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You may not put stock in physical design — in beauty — but a care for the way these products are designed and built has repercussions beyond just the look and feel of a device. Apple has had to rework and rethink the guts of its products to match ambitious designs, driving down part sizes, creating new manufacturing methods and dreaming up all kinds of new ways to do old things.
I think it’s time for the industry to wake up to design. To wake up to beauty in form and function.
” — Joshua Topolsky, writing on the depressing sameness in the look of smartphones and laptops.
Funny logo for LiarLiar by DC designer/illustrator Matt Chase.
I remember when Shutterstock first launched and liking its blunt, little camera logo. But with every iteration it devolved until it reached some drastically annoying typography that seemed to have subscribed to a service providing up to 25 unnecessary ligatures a day.
Now, Shutterstock has focused on a single, simple premise, the viewfinder, and incorporated it into a bold logotype.
Business cards for the German digital printing company PIGMENTOL, part of an engaging, complex, and colorful identity system developed in collaboration with Feld and ATMO Design Studio.
A book cover created by Aurora Cacciapuoti for a personal project doing a book cover a week. This follows on the heels of last year’s project drawing faces. Cacciapuoti is an Italian illustrator.
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Poster designed by Seth Rader. Just add letterpress effects and you’re good to go.
A postcard design by Tim Boelaars, for the Wander Project, started by the Wander blog, who asked some of their favorite illustrators “to imagine a postcard from everywhere and nowhere at once.”
A series of icons developed as part of The Chain Reaction Project (TCRP), a non-profit organization whose mission is to find a cause, have an effect and inspire others to be catalysts for change as well.
Work by Bravo Company of Singapore.