Inspirational Brochures & Booklets A great place to find design inspiration is in brochures, flyers and leaflets. Companies have been using these marketing tools for 100′s of years now. With the advances in printing the designs are limitless. The results of this creative marketing can be stunning. Below I’ve assembled some of the coolest and most unique examples that I’ve found. Hopefully you can find something to draw some inspiration from for your next project! Check out digital room for awesome brochure printing! Brochures & Booklets Boston Museum Brochure The cover is minimal and bright. Country Codes of the World A map of top level domain choices done up an awesomely creative way! 2008 Calendar Spectacular use of colors to reflect temperature and mood. plAAy Program This colorfully creative brochure can double as a poster because of the innovative way it’s folded. Granex This black and white brochure is simple and elegant. North Star Fund Awesome brochure with a creative cutout and sick typography. About the Author
21 Creative Double Page Magazine Ads Today, let’s take a closer look at magazine advertising. You can consider it as more focused, therefore more expensive, alternative to newspaper advertising. Magazine advertising not only allows you to reach highly targeted audiences, as you can choose magazines that specializes in topics of interest to your audience but also tends to have a higher reader involvement which means that more attention is being paid to your advertisement. Also, you shouldn’t forget to make use of a better print quality, which is more suitable when advertising premium products. Today, when a single person sees about 3000 ads each day, and we are becoming more and more blind to advertising, companies must find new and creative ways to catch consumer’s attention. Greenpeace: Tree “Deforestation continues with the turn of a page” (Advertising Agency: LINKSUS, Beijing, China) Adidas: Forever Sport Advertising Agency: unknown Macboook Pro “Ultra Thin” (Advertising School: SVA New York, USA) Wonderbra: Magazine
One Glass for Every Drink by Sven MILCENT & Utopik Design Lab &... One Perfect Cup The Utopik Design Lab have done it! They’ve taken our entire collected evolution of cup-making and holding of drink history and combined it into one cup. One cup to hold them all. This is “One Glass for Every Drink” and it’s made to work for everyone. It of course tends to the four main glass-specific types of drink: water, cognac, wine, and champagne. This isn’t the first interchangeable base cup we’ve had here on Yanko, and it wont be the last. And while we’re at it, I’ve got to say that my favorite drink glass in the world must be the snifter – looked after here closely by that cognac glass on it’s side. Designer: Utopik Design Lab
10 creative shopping bag designs Shopping bags is an item that pretty much every shop has to use. Strangely, most shops use simple logos or visuals on their bags and very few try to be creative with it. These ten examples should inspire you. 1. Muse 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 9. 10. 40 Handpicked Free Fonts For Graphic Designers If you are here it’s definitely because you are interested in updating your list with fresh good looking fonts. Every designer from the biggest ones to the smallest (depending the popularity) uses free fonts. Some of them takes a free font and modify it to look more unique and integrate better with the design. A few days ago, I have published jquery upload plugins and a huge collection of photography logos. You may also like: 1. Juice 2. Lot 3. Zag 4. Quad 5. Badabum 6. Anivers 7. PincoyaBlack 8. High Five Font 9. Sat Free 10. Dan Free Font 12. Otari 13. Hand Of Sean 14. All Over Again 15. Denne Shuffle 16. Roke1984 – Free Font 17. Sober Buzzed 18. Sketchetik 19. Disorder Type (2010) 20. Null Free Font 21. Bellerose 22. Bleeding Cowboys 23. Champagne & Limousines 24. Eurofurence 25. Existence Light 26. The Lobster Font 27. Age Free Font 28. Val Stencil 29. Melbourne 30. Four Free Type! 31. Kilogram 32. Cold Bold 33. Fairydust 34. Honey Script 35. Quadranta 36. Riesling 37. Ripe Free Font 38. Star Avenue 39. You’re Gone 40.
