Colour Lovers

Ever struggled for creative inspiration when it comes to your colour palette ?
Struggle no more, check out Colour Lovers here’s a post of colour ways in skateboard art but check out the rest of it its amazing, a real celebration of what can often be a challenge COLOUR !

Cartoon Brew

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/tron-in-cardboard
Good animation site full of ideas and fresh work. This TRON in Cardboard animation is way cool : )

4th Generation mobiles. Google kicks iPhone’s arse!

Google have revolutionised the mobile phone market with a new mobile called Android. Check it out:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7266201.stm

Bubbling Widget Growth in 2008

- Seemingly overnight, everyone is in love with widgets.
Consumers love the tiny software applications that let them share music, photos and videos, and even throw virtual sheep at one another, on social networks. And social networks love widgets because they help boost traffic and ad revenue on their sites.
On Facebook alone, users have installed nearly [...]

nature meets technology

Design for the other 90%

The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.”
—Dr. Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises

Exhibition catalogue
Designers, engineers, students and professors, architects, and social entrepreneurs from [...]

‘Humanist Sans’ or ‘Warm Modernism’

It’s commonly accepted that San Serif fonts should not be used for large chunks of text, but one thing that you will learn about graphic design is that rules are only there to be broken.
Here are some great ‘Humanist’ san serif’s .
HTF champion gothic, Optima Nova by Herman Zapf (updated version) Montcello by Mathew [...]

Beautiful Evidence by Edward Tufte

EDWARD TUFTE’S NEW BOOK BEAUTIFUL EVIDENCE
Business Week, Best Innovation and Design Books for 2006
“A brilliant masterpiece, the Galileo of graphics has done it again.”
ZDNET, Best Business and Technology Books of 2006
“Tufte will get you thinking about the meaning of words and images,
not to mention your ability [...]

MIA – KALA

‘We’ve seen lots of great sleeves in the last few weeks. Bright colours and illustrated forms seem to be flavour of the month…’ Gavin Reece Creative review
great retro desgn, i’d say circa 1990 when Macs could barely breathe this would of been at the cutting edge. All made in photoshop i think. It is [...]