Lineposters: Minimalist Subway Prints
Lineposters has a superbly crafted series of minimalist subway prints available for purchase on Etsy.
(via Laughing Squid)… Read more
Oh Shit! Illustration Series by @safwat
Oh Shit! Has there ever been a better Kickstarter project to put your support behind?
Bravo, Safwat Saleem. The internet is gonna love you.
(via Laughing Squid)… Read more
Truth Hurts: iPhone Wallpapers
Sometimes the truth hurts. A fantastic set of iPhone wallpapers by Nico Ordozgoiti.
(Via Quipsologies)… Read more
Code Cards by @mattbot
Just in time for the festive season, Brooklyn, NY-based designer Matt Raw has released Code Cards – a series of letterpress greeting cards.
Code Cards connect today’s digital developers with the analog coders of yesteryear. Celebrate your digital heritage with greeting cards featuring old-fashioned, letterpress printed code.
If these don’t sell like hotcakes, I don’t know what will.
(via Laughing Squid)… Read more
A Day in the Life of a Graphic Designer
Update 14/09/2011: I’ve just received email confirmation from the good people at The Design Bureau of Amerika, advising that another print run of “Another Day Another Dropshadow” is in the works. The print is now available for pre-order at a discounted price.
Full details here.
A Day in the Life of a Graphic Designer is a sweet new print from The Design Bureau of Amerika.
(Via Laughing Squid)… Read more
Clever Minimal Business Card Design
This is Google employee, Boris Smus’ attempt to create the most minimal business card design possible. The concept uses his email address to uncover his first name, last name, website and twitter account.
I’m not convinced this method would be effective for everybody, but I admire his approach in fitting as much information as possible within a constrained space.
What do you think?
(Via Kottke)
####
Stay in the loop
To stay updated on our projects & cool finds on… Read more
Eastern Eggs Initiative by @tbwalondon
Eastern Eggs is an initiative by TWBA London to help raise funds for the Red Cross – Japan Tsunami Appeal.
It brings together various designers and artists, who have had their custom artwork drawn onto 6cm wooden eggs using a robot called the ‘Egg-Bot’.
You can see the Egg-bot in action in the video below. It’s a rather impressive sight.
Via Creative Review… Read more
Crowdsourcing Won’t Help You
This is a guest post by Dennis Salvatier, blogger at Tanoshiboy and designer at Salvatier Studios, an award-wining design studio located in Southern California. You can reach Dennis through his website or on Twitter.
Crowdsourcing Won’t Help You
In the last few years crowdsourcing has become the single greatest enemy to design, more so when it comes to logo design. Let’s start off with an explanation about what crowdsourcing is.
This is when a company or an organization offers a… Read more
Why some designers are great
Have you ever wondered why some designers produce amazing work, while others just mediocre?
Great designers eat, breath and live design. Great designers are passionate about their work.
Most importantly however, great designers never stop learning.
Successful men, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession. Those who are not successful usually make the mistake of believing that the knowledge acquiring period ends when one finishes school. The truth is that schooling… Read more
How To: Fix Adobe InDesign to PDF Character Conversion Problem
If you are a graphic designer and frequently convert Adobe Illustrator and InDesign files to PDF’s, you have probably encountered issue with the “i” and “l” characters rendering too thick. If you are using PDF’s for client presentations, this can be a major problem that potentially could compromise the acceptance of an otherwise great design.
Here is an example of the problem. If you look closely at the “I” characters you can see that they are slightly bolder than they should be.… Read more