“Typography in Ten Minutes” is a chapter of “Butterick’s Practical Typography” by Matthew Butterick. The whole book revolves around the statement: “Typography is the visual component of the written word,” and aims to make people better typographers. This book is partly an experiment in taking the web seriously as a book-publishing medium, so can only … Read More
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I recently put up a post about animation showing the Elements of Design, and this project is very similar in theme. Efil Türk, a graphic designer from Turkey, has created 10 posters explaining principles of design by only using bold, colourful paper-cuttings in geometric shapes/patterns. The poster principles cover: balance, hierarchy, pattern, rhythm, space, proportions, emphasis, … Read More
The Brazilian design agency, SPR have created 3 clever ads to prove that with human-nature, we usually ‘judge a book by its cover’ for the GSR Entrance Hall System. They aim to get viewers to spot the difference out of the group of almost-identical individuals. See if you can spot the difference. [slideshow] [/slideshow] Pictures from … Read More
Another review! Woo! I think last month wasn’t particularly the best with movies, but in August there are two films plus a TV episode in cinemas that I want to see and I’m reviewing one of them now. Those with ‘no-spoiler’ syndrome are advised to stop reading until they eat some popcorn and watch the … Read More
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I was trying to look up different interesting and informative infographics recently and came across this youtube page. They don’t exactly specialise in infographics, but their videos are very interesting and fun to watch and have certain traits with infographics. The youtube page and their other sites are called “Kurzgesagt” translating to ‘in a nutshell’ … Read More
The Juniper Park advertising agency created 3 poster for the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression organisation (CJFE), who work to defend and protect the right to free expression in Canada and around the world. “Information is ammunition” is the tagline for the posters and they feature journalist equipment rearranged to create the shapes of weapons. … Read More
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Glen Keane is an American animator, author and illustrator. His most popular work is associated Walt Disney Animation Studios for feature films including Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, etc. After working with the film Tangled and the Paperman short, he worked on a very a beautiful short film that recently debuted at Google’s I/O conference. “Duet”, … Read More
Beautiful animation which visualises the key elements of design created by Matt Greenwood. “Design is not science. Just move things around until it feels right.” Here’s Matt Greenwood’s website: http://mattgreenwood.tv
I-know-you. Welcome back to another MOVIE REVIEW!!! Glad that I’ve managed to go to the cinema for the first time in ages and do another review. You’re about to travel to another dimension; a dimension I like to call, the SPOILER ZONE! You have been warned! The malevolent MALEFICENT! Once upon a time there was … Read More
Here’s how to create beautiful origami inspired graphics/logos using Illustrator, modernising naturally shaped objects using joined up geometric shapes and vibrant colours. Chirs Spooner is the bloke behind this tutorial using a Hummingbird as an example. To see this example or to use his tutorial, click picture or link underneath. How To Create an Origami Style … Read More
That’s my first Graded Unit project uploaded; the “London Museum of Colour”. Check it out by clicking on the picture below. This project is also on Behance https://andrew-hankinson.co.uk/project/colourmuseum/
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To promote Minke’s website “Gallery of Papers”, the design studio Atipo created a stunning collection of minimalistic movie posters that are made from paper. Films such as ‘Jaws’, ‘Edward Scissorhands’, ‘Fahrenheit 451’, ‘Frankenstein’ have been used, but I think my favourite poster is probably ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’. They are all extremely clever, but this … Read More
Really clever idea where clothes are arranged to look like popular foods to encourage people to donate their old/un-used clothes to the poor and not leave them for moths to eat. Design created by Shopping Itaguaçu. Clothes Donation Campaign
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Happy 4th of July! As well as it being the 11/12 month anniversary since my girlfriend and I started going out, it is also a day for the Americans to celebrate kicking Great Britain’s buts. Maybe Scotland will get it’s Independence Day soon too. Here’s Stephen Merchant’s view on the 4th of July!