Illustration - Sarah Esteje

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Pictogram music posters by Viktor Hertz. What can I say? Such amazing work. Semiotics at their finest.

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Boom is an A-MAZ-ING highly conceptual corporate identity put together by Blow, as part of an entire rebrand for Sydney based video advertising company Vid.id.

I love everything about it, from the clashing letter forms, to the explosive M and the reflective surface. The brightly coloured application just adds to the fun, comic book feel. With Boom having a strong focus on social media advertising this identity is perfectly aligned. FUN, attention gradbing and bold.

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Brandon Wilson of Contraband set a personal challenge for himself to create daily a new logo in an hour, for a year. The theme for each logo is number of the day on which he is creating 0-365.

Design Perfection - Daniel Johns

Daniel Johns composition for Quantas. Love it.

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Design Perfection - This is Nido

A series of awesome logos by Nido a UK based designer. All these works go beyond pretty imagery to stimulate the mind whilst giving personality to the business. LOVE

Entertaining Design that Stimulates the Mind - Homer Escalator Huge fan of design concepts that engage the mind and interact with their subject. Love it. Simple, yet amazing. Just as design should be.

Entertaining Design that Stimulates the Mind - Homer Escalator

Huge fan of design concepts that engage the mind and interact with their subject. Love it. Simple, yet amazing. Just as design should be.

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Design Perfection - by Alice Wellinger Knitted type!!! Executed so well! Such amazing use of type as a graphic element too.

Design Perfection - by Alice Wellinger

Knitted type!!! Executed so well! Such amazing use of type as a graphic element too.

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Good design should be innovative.

Good design should make a product useful.

Good design will make a product understandable.

Good design is aesthetic design.

Good design is honest.

Good design is unobtrusive.

Good design is consistent in every detail.

Good design is long-lived.

Good design is environmentally friendly.

Last but not least, good design is as little design as possible.

Dieter Ram

Design Perfection - Daniel Johns

Watch ‘My Mind’s Own Melody’ trailer with original music by Daniel Johns. Hauntingly beautiful. Johns is a musical genius.

Design Perfection - Just Design

Amazing design by Just Design. Intricately beautiful and eye catching. Each design has its own personality and yet cohesively present as a range. Superb design!

Born as a response to the one-dimensional beer culture in South Africa, The Devil’s Peak Brewing Company (DPBC) produces brews unlike any other beer you’re likely to find locally.

The designs reflect the intricacy of the different beer styles and the brewer’s passion to create beers with unique character and depth. Craftsmanship, idiosyncratic style and the underlying belief of ‘truth to material’ – where the insides inform the outside – equals 4 distinctive styles with 4 equally standout designs. Recently released, the designs are already winning public attention at beer appreciation festivals and on Facebook and twitter.

Care, connect, collaborate, create, celebrate.
Vince Frost of Frost*
Design Curious - Sugarsole Occasionally you come across a piece of design that leaves you wondering how it came about; The design process, the relationship between designer & client and who made the call on the final design? Sometimes the curiosity stems from the design being mind blowingly good. That you wonder how that equation of elements came together so perfectly… But sometimes sadly the curiosity comes from a design being a little shocking for one bad reason or another. Sugarsole branding is unfortunately in the latter category. When I look at this branding all I see is a misspelled explicit word, with poor use of colour and an unfortunate tag line in pair. In a generation of texting and abbreviated text, this is a major oversight. We have become conditioned to understanding and interpreting words regardless of how it is spelt. The use of colours is to blame for the focus being on the end of the word. Had the o not been highlighted maybe this word would not be a problem.But it isn’t however the only problem. The tag line again has a word highlighted, however this time the word is too pale to be legible. Put together the visible part of the tag line with the explicit word and it is mind blowingly bad. How did this happen? Were the client & designers too involved in the work to notice? Were the designers pressured to take the design to this result by the client?…so many questions??? The fact this design is featured on the home page of the designers website makes me lean towards the idea that nobody noticed. They may have been too involved in the project and could have benefited from some time out…

Design Curious - Sugarsole

Occasionally you come across a piece of design that leaves you wondering how it came about; The design process, the relationship between designer & client and who made the call on the final design?

Sometimes the curiosity stems from the design being mind blowingly good. That you wonder how that equation of elements came together so perfectly… But sometimes sadly the curiosity comes from a design being a little shocking for one bad reason or another.

Sugarsole branding is unfortunately in the latter category. When I look at this branding all I see is a misspelled explicit word, with poor use of colour and an unfortunate tag line in pair.

In a generation of texting and abbreviated text, this is a major oversight. We have become conditioned to understanding and interpreting words regardless of how it is spelt. The use of colours is to blame for the focus being on the end of the word. Had the o not been highlighted maybe this word would not be a problem.

But it isn’t however the only problem. The tag line again has a word highlighted, however this time the word is too pale to be legible. Put together the visible part of the tag line with the explicit word and it is mind blowingly bad.

How did this happen? Were the client & designers too involved in the work to notice? Were the designers pressured to take the design to this result by the client?…so many questions???

The fact this design is featured on the home page of the designers website makes me lean towards the idea that nobody noticed. They may have been too involved in the project and could have benefited from some time out…

We are not completing a design. We are creating experiences.
Kelli Anderson

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Love these logos byMatt Lehman. Simple and straight-forward, but also quite memorable. L