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Peopledesign work is people-centered. By walking in their customers’ shoes, they learn what they know, what they value, what annoys them, and what is missing in their experiences.

The website is a swell example of neutral palette meets airy navigation with striking visuals.

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Results page though is too much. Thumbnails are way too small. Making these bigger plus choosing a smaller selection would have convey their point better.

Digging Kolle-Bolle graphic collective identity renditions.

Though I like the idea of using large visuals to show portfolio projects, in the case of Public – sometimes the transition from dark – whereas navigation disappears – to light is too much and makes for a poor user experience. The simplicity of the colored squares navigation is ok but the opening empty index space is overwhelming. Important to make sure to pick meaningfully related backgrounds.

Best to keep it within the same color range palette. Something to keep in mind if you intend to use such an approach.

Daily Drop Cap is just what it says and initiated by designer and illustrator Jessica Hische. Since September of 2009, an illustrative initial cap has been posted daily (or at least regularly), to prettify the internet and beautify your blog posts.

Opening title created for the show MTV Hits for MTV Australia. The concept was really open, the only constraint? The presence of the color pink. Direction by boy wonder, Julien Vallée and awesome usual suspects team.

MTV-Hits / Making of

MTV Hits Opening Title / final spot

Always intriguing and inspiring to see how they do it. Dabs Myla Tokyo Deluxe paint and installation making of movie.

The Unclear Path by Tara Hunt. A presentation given at Concordia University, as a TEDx event independently organized. Entrepreneurs have an unbreakable spirit – we have to.. We ask questions and we let answers, lead us.

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Pauline Schleimer is freelancing in the areas of art direction and describes herself as a graphic design activist. Her work is of superlative quality. Her concepts, creatively strong and funky with a penchant towards mix-media output.

Check her out!

Dumais Studio playfully illustrates the idea of fresh, pure water using a paper made set, complimenting the Ovopur’s neat and immaculate ceramic.

Nice staging!

Who is Frederik Garcia? Good question. One that won’t be answered otherwise than with the cool tees he hand-prints and how for example, he presents these is anything but the usual tee-shop. Let the movie roll – it is worth watching – mysterious – because you never get to see his face. Revealing, because you get to see his screen printing process.

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Playful out there collages show-off his super creative imagination. Check the collections. My fav is the Cinq Petits Rêves.

i like yellow (and so do I) is the home of Eleftheria Alexandri who is an illustrator, who currently splits her time between London and Greece. Her work includes editorial, publishing and advertising as well as bespoke pattern design.

Definitely someone to watch.

Keeping time! Furni creations slick retro industrial 50s meets urbania clocks. Slick lines with round corners – they look sturdy enough and precious at the same time.

Watch the video. You can even plug your iPod, iPhone to listen to music. How’s?

Gotta luv the lovely illustrations Judith Drews cooks up. The characters are so sweet – and have this dreamy quality that makes young and old appreciated them. She works for a wide variety of magazines and newspapers.

Publishinghouses, design companies, fashion labels and advertising agencies are among her clients.

Root is a London based design studio founded in 1990 by Martin Root. They specialise in design, art direction, advertising and film for entertainment and lifestyle clients.

Check this project: look-book and website for new luxury luggage label by top London Stylist Harris Elliott.

Cheerful character design with a classic semblance to Looney Tunes that’s what Dabs Myla do best.. as a couple.. two work-a-holic, mad dorks in a pod! After years of living, painting walls and working together they have only become closer, stronger and even more in sync.

The city landscapes are striking. Terrific work!

Graphic Taxonomies exhibits the relationships within graphic and new media design depicted by a living art installation. Design • Direction • Animation by Kultnation.

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MIT Media Lab’s Brilliant New Logo Has 40,000 Permutations by Suzanne LaBarre

An algorithm can create 40,000 logo shapes in 12 different color combinations, providing the Media Lab an estimated 25 years’ worth of personalized business cards.

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The Pictoplasma Festival brings together an international scene of artists, directors, designers and agencies and promotes a lively exchange between the various disciplines and highlights the importance of characters in contemporary visual culture.

Exhibitions, screening, (parties) and performance.

Upcoming: April 6 – 10

The quality and originality of Charles Wilkin‘s design is an automatic success.

Automatic was established in 1994 on Wilkin’s belief that personal expression is an essential and integral part of the design process. By blending elements of art, design and commerce together Wilkin is able to rely on instinct rather than expectation as a means to engage the viewer on a more emotive level. The result is a unique and somewhat unconventional approach to design.

Ok that is huh a most unusual of a way to illustrate. Peter Crawley, who studied and continues to work in the field of product design, actually stitches illustrations. The illustrations are created by hand piercing 420gsm watercolour paper with a pin and then stitching the paper with a needle and cotton thread.

Now you gotta see these.

