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25 Scary and Stylish Illustrations by Brent Hollowell

The Design Inspiration — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:28:37 +0000

Brent Hollowell is a simple person with high expectations of himself. He has always “drawn” but started taking his art seriously near the end of 2011. He uses a wacom cintiq 12 wx, photoshop cs3, and sometimes painter 11.

He is not sure if he wants to go into concept art or illustration, but it doesnt really matter right because he thinks he is lack the skills to do either as a profession. He has also taken a few classes for traditional art and he is happy to meet awesome artists every day. He is humble and love to learn new things everyday, that’s the main reason he becomes a great artist now, and will get better and better everyday.

20 Amazing Typographic Works by Andre Beato

The Design Inspiration — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:23:07 +0000

André Beato is a Portuguese Graphic designer & Illustrator, born in Lisbon and currently based in London. His work is mostly vector based graphics, corporate identities and illustrated typography.

He has been working in the various creative fields of graphic, print and editorial, collaborating with clients from various industries such as record labels, magazines, clothing companies, advertising and others. He has done some of the most amazing typographic works as follow.

Thinkin´About

Destroy

Caught Eye

We Are The 90’s

Lisbonlover

Part Time Lover

The Sweetest Taboo

Type For You

Spin the Globe

The Next Big Thing

Don´t Sweat my Swag

Support Japan

Show Us Your Type

May the Force

Salute to New York

Willy Wonka´s

Mortar & Pestle

Go Play!

The Best of London

Incredibly Useful

Lovely Animals Alphabet by Casey Girard

The Design Inspiration — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:40:47 +0000

Casey Girard studied Illustration and Graphic Design at RIT in upstate NY. Her illustration has been ongoing throughout the years in her own projects, pieces that fit with her marketing jobs, and attendance at SCBWI conferences. Now as a freelancer she is putting more emphasis on her illustrating through time and marketing.

She works in colored pencil, using the process of burnishing to create soft surfaces, and watercolor, to keep her pieces loose. She illustrated this amazing animals alphabet. Each letter of the alphabet was illustrated by an animal to represent it. They are absolutely amazing.

The Design of New Cross Strait Forum

The Design Inspiration — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:18:07 +0000

Pingtan is planned as a new commercial hub to drive communication and commercial trade between China and Taiwan. The design of a new Cross Straits Forum designed by 10 DESIGN including theatre, convention, exhibition and auxiliary commercial and cultural facilities. At the centre of the CBD and Forum district has a newly created fresh water lake that conserves fresh water from run off through the urban grain.

The masterplan cater for some 3.3 million sqm of urban development, while the Cross Straits Forum would be inthe first phase of development. To reflect the aspiration of transparency and dialogue the buildings are formed by converging elements that combine with the landscape and waterfront to create a fluid and open series of public spaces that meld into the buildings themselves.

Service traffic, roads andtrams are integrated into a series of terraced landscape levels to minimize impact of car traffic on pedestrian circulation routes and to create freeaccess from the central axial park canal through the lake towards the waterfront through a series of leisure and retail lined canals.

Cool Photos and Artworks for Your Inspiration #93

The Design Inspiration — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:00:22 +0000

This post is part of our weekly series: showing some interesting Photos and Artworks around the Web so you can get inspiration for your design. If you want to share your great Photos or Artworks with our readers, just send them over via email with image source link using “Weekly Photos and Artworks Inspiration” in the subject. Enjoy the post.

If you see a photo or artwork that is yours and you want credit or it to be taken off, just let us know. We don’t take credit for any of these, this post is just for collecting cool photos and artworks for design inspiration.

50 Hello Kitty Model Crossover by Joseph Senior

The Design Inspiration — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:17:47 +0000

Joseph Senior from New Zealand has taken Hello Kitty into a variety of pop-culture crossover x mashup guises in this series titled “Hello Kitty Model Kit”, including Darth Vader, Buzz Lightyear, Iron Man, Homer Simpson and Mr. Spock.

I think I would consider collecting them if they were made into actual toy collectibles especially the Star Wars series ~ the only way you’re gonna see Darth Vader with a ribbon on his helmet!

Cool Photos and Artworks for Your Inspiration #92

The Design Inspiration — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:00:44 +0000

30 Best Brochure Designs for Your Inspiration

The Design Inspiration — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:49:28 +0000

Brochures are most commonly found at places that tourists frequently visit, such as museums, major shops, and tourist information. The most common types of single-sheet brochures are the bi-fold and the tri-fold. A bi-fold brochure results in four panels , while a tri-fold results in six panels.

Purpose of brochure may vary from business to business. Some are designed to display services, whereas others are focused on selling a product. Brochure is very important part of advertisement, therefore we have picked the following 30 Best Brochure Designs for Your Inspiration.

Foliomania

Supercars Asia 2012

Courmayeur Brochure

4 Pages Brochure + Trifold

Design Prospectus

CHP Brochure

Hands On Brochure

Farmers Market Brochure

Effektive

Biolab Profile

Editorial Design

Brochure for Events

Pixomatics Brochure

Preview Spain 2010

Suikerbosrand Brochure Design

SIBOS 2010

Twombly Photography

Guest Brochure

Peace Core Brochure

Coqo’Clock Self-Promotion

Brochure For Recreation Center

Brochure Franz Ferdinand

Lifestyles Brochure

AVG Anti Virus Brochure

360 Broch

Simplicity Works

A Virtual Parking Place

Brochure for a Textile Company

WWF Climate Change Publication

Cantine Russo

Once you’ve spent hours creating the perfect brochure, your next step is to get the brochure printing. There are a variety of ways you can print brochures: printing them on your own computer, sending the file to a local printer, or emailing or uploading the file to an online printing Web site.

22 Illustrations with Incredible Details by Dean Holdeen

The Design Inspiration — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:39:02 +0000

Dean Holdeen is a absolutely talented artist from South Korean. The amount of detail in Dean’s work is absolutely incredible, you need to look extra closely to see the effort he has put into the armour designs. He is now an concept designer and illustrator. And he loves using Photoshop to draw his amazing designs.

Wave Shaped St. Petersburg Pier in Florida

The Design Inspiration — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:40:08 +0000

BIG was recently honored as a finalist in an exciting competition to redevelop the St. Petersburg Pier in Florida. Inspired by the natural cycles of water, BIG’s proposal is a massive redevelopment project that culminates in a huge wave-like structure.

The plan will add facilities to encourage outdoor recreation while incorporating mixed-use space and improving the park leading up to the pier. BIG’s proposal will also aim for LEED certification with its native and drought-tolerant landscaping, sustainable and energy-efficient design, and the recycling of demolition material to create artificial reefs.