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This week, one of the most heavily funded early-stage startups in Silicon Valley finally emerged from beta, and I’ll bet that you’ve never heard of them. That’s because Tidemark--armed with $35 million from Redpoint, Andreessen Horowitz, and Greylock--isn’t a new social-networking app or some sort of social-bookmarking site. Instead, it’s an iPad app that aims to disrupt the databases and spreadsheets that have become the backbone of modern corporate management.
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Neosbrand at OFFF Barcelona | Blog | Computer Arts magazine
Computer Arts: What's Neosbrand all about? Javier Castro: Neosbrand is a graphic design and communication studio founded by myself and my brother Fidel. We're a multitasks - or multidisciplinary - team who love communication and design. From the beginning, we’ve collaborated with a wide range of agencies, organisations and brands, developing communication campaigns and corporate identities, with the aim of creating emotional bonds between the brands and their potential customers. CA: What's the main aim of the studio? JC: We try to develop each project and the same standards, as they are all great brands; without limitations, trying to offer the best of each one of our team.
Submissions: Redesign the Food Label - Food
Food labels are on just about every packaged food you can find. But it's OK if you rarely notice them. Today's food labels fail to present a food's nutritional value in clear, consistent terms that all consumers can understand. Given the importance of food choices in our lives, better labeling could go a long way in addressing some of our most critical health issues.
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Le Bouc, un nouveau banc et le fauteuil Archipel seront présentés en exclusivité du 8 septembre au 30 octobre 2011. Vernissage jeudi 8 septembre à partir de 18h30. Infos: Nouveau Marché aux Grains 10, 1000 Brussels.Matt Lehman
Matt Lehman , everyone! That is, if you’re not already acquainted. Matt’s got a wonderfully warm, lovely style that’s hard to resist. In the piece above, like much of Matt’s work, I’m drawn to the combination of color, texture, layout and wit. Alongside his sharp type and illustration work, I really like Matt’s identities and logos. They’re simple and straight-forward, but also quite memorable.
Dan Stiles Interview
For the latest Grain Edit interview, we head to the beautiful Pacific Northwest city of Portland, Oregon. While Portland is known for it’s drizzly rain, recent influx of people, and amazing food cart scene, it is also the home of many talented designers. We here at Grain Edit had the chance to visit PDX and catch up with one of it’s very accomplished residents, Dan Stiles . Dan is a long time designer and contributor to the contemporary gig poster scene. His work is always very fresh, energetic, engaging and fun. Dan is very successful at creating dramatic work while using minimal colors and patterns.
30 infographies et visualisations de données à connaître - graphisme
by Ginet Vincent - le 07/01/2011 Nous avons sélectionné pour vous 30 exemples de qualité pour la visualisation de données et la mise en page d'infographies. Découvrez les meilleurs images qui ont fait le tour du web. La visualisation de données : A l'heure actuelle les informations deviennent des éléments clés pour les sites et les entreprises. Nous sommes chaque jour de plus en plus nombreux à utiliser internet, les réseaux sociaux et les différentes technologies.Typographie
My grandpa used to always say "a beer in the basket is worth an ocean of wishes"... he was crazy, but he made some dang good barbecue sauce. He would always slap his fat belly after every good meal in appreciation and say "that's slap fat good". Through grandpa's witty nonsensical one-liners and love for good food, slap fat devil was born. For over a year, designer Ryan Feerer and photographer Chad Zellner have been brewing sauce weekly in hopes that they could bring flavor to the BBQ sauce isle of their local market.
Slapfat — Ryan Feerer Design & Illustration
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Developed by June Soft, Blank – Journal, Note is an app which helps people to constantly keep tabs on what they are thinking (Like we don’t have many of that already in the market). If Evernote is not exactly your cup of coffee and if you aren’t expecting anything exquisite, then Blank – Journal, Note might be a really good option. The first thing that you would tend to notice about Blank is its woody background and well-textured notebooks which gives it a very different outlook. This might not be everyone’s favorite – especially if you are one to like everything metallic and a little futuristic but if it does appeal, then we’re glad. Blank allows its users to create as many notebooks as they want to without a lot of fuss. In order to create a book, you simply have to tap the plus sign – together with a folder – at the bottom corner of the screen.Logos
JESS3 Labs - QR Code Art
The Project: With the ever-growing spread of smart phones around the world, QR codes have gained major popularity in the past few years. Thinking there might be more visual possibilities in the world of QR codes beyond the simple black squares, we decided to explore a range of creative designs with different colors, shapes and mediums, none of which interfere with the basic functionality of the codes. Our Methodology: Under Jesse Thomas’ close direction, the JESS3 design team played around with building 3-dimensional codes out of legos, designing colorful codes which incorporated the JESS3 logo, skulls, and different paint-like effects like pointillism and drips reminiscent of graffiti. <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
Data is all around us – and savvy designers are transforming it into jaw-dropping images that also tell a story. Alice Ross charts their progress We’re in the middle of an information revolution: everywhere around us, mountains of data are being generated, and governments and organisations are increasingly releasing huge datasets, covering everything from weather patterns to spending data for us to pore over. And just as journalists have become specialists in mining these huge releases for stories covering subjects from MPs expenses to what local councils are spending their funds on, a select few designers have applied their imagination and talent to translating data into crisp and fascinating graphics, becoming experts in data visualisation and infographics. Put simply, these are images that tell a compelling story; designs that reveal something about the world around us.