WIP: Erica Angyal Logo Design & Branding
Dribbble Invite Givaway
A girl and a font: finding your type in Paris
Colour of the Year 2011: Honeysuckle Pink
Branding musings in American Typewriter

If you’ve recently been to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney you’ll know what got into me. There’s a beautiful series of typewritten posters playing with the rhythms of the written word that every designer should go have a look at. Simply beautiful. So I’m not playing at art innovation here, I’m just having […]
Search Engine Optimised Websites: what does it mean for the Small Business Owner.

There’s an excellent SEO article over at Search Engine Watch (SEW), that attempts to distinguish between Search Engine Optimised (SEO) websites and Search Engine Friendly (SEF) websites. This discussion can get pretty technical, but I want to tackle the other end of it, i.e. what clients should expect from an SEO website and how search […]
How to build a company, a customer base, a legion of adoring fans
Basic Folds: Kit Hinrichs Unfolds
Ralph Lauren’s Mindblowing, Perfumed 4D Show

On Wednesday, November 10, thousands of eyes witnessed the Ralph Lauren 4D show, featuring advanced video mapping technology projected onto the façade of the Ralph Lauren flagship locations in New York and London. The vibrant world of Ralph Lauren illuminated the evening sky as moving footage of iconic product was brought to life on the […]
The Largest Art Installation in Europe
Water in All its Beauty: Logos, Installations, Designs / Blog Action Day 2010
The most effective design tells a story
Dissecting the Trend: Dynamic Logos & Brands
10 Amazing Stipple Portraits by Noli Novak

Noli Novak is one of Wall Street Journal’s hedcut (stipple portrait) illustrators, and for nearly 20 years she has created. At her studio, she typically receives an e-mailed photo of her subject. Then, deftly employing a number-one pen, she copies a three-by-five inch image onto special vellum paper. She creates a realistic image with a […]
The outstanding documentary photography of Claire Martin
Lawrence Weiner on Designers, Helvetica and the Universe
Logo Inspiration: Steven Noble (of Amex Centurion and White House fame)

If you haven’t heard of Steven Noble before, you most certainly have heard of some of his work: he illustrated the back of the one dollar bill; he is the illustrator who was hired to redraw the White House for its most recent logo refresh; he is the artist behind American Express’ centurion/gladiator illustration, famously […]
Her Morning Elegance: 2096 stills, one song, one movie
Stir something deep inside…

Sydney-based Collider was awarded the top prize for Commercials – Visual Effects at the 2010 Australian Effects and Animation Festival Awards (AEAF) last night for Nestle Club ‘Intense Pleasure’, via agency JWT Sydney. The spot was directed by Collider co-founder and creative director, Andrew van der Westhuyzen. And it’s stirring and delicious….
Gorgeous Victorian Font: Phaeton

One of the most elaborate typefaces I’ve seen, Phaeton is a beautiful font with hidden gems of beauty everywhere. The font’s nearly 600 characters includes a large number of alternates, ornaments, decorative banners, picto-glyphs, swash capitals, and 49 wordmark glyphs for ‘and,’ ‘the,’ ‘with’ etc. All characters are hand-drawn (and you can see it). Screenshots […]
Inspiration: Custom Type for Middle East’s Largest Telco

Based on Zain’s corporate typeface, Avenir, and their request for a patterned headline font, Fontsmith came up with this beauty; created by Fontsmith’s Arabic specialist, Emanuela Conidi, this font comes in a single headline weight in both Latin and Arabic language scripts as well as a special weight for numbers (it is a phone company after all).