6 month ago
plasticbag : Gorgeous pictures of laser-engraved MacBooks... - The last one on the page I think is absolutely beautiful. I wonder if there are any sites where you can find really amazing designs that you can take into a laser engraver to have put on your machine...
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10 month ago
Andy Baio : On the overuse of the Trajan typeface in movie posters - the accompanying Flickr pool [via]
nelson : Trajan is the Movie Font - Type criticism can be funny!
plasticbag : Trajan is the Movie Font - Entertaining video that reveals the lack of creativity among designers working in movie posters and DVD covers. Although, you know, if people understand Trajan to mean 'movie' then why confuse them?
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11 month ago
WillPate : Top 50 graphic design blogs - By Google page rank
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12 month ago
philgyford : Russell davies: studying graphic design - Lots of advice in the comments about where to do a graphic design degree (no recommendations for UWE where I went...).
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13 month ago
plasticbag : Really enjoying playing with ffffound. - It's sort of like del.icio.us divided by Flickr only with no tags and more designers. Fascinating.
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21 month ago
plasticbag : Beautiful credits and typography for the movie Thank You For Smoking, as made by Shadowplay - Dan Hill of CityOfSound.com found this. Bloody lovely bit of work - really nice combinations of old cigarette packaging and animated typography.
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23 month ago
plasticbag : Beautiful graphic design in the Gloucester Road Underground station by Chiho Aoshima - I've seen the adverts for this all around the tube, but I didn't realise it would be displayed like this. I totally want to go and see this now. It looks sort of beautiful...
Jon Hicks : 'city glow, mountain whisper' - Gorgeous, stunning, underground art at Gloucester Road Tube [via]
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33 month ago
Andy Baio : Current style in web design - a good explanation of current trends in good web style [via]
Nelson Minar : Current web style - Great explication of good design trends (via Populicious)
plasticbag : Current state of the art in graphic design for the web... - Mm. Rounded corners. Gradient fills. Anti-aliased text. I'd put money on them all emerging from use of Macs, but that's just me...
Philippe Janvier : Current style in web design - Une bonne ressource web design. [via] #
Paul Hammond : Current style in web design - This is where I try to sum up the current state-of-the-art in graphic design for web pages
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36 month ago
Richard Rutter : Public Lettering – a walk in central London - Based on a walk by Phil Baines for his graphic design students.
jonhicks : Public Lettering
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41 month ago
Andy Baio : Logo trends for 2005 - trendy today, cliche tomorrow [via] [via]
jkottke : Fifteen trends in logo design for 2005
plasticbag : Graphic Design on Logo Trends for 2005 - "Discover new directions. But remember: With any trend, it is better to realize how you arrived than to know you have arrived."
Richard Rutter : Logo trends 2005 - Is Hicks a trend setter, we ask ourselves.
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plasticbag : Stunning, if annoyingly pseudo-political, video if you're into graphic design stuff - Even if you can't cope with the mixed "actually true and scary" / "cheap propagandising arse" message, then the infographics / constructivist stylings are worth checking out.
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48 month ago
plasticbag : Hello Kitty Online World - taking MMORPGs to an entirely fluffier level - This may very well be the cutest thing I have ever seen in my entire live and may push the MMORPG squarely over the gender divide
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