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.

Poignant video of endangered species

I appreciate how this video highlights the beauty of some endangered species without tragedy and guilt.

Bright Young Things by Jaime Van Wart

I'm infinitely fascinated with the possibilities and continuing ingenuity of screen printed show posters. I have more posters than wall space at this point but still can't get enough. I think it's the appeal of simple graphics, beautiful colors and craftsmanship in design and printing.
See more from here.

Chipotle Lorem Ipsum Dolor Bag

I'm fascinated by how this bag is being tongue in cheek but only as understood by a certain number of people. What's the thinking here for Chipotle? Do graphic designers eat a disproportionate amount of Chipotle? Or is pretty type, just that, pretty and that's all that matters.

Joseph Muller-Brockman

An excerpt from "Graphic Design Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design tells this brief biography".
"Following studies at both University of Zurich and the Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Arts and Crafts), Josef Muller-Brockman apprenticed under designer Walter Diggelman before establishing his own studio in Zurich in 1936. Over his career he developed numerous projects in different industries, including his famed posters for the Tonhalle Gesellschaft Zurich, the signage system of Zurich's airport, and his appointment as the European design consultant for IBM– all of it in strict adherence to the International Typographic Style. Muller-Brockmann was also an avid educator, teaching at the Kunstgewerbeschule and at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany. Along with Richard Paul Loshe, Hans Neuburg and Calo L. Vivarelli, he cofounded the journal Neue Grafik, which he co-edited for seven years.
Shown here Beethoven Poster, Switzerland 1955

Smart Campaign

Clever juxtaposition of modern copy writing with old timey design. Smart!
See the original post here
Created by Kevin Reid for Central Market with illustrator Judy Unger.

The Manifest of the People's Republic of Antarctica

Paul D. Miller's Book of Ice explores humanity's relationship with the natural world through the lens of Antarctica while using compelling Russian Constructivist design sensibilities. Love Constructivism and appreciate the cool blue tones as an unusual color palate for the traditionally "red" design.


This post was inspired by Steven Heller's The Daily Heller found here.

Wendy's Redesign Exercise

Glitschka Studios in Salem, OR reworks Wendy with interesting results.
http://www.vonglitschka.com/2011/06/29/wendy-brand-character-graphic-design-exploration-for-tesser-by-glitschka-studios/