the logo [...] Read more:Happy
Design links for the week 2008-06-08 10:48:40 Plumbing art
Hairstyles your mother wouldn’t approve
History moments in Lego
Speakers designed the way they should be
Whiskas origami advertisement
Helvetica Poster
Beginner jQuery tutorials
Help yourself
Helvetica calendar 2008
Video games ruined my life
Giant letters furniture
Typographic packaging
The anatomy of a gummy bear
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A logo for the french presidency of the UE 2008-06-08 07:17:04 Now this is what I call a bad visual identity. First, I don’t even understand why a visual identity would be needed for the UE’s presidency. If they want to have a coherent design, shouldn’t they just have a strong identity that is customizable according to whichever is presiding the UE?
Well, let’s assume for a [...]
The amazing ABC3D book 2008-06-09 09:50:30 Discover the alphabet letter by letter with this amazing typography pop-up book. With a very creative use of forms and space, it shows the correlation between some letters with some cool transitions. I love the part with C turning into a D or the O - P going Q - R. Impressive work.
Google’s new favicon 2008-06-10 11:06:25 When you are a large multinational company like Google
, the slightest changes in your identity will quickly be noticed. A few week ago, the big capital “G” that was used as a favicon
on every google site turned into an ugly lower-case “g”. That tiny event gave birth to tons of reactions on blogs or [...]
Graphic design jobs, how to find them online 2008-06-11 06:34:44 Finding gigs isn’t always easy for the freelance graphic design
er, it even can become very stressful when there is an urge to pay the bills. Of course waiting for that situation to start searching is a very bad and insecure to do your freelance, and you better have a plan on how to promote yourself [...] Read more:Graphic
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Picturing beauty: amazing fashion photographers 2008-06-13 11:43:51 Capturing beauty is an everyday challenge for photographers working for fashion magazines or clothes advertising. Following is a random selection of fashion photographers that make beautiful design look even better.
Stratis & Beva - Two photographers based in Paris, exhibiting their work around the world.
Zhang Jingna - Singapore photographer with beautiful fashion design shoots.
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Design links for the week 2008-06-15 06:33:32 Catherine Ledner’s animals - via NotCot
Pop Mazda brochure
Sculpting with coathangers
12 creative table designs
The Airbench
We make your pee smell, funny illustration
15 tools to help you develop faster webpages
Dan Hiller Altered Engravings
Quicksilver vs Hokusai
Spin Shanghai
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