Color Palette Inspiration

I love Breanna Rose's color palette pulled from food, fashion and patterns. We can all make color palettes and all pull inspiration from many different places but this is the first palette I've seen that ties different sources of inspiration together so nicely.

Jargon Unsuck-ifier

I hate corporate jargon. Sophomoric metaphors muddle communication and make us sound like preschool teachers breaking the bad news to toddlers about nap time. Here's a corporate jargon translator to unmuddle the muddled.

Queen's Palette Color Wheel

http://www.artisancomplete.com/blog/2012/06/05/the-queens-palette/

Not only do I love the idea of showing Pantone swatches in an applicable context, this Queen palette is hilarious!

Pietari Posti: Shop Magazine Illustrations

Smart forced connections between icons and shopping city guides.

Kokanee Ranger Campaign

Nicely illustrated, eye catching beer can design from Kokanee, found on TheDieline.com

London 2012 Olympic Ticket Designs

I'm consistently impressed with how the Olympic designs are carried out throughout the various media. Looks like London won't fail to impress either. See the recently released ticket designs here. 

Fruit Grown into the Shape of a Juice Box

Bizarre. Not sure it was worth the two years of experiments it took to create this campaign.

The Dieline profiles Modern Dog Studios

Seattle based Modern Dog Studios has long been a favorite-starting w/ their quirky, illustrative K2 snowboards in the 90's. Now they're doing great things w/ concert posters and packaging. All time best-Maybe You Touched Your Genitals Hand Sanitizer. Read more at The Dieline.

Randy Awards-Smart!

Everything about this campaign is smart-starting with the name "The Randy's", a spin off "The Grammy's". See more here.

Quarterly

I just subscribed to Cool Hunting on Quarterly-they're all about inspiration, stories, videos, etc that highlight creativity and innovation. Based on the most recent mailing of this skull, I'm expecting great things.

How 2012 Design Salary Survey

How 2012 Design Salary Survey just released as a fun infographic. Yay!

Retro Swiss style airplanes

Found on Ace Jet 170, lovely.

Communication is Aid Animation

Communication is Aid is an animation explaining how communication or lack thereof can benefit or hurt people after a natural or man-made disaster.