e.m. papers - printable goods Six Inc. Icon / Graphic Design Multidisciplinary Study Designing book covers A quick bit of book cover inspiration. The advantage of designing covers for a series/collection of books is that you can approach it like so… Designed by New-York based Cardon Webb for Oliver Sacks. Like so… Designed by Angus Hyland of Pentagram for a series of Laurence King books. So, and like so… Designed by London-based YES Studio for Penguin. In addition, here’s an excellent cover design resource: The Book Cover Archive, “for the appreciation and categorization of excellence in book cover design,” edited and maintained by Ben Pieratt of General Projects and Eric Jacobsen of Whisky Van Gogh Go. More than 1,300 covers can be searched by designer, title, author, publisher, publication date, art director, photographer, illustrator, typeface, and genre. Related posts
Stunning and Beautifully Captured Fireworks Photos Perhaps the most awaiting moment that we all love to watch during every festival is when the spectacular fireworks are set to display. The loud bangs and booms, stunning colors and twinkling sparks in the dark sky make it very captivating to our eyes. People enjoy seeing the sky that is becoming alive with starbursts and showering lights. These beautiful multicolored explosions of fireworks display are captured through photography. To take the best fireworks photos, you need to plan ahead of time. Here are the Stunning and Beautifully Captured Fireworks Photos taken by our professional photographers that we can all love to watch anytime of the year. Festival of Lights View Source Platinum Fireworks (Grand Exhibition) View Source MOA Fireworks 23 View Source Disney Illuminations-Reflections of Earth 2 Exploded View Source Fireworks 1 View Source Fireworks IV View Source Fireworks View Source Fireworks Extravaganza ’09-2 View Source Fireworks 6 View Source Fireworks 4 View Source View Source View Source Ads
20 Best 20 | Sora Designs Before my daughter was born, I filled her nursery with items I made – gently handcrafted clothes, blankets, bibs etc. Among the treasures I created, I found one stand-out item I couldn’t live without. My new baby was wearing a pair of soft cloth booties that I made for her, and I realized that this was the greatest thing I’d ever made. They stayed on her feet, she liked them, and they’re adorbale! After making a few tweaks and alterations, the first pair of “Bison Booties” was born. Follow Bison Booties! 10 Business Cards With Wow Factor Business cards are key when it comes to making new contacts and approaching prospective clients. Having a creative business card that showcases the pinnacle of your artistic abilities is crucial when you’re trying to convince someone to visit your website and view your portfolio when you’re in the creative field. Let’s take a look at some truly inspiring business cards. Mathijs Vissers Mathijs Vissers explains it pretty well on his homepage, “I like drawing funny looking weird stuff.” Pampaneo Pampaneo is a design and creative agency powered by duo Pedro Meca and Kelly Abanto. Chef Burger Chef Burger was a burger joint in the greater downtown area ofKansas City. Pop Grub Pop Grub is an excellent example of breaking free from the standard, rectangle business card and going for a unique shape. Dario Monetini Dario Monetini is an Italian designer who makes great use of one of my favorite business card trends, the clear, plastic business card. Jae Salavarrieta David Fernandez Huerta Darlene Dewell
Str8Krooked - Home The Decline of the Ligature in Typography, Leads to Its Rise in Art The ligature in the world of typography refers to two letters that by the way they lie together on the page, can be crafted into a single letter (the most common ligatures often involve the letter ‘f,’ such as fi, and ff). When metal movable type was invented in the 1400s, ligatures were extremely popular in typography. They saved the printer a tremendous amount of time. Rather than having to set an individual ‘f’ and ‘i,’ the printer could just use the single ligature block ‘fi.’ See the image below. These days, with the advent of digital printing technology and ubiquitous desktop publishing, ligatures have gone the way of the 8-track tape. However, there are a number of modern artists who use ligatures to create unusual prints and art works. Schwen uses a paper clip to connect the ‘Th’ ligature in a rather innovative way. It is pretty interesting here how he uses a piece of gum to create a very odd ligature.
The League of Moveable Type Unevolved Brands Formal notice that I have migrated Unevolved Brands to my Wordpress server. Tumblr has served well me well, no real reason for abandoning the platform other than convenience and having more control over the content and site administration. It’s been fun watching the amount of people following the site on Tumblr, so it is a real shame to loose all that has been built up over the last few months. In hindsight, I should have taken the time to do it in Wordpress, but it was only a quick idea and I had no idea it would take off as it did. I think novelty has worn off for the most part, but I will keep it updated a few times a week, as and when I come across a worthy brand to unevolve. Still in the process of migrating previous posts, so things are not totally complete just yet. If you are still interested in following Unevolved Brands away from Tumblr, just direct yourself to : or
Freelance Artists and Designers Group News From print to packages to web design and pretty much all other media that you can think of, typography always plays a big role. Not only can good use of typography add to your design from a visual standpoint, it can also play an important role in defining the heirarcy of the content. With this in mind, we gathered a collection of inspiring typography usage in web design. From small type to huge and colorful ones we will show you that typography can be very important in your design. Life in Greenville Cider Circles – Meetups for the Creative Types goodness Yes Nurse Viljami Salminen unify senic 7 Days in Havana Planilandia Captain Dash inTacto 10 years Nike Chosen Series Hello Bar Build Responsively Roberto Paganelli koppy 255 Creative Haus of Design Headset Press deciduous Source: The Best DesignsCSS Design Awards About the Author Gisele Muller loves communication, technology, web, design, movies, gastronomy and creativity. Related Posts 333 shares Examples of Well Designed Contact Pages Read More 440 shares
Beautiful Booklet Print Design For Inspirations Beautiful Booklet Print Design For Inspirations One of the most important aspects of any business is marketing which is applied through various methods; booklet printing is one of them. Catalogs, sales presentation and training manual are only a few important uses of any type of business. Catalogs are very common for businesses that offer a wide range of products and services where brochures simply cannot include all the needed information for the potential customers. The design of the booklets should be very organized, informative and appealing to grasp the reader’s attention. There are a lot of online printing companies that let the businesses design their business card, booklets etc. Nariman Mos-hafi About mameara Creative designer since 2003, Specialized in graphic and web design, also I have an experience with HTML – CSS and some jquery code
Quit Your Day Job: Julie Ann Art Julie Ann wants to make people “laugh their asses off,” and she’s doing a dynamite job of it in her Etsy shop, JulieAnnArt. She approaches her designs and business plan honestly and realistically. “A lot of my design ideas come from conversations in my daily life,” she says. “Oftentimes I’ll be laughing with someone and a lightbulb will go off in my head like, ‘Hey, that’s a card!’” Though she has nearly 16,000 sales, success didn’t happen overnight for Julie — she’s been growing her Etsy shop for five years. When she decided to switch from painting as her main medium to her current greeting card business, she noticed quite a jump in sales. Here Julie talks about becoming a full-time seller, the challenge of taking custom orders, and how putting time into her delicious blog keeps customers coming back. What was your biggest challenge as an Etsy seller when you started, and how did you overcome it? The biggest challenge was just finding my way to where I am now. Yes!