Typographical Map of the World Une excellente idée par la designer Nancy McCabe basée à Chicago, avec cette cartographie utilisant uniquement les noms des villes afin de former une création typographique. Le projet « Chartis Graphein » est disponible en 2 versions simple et aquarelle. Plus de visuels dans la suite.
Luis Beltran Découverte de Luis Beltrán, un photographe espagnol au style original. En jouant avec les lumières, les contrastes et les couleurs, cet artiste originaire de Valence parvient à créer des photomontages intéressants. Une sélection de ses travaux à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.
Dear blank, please blank. Pixel Perfection When Rotating, Pasting And Nudging In Photoshop - Smashing Magazine Advertisement When creating Web and app interfaces, most designers slave over every single pixel, making sure it’s got exactly the right color, texture and position. If you’re not careful, though, some common functions like moving, rotating and pasting can undo your hard work, resulting in a blurry mess. But with some small changes to your workflow, you should be able to maintain the highest-quality artwork from the start to the end of the project. Pixel-Perfect Rotation If you’re not careful, rotating layers in Photoshop can damage them in a very noticeable, pixel-mashing way. When rotating layers with Free Transform (and some other tools) to exactly 90 or 270°, the quality of the outcome is determined by the layer’s size. In this case, the artwork is 20 × 9 pixels: even-by-odd dimensions. A Fix Because even-by-odd or odd-by-even dimensions are the problem, we need a way to ensure that the contents of the layer are odd-by-odd or even-by-even. An Easier Fix Pixel-Perfect Vector Pasting (al)
Joy of Destruction Dans le cadre d’un projet pour l’école d’art de Berlin Weissensee, la française Laura Junger et l’allemand Xaver Xylophon ont choisi d’illustrer le plaisir pris par l’homme à détruire. Un film tout en collage et en stop-motion qui démontre la place de la destruction dans notre quotidien. Nike Extreme - Just Experience It When you are Nike, you just do it. There’s absolutely no point being timid or ordinary. You blaze trails, create trends, draw attention. Here at Access, we are creating Nike Extreme experiences around the globe. Here are a few of our concepts in which we use the Nike singular swoosh power to create serious buzz. The kind of buzz that goes viral because people love it. This kind of concept/campaign ticks all the boxes. But it all starts with an offline experience that is big enough to create that initial pick-up spontaneously and authentically. We start with a swoosh-shaped Nike Extreme Swoosh Toboggan Ride – a toboggan slide shaped like the swoosh. As it isn’t snowing everywhere, those more inclined to enjoy themselves on the beach get to try the Nike Extreme Swoosh Slide. And who would want to remain bound to the ground?
Lessons From Swiss Style Graphic Design - Smashing Magazine Advertisement Also known as International Style, the Swiss Style does not simply describe a style of graphic design made in Switzerland. It became famous through the art of very talented Swiss graphic designers, but it emerged in Russia, Germany and Netherlands in the 1920’s. This progressive, radical movement in graphic design is not concerned with the graphic design in Switzerland, but rather with the new style that had been proposed, attacked and defended in the 1920s in Switzerland. Emerging from the modernist and constructivist ideals, the Swiss Style can be defined as an authentic pursue for simplicity – the beauty in the underlines of a purpose, not beauty as a purpose in itself. “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to remove.”Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Here are some great resources if you want to dive deep into the Swiss Style Graphic Design. How the Swiss Style Relates to the Web Uniformity and geometry Grid Systems Elementary
Paris in 2000 images Un beau travail en vidéo time-lapse présentant la ville et les monuments de Paris. Intitulée « Le Flâneur » en technique stop-motion, cette séquence est composée de 2000 photographies par l’étudiant américain Luke Shepard. Une captation avec le Nikon D90 sur une bande son de The XX.