Design Archives (14 posts)
Photoshop CS3 for Photographers Tour
On June 16 I’m going to attend the Photoshop CS3 for Photographers Tour at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. I need to get out of the home office and learn something new, anything.
Posted in Design and Photography at 5:34 PM | Comments (0)
Tear-off wine labels
Oxford Landing’s South Australian Shiraz sports a tear-off label to help you remember the name of the wine. Brilliant package design. More info and a couple of photos at TheDieline.com website.
Posted in Design and Food at 5:54 PM | Comments (1)
Type usage in Pixar titles
Thunder Chunky has an interesting interview with Susan Bradley of Pixar in which she discusses title design for Pixar films and previous projects.
Posted in Design and Motion Graphics at 11:37 PM | Comments (0)
Staying Motivated
A List Apart has a great article on Staying Motivated. If you are a creative professional and you’re struggling with with the daily grind then Kevin Cornell’s article may have has some great tips for you.
Posted in Design at 7:21 PM | Comments (0)
Fonts by Last Soundtrack
I forget where I came across this link but dafont.com has some excellent, free fonts for Windows and Mac OS X. Have a look at some of the grunge fonts by Last Soundtrack and bookmark the page.
Posted in Design at 1:18 AM | Comments (0)
2012 Olympics logo
I have no comment on the logo for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. John Gruber at Daring Fireball has a pretty strong opinion of this logo. I like Gruber’s opinion.
Posted in Design at 3:40 PM | Comments (1)
Ugly ROM, Ugly Star
Last Monday the Toronto Star launched a redesigned print version of their newspaper. The best word I can think of to describe this redesign is ugly.
They made some small improvements to the typography (increased the point size and leading to make it easier to read) but the headlines and layout look cumbersome and unappealing. The recent redesign of the Globe and Mail newspaper was a huge improvement. The paper looks more contemporary whereas the Toronto Star looks more antiquated. My 75 cents.
Tomorrow the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) unveils the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal — one of the ugliest architectural projects of our time. Architect Daniel Libeskind created the mixture of glass and metal that juts out of the ROM. I think the whole thing looks cheap and ugly.
After looking at a dozen projects by Libeskind I can say that I just don’t like his style. I prefer the look of The Gehry Tower, London City Hall, or the brilliant 30 St Mary Axe in London.
Posted in Design at 10:29 AM | Comments (4)
Helvetica
The documentary film Helvetica will be getting its Canadian premiere in Toronto at Hot Docs (April 19-29). It’s at the top of my list of films to see at this year’s festival.
I’ve been hearing bits an pieces about the film on various design sites for the last year. I just watched a short clip of the film on Veer.com that features Erik Spiekermann. It looks very promising and should be inspiring to anyone who is a designer that works with type.
Posted in Design and Movies and Web Design at 2:32 PM | Comments (1)
Top Ten Stock Photography Cliches
Forty Media has an amusing list of Top Ten Stock Photography Cliches. I’m guilty of allowing some clients to use a few cliche photos in the past.
Posted in Design and Photography at 9:32 AM | Comments (1)
Screenshots of Office 2007
Jensen Harris’ blog has quite a few screenshots of the upcoming Office 2007 user interface. There are also a few screenshots at Microsoft’s website.
I don’t know. I’m not crazy about the design at all. I just find that it looks clunky. It’s not really fair to judge an interface without actually using it but when I look at these screenshots I feel uninspired. What do the rest of you think?
Posted in Design at 8:40 PM | Comments (2)
CNN Redesign
I love the redesign of the infographics for CNN International news. A firm called KEMISTRY in the UK did the work. The clean, simple, uncluttered graphics are a nice change from the distracting graphics that have become common on news channels.
You can see samples of the new design on the KEMISTRY homepage or just watch CNN International.
Posted in Design at 10:13 AM | Comments (0)
creativebits
If you’re a design professional and you use Adobe Photoshop on OS X then you have to do yourself a favour and visit creativebits—your daily fix of graphic design and OS X.
Posted in Design at 9:41 AM | Comments (1)
allcity
allcity is a London-based design firm that creates some amazing movie posters for the UK and international markets. Their website is full of examples and design notes.
allcity also designs DVD covers and creates animated menus. Check out their showreel for more.
Link via Newstoday®—a great resource of links to interactive design, motion graphics, design books and more.
Posted in Design and Movies at 9:49 PM | Comments (0)
The Birth of a “Maga-paper”
I’m not sure how I missed this but the Toronto Star did a major redesign of its Sunday paper so that it looks a lot more like a magazine. There is a great case study at Newsdesigner.com with before and after visuals of the newspaper, I mean magazine.
Posted in Design at 2:24 PM | Comments (0)
