I LOVE DESIGN: July 2011

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Cool Inception Poster

Saw this poster last night. Cool style, right?
This movie is good,too.

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Sites to Check for Typography Design Inspiration

1. Typographia

2. We Love Typography

1. Logo Pond

2. Logo Faves

Sites to Check for Packaging Design Inspiration

1. The Dieline

2. Lovely Packaging

Sites to Check for Stationery Design Inspiration

1. Stationery Style

2. Card Observer

Sites to Check for Web Design Inspiration

1. Web Creme

2. Best Web Gallery

1. Pattern Tab

2. Mepho Box

Sites to Check for Graphic Design Inspiration

1. Design Flavr

2. Muse

Free Handwritten Fonts

Here’s a list of my favorite handwritten fonts. Comment if you want to add your favorites!

aaaiight

Christopher Hand

Free Sketchy Fonts

There are very few good sketchy fonts available for free download on the World Wide Web. Here is a selection of some of the best free sketchy fonts:

Credit: Caitlyn

Logo Design should be Vector Based

When using Illustrator, a logo that was created only a few inches in size, can easily and clearly scale to the size of a billboard, without any loss of clarity whatsoever.
Vector images are composed of curves, lines and points, and therefore can be easily re-sized and enhanced to produce a superior quality and much smoother logo.
Vector graphics programs allow you to spin, stretch, mirror, tilt and shift the base points to create such sophisticated creations and designs, which is not possible using Photoshop.

Therefore, choose vector !


Raster Graphics Logo Designed using Photoshop	Vector Graphics Logo Designed using Illustrator

20 Examples of Simplistic but Effective Logo Design

Somehow, I always like this kind of logo design. It’s better to keep things simple and make use of clever negative space and typography. "LESS IS MORE"

Logo Lounge, for the past nine years, has posted annual logo design trend reports and they have just released the 2011 logo design trends report.

I get the impression some ‘trends’ won’t work that well offline and some will date quite quickly too, but for the here & now some of these are pretty nice!

Lets take a look:

Gradients

Juvi

8 useful logo design ideas

Logo is always hard to design, and how to get an inspiring idea for a logo design?

Here are 8 simple but fruitful notions which if kept in mind, can give you bundles of successful logo design ideas. Following these simple points will introduce you to new world of logo design ideas.

1. Know your business:

Best logo designs are those that reflect on what you do; what products and services you tend to offer.

13 Useful Links for Graphic Designers

Journey Education- Students and educators save tons on Design, Publishing and Web Development software.
AIGA - American Institute of Graphic Arts - some great tutorials on here.
Ready made buttons - For just about anything you might ever need a button for.
CSS Color Names - Great selection of Free Fonts.
Fonts.com Search by Sight - Like a font but don't know the name of it? This might help.
1001 Free Fonts - 1001 Free fonts.
Adobe PDF viewing issue - Excellent article for designers experiencing problems with fonts after converting to a PDF.
Graphic Design Dictionary - Graphic Design terminology.
FREE Vector Art - Some nice vector buttons and artwork FREE.
Abstract and Pattern Vectors - Tons of FREE vector backgrounds and abstracts.
Lightbox Javascript - The famous lightbox javascript created by Lokesh Dhakar.
Free Vector Glass Buttons and Bars - 72 very cool vector buttons that you can alter for your needs in any vector based program.
Free Photoshop buttons, bars, orbs, and more - Very cool glassy buttons to modify in Photoshop.