Monday, April 14, 2008

Japanese packaging!!


http://images.google.co.za/imgres?imgurl=http://images.pingmag.jp/images/title/gifttitle.jpg&imgrefurl=http://pingmag.jp/2007/08/31/japanese-packaging-design-series-1-gifted-with-beauty/&h=288&w=470&sz=31&hl=en&start=1&sig2=F1IUIvYZj7o_O97ZFg0TCQ&um=1&tbnid=ChNpbD-F5d-4JM:&tbnh=79&tbnw=129&ei=NswDSI3iAajq0AS8vtDYBg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Djapanese%2Bpackaging%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Cliches, trends and mushrooms?

Cliches
So you are struggling with the current brief and feeling a bit tired and ready for a holiday, then why don't you just buy a logo from this site, they are predesigned in a range of categories and only cost us$125.90, hey they will even make minor changes at no extra cost.

Spend sometime on this site to understand the full extent of the term design cliche

Trends
Logoorange explores a range of design trends in logo design, light but interesting worth a glance.

logooranges' take on organic 3-d trends.

Reflection: It is often interesting how a new filter in photoshop or illustrator, or an easy to use application will trigger a design trend that has almost no cultural significance or references beyond being a product of computer science. It is an accident of technology thought up in a lab somewhere that can affect the course of visual culture. This may be important when considering the driving force behind a trend can be as simple as some person writing a photoshop filter.

Mushrooms ?


Oh if we are going to think about trends (esp organic 3-d ones), lest we forget Li Edelkoort's
forecast of ... the mushroom as a visual trend marker. Browny beige anybody, rounded forms, trippy graphics, watch this space...

Oh as I was about to publish this post I found this contemporary mushroom

Our friends at Sony do have a sense of humour now don't they




Thursday, February 21, 2008

Helvetica



Changing the world, one letter at a time...

A documentary film about typography, graphic design & global visual cultures on at the Labia...
It starts on Friday...

Here's a review: http://movies.nytimes.com/2007/09/12/movies/12helv.html

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Hint Brief 3

Think big or go home
think experience
think ambient

is this big enough ?

is this big enough ?

is this big enough ?

Oh yes and also keep your camera or, um box warm...

No photo ? yes photo !

Stumbled Upon

Have a look at these two interesting websites, the first one is a blog which contains a lots of examples of fresh illustration projects and links.

This jelly fish illustration caught my eye.

As did this physical illustration.

DEXIGNER. This is a design resource website which seems to be very in-depth and up to the minute - look at the newsletter section for a snap shot of what is going on design-wise around the world.

Feb newsletter

Also this is one of the funniest things I have seen so far this year.

The Death Star Canteen by Eddie Izzard

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Concept magazines



What magazine junkies with good hearts and good minds could do in their spare time. ONE PAGE MAGAZINE