Showing posts with label Design Resource. Show all posts
via vimeo.com
Basic Stationery, explores different stationery works from a variety of designers and studios. The book is divided into different categories. Within each category, you will find projects that show innovative and creative use of stationery.
Book available on 5th desembre indexbook.com/libro.php?idLibro=1355
- Leave your comment • Category: Books, Branding, Design Resource, Graphic Design, Identity, Inspiration
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
COCO - A typefamily designed by Hendrick Rolandez 2012
by R27 CREATIVELAB on Thursday, 18 October 2012
Coco is a sans-serif typefamily declined in a set of 8 fonts with regular, italic, bold, bold-italic, condensed, condensed-italic, condensed bold & condensed bold-italic which can be used for several type of projects from digital to print. Each font has more than 209 glyphs including small letters, capitals, numbers & special glyphs and punctuation. This family is for all type lovers who would like to emphasize a fashion project. So Feel free to use it, share it and create amazing piece of works as you are directors, designers, photographers or models.
It is totally FREE meaning you have nothing to pay to use it and commercial works using this typefamily are authorized... and truly recommended.—
All photos used belong to their respective owners and/or fashion brands.
Download here: COCO-Free-Fashion-Typefamily
- Leave your comment • Category: Design Resource, Fonts, Freebies, Typeface, Typography
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
If you’re making websites, chances are you’ve given some thought to what constitutes a responsive-friendly design process—and you’ve probably found that adding a mockup for every breakpoint isn’t a sustainable approach.
At least, that’s what happened at my company, Bearded, where we had spent years creating websites in Photoshop or Illustrator, having those mockups approved by our clients, then recreating those designs with CSS.
Until now. A few months ago, we stopped making static image-based mockups in favor of designing with code. This is not a new idea—heck, Andy Clarke was arguing for in-browser design in 2008. But new or not, you may still be mystified at where to begin—or feel unmoored and disoriented at the prospect of giving up the approach you’ve long relied on.
But fear not, gentle reader. Let’s take a look at our new mockup-less web design process and see just how easy it can be to get that Photoshop monkey off your back, and have a fresh new beginning with your old friend the web browser.
Read the full article at source: alistapart.com
- Leave your comment • Category: Design Process, Design Resource, Learn, Responsive, Web Design
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
via vimeo.com
A mural is a flexible content format that aggregates media and files, ideal for group ideation and visual sharing.
- Leave your comment • Category: Brainstorming, Collaborations, Concepts, Design Process, Design Resource, Inspiration, Online Media
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
A CELEBRATION, OF SORTS, FOR LOGOS CREATED FOR AT&T, PANAM, KODAK, BY LEGENDS SUCH AS LIKE PAUL RAND, SAUL BASS AND LANCE WYMAN.
What makes a logo super effective? According to Declan Stone, minimalism has the maximum effect. “In general, great logos contain only one graphic idea or one gimmick--they try to express no more than one attribute and support a single aspect of positioning,” he tells Co.Design. Even the best marks must be attached to a successful company to survive, however. Almost a decade ago, Declan and Garech Stone--aka Amsterdam’s Stone Twins--released Logo R.I.P., a hardback memorial to out of commission icons, and the book was rereleased this month with a series of new entries. (You can buy it at Amazon for $15.)
Source fastcodesign.com
- Leave your comment • Category: Books, Design Resource, Identity, logos
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
via youtube.com
The explosion of the internet over the past 20 years has led to the development of one of the newest creative mediums: the website. Web designers have adapted through the technological developments of html, CSS, Flash, and JavaScript, and have mastered the balance between creativity and usability. Now with the advance of mobile, the greatest websites have taken user experience and responsive design to the next level, and continue our evolution from print to a digital world.
