I saw this quote while surfing around on the internet today. I’m pretty sure that J.F.K. wasn’t talking design when he said this, but it’s still one of the most applicable sayings i’ve ever heard. Purely inspiring to do a good job, and do a proper job!

Thanks Fitzy!! (Kennedy and I are just close like that. he lets me call him Fitzy)

HOW TIE™
instructions included

Job Interview? Briss? Court Appearance? Yes, a necktie is definitely called for, and not a clip-on! No problem…relax, take a deep breath, remember your days in the boy scouts, and study the oh-so-easy knot-tying instructions printed right on Fred’s handy How Tie.

Thanks Design You Trust for the link. (How Fresh and Creative Ideas Rules the World)
Follow through to see other ideas too, this one was just my favorite.

Here’s a collection of 70 of the coolest, most unique business cards i’ve ever seen. Thanks Francesco Mugnai and Justin at Big Head Design for passing around the wealth of this list!!

66 more cards after the jump. it’s a big post, i had to split them to the single page, haha!
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Through a little bit of link surfing I came across a page called Xpozio and tripped onto these above Playboy magazine covers. I thought it was so interesting to see how our culture has changed so much in just a short 50 years. The old covers at their time were probably considered risque and exposing, but compared to the covers of the 2000’s they seem like a child’s paint by numbers!

Working as an Art Director for Churm Media and designing covers for OC Family magazine and IE Family magazine it’s part of my job to stay up to date and current with magazine design, so when i see something as extraordinary as this national magazine undergo such huge changes it makes me take a look back at the short 10 years that Churm Media’s Family publications have been around and how much they’ve grown and evolved (to come in a later post, it’s on my to do list)

Any designer who knows their place in the word of agency living knows that there’s that ugly separation between sales, design and management. There is always going to be someone trying to make the sale and promise aspects of design to clients at the minimal cost, because, hey, they need to make the sale. There’s always going to be management telling you that now the sale is made you have to manage to deliver in the time frame that they also promised client X. And lastly there’s the designers who have to take the foot of sales and management and deliver on the goods. In a perfect world there would be a great seamless line of open communication, but in the REAL world everyone’s “too busy” to make time to find out exactly what a client wants, which leads us to our good old friend “revision”. How ya doing buddy??

Thanks again Justin at Big Head Design. You never fail to deliver the goods! Must have been a slow morning for you.

Every designer has heard the tired old expression “form follows function”. Well, the following designers took that and tossed it out the window. This is more Function follows form. Every one of these was designed with surroundings in mind, materials accounted for and logistics calculated. The agencies that produced these must have made a buck or two in their days of glory.

To read more about these advertisements check out Big Head Design and Toxel. Thanks again for another great post Jusin at BHD.

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Sadly, there’s some things we’ll never get away with in the US. Thank you censorship and ruining of my first amendment! But actually thank you internet for giving me the power to actually spread the design wealth of ads like these. The internet is GREAT for freedom of speech! TAKE THAT HIPPIES!

Thanks Brandon Jaime for the link.

“Ohh Ohh, stop, stop… i can’t breath” (compliments of ‘The Grape Lady’ [you tube]), is all i can think about when i see this flash site. Vogue posted their photo shoot of Eva Mendes (a couple TASTEFUL, but still, NSFW Images [4]) and it’s amazing. They took the classic look of a flash photo gallery, and added depth, movement, and environmental features. Some programer must have spent some long hours building this template. Give it a look, you won’t be disappointed. And even if you don’t get excited about neat, innovative, creative flash design like I do, it’s pictures of Eva Mendes for moot’s sake!!

Big Head Design has a great article up on his design blog site about the powerful use of typography. It’s amazing to me how typography alone can bring an entire project together. The example above is just one of thousands that demonstrate this concept to perfection. It’s Clean, Simple, Elegant, and, as Justin at Big Head Design puts it, “green…..it’s so HOT right now”.

Thanks Justin for another Great post.

Read more from Justin after the jump…
GO!

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