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Your business card leaves an impression of You, even when you are not there. A beautiful business card helps you stay in on the radar of the people you are giving it to, a great business card makes you standout. We have came across some beauties, and we would like to share them with you.
Send us business cards that stand out, we will publish them!
It has been said that Luke Feldman is to digital art what Tim Burton is to cinema, or Dr. Seuss is to children’s books, his distinctive unmistakable design style, has landed him jobs with Coca Cola, Apple and Disney to name but a few. This is Luke Feldman Interview with The Graphic Design School.
Featuring in this months who’s who wasn’t enough, Luke Feldman generously made The Graphic Design students a tutorial using his funky design style and one of his quirky characters. See how Luke transforms a sketch into a vector character.
We went to France, Italy and everywhere else that serve great wine and cheese AFTER the dessert, to find the most passionate and sometimes quirky typography designers Europe has to offer. Check out this ‘melange’ with a twist of extraordinary.
Flag Type a type made using the movement of a flag as inspiration.
Boy do we love these Frenchies. Not only do they create awesome original typography, they experiment with elements like sound interactivity, audio sequencing and motion capture to create graphics. Super cool!
Radio Station for design and type Typeradio is a Micro fm broadcast, a MP3 internet radio stream and a podcast station. Since 2004 Typeradio has been visiting different design events around the world, to meet designers and to talk, some really inspiring podcasts here.
Minimal Bloc we couldn’t resist featuring superscript twice, je t’aime! Minimal Bloc is a type made of two shapes; squares and 1/4 circles. Wonderfully rustic applied here to wood, check out the other applications here.
Gallery an off the charts cute site. Use the original interactive gallery to make your own character or scene with fonts: Univers, Bodoni, Futura and Helvetica… those crazy Spaniards… we played for hours!
Boureuse a headline font. From the commercial font site Ainsifont. With an extensive and original font library, these guys have plenty to set you back a few euros to give your designs that originality that it may (or may not) need. See the fonts in action in their ‘fonts in use’ page.
Minotype a stencil typeface designed by Italian Luciano Perondi. Check out the urban experiments done by Graphic Design students using Minotype.
Garamond vs Garamond Don’t panic no-ones calling you a HO! Check out this educational article breaking down the physiology of Francesco Simoncini’s Garamond. Illustrating (very beautifully) the concise differences between the varieties available under the Garamond umbrella. Article originally in French for le Monde, translated into English by Barney Carroll. A must for The Graphic Design School students, re module 4.
FF MisterK OT The manuscripts of author Franz Kafka had such a profound impact on Finnish graphic designer and type designer Julia Sysmäläinen that she decided to convert his handwriting with its unusually strong calligraphic characteristics into a digital script. You can also purchase this script at fontfont. Our fav type this month at The Graphic Design School. Love your work Julia!
http://www.behance.net/Gallery/FF-Mister-K
FF Dynamoe Min Regular we see them every day, but do we see the letters as typefaces? Dynamoe changes all that. Now you can label your world.. no refills needed! You can purchase this script at fontfont. JVR has a site that sells his latest font designs, its also a visual delight.
iphone app that has nothing what-so-ever to do with European typography trends, we just couldn’t resist letting you know about our fav new toy. What The Font app let’s you identify a font purely by taking a photo of it. Its the Shazam app of the font world. Like the iphone its the sheer buzz of having everything including the kitchen sink at your fingertips. LOVE IT…and its Free! What the F#*T free? …Yep!
Trixie HD dutch designer Erik takes typewriter realism to another level altogether. A new vectorisation technique was developed to push the level of detail, creating realistic effects in print and on screen. Over 17 million points in the release… but whose counting!
Focusing on a simple approach and execution, this tutorial will teach you tips and tricks to creating professional and dynamic poster ads for your portfolio.
This is inspiring article has been written by graphic design student Jacob Cass. Jacob Cass is a 21-year-old designer from Newcastle, Australia, who freelances under his business Just Creative Design, which also doubles as a popular design blog. Jacob’s talent has brought him many awards and his work has been published in books worldwide.
We have to say there is not a more daunting task than choosing a handful of European talents. We stumbled upon some true creatives on our scour of the internet. Every website although not all typically Graphic Design websites have a distinct communication that we wanted to share with the graphic design student community. Please offer your suggestions for next months sites.
Prints can be anything from digital art to advertising, to layouts for magazines, posters, flyers newspapers you name it. We have scoured the four corners of Europe to find you the best of Print Designs.
Jacob is a Graphic Design student, an inspiration to all students as a mover and a shaker in the design industry. Jacob’s interview is a must read for those wondering how to make the most out of your design studies while still studying.
We asked some hard hitting questions (not really) to one of our fav graphic design students. This boy’s got spunk!
It’s no secret that when it comes to advertising products, most companies just take a simplistic and simple approach to make their product known. However, there are times when a more stylistic and glamorous concept is needed; something that will awe the viewers and attract them to the item at hand. Learn how to use effects at hand to give your ad that certain, “Je ne sais quoi…”
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