Inspiration Gallery #103 – Various quotations « From up North. Most designers seek inspiration in the initial stage of a project to get their creative juices flowing and/or to get updated with the latest trends in graphic design. In this post I would like to share some of the great designs that have inspired me in some way and hopefully something will inspire you as well. Do you still think of me? Nobody dies a virgin… When life hand you lemons… Design is thinking made visual The next war… Do what you love… A Gravestone That Makes Room for New Life | Co.Design. In a world where funeral options include fusing your loved ones' remains into a diamond or returning them to the earth in an artisanal eco-casket, opting for a traditional burial can seem downright passé. Maybe that's why Swedish designer Johan Kauppi's take on the simple gravestone feels like a breath of fresh air.
(And not just because it incorporates carbon-sequestering trees into the design.) Kauppi took inspiration from the burial traditions of Scandinavia's indigenous Sami people, creating a modern version of what the Sami call a luohkka: "small mountain with trees. " The tasteful magnetite slab is small and light enough for loved ones to place anywhere they like without professional help. The circular cutout provides space to plant a tree or flower in remembrance (or simply place candles or mementos). "So often, headstones are literally dead [in their design]," says Kauppi.
Carnovsky's RGB wallpaper. For the Milan Design Week, Italian studio Carnovsky created a series of wallpapers that react to different coloured lights UPDATE: new versions of the wallpapers are on display in a new exhibition in Berlin alongside prints and playing cards using the same technique. See our story here The designs were created for the Milan shop of Janelli & Volpi, a noted Italian wallpaper brand. Each features overlapping illustrations, different elements of which are revealed depending on whether a blue, green or red light is shone upon them. This one deals with the human body Under red light green light blue light This one features the animal kingdon We love the web, but there's still nothing like print.
The Secret Law of Page Harmony - Retinart. “A method to produce the perfect book.” The perfect book. This is how designer-genius Jan Tschichold described this system. Not the ok book, nor the pretty good book, but the perfect book. This method existed long before the computer, the printing press and even a defined measuring unit. And you can still use it. The Secret Canon & Page Harmony Books were once a luxury only the richest could afford and would take months of work to be brought to fruition. And they were harmoniously beautiful. The bookmakers knew the secret to the perfect book. So elegant is this method of producing harmony that a few designers saw to rediscover it. They found the way to design a harmonious page. There’s a dance to all this Let’s look at this dance, shall we? And here it is with them (using the Van de Graaf Canon and Tschichold’s recommended 2:3 page-size ratio, which we’ll get into next).
This is where the harmony is found. How is this dance beautiful? A module is to a grid, as a cell is to a table. The J.