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Monthly Archives: December 2011

This little Bulgarian typeface design studio, currently Sophia based, has made some truly amazing fonts, as you can see on their website http://www.typedepot.com. I loved their fonts, and I would like to mention some of them specially. First I would like to mention Pista Font, a unique, decorative typeface that you can use for all […]

Even though we’re already at the end of 2011 it would be a shame not to mention this  2010 calendar. What’s so special about it? You get a box with twelve A3 papers folded in half. Each paper stands for one month and when you open it you get stunning pop up geometrical shapes. Combination […]

Seeing that it’s winter and that we’ll soon be skiing or shopping for skiing equipment I found this superbly designed website for the Moment Skis company. It’s an American company that is designing and hand-crafting skis. The site is really well made; the nuances of beige are masterfully combined with the dark brown textures that […]

Some of us may wonder what the advertising poster for a laptop would look like if they had them in the 70’s, Digital artist  Art Director Graphic Designer from San Francisco, Alex Varanese made a series of 14 promotional posters in which he managed to apply the industrial design of the 70’s on today’s devices […]

Melbourne is a dynamic and progressive city. It is internationally renowned for its diversity, spirit of innovation and sustainability. Since the adoption of its old visual identity, Melbourne has gone through some significant changes. Those changes resulted in a slew of independent logos that were too expensive and complicated to manage across different areas of […]

It feels great when you manage to find data on the beginning of graphic design in a certain country, but when you stumble upon an entire collection of posters, some of them dating back to 1925, that’s truly an amazing find. This collection boasts something around 80 posters from different periods of the People’s Republic […]

This corporate identity exudes purity and simplicity. Logo in itself is not a new idea – a star with five differently colored points. However, further development of the visual identity reveals 3D illustrations that have a number of different elements that reoccur thought the visual, in just the right parts of it as well. Klavika […]

GRIP Limited – A Toronto based Canadian advertising agency, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a site this large that works and looks this great. The site is basically made in FLASH and even though I believe that HTML/CSS + Java would have been more appropriate for this kind of project, the website […]

Human imagination is truly amazing, but the beauty often lies in simplicity. The idea to combine six wooden cubes into a ring box is completely straightforward, and when seeing it for the first time you would probably never guess that that piece of wood holds jewelry. Apart from keeping the ring protected from outside influences […]