Category: Design
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Graphics 101
Sometimes when it looks as if someone hasn’t tried, it’s because they haven’t tried. “Pick a bad photo, apply a vintage effect and write something in helvetica” See what the Hero of Switzerland means here: heroofswitzerland.blogspot.com/2011/02/graphics-101.html
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KeyKeyring
The simple ideas are often the best, having a product that’s reduced down to it’s absolute bare minimum. Like this Keybrid key keyring hybrid: Found at www.likecool.com and available at www.etsy.com
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Tetris Sugar
An old colleague of mine has started blogging, and inspired me to pick this site up and add some more ideas to it. My posts will not be as useful in any way, but someone might like them. To get going, here’s some sugar cubes in the shape of tetris pieces. Nice. More at www.likecool.com…
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Got love for Lorem ipsum? Love this
I am often reliant on the Lorem ipsum genertor site when creating some design concepts, and thanks to Swiss Miss and Chesley I’ve found a supercharged version – the Dummy text generator. This gives you all the features of the Lorem ipsum generator but adds some extra touches such as adjuusting the size of the…
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Desktop Wallpaper: October
Once again, the readers of Smashing Magazine have come up trumps with thier entries to the monthly wallpaper showcase. Here’s my pick of the bunch, I’ve gone for “Burnt Orange” as my favourite. Click on one to see it in full size glory.
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Fontulicious
I like fonts, I’m not quite a typography nut, but I do appreciate the brilliant influence that typography can have on design. So this post is all about typography, looking at three quite different angles. 1 – Toast As well as typography, I love toast, hot taost with melted butter, mmmmm, the breakfast of choice…
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We live in financial times – Obama and the FT
On a massive billboard at Victoria Station there is an advertisement for the Financial Times. It features an excellent photograph of a huge crowd with a little figure in the corner speaking to them with the title “Who does the man everyone listens to, listen to?” Apparently the answer is the Financial Times. Either way,…
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Retro or just great? 20 desktop wallpapers
You can’t beat some good, timeless design. I doubt this Helvetica wallpaper will ever truely look dated, and like the others listed on Fuel your creative’s “20 retro wallpapers to spark your creativity” it’s a case of timeless design rather than retro, as I don’t believe any of these designs have gone out of fashion.
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Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: August 2009
Smashing Magazine’s wallpaper of the month competition has come up with another fine selection of images for August, here are my favourites: I’ve gone for the first one, it reminds me of the Pearl and Dean adverts you sometimes see at the cinema. You can find them all in various sizes on the Smashing Magazine…
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Noisy Decent Graphics: My Bright Idea
I like this idea of wrapping paper and have done something similar before myself, but not with quite the same thought and style as Matt Dent. Easy to make your own if you’ve got a big enough printer, but good to support a designer selling a great idea. Found at Noisy Decent Graphics: My Bright…