Corporate Identity by Mike Karolos ( http://smirapdesigns.com/heisenberg ) Identity is the cornerstone of one of the most important areas of study in recent years: corporate marketing (Balmer, 2008). This term provides the foundation for numerous concepts, such as corporate brand identity (Balmer, 2012). This identity type encompasses specific values and features that, associated to the corporate…
[WI] Doodle-4-Google
Google Doodle is very famous and creative piece of art we see on google’s search engine home page. Google Doodle is temporary and changes according the local occasions or major happenings. Like country’s election, christmas celebration or a tribute to some personalities who have contributed a lot for humanity in various ways. Google’s come up…
[WI] Ambigram
Ambigrams This week while thinking of graphic design inspiration, all of a sudden an awesome idea struck my mind, “Ambigrams”. Angels and Demons, a sci-fi mystery novel by Dan Brown included many ambigrams. Even the tittle of the book itself was an ambigram. An ambigram as quoted by Wikipedia is a word, art form or other…
[WI] How Culture Affects Typography
On the evening of Oct 20th 2016, Thursday at MICA Fred Lazarus IV Center, Baltimore we attend this event organized by AIGA Baltimore as a part of Baltimore Design Week 2016 where Nikki Villagómez discussed how culture affects typography and relate decision making processes. Nikki used pictures taken throughout her travels to discuss the comparisons…
[WI] Uber – Logo Evolution
I received, yet another Uber’s rebranding email this week and it made me peep into the matter. Uber is a technology company which provides cab service on the go from mobile app. It was established in 2009 as ‘UberCab’ and have ever since evolved its brand name and the logo design of the name. It’s…
[WI] Figure-Ground & World Around
This week’s inspiration is the about the Gestalt’s principal and its existence in the world around. Knowingly, unknowingly we would have come across many graphics which uses this Gestalt’s principal. But, now that I am aware of it I tend to notice it. And you would be as well surprised where and how it can…
[WI] Fashion Illustration by Shamekh Bluwi
This week’s inspiration is fashion illustrations by Shamekh Bluwi who I have been following on instagram now for a long time. Shamekh Bluwi ((شامخ is an architect, visual artist and a fashion illustrator by profession. https://www.instagram.com/shamekhbluwi/ The unique thing about Shamekh is his way of getting inspired for his fashion illustrations. Everyday things are source of…
[PE] Grid
Grid are the layout in which contents are arranged in typeset as far as typography is concerned. Generally grids can be categorized into following 4 categories: Manuscript Column Hierarchical Modular Let’s appreciate some of these grids and see real time usages and examples. Manuscript Manuscript grid can be thought of one column grid. These are…
[CW] Tracing the Grid – Reflection
Are these Grids working? The page of the magazine that I was assigned to trace the grid and other anatomical factor of the grid didn’t have any particular grid that match exactly with the common grids namely manuscript, column, modular and hierarchical. But yes these grid work in general. They are the grid usually…
[WI] AlcoholEdu
AlcoholEdu for college This week’s inspiration is an Educational web site which is called “AlcoholEdu” for college whose main intention is to educate college students about the facts of having alcohol and let them judge about the quantity which should be taken, when and where…? Best part about this web content I felt was the…
[PE] Order Forms
All of the forms I could capture during the span of this week were from library – Magazine subscription forms. Common Observation All of these Subscription forms had data entry options like Blanks for Personal details (name, address and email), Payment mode in form of Check Boxes to pay with the envelope or bill later….
[WI] iOS 10 – Icons, Menus & Typography
“The world’s most advanced mobile OS offers everything you need to design beautiful, engaging apps that radiate power and simplicity.” -apple.com This is week 04 of my weekly inspirational blog. I would want to collaborate my learning in the course as well other courses I have been taking parallely. Inspiration is what comes to us from…
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