Entries categorized under ‘Design & visuals’

Typography, frilly bits style

Real cool post on Abduzeedo on typography flavoured with ornaments and fleurons - or “frilly bits” as it has come to be called. Check out a few previews below:

Full post
Tutorial on how the Abduzeedo wallpaper was done
Nice post with resources for brushes and vectors

WOW, a typographic short film

With visual perfection, the japanese design agency WoW has made an animated short film called “WOW” - an artistic depiction of typo design. I like it a lot, subtle and stylish. Beautiful!

Permanent link here.

10 dark color-intense designs

Colors can be very intruiging and attractive. If used in the extreme, contrastive colors create a very strong, visual look with alot of energy embedded. Combining a multi-colored palette with a dark black base can turn out really exciting - judge for yourself:
         
Focus on the above is on the colors as they are the [...]

Stenciled artwork ‘lize’

I really like dark, earth-like colors as found on brown paper and cardboard. I also like stencils and monochromatic cut-outs. And, I also like Charlize Theron.
Combined, it resulted in this:

It should be seen full-size to really reveal the details in the work. Flickr doesn’t like very large images, so you can download it locally from [...]

Inspiring website galleries

Sometimes your faithful muse leaves you. Sometimes your mind is baffling in circles and your creativiy seems totally paralyzed. Sometimes, all you need is a little external input. I’ve collected a few great web design galleries for an injection of inspiration - uncover your arm and get surfing! 

50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs
Smashing Magazine      
Even though this collection [...]

Tales from Thailand

Last summer, the family and I had a great trip to Thailand. It’s truly an amazing country. The beautiful nature, the kind hospitable people and the interesting culture (food, religion, traditions, everything…) made it a very experience-rich trip altogether.
I’ve posted a few photos from the trip that I want to share. You can find them at Flickr here. If you’re curious, [...]

Typo design ‘for-and-ring’

Some time ago at a winter holiday in upper scandinavia, I did a rough sketch of a typographic design set-up that I think came out pretty interesting. I’m a sucker for typographic designs - I love typography (!) - and while I’m not the most talented designer out there, I often find myself doing random sketches of [...]