http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog How would you like your design? Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:34:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Designer Daily brings us another one of their great collections. This one looks at movie posters from last year. Most seem to be from indie films which is not just [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2012/02/08/awesome-movie-posters-from-2011/ The report for 2011 shows that color is still prevalent, but scaled down in the form of tints. Brown or gray is dominating the neutral hues. Meanwhile blues and greens [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2011/10/26/moving-on-2011-logolounge-logo-trends/ Catching up myself with LogoLounge’s annual logo trends. Last year was awesome for logos! This year some of the tools available to designers has had a hand in some of [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2011/10/20/better-late-than-never-2010-logolounge-logo-trends/ Iconic vodka Absolut continues the iconic branding campaign with a delightful gallery of finished Absolut-bottle-silohuette-turned-work-of-art pieces that are as fresh as 30 years ago when the campaign was new. The [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2011/08/16/absolut-art-gallery/ Designer Nod Young shared his awesome typography on the Behance Network as part of a project to provide suggestions to visitors of Beijing. No additional details, but our guess is [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2011/04/05/chinese-typography/ I’d like to have this chair–and have nobody sit on it because it looks so awesome. Wonder if it’s available in other color sets. I do understand the simplicity of [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2011/01/21/sit-on-it-typographic-furniture/ Looks like the W3C has announced a new HTML5 logo to brand their efforts to advance what may or may not become the new standard in web coding, the HTML5 web [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2011/01/19/speaking-of-branding-html5-gets-a-logo/ Starbucks is keeping up with the sense of pace that they create and manage for its ubiquitous brand. They’ve updated their logo once again and this time with a decidedly minimalist [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2011/01/18/one-more-time-starbucks-updates-their-logo-again/ AIGA published this great little article recounting the tale of how the NYC Subway system went from a labyrinth filled with mosaic and hand-made signs in a variety of colors, [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2010/10/05/chaos-to-order-in-the-20th-century-helvetica-and-the-nyc-subway/ And now for something different. Urban Murals are a force of positive change in Philly. I just heard this story on NPR and I had to write a bit about [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2010/08/24/urban-murals-as-catalysts-of-change-in-philly/ So this iPad app exploded into the scene last week. Yes, Flipboard. Everyone’s talking about it! It flips! Yes, it does. To me, that’s just eye-candy. The transition they chose [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2010/07/26/flippin-genius-flipboard-looks-awesome/ I hope you have some time to read. I mean read. Design:Related has a List of Design Lists for 2009. What does that mean? It means that right on that [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2010/05/31/one-for-everyone-a-list-of-lists/ A week or two I had a great time going over this great post from Smashing magazine. As the title clearly states, it’s a collection of homepage captures from websites [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2010/04/26/academic-website-round-up/ High-end British store Selfridges & Co. re-launched their house brand packaging system that covers over 100 products. Their house brand did not set itself apart much on the shelves. Now [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2010/03/21/house-brand-packaging-breaks-from-the-pack/ One of the sites that I visit regularly is ilovetypography.com. A quick glance upon getting to the homepage reveals the sheer amount of information available on this site. Aside from [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2010/03/02/i-love-typography-too/ Artist Justin van Genderen makes traveling to planets in the Star Wars universe look so retro hip that you would probably have to knock and have a codeword ready to [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2010/02/09/more-science-faux-retro-travel-posters/ The map, titled Milky Way Transit Authority, was created by Harvard computational sociologist Samuel Arbesman. He had the idea to make the map while reading Carl Sagan’s Contact and contemplating [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2010/02/09/a-map-of-our-galaxy%e2%80%94subway-style/ To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first glimpse of the night sky with a telescope, and the publication of Kepler’s Astronomia Nova, The United Nations declared 2009 the International [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2010/01/07/math-based-designs-celebrate-400-years-of-astronomy/ I just had to share this post by Designer Daily about great bicycle designs. I’m using the whimsical Walking Bicycle, but trust me there are some really ingenious