This post contains summarized parts of the amazing book Marks of Excellence: The History and Taxonomy of Trademarks. It explores trademarks, its history, development, style, and the role of trademarks in branding. Trademarks have existed for at le ...
Shadow text effects
Exploring shadow effects from the book Lettera 1 by Armin Haab & Alex Stocker. It's a book you can't find in the library anymore and it's full of great examples and ideas. As my research continues I am still in a search for my pe ...
Architecture & Typography
At the first look we might say Architecture and Typography are two completely different things, but if we think again, and take a closer look, we notice they actually share the same attributes. They both definitely have to look stable, so they have t ...
Influence Behavior
Book review: Stop, Think, Go, Do: How Typography and Graphic Design Influence Behavior by Steven Heller & Mirko Ilić The book describes the most effective principles of the design that gets under our skin with numerous examples. In this post ...
Creativity now!
Post based on the book: Creativity Now: Get Inspired, Create Ideas and Make Them Happen! Getting in the state of mind that invites new ideas: Music - Baroque music with 60 cycles per second (frequency of alpha state) is frequency associated wit ...
Critisism
As a creatives we shouldn't be afraid to fail. Great talk by Brené Brown. "Design is a function of connection, there is nothing more vulnerable than creativity, and what is art if it's not love."
Using Type
Using Type book by Michael Harkins, published by AVA Publishing in 2010 Chapter 1 helps us to understand typography better. Typography has to be clear and in a way we have to notice it, although it shouldn't distract us from the meaning. To separa ...