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A Showcase of Retro Style Movie Posters

October 21st, 2011 In Featured, Inspiration (7) Comments

Movies are an amazing source of inspiration, so it’s no surprise that a lot of designers enjoy unleashing their creativity on designing beautiful film posters. It’s extremely challenging to condense an entire film – it’s plot, it’s central characters, it’s theme and visual style – into one image, but when it’s done well, it can be astonishing.

Designing movie posters is an art form in itself, and if 100 designers each created a design, you could easily end up with 100 completely different posters. But while each poster can be wildly different, there are still visual styles that can be used, and some of the most beautifully designed, cleverly constructed posters are those that have a vintage and retro look. You will find that a lot of people will buy a DVD solely based off of the cover. This makes it extremely important to have a good design.

We’ve brought together a collection of movie posters that have that beautiful retro look – either because that’s how they were originally designed (in the case of Vertigo, for example) or because they have been redesigned by talented designers, like Olly Moss or Brandon Schaefer. We hope these designs will inspire you with your next vintage design.

 

[box] Ghostbusters By Brandon Schaefer[/box]

Ghostbusters retro movie poster

 

 

[box] 2001: A Space Odyssey By Brandon Schaefer[/box]

2001: A Space Odyssey retro movie poster

 

 

[box] Vertigo By Saul Bass[/box]

Vertigo retro movie poster

 

 

[box] Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban By Adam Rabalais[/box]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban retro movie poster

 

 

[box] Up By Adam Rabalais[/box]

Up retro movie poster

 

 

[box] An Education By Tavis Coburn[/box]

An Education retro movie poster

 

 

[box] Cowboys & Aliens By Tom Whalen[/box]

Cowboys & Aliens retro movie poster

 

 

[box] The Invisible Man By Tom Whalen[/box]

The Invisible Man retro movie poster

 

 

[box] Lost By Ty Mattson[/box]

Lost retro movie poster

 

 

[box] Jackie Brown By Olly Moss[/box]

Jackie Brown retro movie poster

 

 

[box] The Blues Brothers By Olly Moss[/box]

The Blues Brothers retro movie poster

 

 

[box] Breaking Bad By Matt Needle[/box]

Breaking Bad retro movie poster

 

 

[box] An American Werewolf in London By Olly Moss[/box]

An American Werewolf in London retro movie poster

 

 

[box] Captain America By Kevin Howdeshell[/box]

Captain America retro movie poster

 

 

[box] V for Vendetta By Concepts Arts[/box]

V for Vendetta retro movie poster

Are there any vintage style movie posters that you’ve found that deserve a mention? Let us know in the comments.

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October 6th, 2011 In Freebies, Giveaway (0) Comments

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25 Excellent Typography Business Card Designs

September 20th, 2011 In Featured, Products Design (2) Comments

Business cards have always been used to introduce someone or a service and to formalize the meeting between two or more people.  It has been a sound business practice to keep business cards and there are even ways, both traditional and modern, on how to properly hand it to someone.

Over the years, there has been a departure from the usual and traditional concepts in making business cards.  Modern techniques have been applied to make it more in harmony with the business it seeks to represent.  Typography is one of the modern approaches to making business cards.  It offers a wide variety of designs and concepts that make business cards more alive and attractive to those who get a chance to receive one.  Below are some of the best typography produced business cards that will surely catch attention.


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August 20th, 2011 In Giveaway (2) Comments

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12 Cool HTML5 – Powered Web Apps

August 16th, 2011 In Featured, Inspiration (2) Comments

HTML5 is the latest generation of the HTML standard. It has well improved language standards and a big take-off from its predecessor HTML4. It has more advanced features using technologies that will enable us to improve web contents while at the same time making it readable and understood by search engines and other internet devises. Most importantly, if it’s coded correctly, it will dramatically scale up the speed. A metric that will benefit everyone from end-users to search engines.

Will this be the Adobe Flash killer? maybe .. I’m for one won’t bet on it as of yet. But I have to admit, it’s a pretty awesome upgrade!

So, I looked around and here are twelve of the latest HTML5 Web apps for your enjoyment. Each has its own particular application and the potentials for each is simply awesome.

 

[box] This is called Twimbow. It has a very color rich presentation and is great color-coding your different tags. twimbow.com [/box]

[box] This is a Photo editor powered by HTML5. aviary.com[/box]

[box] This HTML5 app is suitable for browsing photos. gabereiser.com[/box]

[box] For the professional as well as the academe, Google body browser that uses HTML5. bodybrowser.googlelabs.com[/box]

[box] An organizer using HTML5. coolendar.com[/box]

[box] An innovative way to create texts using HTML5. csswarp.eleqtriq.com[/box]

[box] Great for the socially inclined internet savvy honcho. hootsuite.com[/box]

[box] CSS 3.0 maker is a must have for serious and professional developers. css3maker.com[/box]

[box] A more advanced sketchpad tp maximize your creativity. mugtug.com[/box]

[box] Both Flash and HTML5 based, it provides a wide latitude in accessing all sorts of data and information. scribd.com[/box]

[box] Called Citicles, it provides information about a chosen city. citicles.com[/box]

[box] Similar to Photo shop but with more angst and is very user friendly. colorzilla.com[/box]

 

 

 

 

21 “Not so boring” milk packaging design

August 9th, 2011 In Featured, Products Design (0) Comments

I wake up this morning and do my usual routine. Brush my teeth, take a shower, make the bed (apparantly my wife thinks that it’s one of my gifted talents), eat breakfast and drink milk. I’ve always drunk milk since as far as I can remember. I like it and “It does a body good!”. If you remember that ad slogan, then you and I are in the same age group.

