Recently launched the Designer Texture Collection — over 460 high quality textures ($19). This post is 24 of the those textures totally free. Feel free to to use in your personal and commercial work.
The Adobe Illustrator Story
Short little documentary on the beginnings of Adobe Illustrator. When Adobe Illustrator first shipped in 1987, it was the first software application for a young company that had, until then, focused solely on Adobe PostScript. The new product not only altered Adobe’s course, it changed drawing and graphic design forever.
13 Clean Minimal Architect ID’s
All these visual identities share that they are clean, beautiful — minimalist in nature and designed for architects.
21 Lovely Letters & Numbers
Letters are lovely, and since you’re reading this blog I’d be willing to bet you’re a letter lover as well.
Fazer Café
Kokoro & Moi is responsible for the brand identity for the new Fazer Cafés. The work spans the brand’s story to tone-of-voice, visual identity and communication concepts both online and offline. Spatial design for the café is developed in collaboration with the interior architecture office Koko3.
The Most Boring Ad Ever Made?
Is this the most boring ad ever made? Not if you appreciate obsessive craftsmanship. Leica Camera spends 45 minutes polishing the new Leica T by hand. Watch for yourself and decide. Boring or not?
Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces
Pick up a book, magazine or screen, and more than likely you’ll come across some typography designed by Matthew Carter. In this charming talk, the man behind typefaces such as Verdana, Georgia and Bell Centennial (designed just for phone books — remember them?), takes us on a spin through a career focused on the very last pixel of each letter of a font.
[via Gizmodo]