Sunday 30 November 2008

New Inspiration!

Thea Brine

A good use of multi-media, the combination of texture, pattern and sketches gives her work originality. The context is very realistic which makes it humourous.





Scott Balmer

Pure, simple, hand-rendered illustrations. Nice website too!




Experimental Illustration (some odd stuff Lewis may like)





Vintage paper collage


Pictoplasma


Experimental illustration



CMYK design


Bizarre Illustrations & Drawings & Arts


AlcoArt.


tadeusz deregowski's photostream

Typography, vintage and signage


Vintage Type


Design | Historic Industrial Typography


Typography and Lettering


Signage & Typography


Vintage Newspapers


Vintage Scrapbooks and Photo Album covers


Vintage Magazines for women

More useful Flickr links, pattern and texture

Veronese Patterns and Textures
MIX PATTERN
Grid Patterns
Patterns
Repetitive Graphic Pattern Paperback Book Covers
REPEATING PATTERNS

Illustration and montage groups on Flickr

illustration & collages


6x6


collages


2008 Illustrations NOW!


All collages


Collage Crazy


••• kommunikationsdesign •••


No more microwave illustration


Fashion Illustration

Saturday 29 November 2008

Holy Cow Flashman!

These two websites are entirely Flash based yet allow the browser back and forward functions to navigate the sites and also 'deeplink' bookmarking! Enjoy.

Heavenly Sword (again!)
General Electric Ecomagination Campaign

Friday 28 November 2008

Web Design Rap

Idiots (?)

Misprinted type

There is a new project on Misprinted type called invisible, you can view it here. It flash to slide through frames and has some interesting vernacular photography and typographic elements.

The Design Timeline

The Design Timeline

DONE Daily Design Workout.

http://done.jbunti.com/index.html

This guy who's been making one design for every day of the year. Pretty cooooooool....

FWA

Cool Flash website directory, loads of good links.

Double click an image to go to that web page...

The FWA (Favourite Website Awards)


Enjoy!

Thursday 27 November 2008

Future Lions

Future Lions

just an awesome flash website. Simple in design too. Good times.

Optimal Resolutions for Web

This is a great website with the low down on ideal resolutions.

http://www.destroyallmonsters.biz/articles/guidelines-for-designers/optimal-resolutions/

Big Ideas come out of Big Pencils

This is one designer's website which was not included on the brief handout but I feel it's a must:

Leo Burnett

Genius!

Art on a Grand Scale

Anyone doing the D&AD: Illustration brief for KPMG this year may find this useful.

Art on a Grand Scale

The founder of Art on a Grand Scale (Richard Solomon) also has a pod cast where he briefly speaks about considerations of Illustration on a large scale.

The podcast can be found here: Richard Solomon speaks with conceptart.org

Wednesday 26 November 2008

Biological Substance Category B Envelope

Supplied freepost envelope with national NHS chlamydia testing awareness scheme thingy. Your wee goes in it, but at least it looks nice.

Typography for screen

Vernacular typography in James Bond:







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