Five personal favourites. I was recently contacted by Mark Sinclair at Creative Review to help with the logo-specific April 2011 issue.
I was asked (along with a group of others who are listed below) to nominate five of my favourite logos, and the choices were tallied-up alongside some internal voting to represent CR’s “top 20 logos of all time.” Having read through the April issue (which is excellent) it’s clear that the top 20 consists mostly of designs that were created many years/decades ago. As stated within, “Affection and respect build over time.” Some truly iconic design work, too, with the majority having previously been featured here on Logo Design Love. I judged my selection a little differently, basing my choices purely on the idea of the isolated marks, as opposed to recognition or flexibility. Mother & Child An idea that once seen is hard to forget. Getting the most out of Instagram – 5 Killer was of enhancing your experience.
Many people's favorite app of the moment is Instagram because of it's brilliant simplicity.
I've written about it here plenty in the past and it's seen explosive growth hitting 3 million users in less than six months. It can be a little limiting though given that it only launched on iPhone and doesn't even have a website for you to view your photos which is why I wanted to compile this handy little last of apps built around the service. With explosive growth and a strong developer community the future looks very bright for this photo sharing website. It reminds me of Twitter in some ways in the early days where their website was shocking but it thrived because of all the amazing apps that people built around the service. Home. Impressive Celebrity Fan Art. We see celebrities all the time.
On television, in movies, or magazines, they are everywhere. When we think of Photoshop and celebrities, however, most of us probably think of how it is used to “air brush” them for magazine spreads or maybe how it has been used to create some embarrassing moments for them and their PR teams. In today’s round up, however we have decided to pull together some of our favorite celebrity fan art illustrations and showcase them for you all to enjoy. Included are: Megan Fox, Steve Carell, Robert Downey Jr., Lady Gaga, and more.
Steve Carell by June Hardee We start this list off with an awesome digital painting of funny man Steve Carell. Michael C. Any fans of the show Dexter can easily recognize who was drawn in this uniquely colored digital painting. FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU- A Brief History of Title Design. 8 Fresh and Free High-Quality Fonts. It’s been over a month since we’ve posted any freebies here on WDL, but hopefully now we can get back on our regular schedule of one “freebie” post per week.
Over the past few days, I’ve been on the lookout for fonts, and I’ve managed to find some very good ones. Press Pause Play. 50 High Quality Fonts Every Designer Must Download. Technical Web Typography: Guidelines and Techniques - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement The Web is 95% typography, or so they say.
I think this is a pretty accurate statement: we visit websites largely with the intention of reading. That’s what you’re doing now — reading. 25 Fresh Photoshop Photo Manipulation Tutorials to Learn. Tutorials March 8, 2011 “Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” -Albert Einstein Photo manipulation has become an art form in itself. It allows artists to freely create an awesome piece of art by using stock images and editing them afterwards. In photo manipulation, the only limit is, literally, your imagination.
Create a Fallen Rain Soaked Angel Composition in Photoshop For this tutorial, you will be creating a lonely, rain-soaked, fallen angel using photo manipulation in Photoshop. Snow Frog Using Photoshop for this tutorial, you will be able to create a fictional arctic snow frog, in which it will have a combination of several stock images and effects. Create a Surreal Ancient Egypt Scene in Photoshop Creating a Surreal Smoking Bird Composition in Photoshop. The Latest Trends in Web Design. Predicting the evolution of web design is like trying to milk a male goat.
Despite ever-changing design trends and techniques, purists and idealists maintain that the principles of great design are timeless. This is true to an extent, but the recent rapid and consistent development of the Internet across many dimensions and in diverse ways has to be taken into account. The Internet has provided us with such a huge platform to innovate and break design barriers; it allows the designer to apply variations and to slightly modify existing trends in order to make their mark.
Global access to every kind of tool and technique is at the heart of this creative revolution, allowing designers from all over the world to explore new possibilities. You may be interested in the following related articles as well. Please feel free to join us and you are always welcome to share your thoughts that our readers may like. Don’t forget to and follow us on Twitter — for recent updates. Minimalism Negative Space. How to Choose a Typeface - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Choosing a typeface can be tricky.
The beauty and complexity of type, combined with an inexhaustible supply of options to evaluate, can make your head spin. But don’t be baffled — and don’t despair. While there are no easy-to-follow rules on how best to choose a typeface, there are many tried-and-true principles you can quickly learn and apply to make an appropriate typeface choice.
If you work systematically through the options below, you’ll have a winning typeface choice in no time. What Is Your Goal? The first thing you have to do in order to choose a typeface is form a strong impression in your mind about how you want your audience to react to the text. Perhaps the hardest part of breaking down the typeface selection process is understanding which parts are more subjective and which parts are more objective. Legibility It may seem at first glance that legibility and readability are the same thing, but they are not. Quick tips for great legibility: What are you working on? Typographica. Type Reviews, Books, Commentary.
Saul Bass logo design: then and now. LAWRY’S FOODS (1959)Original design by Saul BassLAWRY’S FOODS 3D version.
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