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Trademarks & Motifs

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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."

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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 ...