Categoría: Graphic Design
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Louis Vuitton Invitation Origami
Happycentro is a Design Studio from Verona that creates this original piece: an invitation card for Louis Vuitton store opening in Osaka. Happtcentro’s designers explain the proyect in this way: «The starting idea was a paper object designed by us; its shape, expression of perpetual precision and pureness of the origami world, we wanted to…
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Tinctorial Textiles
I’ve just found this project commissioned by interior designers Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe for the renewed spaces of the ABN Amro bank office in Eindhoven. To me is a wonderful color exercise and, as you can see, a superb color palette to be inspired by. This is the rationale behind Tinctorial Textiles, as…
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Red is the color of courage
Why don’t we add a touch of bright red to this new year? Let’s ignore the Pantone’s advice that chooses Marsala color as the new trend of 2015. After all, red is the color of courage, joy and power. ¿Por qué no añadimos un toque de rojo brillante a este nuevo año? Vamos a…
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Graphic Design For Fashion
New book at home! Graphic Design for Fashion contains a selection of the best graphic design studios developing the visual style of fashion brands. The book, written by Jay Hess and Simone Pasztorek and published by Laurence King, is an interesting tour around the relationship between fashion and graphic; a relationship stressed by the fact…
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Ana Santonja: ‘My best projects don’t bear my name’ / ‘Mis mejores proyectos no llevan mi nombre’
Ana Santonja is a Spanish reference specialist in textile pattern design. Her experience as Chief Editor of the international magazine Texitura, as General Manager of Círculo Textil and as Master Principal at Istituto Europeo di Design for the last four years, support her solid career in this specialised design field. Ana Santonja es una profesional…
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White
White is the color of morning light. The color of cold, the color of inmensity and the color of solitude. White is the color of Classicim but also is the color of trendiness. White is the color of space, of void, the color of the beginning and the color of the end, the color of…
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Inspiration Boards
Watching this video at The New York Times about L.A. designer Kelly Wearstler, it’s nice to see that she uses inspiration boards as a daily tool in her projects. Inspiration boards haven’t got a particular format. They are a collection of pictures without an evident connection between them, but linked by the concept we are…
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Paper Love
This is the Anthropologie stationery designed by Alana McCann in 2010. The essence of this project is just the material, paper, with its texture, color and touch. For good, in this multimedia era, the best online project will never exceed this design. I know both things are not comparable but I am a paper lover…
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Mustard Color
It is not yellow and not orange. Mustard is a forgotten color, although it is the color of autumn leaves, old gold, reflections of light at sunset and the well-known Moroccan ras al hanut. It is sober but bright and keeps the charm of antiquity. Yes, we should use it more. — No es amarillo…
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The Art of Looking Sideways
Edited by Phainon, The Art of Looking Sideways is the best graphic design book I’ve ever had. Just read the introduction that says like this: «The Art of Looking Sideways is a primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination. It is an inexhaustible…
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The Folding Vase
The Snug vase is not a vase. It is a carton box with geometric forms that covers a glass or a bottle filled with water. The idea behind the design is to create an object with polyhedron shapes, inspired by Minimalism, able to embelish and to make us reuse another ordinary object. It was designed…
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Very Blue
I dare say that this has been the year of blue. Although predictions said that 2013 would be a year of emerald and burgundy, we have to surrender to the evidence that dark, deep, nocturnal and mysterious blue has been the protagonist of the last twelve months. — Me atrevo a decir que este ha…
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Abnormals Anonymous Wallpapers
I’ve found the superb work of Abnormals Anonymous, a wallpaper design studio based in Los Angeles. What I admire most of their pattern works is the simplicity they achieve creating a single motif, repeating it in perfect and balanced compositions and using only one color. Even with these limited resources (a single motif and one…
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