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25 Creative Packaging Designs That Make Their Products Irresistible. MAD Breaks Ground on Complex that Redefines Beijing’s “City Landscape” Construction has commenced on MAD’s Chaoyang Park Plaza within one of Beijing’s largest public parks and central business district. Artful House Envisioned as a Personal Refuge in the Woods Residential project House in the Woods was label as House of the Month 2014 by Architectural Record. The artful house was designed by William Reue Architecture at the base of the Shawangunk Mountains, in Ulster County, New York. 2014 financial times business of luxury summit, mexico city 2014 financial times business of luxury summit in mexico will bring together senior executives, decision makers and financiers from the global luxury sector The post 2014 financial times business of luxury summit, mexico city appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine.

Globe Trotting: There's No Place More Tranquil Than This Japanese Pharmacy heathfield co produces range of bespoke lighting installations Casa MR / JC NAME Arquitectos. 5 Initiatives Revamping Urban Spaces. 108 Years of Herman Miller (in 108 Seconds) 6 Natural Design Accents in the Home. | Dwell. Top 20 World Most Beautiful Living Spaces. 03 Mar 2013 March 3, 2013 If you are browsing internet for Home Ideas, Decoration and Remodeling Tips you are on the right place. In today’s article we collected the top 20 most beautiful living spaces around the world.

I am sure you will hate your apartment after checking out the images bellow. Starting from Switzerland, across America and up to Australia, there’s no better interior designs that the ones we collected and attached in the gallery bellow. We hope you will enjoy: The Heinz Julen Penthouse in Zermatt, Switzerland The Clock Tower Apartment in Brooklyn, NY The Yellowstone Club in Big Sky, Montana The Firefly ski chalet in Zermatt, Switzerland Resort in St. Chalet Brickell in the Rhone-Alpes, France Converted cathedral The Over Water Bungalow at Le Meridien in Bora Bora The Igloo Village in Kakslauttanen, Finland The Ladera Resort in St. The Underwater bedroom in the Maldives The Garden House in Brazil The Pretty Beach House on the Bouddi Peninsula in Australia Jade Mountain in St. Marimekko. DIY LED Steps: Motion-Sensing Staircase Illuminates Itself.

Imprint-The Online Community for Graphic Designers — Expanding the Design Conversation. Way back in the 20th Century, back before one small, viral meme could have more impact and influence than tons of Times op-eds, newspapers still mattered. But it was also a time of severely limited access to communication outlets. As A.J. Liebling noted: “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own... The New York Times got it wrong about the highly hyped Batman #50 with its description of the caped crusader’s nuptials to Catwoman.

Fantasy artist Ken Kelly was just five years into his professional career when he received the assignment of a lifetime—painting the cover for… Chesley Bonestell is little remembered today except by hardcore science fiction fans. After 14 years in field, designer Russ Honican joined Trailer Park, where he runs the department of motion graphics and works hands on as a designer. Lana Roulhac has more than 10 years of design expertise, focusing especially on bringing humanity and relevance to government design and technology brands. Model gallery and portfolio of Bernie Peyton, origami artist berniepeyton.com.

UnderConsideration LLC. The Most Beautiful and Imaginative Public Schools in the World. Albert Einstein, responsible for the world’s most famous equation and quite possibly the smartest man to ever live, said that “logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” With that in mind, surely a child’s imagination is something to cherish and nourish. Enter the public school system. For years public education has been known for its never-ending, claustrophobic hallways and rows of greige lockers, made famous by all of our favorite teen dramas from The Wonder Years to My So-Called Life. Architects and local governments around the world are now fighting the good fight against dismal, uninspiring schools and the groundbreaking results are re-shaping the learning experience for our future generations.

From a colorful kindergarten in Slovenia made out of toy planks that lets kids play with and manipulate their environment to a high school breeding a new generation of environmentalists, click through to check out the future of a free education. 40 Creative Resume Design. Rick Poynor's Book List. Books led me to typography and graphic design. Love of reading became love of the medium in which the words are printed, of the type that composes these words, of the substrate that supports them, of the page layouts that give form to narrative and argument, of the covers and bindings that hold these texts and pictures together, of the lettering and imagery that seek to express a book’s essential nature. . . .

View the complete text Books led me to typography and graphic design. Love of reading became love of the medium in which the words are printed, of the type that composes these words, of the substrate that supports them, of the page layouts that give form to narrative and argument, of the covers and bindings that hold these texts and pictures together, of the lettering and imagery that seek to express a book’s essential nature. Graphic design books are a kind of meta-book. These are the publications in which the art of making books (as well as other graphic media) is discussed. 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design. By Maria Popova From visual puns to the grid, or what Edward Tufte has to do with the invention of the fine print. Design history books abound, but they tend to be organized by chronology and focused on concrete -isms.

From publisher Laurence King, who brought us the epic Saul Bass monograph, and the prolific design writer Steven Heller with design critic Veronique Vienne comes 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design — a thoughtfully curated inventory of abstract concepts that defined and shaped the art and craft of graphic design, each illustrated with exemplary images and historical context. Idea # 16: METAPHORIC LETTERING Trying to Look Good Limits My Life (2004), part of Stefan Sagmeister’s typographic project '20 Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far.' Idea # 83: PSYCHEDELIA Gebrauchsgraphik (1968).

Idea # 31: RED WITH BLACK Heller and Vienne write in the introduction: Idea # 19: VISUAL PUNS Idea # 17: PASTICHE Idea # 80: TEEN MAGAZINES Idea # 35: EXPRESSION OF SPEED Idea # 25: MANIFESTOS. Hackney Wick's The Walls Have Ears mural. Collaborating with the local community, Bread, a creative collective based in East London, has just completed a 100 metre long typographic mural along a street that leads to London's Olympic Park... Bread essentially wanted to brighten up an unloved, bleak street called White Post Lane and managed to secure funding from the London Legacy Development Corporation to paint the mural which is, according to Bread's Victoria Walmsley, based around the industrial past of the area (Hackney Wick).

"The six-month project involved various workshops, interviews, research and a blog-style website and social media to engage the local community," she explains. The mural, entitled The Walls Have Ears, features words and phrases suggested by local residents that hint at the area's history. 'Parkesine', for example was the name of a company established in Hackney Wick back in 1866 which has the trademark for the first man-made plastic. This short film shows the mural being painted: 15 Comments. 50 Beautiful Black and White Business Cards. You probably heard the expression black never goes out of style. The same goes in some cases for black and white. Black and white business cards have been ever since the invention of business cards the standard, mainly because, in the early days due to the printing limitations. With the invention of color printing, business cards started a process of diversification without precedent.

Although color brings a lot of depth to a business card and gives the designer basically limitless designing possibilities, black and white business cards have a certain finesse, a special visual appeal. Where color can fool the eye of the beholder, designing in black and white reveals the true skill of a designer. If you like business cards inspiration you might also like our previous articles on plastic business cards, creative business cards, cool business cards, metal business cards Below I would like to present 50 beautiful black and white business card designs :