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5 Great Sites Designers Can Point Their Clients To For Inspiration.

Working with clients isn't always easy. Some know exactly what they want, others not so much. The key to creating designs that are satisfying to both you and your client sometimes involves opening a creative dialogue, which will allow you to understand what they are looking for visually, as well ...

‘Maths Dreamed Universe’ by The Luxury of Protest.

September 25, 2009

Stunning posters by London-based design practice ‘The Luxury of Protest’. Check out the sheen and texture of the paper it’s printed on. Beautiful!
“Maths Dreamed Universe” is a quantitative visualisation of the manner within which elemental forms in nature order themselves. The graph was created using generative Python code and maps numbers 0 to 100,001 arranged in a [...]

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Muscle Cars by Amilcar de Carvalho Fernandes.

September 25, 2009

Sometimes you look at illustrations and take for granted how much work goes into each one. There’s also something exciting about seeing a group of things all of the same category all in the same place arranged nicely. It almost makes you feel like you could own them all… Check out these amazing American muscle-car [...]

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More by Abel Martinez Foronda.

September 25, 2009

I’m a big fan of Abel Martinez. Simple use of shapes and muted tones, combined with feeling of texture and delicacy to the images brought out with the slightly hazy effect and spray paint flecks and gradients give these designs an overall relaxing vibe.
http://www.abelmartinez.com/

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Typography by Craig Wards.

September 25, 2009

Clever typography by Craig Wards.
Words Are Pictures by Craig Wards.

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5 Great Sites Designers Can Point Their Clients To For Inspiration.

September 23, 2009

Working with clients isn’t always easy. Some know exactly what they want, others not so much. The key to creating designs that are satisfying to both you and your client sometimes involves opening a creative dialogue, which will allow you to understand what they are looking for visually, as well as explain what can and can’t be done, and explain which of their ideas will work well together and which ones won’t.

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Bird Illustrations by Josh Brill.

September 23, 2009

These came to my attention via a great post over at Grain Edit. They’re by a great illustrator named Josh Brill, and I love the simplicity, use of colour and strong shapes. Stunning design. There are limited edition prints available via Lumadessa.

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The Difference Between Arial + Helvetica.

September 23, 2009

Todays great Ffffound! Find via Swiss-Miss.com, clearly showing the difference between Arial and Helvetica. We’re going to run a Swiss Design basics series starting with Helvetica 101, followed by Swiss Design 101 followed by Grids 101. Keep a look out!
www.swiss-miss.com

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3 Ways to Love What You Do as a Designer.

September 21, 2009

Things always go much more smoothly when you really enjoy what you do. So many people go to work day in and day out doing jobs that they don’t really like or spending lots of counter-productive time doing thing that don’t really do much to bring them closer to their ultimate goal. You have to [...]

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Lego Font Creator by Jürg Lehni.

September 21, 2009

I don’t actually know what happened to Macromedia Director and I don’t remember it become part of the Adobe Creative Suite after the companies merged but if ever there was a reason to dust off your old copy it would be to play with this über-cool Lego Font Creator Script by Jürg Lehni.
Visit Lego Font [...]

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Photography by Ian Crawford.

September 21, 2009

Certifiably mind-blowing images by fashion photographer Ian Crawford, perhaps the evolution of the infamous Giselle Bundchen ‘waterdress’ images?
http://www.iaincrawford.com/

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Design to Watch : We Are Not You.

September 21, 2009

These images have been floating around the web for some time now, but they always get me with their simplicity and effectiveness. They’re experiments by a design agency We Are not You, with the intent of conveying a sense of motion.
You can see the rest of their work at:
www.wearenotyou.com

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Delaunay Raster Images by Jonathan Puckey.

September 21, 2009

A very interesting set of images by Jonathan Puckey, created using the ‘Delaunay triangulation’ algorithm in combination with Scriptographer, a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator by Jürg Lehni. The one of Debbie Harry from ‘Blondie’ is particularly stunning. Thanks to Wesley Yendrys for putting these on his great design blog! Find his orginal post here.

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