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80+ More Poster Designs For Inspiration

Craig Baldwin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:00:24 +0000

It’s that time again, a few months have passed and I’ve been busy gathering up the best the Internet has to offer so I can give you a big inspiration shot. This week is Illustration, that’s anything from Illustrator-based vector drawings all the way to paintings and a few animations.

For more Illustration inspiration have a look here. If you want more you can check out the previous series here.

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70+ More Illustrations For Inspiration

Craig Baldwin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:00:42 +0000

You can check out the previous series here.

1. James Jean

2. Simon Cook

3. Jill Tovey

4. Yan Sorgi

5. Joerg Barton

6. Bam Studios

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Aspire To Inspire: Tim George, Shaun Turnbull, Mike White & Alick Cotterill

Craig Baldwin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:00:39 +0000

This week I’m starting a new series; Aspire To Inspire. Each week I’ll have a brief look at the work of various designers and photographers I’ve come across. I hope that you’ll find inspiration in their work.

For this first post I’ve taken a look at the work of recent University of Bath graduates Tim George, Shaun Turnbull and Mike White because of their excellent layout designs and fellow WSA student Alick Cotterill for his brilliant photography.

Enjoy!

1. Tim George

2. Shaun Turnbull

3. Mike White

4. Alick Cotterill

50+ Fascinating Photographs For Inspiration

Craig Baldwin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:00:49 +0000

Inspiration is a great thing, every day I look through hundreds of submissions to Design You Trust, FFFound, Fubiz, GrafikCache, Lovely Package, SwissMiss and TheDieline in Google Reader, starring my favourites and saving them to my hard disk. This has grown into quite the collection since I started it 6 months ago so I thought I’d use this to me advantage and start posting collections of them here.

This week I’m looking at photography, and not just arty photos, but random shots of anything, or photos of installations or models.

More Inspiration:

1. Lapp-Pro

2. Michal Mierzejewski

3. Chris Jordan

4. Slinkachu

5. 'We're All Gonna Die - 100 Meters Of Existence'

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The following designs are from my inspiration folder made up of all the designs, photographs and illustrations I star in my Google Reader inspiration collection and drag to my folder. As such I don’t know who they’re by.

90+ Brilliant Packaging Designs For Inspiration

Craig Baldwin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:00:43 +0000

This week I’m looking at packaging designs I’ve starred, anything that contains a product also letters and letterheads is packaging to me and offers brilliant opportunities for a designer to flex his creativity, here are some of the best.

Check out other posts in this series:

1. Yacht Associates

2. Non-Format

3. Julien Pons

4. MadeThought

5. Absolut Vodka

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110+ Stunning Poster Designs For Inspiration

Craig Baldwin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:00:59 +0000

This week I’m looking at poster designs I’ve starred, posters include any sort of single paged design that gets printed, the sort of thing you often see being held up, or pinned to the wall. I’m also going to count simple typographic rendering as posters.

Check out other posts in this series:

1. Felix Lobelius

2. Frederic Tacer

3. iA

4. Feltron Eight

5. Hey Studio

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The following illustrations are from my inspiration folder made up of all the designs, photographs and illustrations I star in my Google Reader inspiration collection and drag to my folder. As such I don’t know who they’re by.

90+ Outstanding Layout Designs For Inspiration

Craig Baldwin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:00:10 +0000

In this post I’m going to take a look at all the layout designs I’ve starred, specifically books and similar publications, work that is printed and physically real, something digital images can never replace. Posters come next week.

Check out other posts in this series:

1. Heyday

2. D8 Design Consultants

3. Because Studio

4. Thirteen

5. Anouk Rehorek

6. DHNN

7. Frederic Tacer

8. Alex Cornell

9. Dylan Mulvaney

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70+ Awesome Illustrations For Inspiration

Craig Baldwin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:00:05 +0000

This week I’m going to be looking at Illustrations, this doesn’t just mean vector Illustrator-style images but paintings, drawings and more as well.

If you like this post be sure to check my previous posts Illustration Collection and Illustration Collection Volume 2.

Check out other posts in this series:

1. Matt Laskowski

2. Rik Oostenbroek

3. Raul Orozco

4. Zutto

5. Mathieu Beaulieu

6. Jessie Douglas

7. Sheharzad

8. Dopludo

9. Jan Aulbach

10. Leonid Afremov

11. Nickolej Villiger

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Guilherme Marconi

Craig Baldwin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:00:21 +0000

When it comes to mind bogglingly detailed background using glorious bright vectors I’m very much a fan of this guy. The effect may be simple enough to make, copy and paste and arrange but it’s getting the elements to work together well and feel coherent that’s important.

So let’s have a look at Guilherme Marconi’s work.

It was quite awhile ago that I discovered this guy whilst working on a University project and he’s since launched a flash based website, but I won’t hold that against him. I’m not much of a fan of too much flash. Guilherme Marconi does use it pretty tastefully however.

Well you’re not going to get inspiration from my writing so I might as well show you what he does. You can click the image for a bigger preview if you like.

Publised in IdeaFixa Magazine.

Computer Arts magazine cover.

Prototype for Absolut Brazil Project.

Atari: In my childhood, my first plan was to my day was to play atari.

Numbers: The reference for everything…

This is just a small collection his website is definitely worth taking a look at.

My idea is to create images like graphic deliriums, I got rid of all my colors, forms and repetitions compulsion, leaving aside the right and wrong ideas. So, my style is this: my compulsion for color, forms and repetitions.

His isn’t a unique style of course, there are always others who employ a similiar idea of using repetition to create a complex design. But his work is an excellent example of how good that style can be when you get it right.

I messed around recently around with a tutorial over at PSDTUTs that produced something similiar to this and came up with this.

Thanks

Well I hoped you enjoyed having a look at his work as much as I do. Hope you have a look at my other posts. Or keep track of me through one of these social services.

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Joe Davis

Craig Baldwin — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 17:33:05 +0000

This week I’ll be looking at the work of Joe Davis. This second inspiration post is less about punchy visuals and more about intricate detail, thinking and an appreciation of typography, which can be just as important in design.

I’m not sure how I came across him but his Telescopic text site about making a cup of tea pinged my interest.

If you want to see what I’m talking about have a look here. It’s a simple site which to begins with has only five words but can be expanded out to a two hundred and fifty five word story. Each time you click on the text it expands out and develops the story more and adds detail.

It is a fun process but the story’s complete in the below image. I could have just written it out here but it look a lot better in its natural state, it looks a lot lot better if you take the time to unwrap all the words.

With such a simple setting the Georgia typeface gets plenty of attention and it certainly deserves it being one of my favourite serif fonts, along with Garamond. If you’re ever wondering what a font is you can easily find out by either uploading an image of it to WhatTheFont.com or having a look at the source code.

You can generally do this by right clicking and click ‘View Source’ or ‘View Page Source’ depending on your browser.

As we move to his home page you’ll find the same intricate thinking has gone into the first page with many little tidbits to play with from playable guitar strings to the date and weather. I found this to be more interesting than his work mind but each to their own.

What I take away from seeing his work counts however and that is that a simple idea can still be a very good idea. Thanks for reading.