Your weekly dose of music philosophy is a project by Mico Toledo (real or nickname?). He is a designer. He likes music and typography. All were combined on flashy background colors. Some quotes are worth pondering on.

Celebrating 10 years of design! Hats of to these powagirrrls Carolina and Renata from Argentina for running N o m a d e___ successfully. To many more.

Manufactured Totems by Alain Delorme.

The new Totems series plunges us into the core of contemporary China and its complexity. Under the blue sky of a highly colored Shanghai, men (and women) carry throughout the city unbelievable piles.

30 Things We Need — and 30 We Don’t by Tony Schwartz

Do you have the feeling, as I do, that in the tsunami of everyday life, we’re getting too much of stuff we don’t need, and not enough of what we do? Herewith my first set of suggestions about how to redress the imbalance.

Illustration for f8, the Facebook developers conference. This was a 6 foot long illustration printed digitally on a glass table. The whole theme of the conference was rolling up your sleeves and getting it done… hence all the tools by Mikey Burton.

Would luv to design a table just like that. Nifty idea.

Meet the Knock-Man family! The fun sounds these wind-up figures make are amazing, but understandable when you consider the fact that these one instrument per one character toys are actually spin-offs of the musical instruments built for the MaywaDenki.

Awesomeness. Want them all for our music studio.

Typography mania and geometric shapes excerpts from Gareth Leyshon in his Design a day essay and I love Europe project.

Big Innovations Question the Status Quo by Warren Berger

How Do You Ask the Right Questions?

What if someone sold socks that didn’t match? In his new book Disrupt, Luke Williams, a veteran of frog design, talks about how that offbeat question was the impetus for the launch of Little Miss Matched, a company whose purposely mismatched socks proved surprisingly popular with young girls.

As for the ones who don’t stop asking questions..

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They come in colors everywhere! Fantastic Pantone Home Paint packaging and presentation by Samy Halim.

Scott Oppenheim is a classically trained interactive designer who loves art, technology, and animation and generative art hobbyist. The smart of it? His artworks can be bought and applied to your iPhone or laptop. Nice!

So now you are looking at this strange creature, sitting at a pond trying to bond with nature. Its features are the most obscure. The visual transformations and transitions are masterfull.

Orpheus’ Pony by Michael Fragstein.

Benbo George is a graphic designer and illustrator. Originally from the Wirral, Merseyside, he now divides his time between Liverpool and London. He draws on various media to create his work.

Digging the palette and the deconstructed effect in these collages.

Man, that is extreme! And eerie! My gosh who would have thought of it? Well Katie Eary did. Now this collection has more than good bones to show.

Abandoned? Lost? Accident? Enigmatic photographic essay around junk large object found around the countryside titled Zurückgelassen by Friederike Branderburg.

They went banana and more! Each model’s clothing in the Hunger Pains series was made entirely of real food and depicts a meal that the person was craving.

Photography by Ted Sabarese.

Please have either one of these cool neat seats by Atelier Fishbol. A couple Lobstertrap chairs for the veranda and The Bookseat would be great for a studio seating.

East Of The Rocky Mountain is a nice 3D awarded character design adspot by Nomint which was part of the roster at Pictoplasma 2010.

Italian Design is Coming Home. Alberto Parise and Giovanni Pasini have created this very detailed sculpture completely constructed out of 30 different colors and types of paper, sponsored by Polyhedra, that measures two and a half metres wide and took one month to construct.

Don’t miss the making-of.

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Postertronic created re-usable pixel objects and take them to build pixel postcards — crude Commodore 64-era renditions of their favorite world cities.

These identities were designed to be played before the feature presentation in their relating genres. Each letter embodies a certain character or charm from each genre that the Foxtel On Demand service provides by Brett Morris.

Watch the movie.

Change the world, one face at a time. TED Prize Winner JR & Inside Out project. Watch the amazing movie!

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Drawing Tiny colorful buildings is one of Kelli Anderson favorite ways to pass the time. She defines herself as ‘an artist/designer and tinkerer who is always experimenting with new means of making images and experiences.’

Information design? Check. Illustration? Check. Print on fabric? Check. Letterpress? Check. Everything she does – is delightful. Her portfolio is dazzling and website pretty, cool, unusual too.

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By same token have a look at Making the Handkermap.

Suspension of dreamy bubbles by Daniel Arsham. Mesmerizing, how does one do that? Clues?

Excellent! You and me on a low-fat diet? No problem this curious breakfast has got us covered and was very lovely and lovingly crafted by no other than? Alexis Facca.

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Check out their portfolio for other paper sculptures projects such as this press advertising for Éditions Zulma.

Granimator — Eyejazz, graphic design for a creative sound based wallpaper creator for iPad by Futurefabric.

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Nice posters by Giampaolo Miraglia. Celsius 90 playing around with retro futuristic styles.

