Can you make it look… even worse?

It’s an unusual design brief – to make the product as unappealing as possible. But that’s exactly what proposed designs for cigarette packaging in Australia hope to achieve, using a grim combination of photography, graphic design and type…... 

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Creative Suite gets Decked in Couture

Adobe Creative Suite needs no introduction: we all use it, and we all desperately try to keep up with their upgrades and their rising price tags. Adobe Creative Suite needs no introduction: we all use it, and we all desperately try to keep up with... 

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Gradients? Czech. Boring? Czech.

Established in 1992 but with origins as far back as 1953, Česk? Televize (Czech Television, CT for short) is the public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic with four channels: CT1, for general purpose programming from movies to series... 

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Olympic Torch wins Design of the Year

Barber Osberby’s London 2012 Olympic Torch has won the Design Museum’s Design of the Year prize for 2012. The Nokia Pure typeface won the Graphic Award while the Digital Award went to the Microsoft Kinect Deyan Sudjic Director of the Design... 

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Custom vinyls and labels by legendary street artist Eric Orr

One of the pioneers of graffiti, legendary New York artist Eric Orr is releasing these amazing Custom Clear Vinyls and labels in collaboration with Serato. One of the pioneers of graffiti, legendary New York artist Eric Orr is releasing these amazing... 

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Winners Revealed At New-Look D&AD Awards

The D&AD Award winners were announced last night in a new-look ceremony at London’s IMAX cinema. Well, some of them were, we’ll have to wait until September for the Black Pencils It’s D&AD’s 50 th anniversary which means... 

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TED Talk video: Book jacket designs by Chip Kidd

In probably the most entertaining TED talk I’ve seen, book designer Chip Kidd discusses his process of creating beautiful and iconic book jacket designs . These include the famous Jurassic Park logo, David Sedaris’ Naked, and Huraki Murakami’s... 

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TED Talk video: Book jacket designs by Chip Kidd

In probably the most entertaining TED talk I’ve seen, book designer Chip Kidd discusses his process of creating beautiful and iconic book jacket designs . These include the famous Jurassic Park logo, David Sedaris’ Naked, and Huraki Murakami’s... 

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Word as Images: a graphic design book by Ji Lee

I came across a wonderful debut book by Korean-born graphic designer Ji Lee called Word As Image . I came across a wonderful debut book by Korean-born graphic designer Ji Lee called Word As Image. What is great about it is the wit and intelligence... 

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Handmade Typographic Poster Workshop at Looking

A typographic promotional poster for the UCLA Extension Workshop at Looking, April 28–29th. Source Link Start your own Design Contest today and choose from 50-200+ custom design made just for you. Advertise with DYT! – Join us on Facebook –... 

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