Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Pasaż Grunwaldzki - New logo




New logo for Pasaż Grunwaldzki was created by Diagram agency from Poznań.

Friday, May 27, 2011

A Look at Popular Fashion Website Designs




These websites, after all, don’t follow rules that govern corporate websites. It just so happens that this industry is capable to create their own standards that the world is happy to follow. 
Check out more here: youthedesigner.com 


Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Meeting Natalia Vasilyeva













This month we venture into a region few of our readers will ever visit — Siberia. Our interviewee is one of the most prolific designers of pragmatic text fonts and accomplished calligraphic typefaces for Para Type, Russia’s principal typefoundry. 
Interview with Natalia Vasilyeva at: myfonts.com

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Showcase of Creative & Artistic infographics


Infographics or Information graphics, are visual representations of data, information, studies and Graph’s. The graph’s and graphic’s are used where complex information needs to be explained in simple and easy manners, such as on signs, graph’s, images or maps.
Check out more here: lava360.com

Monday, May 16, 2011

Apolonia - new polish type




"Apolonia" by dr. Tomasz Welna is type designed especially for polish language, but it also improves the appearance and legibility of the texts in other languages. It's a result of author's doctoral dissertation in the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow.
"Apolonia" is free for all private users. Check out more here: www.polskalitera.pl

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Symbol: from Pan Am to the Pompidou



















 




















Symbol, a new book by Angus Hyland and Steven Bateman, celebrates the beauty of the purely visual mark. We have two extracts from the book that focus on the classic symbols designed for the airline Pan Am and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris...
Read more here: creativereview.co.uk

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

New Rising Stars on MyFonts.com






























Ever since webfonts began influencing the look and feel of hundreds, and then thousands of websites, Exljbris Museo Sans has been all over the place. This new variety is likely to become as successful as its older siblings. Museo Sans Rounded is a softened version of the Museo family’s best-selling variant, Museo Sans. While the lighter versions are just that — a sans with rounded corners — there are some interesting modifications in the heavier weights.
Check out more at: myfonts.com

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Great new GAMER logo





























Gamer.ru is a Russian gaming portal focused on Role-Playing Games (RPG). Think Dungeons & Dragons evolved for the twenty-first century generation. A new identity for the site and company has been designed by Erohnovich Roma with 3D rendering by Stanislav Linus.
See more pictures here: underconsideration.com

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Useful Photoshop Tools and Techniques For Your Workflow


Productivity is a crucial asset of professional designers. Photoshop is an extremely powerful application for photo processing and image manipulation, and we can make it even more powerful by using handy tools, actions, plugins and templates to save time for solving mundane regular tasks. The better our professional tool set is, the more time we can spend to focus on the actual design process rather than the tool we are using to implement it on screen.

Monday, May 2, 2011

The new and better Helvetica - Sonoran! ;)

















Nearly thirty years in the making, the highly anticipated Sonoran is finally here.
Typeface designers Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders first began work on Sonoran in the early 1980s, drawing inspiration from the classic Swiss typeface Helvetica. 
“Helvetica is a great font, people really love it. But it does have its flaws,” says Nicholas. 
“With Sonoran, our main goal was to fix Helvetica’s mistakes.”
Read more here: idsgn.org ;)