Design
Apple’s Attention To Detail
…shows best with this picture: a miniscule but still significant change from OS X 10.7.2 to 10.7.3. I just wonder why they had to bend the pointing hand, it now looks a little bit like Mickey Mouse’s hand to me.
London Tube Map Built With Drinking Straws
How cool is that!? Brighton-based artist Kyle Bean built the London tube map solely with drinking straws, more specifically Zone One of London’s underground system. Recreating a company’s logo using drinking straws would also be pretty cool. What do you … Read
Crashed Ferrari Table
A crashed Ferrari becomes a table. French artist Charly Molinelli obtained a Ferrari 308 from a scrap press, created a wooden frame and put a piece of glas on top: the first “Crashed Ferrari Coffee Table”. Pretty flamboyant. Too bad … Read
20 Creative 404 Error “Not Found” Page Examples
After countless hours of development everybody is happy when pushing a website or application live. What people usually forget is to a create meaning-, helpful or at least creative “404 Error Not Found” page. This is not something developers often … Read
Twitter’s Redesign Looks Nice
Watch this video on YouTube. Twitter on Thursday introduced a new look for Twitter.com and TweetDeck that it hopes will simplify the user experience. One major difference on the homepage is that tweets appear on the right side and take … Read
Unilever Logo: The Icons Explained
Unilever, the gigantic corporation behind a lot of popular consumer brands, has an interesting tidbit about their logo: all those little icons (25 in total), woven together to form a U, actually mean something. In 2005, Unilever changed the logo … Read
Nerdy Macbook Decal Stickers: Pacman, Android, Iron Man, …
I just spotted a cool series of Macbook Decal Stickers. I like “Android eats Apple” and the Pacman version best but the other ones are also nice. Check them out at etsy and if you need a nerdy nerdier Christmas … Read
Free Christmas Icons
The season has already started and you might need to design something around christmas. Here is a Christmas icon set (Download) by Offset Media that looks gorgeous. The pack is available as EPS and completely free to use in personal … Read
NASA Corporate Brand Guidelines
Look at a piece of history: the NASA Corporate Guidelines from 1976, designed by Danne and Blackburn. Here is a great flickr set and if you want to read more, a post about it. An additional image after the click. … Read
Corporate Brand Guidelines
Interesting collection of current and older corporate brand guidelines including the Apple Web Design Guide from December 1996: Keep Pages Short Short pages are better than long pages. People are more likely to read a short passage of text than … Read
Adobe App Pillows And Other Great Ones
Even cooler than the temporarily sold-out Ctrl+Alt+Delete Pillows are the Adobe App Pillows for people working in the design industry or nerdy enough to enjoy them. The Fl (Flash) Pillows would fit my apartment best but actually I use Ps … Read
In reality Photoshop would look like this
Ever wondered how Adobe Photoshop would look in real life? Art Snob Solutions have rebuilt the software with natural, real materials. The color swatches, ruler, font panel, tool palette, … simply everything is handmade. This is NOT a photoshop job!
Creative Business Cards. Awesome!
Quicksprout compiled a list of creative business cards that will distinguish yourself from competitors. Some of the 51 business cards are a bit too much for my taste but here are the ones I find interesting. The question is which … Read
Apple Logo Trademark Dispute
Lawyers for Apple Inc. have sent a letter to the Victoria School of Business and Technology claiming the logo is confusingly similar to theirs. More “Apple logos” used by education institues after the click.
Create Awards 2007. Call For Entries
The Create Awards is one of the top creative competitions for professionals, and even students, in advertising, film & video, motion graphics, graphic communication, photography, printing, interactive media, and copywriting. Each Best of Industry winner will receive a generous prize … Read