Featuring:
Jeffrey Zeldman, http://www.zeldman.com/
Jason Santa Maria http://www.jasonsantamaria.com/
Whitney Hess http://www.whitneyhess.com/
Music:
Bliss (Henrik Jose) - http://soundcloud.com/blisshenrikjose/tracks
Eric Skiff - http://soundcloud.com/eric-skiff/were-the-resistors
Minus Baby - http://soundcloud.com/minusbaby
Yusuke Tsutsumi - http://dimoutworks.bandcamp.com/album/of-her
Binarpilot - http://soundcloud.com/binarpilot
Atomic Horsebox - http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/354209/atomic-horsebox
- 3 comments • Category: Design Process, Design Resource, Learn, Web Design
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
via flickr.com
Insites: The Book is a beautiful, limited edition, 256-page book presented in a numbered, foil-blocked presentation box. This very special publication features no code snippets and no design tips; instead, 20 deeply personal conversations with the biggest names in the web community.
"Over the course of six months, we travelled the US and the UK to meet with Tina Roth Eisenberg, Jason Santa Maria, Cameron Moll, Ethan Marcotte, Alex Hunter, Brendan Dawes, Simon Collison, Dan Rubin, Andy McGloughlin, Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka, Josh Brewer, Ron Richards, Trent Walton, Ian Coyle, Mandy Brown, Sarah Parmenter, Jim Coudal, Jeffrey Zeldman, Tim Van Damme, and Jon Hicks.
We delved into their personal journeys, big wins, and lessons learned, along with the kind of tales you’ll never hear on a conference stage. Each and every person we spoke to has an amazing story to tell — a story we can all relate to, because even the biggest successes have the smallest, most humble of beginnings."
- Leave your comment • Category: Book Covers, Books, Design Resource, Inspiration, Interview, Typography, Web Design
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
via vimeo.com
Frank Höhne brought us into his home and studio space in Berlin to show how (and why) he works as an illustrator. Pen in hand, Höhne works quickly, intuitively, and spontaneously, rarely with a plan, and always with his quirky and easygoing sense of humor. Joy, or “Bock,” as it’s said colloquially in German, is an important aspect of life and work for Höhne—something which he hilariously describes in his first monograph, The Book of Bock. It’s this combination of idiosyncratic humor, refreshingly childlike spontaneity, and down-to-earth nature that has allowed Höhne to quickly establish himself as one of Germany’s leading illustrators, with clients including BMW Mini, Nike, Aveda, as well as a broad range of German newspapers and magazines.
Höhne’s first monograph, The Book of Bock, is now avaialbe from Gestalten.
- Leave your comment • Category: Books, Design Process, Design Resource, Illustration
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
The illustrator Frank Höhne explains how to find joy in working as an illustrator.
Available from: shop.gestalten.com
More About This Book
The delight with which Frank Höhne draws radiates from each of his illustrations and his strange humor is contagious. His style is idiosyncratic and sometimes childishly naïve. Höhne admits that “I simply do what I want to do,” but he does this so well that he has established himself as one of Germany’s leading illustrators in only a short period of time. His clients include international brands such as BMW Mini, Nike, and Aveda, as well as a broad range of German newspapers and magazines.
In The Book of Bock Frank Höhne offers his own unique perspective on how to become an illustrator and, once one does, how to keep the joy in one’s work alive over time. The hilarious visual journey is great fun for all readers—whether they work creatively or not.
Frank Höhne is inspired by the things that make him human. As he puts it, “a colonoscopy gives me eight times more input than a visit to a museum for applied something or other.”
- Leave your comment • Category: Books, Design Process, Design Resource, Illustration, Inspiration
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
via vimeo.com
As founder of the legendary Silicon Valley-based design company IDEO and current director of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in NYC, Bill Moggridge surely knows a thing or two about the value, function, and importance of design. Gestalten.tv met the man who designed the first ever laptop to realize why today's increasing services are a design opportunity, to discover the richness of variety of the Cooper-Hewitt's historical collection, and to learn why design in the US still needs to get more recognition.
