Pigmentpol branding by Feld and Atmo Design. Read more here. (via acd05) 

May 15, 2012     CONTRIBUTOR      TAGS  branding  design  video  color  german  

Opening animation for the 2012 Pictoplasma Festival. Beautiful use of color and shape to create surreally real forms and a haunting atmosphere.

(Source: vimeo.com)

May 15, 2012     CONTRIBUTOR      TAGS  Motion graphics  Animation  
 ”City of Melbourne asked Landor to develop a cohesive brand strategy and new identity system. The challenge was to reflect City of Melbourne’s cool sophistication on the world stage, capture the passion of its people, and provide the city with a unified, flexible, and future-focused image. The new identity needed to overcome political complexities, improve the cost-effectiveness of managing the brand, and unite the disparate range of entities (including the council, City of Melbourne’s destination brand, and an ever-growing portfolio of different initiatives, programs, services, events, and activities).” - Behance

 ”City of Melbourne asked Landor to develop a cohesive brand strategy and new identity system. The challenge was to reflect City of Melbourne’s cool sophistication on the world stage, capture the passion of its people, and provide the city with a unified, flexible, and future-focused image. The new identity needed to overcome political complexities, improve the cost-effectiveness of managing the brand, and unite the disparate range of entities (including the council, City of Melbourne’s destination brand, and an ever-growing portfolio of different initiatives, programs, services, events, and activities).” - Behance

May 14, 2012     CONTRIBUTOR      TAGS  Branding  Melbourne  city  identity  Typography  design  

(Source: lydianichols.com)

April 25, 2012     CONTRIBUTOR      TAGS  illustration  folk  color  pattern  

Lovely illustrations by Lydia Nichols. Fabulous little illustrator out of Brooklyn.

(Source: lydianichols.com)

April 25, 2012     CONTRIBUTOR      TAGS  illustration  folk  color  pattern  
“To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable.”

— Jeff Bezos

(Source: swiss-miss.com, via maxistentialist)



April 16, 2012     CONTRIBUTOR      TAGS  design  quote  bezos  amazon  

Boarding Pass/FAIL

“This all started on a recent flight aboard a Delta Airlines plane. I was heading back from New York where I had met up with fellow designer Dustin Curtis. If you are not aware of Dustin’s take on American Airlines, go read this. Anyway, I was inspired by Dustin and his attitude towards shittily designed things, to say the least. I was bored so I started rummaging through my stuff trying to find something to read when I grabbed my boarding pass. So I stared at it for a while. Rubbed my eyes, then stared at it some more. It was like someone put on a blindfold, drank a fifth of whiskey, spun around 100 times, got kicked in the face by a mule (the person who designed this definitely has a mule living with them inside their house) and then just started puking numbers and letters onto the boarding pass at random (yes, I realize that a human didn’t lay this out, if a human had, judging by the train-wreck of design, they would have surely used papyrus). There was nothing given size or color importance over anything else, it was a mess. “ 

Read More by going to his site. Well done and thoughtful…

(Source: passfail.squarespace.com)

April 12, 2012     CONTRIBUTOR      TAGS  design  Typography  

Fontplore is an interactive application designed for searching and exploring font databases.
Fontplore helps you to easily find the right typeface for your project in a collection of several thousands of fonts. It lets you browse, preview, compare and print the fonts you are interested in.
And the clou is: It does all that on an interactive table, using tangible objects to navigate and control actions, so the workflow is easy to understand - easy to grasp!
More information: fontplore.org

April 12, 2012     CONTRIBUTOR      TAGS  motion  interface  
Wolff Olins "Game Changers" site

Yet another vertical scrolling site - plus some business/design thought and that “New Aesthetic” Woff Olins style they first rolled out for the London 2012 Olympic branding…which seems to be more and more “normal” as the years have gone by.

April 4, 2012     CONTRIBUTOR  
An informative micro-site for the revival of the Neue Haas Grotesk, the precursor to Helvetica.

An informative micro-site for the revival of the Neue Haas Grotesk, the precursor to Helvetica.

April 3, 2012     CONTRIBUTOR      TAGS  Type  Helvetica  Design History