ways to [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/12/18/bicycle-designs-redefine-the-bike-forever/ Recently I noticed these case studies on the AIGA website. I’ve been reading some when I have a little time to take in a really good example of how to [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/11/16/aiga-case-study-national-parks-foundation-micro-site/ I have to admit that I was looking forward to seeing the posters in this collection by Designer Daily. I think they’re very good for the most part. But the [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/11/12/vintage-movie-posters-from-all-times-and-places/ Moving on to the second page of Design History lecture guides by Design History.org which covers the beginnings of writing and how it came to be what we know today. [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/10/27/design-history-primer-2-handwriting-to-printed-type/ If you like Type–and who doesn’t? Check out the new Typography Daily site from the folks at Designer Daily. Full of inspiration, links to free typefaces, typographic experiments, and very [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/10/07/new-from-designer-daily-typography-daily/ Classic movie posters used to be very indicative of what was happening in the world of design at any given time. Yes, there were many that were derivative and looked [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/09/23/classic-movie-posters-updated/ Designer Daily brings us this collection of urban marking/marketing approaches that have clearly evolved (or de-evolved) with the times. This reflects the attitutes of a new generation of designers who [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/09/16/not-your-dads-urban-graphics/ I recently wanted to read something on Design history since I really enjoy the subject and I find it so fascinating. And while looking for an interesting bit of Design [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/09/11/design-history-primer-1-symbols/ Love to look at what others are doing? Looking for inspiration? Love to look at excellent design? Head on over to the AIGA Design Archives, which feature selection from AIGA’s [...]]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/09/07/nice-to-see-you-aiga-design-archives/ The International Olympic Committee has taken bids to determine which city will host the 31st Olympic Games in 2016. Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, and Tokyo are going head to head and are doing everything they possibly can to win the prestigious spot as an Olympic host. And of course, they all went the extra mile and each city already has an official logo ready.]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/09/02/2016-olympic-logos-head-to-head/ This summer, independent news and entertainment source National Public Radio has been heavily promoting their re-designed website. Here's a recent screenshot of the homepage. A user normally doesn't get to see the entire page like this, but it is a very useful way to assess how the elements of the page are interacting, what is working, and what is not working and needs further development.]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/08/28/npr-launches-new-look-online/ LemonAid Beverages GmbH is launching these beverages with a subtle minimalist design in Germany now and later this Fall throughout Europe. Swedish design firm BVD designed the packages. Not only are these very nicely designed, but most of the proceeds will go toward social purposes managed by the manufacturer. ]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/08/25/fair-trade-beverage-packaging-is-nice-in-more-than-one-wa/ One of my favorite things about design is typography. One can do so much with it--and yet so many pay little attention to it. John Berry's Dot Font column on Creativepro.com is a great source for those of us who love typography. This particular article shows great examples of how type and type alone can be used to compose a great design. I like that he opens with a piece by Herb Lubalin, who I think is great. he looked at type like nobody else did before or after.]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/08/20/expressive-typography/ Head back over to Designer Daily for a different collection of Cold War propaganda. This time the focus is on pro-america. All the examples are from post World War II. It also covers literature and comic books, media and advertising, and movies. Note how much more commercial the types of media that are covered. The nature of the west or a product of the post-WWII boom, or both?]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/08/19/american-cold-war-propaganda/ This collection of posters from Designer Daily splashes around a bit of nostalgia from Cold War era design. This collection features posters from the Soviet Union or independent political activist groups for the most part. In my opinion it also shows what designers were--and are still--capable of. ]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/08/18/cold-war-propaganda-posters/ Heavy-hitting logo design website for logo-lovers LogoLounge published the seventh annual Logo Trends feature. Always a great read, it shows how designers continue to push the envelope. ]]> http://www.highbrowdesigns.com/blog/2009/08/17/2009-logolounge-logo-trends/