9 posts tagged with design
Came by a set of beautifully designed chocolate bars today at Betsy Sandberg while strolling through Östermalmshallen in Stockholm. These delicious creations are made by ChocoLate Orgániko in Madrid, Spain.
Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance. Form without relevant content, or content without meaningful form.
— Paul Rand
Artist, designer and educator Elif Ayiter presents The History of Visual Communication – a website that focuses on the history of the translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual or word based into a visual format, i.e. Visual Communication.
Finally! I love covers/packaging of physical things like books, movies and music albums.
Finally Google Reader looks a little less tech and a little more easy to actually use. Read more on the official Google Reader blog: Square is the new round
Business cards – a channel for wild creativity.
I enjoy and am interested in design with function, or function with good design. Smart solutions delivering a message or feeling in novel and creative ways. For me, business cards are something you seldom are asked to create without any borders or limits. Often the client has little money or “knows exactly what she need”. But sometimes designers are hired with the possibility of really going wild on creativity.
There are a huge amount of brilliant business card designs out there so I thought I’d share my thoughts with you – presenting a few of my favorites.
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Being an actual graphic designer or company makes things little bit trickier.
Murillo Design has an interesting solution, which in the context of this article, makes the message really clear.
Stuff away ugly cables, cellphone chargers and cameras in this cute yet stylish little piece of Swedish furniture, designed by Johanna Strand and Åsa Elmstam.
Amazing typography porn from UK based designer Sean Freeman
Fred Wilson is working on his Web 2.0 NYC presentation together with graphic designer Jeremy Bogdan. I think these slides provide an excellent example of how presentations could be designed, rather than constrained by the usual headline-divider-body-bullets-footer kinda template most people use.
The slides are designed to be “background music” for the talk I am giving. If you don’t see something you think is important in the presentation, there’s a good chance it’s in my talk but just didn’t make it onto the slides.