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22 Creative Business Cards From January 2012

David — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000

This post is the first part of the business card inspiration series of 2012, each month I will featuring a collection of awesome business cards that have been submitted to the business card gallery, you can see some of the best business cards from last year in the business card archive.

Wyatt

We Are Manic

Wall Envy Photo

Tiny Twiggette

Strumpets Crumpets

Projekt, Inc

Modern Karibou

Middletown Lumber

Maria Bernal

Manfred Erjak

Kip Beelman

I Am Tiago

Homer Liwag

Great Circle

Gorjana

Formgarten

Emily Deisiath

Digital Elliot

Debadge

Chef Boulder

CF Designer

Cecelia Tattoo

15 Cool Design Studio Accessories

Tomas Laurinavicius — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000

If you want to achieve great results and be productive as much as possible you must find a comfortable and cozy environment to work in. Work takes a lot of time in our lives and we would like to make it enjoyable and interesting. It doesn’t matter if you’re working from home or office your workplace should be inspiring and motivating space where you can let your imagination go wild.

I have collected 15 cool design studio accessories for your work or company office. Hopefully you will find something cool to spice up your workstation.

Vintage Wood Calendar Chalkboard

This vintage wall mount features a washable chalkboard with graphics of all 12 months (printed in French!) and 31 days. Complete with 3 slots for holding chalk or other accessories; and 6 total hooks at the bottom for hanging coats, scarves or whatever.

Quack Tape Dispenser

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a sticky tape dispenser. Wooden tape dispenser shaped like a duck.

Perpetual Calendar Grey Silver

Designed by Gideon Dagan for the Museum of Modern Art, this elegant calendar can be used year after year. A magnetic ball marks the day on a bar suspended in space. A second ball seems to float as the magnetic tension pulls the string toward the month printed on the outer ring. A distinctive addition to home or office.

A.N. Pen Holder

From Arthur Ditlef, a 3D printed pen holder with a geometric spider-web like design that “traps” pens.

Chalkboard office accessories

Instant messaging. Old-school staple writes (then erases) new rules for keeping it together. Scrawl labels, to-dos, doodles, then wipe the slate clean. Includes one piece of white chalk.

Turn Tap for USB Power

The Charging Tap is quite an adorable hub that takes in cellphones, digital cameras, MP3 and other USB enabled devices, for charging. Quite simple and minimal in styling, all you need to do is to hook up your gadget and turn on the tap.

Dot Grid Journal

The Dot Grid Journal was developed as an alternative to traditional lines and boxes. The light geometric dot matrix serves as a subtle guide for your notations and sketches, while the materials used to create each notebook are cleaned up, de-inked and bleached naturally (no chlorine).

NoteSlate

NoteSlate is low technology tablet device with true one color display, real paper look design and long life battery. The unique simple interface for pencil and paper brings the obvious technology to completely new experience.

Jumbo Flip Clock

Hit the big time with this giant wall clock that flips the hours away. Over a foot in width, the Giant Wall Flip Clock will definitely make a bold statement. This retro battery-powered clock literally flips through the minutes and hours, making sure its bold numbers are seen from a mile away. The sheer size of this clock is already enough to make you stop in your tracks.

Teamwork Tape Dispenser

This desktop tape dispenser is entitled “Teamwork.” This piece bears the message: Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.

iPhone Stencil Kit

Quickly sketch out iPhone UI prototypes. Brainstorm your application ideas using our precision cut stainless steel stencil and mechanical pencil.

Qlocktwo Touch

Qlocktwo Touch is a precision table clock with alarm function. These characters shine in pure white with a sharp outline using LED technology. A complex process is employed to cut the monolithic corpus in one piece from a single aluminium block and represents a milestone in table clock aesthetics.

Walls Notebook

Walls Notebook is a notebook / sketchbook that features 80 pictures of “clean” NYC walls instead of blank pages. Write, draw, paste, or doodle on these inspirational backdrops. You’ll be one step closer to being the street artist you’ve always wanted to be â€¦ minus the jail time.

