Valentines Day - special feature

January is nearly over and the month of lurve is around the corner... That's Nice Design is looking to do a special feature on Love Design... everything to do with love - hearts, wedding invites, jewelry, colour palettes, textiles, food, gorgeous typography... you name it. And I'm looking for your input. Please pass on any great designs you spot within the next couple of weeks.

beautifultype.net

beautifultype.net is a great blog with lots of inspirational typographic approaches bought to us by two web designers with a shared passion for typography. It's already given me some ideas for wedding invites!

Make It Better - animated type

This is a really nice piece of animated type, different to the norm... The idea and design were conceived by Climent Canal with animation by Sebastian Baptista. And not forgetting the very effective audio by Aimar Molero.

MAKE IT BETTER from Clim on Vimeo.

Design and typography blogs

It's been one of those rare mornings where I've had the time to browse the internet and came across these two blogs... which have kept me busy for hours looking through all the nice work on them.

www.designworklife.com

www.typographyserved.com

Coming Soon



Annica Lydenberg

Shop Vac - Music video

There's a lot of kinetic typography about these days so it's always great to see some examples that really make you smile and say wow! This video for Jonathan Coulton's song Shop Vac was designed and animated by Jarrett Heather... (who is also a wonderful pianist, so as it's nearly christmas check out this link - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.)

I'm going off track! Back to Shop Vac... enjoy!

Canon - Bringing Colour to Life

This is quite simply amazing... for me this was like listening to a piece of music that makes you feel all tingly inside... Creative studio dentsu, and photographer Linden Gledhill have created a visual masterpiece.
View the making of this new Canon ad followed by the commercial itself... here!

(Thanks for the link Jack!)

Tips and tricks for adobe illustrator

I know there are hundreds of tutorials on the net for different programmes but I've just found this particular link very useful so hopefully you will to...

10 useful tips and tricks for adobe illustrator