Morocco-based brand designer Bachir Bachchar has come up with an interesting project titled "66 Smart Words" that showcases typographic logos of common words we use every day. The impressive bit is that the letters of each word have been designed in a way that they form a visual image associated with the meaning of the words themselves (a.k.a. calligrams). … [Read more...]
Volkswagen Comes Up With A Brilliant Way To Promote Its Keyless Trunk-Opening Feature
Volkswagen's "Easy Open Trunk" is a cool feature that lets you open the trunk of the car with your feet, if your hands are occupied. A sensor in the car recognizes the key in your pocket or purse. All you have to do is swing your foot under the center of the rear bumper and the boot pops open. … [Read more...]
29 Beautiful Color Schemes From Award-Winning Websites
Looking for color schemes for your website or UI? The design team at Visme, an online tool for creating presentations and infographics, has created a list of beautiful color schemes from websites that have been recognized by Awwwards, the world's largest web design awarding body. … [Read more...]
Cool, Disney-Style Animations Of Logos Of Popular Social Networks
The students at Motion Design School in Kharkov (Ukraine) have come up with a series of gorgeous animations of logos of popular social networks, messaging platforms and portfolio sites. The list includes Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google, Pinterest, Snapchat, Skype, Reddit, Tumblr, Flickr, Behance, Dribbble, Slack, and Telegram. … [Read more...]
Kids Build Sculptures Of Their Dream Careers In These Award-Winning Ads From LEGO
Ogilvy Bangkok came up with a series of well-crafted ads for LEGO that show kids envisioning their future careers by building sculptures of what they want to be when they grow up. … [Read more...]
How Cool Is The Art Direction On These Award-Winning Ads For JBL Headphones?
To promote JBL's noise-cancelling headphones, agency Cheil Worldwide (Hong Kong) came up with a brilliant print/outdoor campaign titled "Block Out The Chaos" that uses optical illusions to get the message across. The first ad features illustrations of two whiny kids fighting and screaming into the ears of their mother, but she has a calm expression on her face. The white space … [Read more...]
36 Beautiful Color Palettes For Your Next Design Project
Looking for color palettes for your UI? Color Hex is a useful online tool with a collection of almost 40,000 color palettes that you can use in your projects. You can copy hex codes and even download a .PNG version of each palette. Check out some our favourites below. … [Read more...]
10+ Clients Who Wanted To Pay Artists With “Exposure” Instead Of Money
At some point or the other, every artist comes across a douchebag client who expects them to work for free. These requests usually come with promises of "exposure" or future collaborations. Rookie designers with little or no skill fall prey to them and ruin it for the rest of us. … [Read more...]
45 Inspiring Examples Of Single-Letter Logo Designs
Last week, we showcased 50 monogram logos that merged two or more alphabets to form one unique symbol. Today, we're focussing on logos that use just one alphabet and typographical creativity to form a distinctive brand identity. These are trickier to execute than monogram logos because you just have one letter to play with. Luckily, the designers who crafted these 45 examples … [Read more...]
9 Beautiful Logos Of Animals In Charging Positions
Bodea Daniel is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator based in Timișoara, Romania. A travel buff by nature, his love for beer is second only to his love for design. Bodea is also one of the most popular designers on Behance, with over 342,178 project views and 9,506 followers. One of our favourite projects from his portfolio is a series of animal logos in charging or … [Read more...]
50 Creative Monogram Logos For Design Inspiration
A monogram is a motif or symbol made by combining two or more letters. The earliest known examples of monograms date back to 350BC when the names of Greek cities used to be engraved on coins. Over the centuries, monograms have been used in religion, architecture and in royal symbols to denote power and authority. … [Read more...]
Funny Ads For Digestive Pills Show Food Items As Characters In Troublesome Situations
Agency Dhélet Y&R in Buenos Aires has come up with a cracker of a campaign for Hepachofa Digestive Pills. The 3-ad series imagines food items as characters inside the stomach, that are about to face a troublesome (or should we say gut-wrenching) situation. For example, the first ad shows a 'pizza husband' coming back home from a long day at work, and his 'pizza wife' is in bed … [Read more...]
This Artist Is Drawing One Designer Problem Everyday For 100 Days, And They’re Hilarious
The Instagram artist known as Cauliflower Time has undertaken a 100-day project where she illustrates funny problems that designers and creatives face on a daily basis. Titled "100 Days of Pencils", the series is an accurate representation of agency life and the bowel-numbing experiences that come with it. The artist uses a pencil as the primary product of her pitches to … [Read more...]
Artist Shares His Everyday Life With Wife Using Comic Illustrations
Picture this: It’s a cold winter night. You’re snuggled up in your quilt with the TV remote in one hand and a tub of popcorn in the other. Life couldn’t be better. Suddenly, out of nowhere, your wife presses her ice-cold feet against the warmest part of your body and you scream like a banshee, much to her sadistic delight. … [Read more...]
41 Creative Minimal Logos For Design Inspiration
When it comes to logo design, minimalism can be tricky to achieve. If executed improperly, the logo can come across as too simple or boring. In the process of removing unnecessary elements, you have to ensure that your logo remains memorable and distinctive. … [Read more...]
Gorgeous Animations Of Hand-Lettered Logos Where Every Frame Is Hand-Drawn
Mantas Grauzinis is a freelance illustrator and animator based in Vilnius, Lithuania. He loves good stories and "splashy, smoother than butter movements". His passion for the latter can be observed in a series of slick animations of hand-lettered logos created by him, that are extremely satisfying to watch. … [Read more...]
This Guy Sucked At Photoshop, So He Used MS Paint To Illustrate His Book…And The Results Are Wow
"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way." - Edward de Bono Boston-based artist Patrick Hanes has worked exclusively in Microsoft Paint for over 10 years. By his own admission, he "sucks at Photoshop and other programs". He honed his craft in MS Paint working long overnights at a hospital reception desk. … [Read more...]
Beautiful, Colorful Animal Logos Based On Circular Geometry
California-based designer Anuja Kanani has come up with a series of colorful animal logos using circle geometry. Being an animal lover, she wanted to undertake this design experiment to highlight their elegant structure and form. For each logo, Anuja initially sketched a basic structure guided by circles. She then defined the animal using just line forms. Programs used were … [Read more...]
Google AutoDraw Turns Your Rough Scribbles Into Beautiful Icons For Free
Google's latest A.I. experiment is a web-based drawing tool called AutoDraw that converts your rough scribbles and doodles into beautiful, symmetrical icons/clipart that you can download for free. It works on your phone, computer or tablet and uses artificial intelligence to guess and suggest a more polished icon or symbol to replace your drawing. … [Read more...]
‘Draw This Again’ Challenge Proves That Practice Makes Perfect
DeviantArt users conducted a ‘Draw This Again’ meme challenge wherein they invited artists to re-draw their old artwork and present them side-by-side for comparison. The objective was to showcase the artist’s dramatic progress over the years and highlight the fact that drawing skills can be improved considerably with practice. Here are some of the best entries. … [Read more...]
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