Posted by Chris Pawloski on Sep 30, 2008
When comes to corporate branding and logo designs too often designers get it wrong, usually under the influence of the clients they are designing for. I’ve always found it interesting that new businesses always want more “flair” in their logos. It’s as if they feel they are not getting their money’s worth unless [...]
Posted by Abbey Conlon on Sep 29, 2008
okay … judge a book by its cover
http://www.judgeby.com/
Posted by Kyle Ruane on Sep 29, 2008
In the spirit of the upcoming Fork and the Cork event near our headquarters, and because I’m a huge packaging nerd, here are links to some cool concepts and designs of wine labels and packaging.
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Posted by Chris Pawloski on Sep 26, 2008
I am a huge fan of poster design. I get excited about vintage classics and current “gig posters” equally if the talent and originality is there. In my spare time (rare) I create posters for bands, venues, events, …etc. Now that winter is on its way I am looking forward to setting up [...]
Posted by Sarah Kinney on Sep 25, 2008
Hey guys, check out these awesome business cards. They are fabulous! http://cerium50.niloo.fr/17-09-2008/plus-de-40-cartes-de-visites-originales-et-creatives/
Posted by Marc Manfre on Sep 24, 2008
Look familiar? As designers we all use it in our mockups, and it’s a common placeholder text in the fields of design and publishing. It’s not intended to have meaning, rather to just typically show font and typography style (the words also approximate a typical distribution of spaces).
Finally, after using this for years, and never [...]
Posted by Megan Zang on Sep 24, 2008
Mario’s illustrations are amazing. He has a wide range of clients world wide and all of his work is executed beautifully. Check him out…
http://www.mariobelem.com/index.html
Posted by Abbey Conlon on Sep 24, 2008
Michael Moore’s new film is premiering live and for free at slackeruprising.com.
Slacker Uprising is a movie of Michael Moore’s tour of colleges in battleground states during the 2004 election, with a goal to encourage 18-29 year olds to vote, and the response it received. The film is a re-edited version of Captain Mike Across [...]
Posted by Kyle Ruane on Sep 23, 2008
Here’s 2 tutorials on how to resize rectangles with rounded-corners in photoshop while keeping the arc of the corner in tact. They’re short, but real helpful.
vector shape method
raster method
Why do we like rounded corners anyway?
Posted by Chris Pawloski on Sep 23, 2008
Just when you thought you had the latest and greatest Adobe is about to release CS4 suite. Normally I would suggest too much too soon but there seems to be a lot of nice details in this version. I’ll wait for the reviews.
Adobe CS4 Sweating the Details