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GF Smith Limited Edition Poster designed by SEA (www.seadesign.co.uk)
“A touring, (university) exhibition celebrating the 111 years of GF Smith and their unique design collaborations.”
Posts for Tag: design
Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design
A very inspirational list of swiss style design from the always good Smashing Magazine.
Popular TV Shows Poster Series
via blanka.co.uk
Love love love these - look at them all on http://www.blanka.co.uk/Art/Exergian/Iconic_TV/
"CREATED OUT OF A LOVE FOR POSTERS, MODERNISM AND TELEVISION, THERE WASN'T A CLIENT OUT THERE TO COMMISSION SUCH A JOB SO AUSTRIAN DESIGNER ALBERT EXERGIAN WROTE HIS OWN BRIEF AND CREATED THIS SELF INITIATED SERIES OF POSTERS THROWING ALL OF THE ABOVE INSPIRATIONS INTO THE CREATIVE MELTING POT."
Tokyo burgers, yes please
via cnngo.com
What is it about Japanese design that makes me want to devour these soooo much, and how much do I want to visit a branch of 'Freshness Burger'.....very much.
Don't forget to look at the gallery for more pics, especially pic 2 'the MOS burger brings all the deliciousness of mountains, oceans and skies to the burger paradigm' which sits in a wrapper with a simple mountain outline on the wrapper - I want me some of that...
Clickable Colors Poster Set
via antrepo4.com
Liking this 'Clickable Colors Poster Set' - created by Antrepo Design Industry as "Clickable Colors" showing the rainbow of the Internet. The color information comes from the top sites on the world wide web. Top list information for the categories of design, game and global are from the Alexa Web Information Service. Blog top list information is from Technorati.
You can buy here but a tad expensive at $350 http://www.antreposhop.com/product/clickable-colors-poster-set
Graphic Designer vs client
via youtube.com
"Oh praise the lord more work which i suppose will be included in the £3.50 pounds"
Who loves Verdana?
Ikea are changing from Futura to Verdana in all their printed and electronic
communications, and I¹m torn as to what I think about this change. If everyone is using it then we¹ll use it too - safety in numbers, right?
Futura, created in the 1920¹s by German designer Paul Renner is simply one
of the most timeless, beautiful typefaces ever and usable in any medium.
Kubrick used it for most of his film titles after years of painstaking
research on the quest for the perfect font and if Kubrick chose it then
I¹m of the mind it can't be wrong. I use it a little too much myself as I
always go back to it for the sheer bold clarity of it.
Verdana, designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter for electronic communications
was not particularly intended for print usage. It does indeed stand tall in
the world of readable on-screen fonts, I always use it in my website designs
as it¹s wider and more legible than an aliased Arial or Trebuchet at a body
copy size. However, I always use a different font for headers as I find the
large Verdana rather clumsy, especially the serifs on the capital I - Ikea are
using it in all instances big and small.
I can understand why Ikea have changed to Verdana (costs debate aside) as
they want to be able to give the same visual impression both in print and
the web, which matches perfectly with Ikea's ideology of non-elitist,
ubiquitous and affordable design. It also makes sense from a global
operational standpoint, no need to worry about not having the correct font
installed on your printers computer anymore.
Verdana is everyman¹s default font choice, but is a default choice really
what we want from the companies we buy our products from? Ikea¹s designers
are inspired by a variety of styles in all their products, because people
want a choice of style in their homes, not a default.
See new Verdana usage here: http://www.iancul.com/blog/2009/08/25/ikea-sans-replaced-by-verdana/
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