40+ Letterpress Business Cards
We use colours to make our business cards unique. However, there are times when the absence of color can make our designs very elegant and pretty. The business cards featured in this entry are printed on paper stock using the printing process called letterpress. Letterpress printing is relief printing of text and image using a press with a “type-high bed” printing press and movable type, in which a reversed, raised surface is inked and then pressed into a sheet of paper to obtain a positive right-reading image.
Stores
Viennese moms and dads have yet another option to spoil their offspring: Bambini in central Vienna at Tuchlauben 7. The interior of the 360 square-meter (3875 sq.ft) multi-level emporium of children’s high-end fashion was entirely custom-designed by the 12-year-old Viennese firm, Architektur Denis Kosutic, for the Vienna-based MB Fashion GmbH. Carrying such brands as Armani Junior, Fendi, Gucci, La Perla, Roberto Cavalli, Versace Young and Missoni, this is MB Fashion’s first shop of the Bambini concept. Kosutic and collaborators Mareike Kuchenbecker and Carina Haberl took a Wizard-of-Oz/Alice-in-Wonderland/Jules Verne approach yet cooled the usual color riot of kiddie stores down into a junior film noir environment Everything from wall and floor treatments to furnishings and display elements was created specifically for this store.
Dream Worlds Revealed On Canvas
Along with some magnificent dreams, Jacek Yerka finds inspiration for his masterful paintings from his childhood memories: the places, remembered feelings and smells of 1950′s Poland. He studied fine art and graphic design before becoming a full time artist in 1980… and we’re glad he did. His paintings will take you through incredible worlds of imagination, bending reality in captivating and clever ways fit to inspire a novel or film. See many more examples of his find paintings at yerkaland.com. See Also ENDEARING MONSTER DRAWINGS POP FROM THE SCREEN
21 Folder Design Ideas to Impress Your Clients With
27th October 2010, in Design Inspiration Presentation folders play an important role in marketing; they are used for document management and brand establishment. Therefore, businesses are always on the lookout for people who can create folder designs that will effectively sell their products and services. As a designer, you need more than the standard creativity to be able to create folder designs with unique competitive advantages. For a folder design to impress, it must be able to embody business processes while still having an aesthetic appeal.
Dibuja un personaje de dibujos animados Monster en Photoshop
In this tutorial, we will explain how to draw a cartoon monster character in Photoshop. Let's get started! This tutorial is a collaboration with a talented designer, Bei Hasan.
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Design trends for 2011
Everything inside the design world is permanently changing, evolving and adapting into new ways of expression and communication looking to satisfy the new consuming needs and set innovative exchanging channels. 2010 made a huge closure for the final year of the first XXI century decade, we witnessed the rising of tablets (iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tablet among others), the demise of Internet Explorer 6 and the absurd fanaticism towards Flash (though it’s losing a lot of fans), which is going to be slowly replaced by HTML5 (we’re not saying that Flash is dead, only that HTML5 will begin to cover many of its current uses). Editorial disclaimer Of course that the common design elements such as typography, navigability, color and more have also changed and as you will see on this article, these changes must be apprehended by every designer that wants to set his mark during 2011. No more clutter, it’s time to clean things up More good examples
50 examples of logo design that cleverly use negative space in typography
Logos are symbols used to quickly communicate a brand to an audience, just one small logo design can communicate so much. Many people choose to use letters and typography as the foundation for their logos. However, this can be tricky – you don’t want your typographic logo confused as normal text. If you choose to use text as the basis of your logo, you’ve got to set it apart as an image. Typography is the art of the letterform and typographers closely analyze and carefully craft every detail of each character – even the negative space, called the counter. We often ignore and overlook the counter space because that’s not what we normally read.
