Diesel – Only the Brave Case Study

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ October 31, 2010 \ Case Studies, Inspiration \ 5 Comments

You have to appreciate well executed design when you see it. Today we have a case study for you that will really show you how Ars Thanea made use of simple elements to bring out the beauty in a design for Diesel. Produced at: Ars Thanea Do you have what

Logo Design Love : Book Review

Author: Natasha Storm \ August 11, 2010 \ Books, Reviews \ 5 Comments

This is an excellent and inspiring book for anyone interested in creating logo designs that are visually appealing, iconic, and basically the best that a logo could be. The first part of the book goes through the importance of a logo and the elements that create an iconic design. Using

Practical Tips for Multilingual Website Design

Author: Christian Arno \ June 11, 2010 \ Articles \ 12 Comments

English might be the dominant online language for the time being, but that’s changing fast – right now there are over 1.3 billion people online for whom English is not their first language (Internetworldstats.com). Taking that into account, along with research that shows 85% of online consumers will only buy

Inspiration: Captivating Type Designs

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ March 24, 2010 \ Inspiration, Typography \ 5 Comments

I noticed some brilliant type designs over on Behance and thought I definitely have to give them a feature. The designs were composed by Markie Darkie who is situated in Edmonton Canada. The designs are simple and portrait their message through using elements and colors. The designs are shown from

The Philosophy of Typography by Steven Acres

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ March 11, 2010 \ Inspiration, Typography \ 12 Comments

Typography is apart of every designers life. We use type in artwork, websites, write ups, articles, basically simple speech. Steven Acres took it a step further and brought out a little book called, “The Philosophy of Typography.” In this article I will showcase the books design and layout that Steven

Pre Print Basics: Generating Originals

Author: Franco Averta \ February 8, 2010 \ Articles \ 4 Comments

Welcome to my first guest post here at Creativeoverflow. Today we are going to talk about some pre print stuff, generating originals. As you can imagine there are a lot of things involving the creation of originals, pixel images, text, vector and/or bezier curves based images, more or less. In this

Inspiration: MTV Hidden World

Author: Jacques van Heerden \ February 6, 2010 \ Inspiration, Motion Reels \ 5 Comments

All of us know what MTV is all about and we can definitely say its one of our favorite music channels. MTV is also known for their branding, which is different and unique from any other TV related shows in the world. I have come across some branding The-Gild has