- Leave your comment • Category: Design Process, Design Resource, Design Tools
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
via behance.net
Valentina typeface is a sincere tribute to my grandmother in the form of typography and therefore bears her name. Valentina is a classic didone that follows some of the canons proposed by Bodoni in the eighteenth century but incorporates many of the characteristics of the antique Spanish punches of the time. It is a complete font of 457 glyphs, in which there are 125 alternative lower cases or the 46 ligatures. You can download for free this font.
- Leave your comment • Category: Design Resource, Fonts, Freebies
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
The long awaited book from Frank Chimero is now available.
The Shape of Design is a treatise on design that frames the practice as a way we engage with one another and the world. It is the book I wish I had when I was a student to teach me about objectives and to ask Why. It's the one I wish I had yesterday to remind me of my responsibility to my craft. Most importantly, it's the book I'll want tomorrow to remind me of the potential of every little bit.
What is the primary quality of great design? It moves. It moves us emotionally, travels from person to person, and takes us toward something better. Designers connect and build bridges that lead us to new places and expand what is possible. We tell productive untruths, then toil to make them reality. The practice shifts like a shadow and moves the target. When it does so, the products of design achieve a resonance. They get passed on like a story and turn into a gift.
I was lucky enough along with the Kickstarter backers to get the ebook version to read ahead of time and it's worth getting your hands on it while you can. The launch of the book also brings with it a few little extras which are available via the shop here - http://shop.frankchimero.com.
Five letterpress prints from the shape of design. Limited edition of 50.
Shape of Design T-Shirt and Tote Available via the shop here - http://shop.frankchimero.com.
- Leave your comment • Category: Books, Design Process, Design Resource, Inspiration, Print, Tees, Totes
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
via vimeo.com
Basic is a series about the basic disciplines of graphic design with many examples in each area. The first instalment in the series was about Logos. The earlier books were about Packaging, Corporate Identity, Brochures and Promotions. This new book, Basic Sign, explores the importance of signage and its application in various settings. The book is divided into different categories, including urban, healthcare, corporate, cultural, event and commercial. Within each category, you will find projects that show innovative and creative use of signage.
- Leave your comment • Category: Books, Design Resource, Graphic Design, Signage
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
Basic is a series about the basic disciplines of graphic design with many examples in each area. The first instalment in the series was about Logos. The earlier books were about Packaging, Corporate Identity, Brochures and Promotions. This new book, Basic Sign, explores the importance of signage and its application in various settings. The book is divided into different categories, including urban, healthcare, corporate, cultural, event and commercial. Within each category, you will find projects that show innovative and creative use of signage.
- Leave your comment • Category: Books, Design Resource, Graphic Design, Signage
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
The development of the signage typeface Wayfinding Sans Pro by Ralf Herrmann
by R27 CREATIVELAB on Thursday, 19 April 2012
A typeface on a sign that is read from 300 yards has different requirements than a typeface read in a magazine, from your armchair. And even if the typefaces are designed specifically for signage, they are often a local solution that just doesn’t work everywhere. For example, the Transport typeface used in the U.K. is a very good and legible design, but it is designed for English words and names and is far too wide for the generally longer names of German cities. Another example is the Clearview typeface with its extreme x-height, which works on American road signs, but not so well for languages using numerous diacritical marks. So in the end, for every typeface I checked and tested, I discovered both advantages and disadvantages. There was not a single typeface that I could recommend for signage in every situation.
Source: ilovetypography.com
- Leave your comment • Category: Design Resource, Signage, Typeface, Typography
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit
Font inspired in the plastic industry.
PLSTK is distributed under a Creative Commons License and you can use it for commercial and non commercial projects. Enjoy it!
You can download it here: goo.gl/h0kwP
Font and motion design: aesthetictherapie.comSound design: adaptmusica.com
PLSTK - Free Font from aesthetictherapie on Vimeo.
- Leave your comment • Category: Design Resource, Fonts, Freebies
- Share on Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, Digg, Reddit