All Natural Full Bamboo Keyboard and Mouse Combo

This handcrafted All Natural Full Bamboo Keyboard and Mouse Combo not only looks unique and trendy, it also helps you improve productivity. The laser engraved bamboo keys absorb sweat, stay clean and feel comfortable. In addition, the extra four shortcut keys give you easy access to internet, e-mail, mute and calculator.

Stampler

It looks and works like a normal stapler â€“ but has an added attachment that prints a smiling face design at the same time. Why would you ever buy a normal stapler again?

30 Clever Examples of Negative Space Logos

Tomas Laurinavicius — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Simplicity is the key to effective and memorable logo design. Creating a logo design you should consider less is more rule and make your logo as simple as possible and creative enough at the same time. Perfect technique to achieve this effect is to use negative space which can help you to achieve brilliant results. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, and not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space is occasionally used to artistic effect as the “real” subject of an image.

Negative space logos are becoming the next trend in all kind of industries. For that reason I’ve collected 30 clever logo designs with negative space used. Hopefully you will find this collection entertaining as well as inspiring.

Eagle Mountain Capital

Hairdresser

PROPANE INC

Jurassic Wine

Portrait Photos

Catch 5

SHIFT

5 LOCKS

VIA

Snake

Hafiz Bacote

VinoPiano

HE Logo

Fiska

Worldwide Short film Festival

Wine Quotations

MyShirt

Storm Foundry

Highly Decorated Bakery

Bird Home Press

Paint the City

Helping Hands For Pets

Blue Dog Properties

Illusion

Motion

Face to Face

HD LIVE

Circus of Magazines

Fork & Knife

Pelican

Inspiring Minimal Poster Designs

David — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000

Posters are a perfect marketing tool for putting up around in public places for people to see, everywhere you travel you are almost always going to pass some form of advertisement or billboard, the problem with a majority of posters and billboards is the design work can be pretty unappealing. I have collected some truly awesome designed posters for your inspiration, if these were used in public spaces think how many extra customers and attention your brand would get.

Take a look at this collection of inspiring minimal poster designs, I think if you saw one of these around you would take notice.

You may also like to read: 20 Minimalist & Typographic Brochure Designs

Santa Monica

Encompass

Comic Locations

Bridging the Gap

WTF

Mad Max

Robocop

2001, A Space Odyssey

Fahrenheit 451

Planet Of The Apes

The Cube

A ClockWork Orange

Genis Carreras

Shark Week

No X in Espresso

Minimal Aquaman

Modernism Meets The Streets

HVD Fonts Promo

30 Inspiring Examples of Big Typography in Web Design

David — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:00:00 +0000

One of the most important aspect of modern and effective web and graphic design these days is typography. Good selection of font type, size and color can make your website look more interesting and attractive for your website visitors. Using large typography you will easily grab an attention of website visitors and it will be easy to impress them and send the message at the same time. You will see that huge typography is being used everywhere in the website, starting from header and finishing with footer.

In this collection you will find 30 inspiring examples of big typography implemented in modern web design.

Mo’s & Bows

Yamaha WaveRunners

Yugu

Deen

Isaias Mulatinho

Intellisult

Zachery Rodgers

Kantt

Avex Designs

Alex Malukov

Matt Koch

TribeCon 3

Gecko Imaging

Denis Fernandez Gridchin

Ashfall Design

Mairis Briedis

Love of My Life

Cesar Cabral

Fabio Neural

Kaleidoscope

SicanStudios

Team PAWS

Bear Grylls Live

Stephen Caver

Teixido

Clear Air Challenge

Zee

Urbanoff

Deren Keskin

Mark Hobbs

Showcase: The Best Business Cards From 2011

David — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:00:00 +0000

This year I have been featuring a collection of awesome new business cards each month that have been submitted to the business card gallery, in this post I take a look back through some of the best business cards of 2011. Take a look back at a years worth of the best business card designs.