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ZONE 89 done with Cinema 4D

The ADC Young Guns 9 launches March 15 and is the international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies today’s vanguard of young creatives age 30 or younger.

Deadline: May 16

Found this awesome video – which his edited ‘backward’ to tell the story of L’Amour se meurt. Nominated at the ADISQ Awards (2010). Brilliantly co-directed and edited by Gabriel Poirier-Galarneau.

Must see!

Just what I need today. Send a dozen or more. Light Up Your Mood with thise cute DIY lightswitch stickers by Henrietta Swift.

Erik Brandt design experiments and visual playground Typografika is replenish with some of his favorite works. Concepts are brilliant in simplicity others striking with colors and buzzing elements. One way to describe him: versatile with a boundless imagination.

March 8 is International Women Day! Celebrate all the women in your life! To all the powagirrrls out there – let’s keep rockin’ – we still have a lot to do for justice, respect sand fairness to all.

Hats off to all the women who rock the design scene with more than pink design!

Luv the Adobe See What is Possible (circa 2008) by Kultnation. Striking palette, 3D shapes.. niiice eye candy.

Featuring two transmediale.11 (Berlin’s festival for art and digital culture) response:ability teasers by two outstanding animators.

Interactive and reactive by Büro Achter April

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Organic and typographic by Emilia Forstreuter.

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Anna Härlin is a graphic designer who lives in Berlin. For seven years she worked at various design agencies, enough time and experience to prepare for something new. Since June 2010, she now works independently, focusing on corporate, print and screen design, etc. as a freelancer for CUT magazine, Etsy, and many others.

Fantastic portfolio! Worthy of a top to bottom visit.

Soft Speaker posters by Modularlab which approach is noncomplex. Their position is to create clean versatile modules to help ones brand. Own and operated by xtra talented duo Kathrin Milic-Grunwald and Mark Milic.

Guess what I just ate? Chiabata with peanut butter (and jelly). Yummy as the It’s not JIF! very cool pixel based illustration by Tymn Armstrong.

Dot. The world’s smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8. From an original idea by Wieden+Kennedy, London. Don’t miss the making of!

A-a-a-amazing!

Basile Cuvelier was born in Brussels, currently pushing pixels from London, is into graphic design and art direction and creativity and outstanding concepts and extremly good ideas and you’ve got to see his personal book.

Watch out! Olivier Charland is a jeune loup (young wolf) who is emerging as one of the next-new-Montreal-based talented graphic designers / artists. His work is original and promising. Particularly luv the typographic concept of the tshirt: Le futur c’est maintenant. (Future is now).

Pop Chart Lab is a collaboration between a book editor and a graphic designer. From their lair in Brooklyn they seek to do nothing less than to bring order to a swirling chaos. That is, they seek to put the world in charts.

Perfection! Simple yet visually exciting website. Perfect nav. Blog is cool. Predator t-shirt rocks.

Head-on there right-o-way!

I have been reading the recaps about Alt (design summit) wish you had been there! Consider this your personal invitation to join them next year! If nothing else, you have got to see the Alt bathrooms for yourself!

How about that?

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Mouth-watering bigga funky fonts for a very special (gluten-free available) deli Marie Catribs who did total kitchen mess before finding her groove. Now she spuns daily healthy food. Check the menu. Luv the website turquoise background – soothing and somewhat exotic.

Read in the about, their approach towards, hiring, clients and suppliers. Inspiring. Looks like a cool place to greet and eat.

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“It’s okay to make a mess, experiments can lead to beautiful things.” Can apply to design.. or any creative pursuits..

Planning on redoing your website? Please do not PUT an under construction notice ONLY. Follow what Les 84 have done! They are FWA winners – so they show off with a cool little interactive (mouse tracking reactive) animation as appetizer.

Then use a slider to show recent projects. Follows, information about them, with links and other completed projects. And last, but almost as important, a newsleetter field – so you can be notified when they relaunch.

Get it?

Found some pearls in George Strouzas flickr stream of minimalist typographic posters. Digg them!

She’s got a life-long close-up affair with information which is the basis in her view, of what graphic design is about. She has a passion for finding unique ways to communicate. She’s smart and yet unassuming, meet Morag the giant behind Studio Myerscough – with an everything but.. website: 49 projects with small captions..

That’s it.. and that’s a plenty.

Floored! Oh my and my. Beautiful font found in the logo of Andy Field temporary placeholder for his upcoming website: Field Office (nice play on words) design for web and print.

What font is it?

Les Contreversions #1 and #2 are a photographic essay and original idea by (atelier) Les Graphiquants located in Paris, France. The four partners cumulate a large array of competences but what is striking me, is their determination to retain much of their ‘artistic commitment’ seeking projects that allows them to do so.