Here are two websites that are great for color palette inspiration and are designed specifically for graphic designers: http://www.colourlovers.com http://www.cssdrive.com/imagepalette/index.php Most of the time when I have a photo with color choices I want to bring into my design work, I just fiddle with the color wheel in Photoshop until I come up with something [...]
Designers are a lot like superheroes in the sense that we should be using our powers for good and not evil. We may not be fighting crime, but we are fighting bad design. So it’s refreshing to find a design studio that takes that concept to the extreme and designs items for the greater good. [...]
As graphic designers we are diligent in analyzing our surroundings. My own suburban environment provides many examples of graphic design, ranging from the logos of home business stores to popular national chains. I find myself constantly nitpicking at these, admiring some while questioning the existence of others. While browsing the web I came across an [...]
The Bubble Project was created by Ji Lee in order to give the people a voice in advertising. He printed 50 thousand stickers in the shape of a speech bubble and posted them all over advertisements in New York City, leaving them blank for the public to fill in. Ji Lee said “The Bubble Project [...]
watch Fear and Loathing motion typography video I know very little about motion typography, which is probably why I currently find myself very fascinated by it. The link above is a YouTube video of motion typography for a few of the opening lines from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (the movie version, not the [...]
Craig Ward is an Illustrator and a Typographer who did this poster for Bucks New University, UK. It says BAD TYPOGRAPHY IS EVERYWHERE and behind it says GOOD TYPOGRAPHY IS INVISIBLE. How true, I wonder how many hours have been spent on making design look as though it has always been that way, surely it [...]
I stumbled across this on the internet at work and thought it is rather an interesting idea. Instead of elements the designer Cam arranged the top 100 fonts in order of how many lists a particular typeface was on and its ranking on those lists. Also listed is the family and class as well as [...]
Allan McCollum has designed a system to create a unique two-dimensional shape for every person on the planet. Using Adobe Illustrator, McCollum creates small shapes, which he cuts and pastes into larger and larger shapes, keeping track of each assembly to guard against duplication. His system could potentially be used to create 31 billion shapes, [...]
It seems that lately getting a well-paid graphic design gig via online job posting services is next to impossible. There are hundreds of sites on the web that list jobs, short term and long, for anyone looking for a designer. For freelancers and beginner designers, these posting sites seem to be the way to go. [...]
How far can we go to translate an artwork as a graphic design piece, rather than as fine art? In the subways of New York City, a graffitist known as Poster Boy has recently been dismantling the posters and advertisements that litter the walls of the subway. Unlike other graffitists, Poster boy does not create [...]