Illustration is such a powerful medium and it has such a broad stylistic range that we’re always finding new and interesting creatives out there producing amazing new work. For this blog post, I’d like to bring to your attention a wonderful artist called Maria Dimova, from Andorra. Mary’s blog and Instagram page showcases her imaginative …
As a graphic designer living in Wales, sometimes I feel like we’re only a drop in the vast ocean which is the rest of the design world. But then I remember that there are designers who live in much more far-flung parts of the world than I do, and that’s why I’d like to shine …
When the boss lets me loose on this blog I get all sorts of ideas because there’s so many subjects we could look at. That’s how broad and fascinating graphic design is, and how it touches so many lives. But we need to narrow things down a bit, so I eventually decided to shine some …
Now the same author brings us Beautiful News and again, it’s a stunner.
A quick post for you today showing you some amazing photographs from the German photographer Lucas Zimmermann. Lucas manages to capture images that would normally not be able to be seen with the human eye. Even more interesting that mundane objects such as traffic lights could project such beauty.
In this post I just simply wanted to share something that made me go ‘wow!’ check out these beautiful surrealistic pieces by Luisa Azevedo. I have always been drawn in by magical images and landscapes, so to me these are just amazing.
We are surrounded with colour. Every day our lives are enhanced by the colours of nature around us. We have imitated and can now produce colour like never before, in fashion, on the printed page, online and so much more.
This lovely vintage-style font family is available free for personal and commercial use from the lovely chaps at Fontfabric. It comes with a shadow version and bold 3D to name a couple of options. That means you can set a lovely retro piece with ease.
Just a quick post today to show off some amazingly delicate and intricate work by artist Tiffanie Turner. Yes, they are paper! There’s not much to say to be honest, but take a look at the link if you’d like to see more of these pretty awesome paper flower creations.
I know designers who religiously collect examples of ampersands. It’s not hard to see what fires them up, a simple ligature that creates one of the most beautiful examples of typesetting. Time and time again you will see almost endless variety of this character.