Tag Results: design
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Tron Legacy Trailer
I am absolutely in love with the art direction and design of the upcoming Tron Legacy. Also from the trailer I can’t wait to hear the movie score produced by the famed Daft Punk.
Anyone know someone who works at Disney Interactive Group? I’d love to do the site for the new movie.
Reblogged from Luke Seeley
The Panic Status Board
Portland based Mac software studio Panic recently posted their new status board that gives realtime stats on projects in progress, email queue, revenue, employee Twitter accounts, and local bus schedule. Read more about the Panic Status Board.
Ace Hotel and Swim Club by Commune Design
Commune did a fantastic job designing the renovation of a 1950’s style motel into one of premiere locations for the boutique hotelier Ace Hotel. If you’re ever traveling to New York, Portland, Seattle or Palm Springs look into staying at Ace.
Take the time to explore Commune’s other retail, office, and restaurant design. Their portfolio is full of great work.
Root by Art in the Age
In the 1700’s ‘Root Tea’ was a popular Native American-created spirited beverage and herbal remedy made of sassafras, sarsaparilla, birch, bark, and other roots and herbs. When prohibition hit America in 1920 a pharmacist created a non-alchohoic version of the drink, ‘Root Beer’, to meet the demands for a similar flavor to ‘Root Tea’.
Philadelphia distiller Art in the Age recreated the popular ‘Root Tea’ and assures that it’s not just a root beer flavored spirit. Aside from an interesting recipe, history and drink they have fantastic packaging with great typography using Hoefler & Frere-Jones’s Ziggurat and Font Shop’s DIN. More information about Root.
I would love to try this interesting drink, but for the time being it seems that it’s unavailable in California.
Playstation Refresh From Odopod
San Francisco based digital agency Odopod refreshes Sony Playstation’s site with a well organized, clean, and fresh design. I’m a big fan of the straight forward design of the content, but still allowing the featured imagery to be displayed larger than life.
Aorma Vector Set
Drea Typeface
Dron Typeface
Monk Typeface
Nest Vector Set
Superstar Typeface
TypoFlat - Experimental Typeface & Then Some
My close friend (and Serbian brother) Branislav Cirkovic recently launched a new site featuring experimental typography and vector sets he created for personal and commercial use—free of charge. Bran is originally from Belgrade, Serbia, but is now living in southern California and works at 2Advanced Studios as an interactive designer.
Visit Typoflat and check out Bran’s interactive portfolio
Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design is to make complicated things simple.
Tim Parsey
Complexity Graphics
Created by russian designer and illustrator Tatiana Plakhova. View the full set of images on Behance.
By not having the imagination to imagine what the content “might” be, a design consideration is lost. Meaning becomes obfuscated because “it’s just text”, understandability gets compromised because nobody realized that this text stuff was actually meant to be read. Opportunities get lost because the lorem ipsum garbage that you used instead of real content didn’t suggest opportunities. The text then gets made really small, because, it’s not meant to be used, we might as well create loads of that lovely white space.
—Tom Smith
Designer and developer (from I hate Lorem Ipsum and Lorem Ipsum Users). Via Getting Real
Additional related content—Use Real Content to Judge a Design
