9 Inspiring Graphic Designers and their Distinct Design Styles
Posted: May 23, 2013 Filed under: Inspiration | Tags: Avinoam Noma Bar, Erik Nitsche, graphic design styles, inspiration, John Henry Alvin, Kate Moross, Paul Rand, Paula Scher, Shigeo Fukuda, Susan Kare, Wolfgang Weingart Leave a comment »
Creative graphic designers never fail to incorporate new styles and techniques in their works through the inspirations they get from virtually a lot of sources. There are several exercises and sources which you, as a designer, can consider to better improve your skills and creativity and be in demand with such competitive field. You can scan the web, utilize the power of social networking sites, get inspiration from your experiences, family or the nature itself, and most significantly browsing the creativity of several established and famous graphic designers and distinguishing their styles that made them standout.
Packaging Design: Jonathan Adler Muse Collection, Salt and Pepper Shakers
Posted: May 23, 2013 Filed under: Packaging design | Tags: jonathan adler, packaging design, salt and pepper shakers Leave a comment »
*The Great Gatsby Special* Inspired artwork
Posted: May 16, 2013 Filed under: Inspiration | Tags: Andrea Sanchez, art deco, Audrey Raudabaugh, inspiration, James Martin, Kristy Lee, midnight-marauder, Sharm Murugiah, the great gatsby, the great gatsby special Leave a comment »A selection of some great artwork inspired by the new coming film, The Great Gatsby
Book cover by Kritsy Lee
Movie Poster by midnight-marauder
Movie poster by Sharm Murugiah
Book cover by James Martin
Movie poster by Andrea Sanchez
Book cover by Audrey Raudabaugh
*The Great Gatsby Special* Font of the week: MB Deco
Posted: May 16, 2013 Filed under: Typography | Tags: art deco, font of the week, MB deco, the great gatsby special, typography Leave a comment »
All Caps Art Deco font with alternate characters in Upper and Lower Case glyphs, some nice ligatures to create interesting letter sets. Great for Logotypes, Headlines, Straplines and smaller descriptive text to give that authentic Art Deco look and feel.
*The Great Gatsby Special* Inspiring Book Covers
Posted: May 16, 2013 Filed under: Inspiration | Tags: art deco, book covers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, inspiration, the great gatsby special Leave a comment »
Known as one of the best novels ever written in the English language, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, though always regarded as a classic, has been thrust back into the limelight recently with the hype surrounding the film’s remake starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Having hit theaters this past week, the film itself has gotten mostly negative reviews, as it gives people a story of beauty over substance.
*The Great Gatsby Special* Art Deco Design Classics
Posted: May 16, 2013 Filed under: Design Classics | Tags: art deco, cassandre, design classics, the great gatsby special Leave a comment »
All old styles are destined to become cool again eventually. Good designers know this and great designers know how to work it. The call for “retro” has maybe never been louder than it is now and with the roaring 1920s taking culture by storm these days (Downton Abbey on TV, The Great Gatsby soon in theaters), we’re thinking Art Deco will be making a serious comeback in graphic design.
Deco is a strong, beautiful style. Here is the history you need to know, to do it right.
Note the imposing power of the ship in “L’Atlantique,” the cubist and futurist inspiration in the posters for “Nord Express” and “Clipper 314,” and the flat geometric quality to Cassandre’s Pivolo ad — perhaps the most famous Art Deco poster of all time.
Design Classics: Aristide Bruant cabaret poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Posted: May 16, 2013 Filed under: Design Classics | Tags: 1982, aristide bruant, cabaret poster, design classics, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, post-impressionism Leave a comment »
Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃ʁi də tuluz loˈtʁɛk]); (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec, along with Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin, is among the most well-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period. In a 2005 auction at Christie’s auction house a new record was set when La blanchisseuse, an early painting of a young laundress, sold for $22.4 million U.S.[1]