As I drink and look at the familiar yet boring looking milk carton (check out the first photo below), I cannot help thinking if the product designers at dairy companies ever thought about updating the design? I’ve been looking at this same yellow carton for years now. Or do they even care about making it interesting, appealing and engaging. Maybe not? After all these cartons only live in supermarket for days and in consumer’s fridge for a couple of weeks. Then off they go to the recycling center. Most of us are probably still half asleep when drinking milk in the morning. It doesn’t matter how the carton looks like since we don’t really look at it.

But I did. I did look at this morning and it’s boring. The yellow milk carton has a smiling cow picture and “An excellent source of protein & calcium” claim on the front with Nutrition Facts on the side (standard packaging rules). Nothing to be excited about. That’s probably why I resort to coffee to get me excited in the morning.

I decided to do a quick google search to see if the product design teams really don’t care about making milk carton interesting. Guess what? It looks to me they do but their design is limited to production cost and I can see that. For sale at a mere $1.09 per carton with about three weeks product live span, you don’t want to invest too much money to produce it. A few, however, decided to make milk cartons a little more interesting. There are a lot more, but you can see some of them below.

 

[box] The milk carton from my fridgerator[/box]

 

[box] The Schroeder Milk Carton[/box]

 

[box] Milk Cartons by Raw Edges[/box]

 

[box] “Tyler the Accountant” custom milk carton[/box]

 

[box] Arla/Earth hour Milk Carton[/box]

 

 

[box] Hattamonkey Milk Carton[/box]

 

[box] Dairy Land Milk Carton[/box]

 

[box] Feez Milk Carton[/box]

 

[box] Katok Milk Carton[/box]

 

[box] Darren Custance Milk Carton[/box]

 

[box] Milk Matters Milk Carton[/box]

 

[box] Swiss International Style Milk Carton[/box]

 

[box] rmcreative.com Milk Carton[/box]

 

[box] Organic Valley Milk Carton[/box]

 

[box] Moo Milk Carton[/box]

 

[box] Binalogue Milk Carton[/box]

 

[box] Gala Mou Milk Carton[/box]

 

[box] Sea Creature Milk Carton[/box]

 

[box] Kinder Milk Carton[/box]

 

[box] Milk Carton by Levk0[/box]

 

[box] Milk Carton by Manriquez[/box]

 

[box] Milk Carton by Daniel Robles[/box]

12 Creative and Cute Website Footer Designs

July 27th, 2011 In Featured (1) Comments

For a lot of us, website footers are utilitarian in nature. Their main function is to hold the “copyright” or “trademark” claimer. To tell the world, “hey! I own this website and the law prohibits you to steal it or its content”. Makes perfectly sense, we do want to protect our content and the footer is a perfect place for it. We do not want to scare our visitors by putting it at the top, but we do want to have it somewhere accessible.

And then, we expand it to include about us section, extra links that we do not have enough space for in our main content area (I’m guilty on this one), links to our friends’ website and including but not limited to SEO. The point here is that the footers are utilitarian in nature for a lot of us. They serve a function or functions for the website.

A few fun-renegades designers decided that they can have fun with the footers. Yes, that they still serve some purpose but can be wrap around a cute and engaging aesthetics. Below are some of the creative and cute website footer designs that I found. Feel free to post a link to your website or other website that has creative and cute footer design.

 

[box] http://jenskanis.nl – A Dutch designer website. [/box]

 

 

[box] http://twither.info/ – A Russian weather website. [/box]

 

 

[box] http://readymadedesigns.net/ – A Russian weather website. [/box]

 

 

[box] http://yodiv.com/ – .PSD to HTML coders website [/box]

 

 

[box] http://tapbots.com/ – Robots for your iPhone and iPod Touch [/box]

 

 

[box] http://www.giselejaquenod.com.ar/blog/ – designer’s website [/box]

 

 

[box] http://www.themeflash.com/ –  Blog about flash/design [/box]

 

 

[box] http://therissingtonpodcast.co.uk/ –  The Rissington Podcast [/box]

 

[box] http://www.productivedreams.com/ –  A web design blog [/box]

 

 

[box] http://www.rubbik.com/ –  A web design company [/box]

 

 

[box] http://www.branded07.com/ –  A tutorials website [/box]

 

 

[box] http://volll.com/ –  A resource website [/box]

 

 

 

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