mental_floss Blog & 10 Notable Staircases Staircases can be so much more than just a means of getting to the next floor. A staircase can be a work of art, a conversation piece, a place to meditate, or a historical marker. Floating on a Wall This floating staircase above by designer Jordi Vayreda looks dangerous, but the steps are made of steel welded to a thick beam inside the wall. The top of the wall can be used as a handrail for the upper half of the staircase. See more pictures and an explanation here . Hanging Spirals This design makes sweeping under the stairs easy! Bookshelf Stairs Levitate Architects of London designed this bookshelf staircase to combine storage space with access to a loft bedroom. Staircase Drawers Another way to use stairs for extra storage is to put drawers in the risers. Alternating Stairs Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF designed this unusual staircase for a private residence in Stockholm, Sweden. Step Up, Slide Down The Stairway as Art Stairs to Nowhere The Miraculous Staircase
Businesscardland 50 Fantastically Clever Logos I know everybody and their brother does logo roundups so you’re probably sick of them, but I don’t believe I’ve ever done one and there is a particularly impressive brand of logo design that I wanted to point out. Today we’ll look at 50 logos that are the result of going beyond the typical thought process and injecting a little wit and hidden symbolism into the design process. What Makes a Logo Clever? To explain what I mean by “clever” logo design, let’s take a look at a typical logo, (i.e. one that isn’t clever). The logo above is a nice piece of work. The colors are perfect, the lettering is masculine, the overall feel is athletic and the glossy effect works well. However, my favorite type of logo design is that which takes the assignment one step further. These types of logos make you smile at the brilliance of both the idea and the execution and have several layers of meaning that can hit you in waves. Visual Double Entendres Lion Bird Chad 2010 I love this one. Spartan DesignTent Ecotaste
Sony Nextep Computer Concept for 2020 by Hiromi Kiriki & Yanko Design In 2020 We Can Wear Sony Computers On Our Wrist Our present need for internet connectivity is so profound that secondary devices like the Nextep Computer are bound to happen. Developed to be worn as a bracelet, this computer concept is constructed out of a flexible OLED touchscreen. Earmarked for the year 2020, features like a holographic projector (for screen), pull-out extra keyboard panels and social networking compatibility, make the concept plausible. Ten years from now is not too far away, so how many of you think we’d be buying such gadgets? Designer: Hiromi Kiriki 40 Creative Business Card Designs 40 Creative Business Card Designs December 9th, 2008 | Inspiration | Unique and creative business card designs from all over the world. 01 - Emerson Taymor Business Card 02 - Pomegranit Business Card 03 - Stephanie Towell Business Card 04 - Murillo Design Business Card 05 - Ken Speckle Gifts Business Card 06 - rfrecords Business Card 07 - Rubber Band Business Card 08 - Piano Repair Business Card 09 - elkha Business Card 10 - Viewzi Business Card 11 - Bright Corner Business Card 12 - Yuka Suzuki Business Card 13 - Flow Yoga Business Card 14 - Thomas Wood Products Business Card 15 - Greek Restaurant Business Card 16 - Debt Recovery Agent Business Card 17 - il progetto Business Card 18 - Elevator Business Card 19 - Justin Anonuevo Business Card 20 - Sean M. 21 - Joe Duffy Business Card 22 - Wunderburg Design Business Card 23 - Junge Schachtel Business Card 24 - Paul Nielsen Personal Trainer Business Card 25 - Celia Keyworth’s Food Business Card 26 - Richard E. 27 - JWB Business Card 28 - Dave Blank Business Card
Creative bus stop advertisements A great way to gain exposure for your product or service is to advertise at bus stops. People have to wait until the bus arrives and do not have too much to do besides waiting. But also drivers and pedestrians get attracted by bus stop advertisements. This month I have selected the most creative bus stop advertisements that make you look twice! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 3M: Security Glass 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31: Smirnoff: hut Also Stumble upon: Creative Elevator Advertisements
Patchwork Orange: Art of Fixing Buildings with LEGO Blocks | Designs &I... A missing brick here and chipped stone there show the normal marks of wear and tear on the structures and streets of a city, but filling them in with multi-colored LEGO bricks makes them stand out in sharp relief with their surroundings – especially in a place like Berlin. Titled ‘Dispatchwork’ (a linguistic play on ‘dispatching’ and ‘patching’ the holes), this is part urban art installation, part historical highlighting (since many of the gaps date back to World War II) and part method of calling attention to buildings that could use some help. Jan Vormann has been toying with LEGO pieces for a long time in various artistic capacities – as well as infilling structural holes with mirrors and other attention-getting materials. It may look haphazard at first, but there is an art to the process: identifying gaps is naturally subjective, and filling them in is both a creative and crafty act that can involve turning corners and working with existing structural details.
How to Design Your Business Card As web designers and developers, we often overlook printed marketing materials. But on occasion, they can come in very handy: at conferences, when we meet face-to-face with clients, or when we happen to run into someone we might want to do business with. Having business cards is a great way to promote yourself in the physical world. Of course, since web design is a creative field, you’ll want your business card to serve as a sort of mini portfolio that displays your skills. And the skills necessary to design a business card can be easily adapted from those that are required to design a website. Size and Shape Standard business cards are 2″ x 3.5″, in either vertical or horizontal orientation. There are a few benefits to the standard sizing, the primary one being that it’s generally less expensive because it’s common. But just because business cards are traditionally a 2″ x 3.5″ rectangle doesn’t mean you can’t deviate from that size and shape. Die cut cards are particularly popular.