Everyone can appreciate the finer details of packaging design. It’s all around us, persuading you to perhaps pick one product over another, enticing you with it’s seductive aesthetics. Want to see some the best creative and innovative ideas the industry has to offer?   The Dieline Package Design Awards is a worldwide competition devoted specifically [...]

I can tend to get quite excited at the perfect coloured Pantone swatch, as I’m sure is the case with many a designer out there. And as most are aware, this rather niche thing that previously only belonged in design studios has started to seep into the mainstream. There is now a whole range of [...]

Designing the layout for a website is a lot is like painting a masterpiece. The information is like the paint, and the Worldwide Web is your canvas. Just as painters like to make sure that their works will capture the attention of their audience any other painting before it is revealed to the public, web [...]

Typography is a unique form of art.  When the right typeface is chosen for a project it can make the written word both visible and ornate. Before you select the typography for your project, here a five tips to keep in mind:   1.Readability   Opt for a typeface that well display each character or [...]

The second edition of The Print Handbook is here, and it’s packed with more knowledge than ever before.   Compiled by midlands design studio ‘The Media Collective’, this is not your boring run of the mill guide book but rather an offering of real world situations and advice that is must have expertise for any [...]

If you are a typography fan then you may well be interested in the latest edition of Scrabble. Yes, you read that right. Scrabble. The intellectual word game that has been the loved or loathed dusty family board game cornerstone for decades now comes in a format specially for the inner nerd of a designer. [...]

What do you do when you want to promote your new eco-friendly fuel cell vehicle? Well Mercedes decided to place it squarely in front of everyone in the world but by making the car invisible…   The advertisement is a rather clever concept and publicity stunt in which German car manufacturer Mercedes-Benz wanted to emphasise [...]

It doesn’t seem all that long ago where most gaming experiences were 16bit and involved moving some sort of cube or square. Whether you are a tech gamer or not there was a certain simplicity about these games, almost an addiction where a simple task developed into much more of a challenge. I guarantee if [...]

Having a scan through the book shelf is always a rewarding task; finding those paper gems of inspiration that you haven’t seen for while, re-sparking your imagination and proving their worth of why you have them in your workspace (despite them being covered in a layer of dust).   One of these such finds was [...]

Are you in the market for a new inspiration journal? Why not step away from the Moleskine notebook and consider one of these?   The Dot Grid Jounal was developed as an alternative to traditional lined or boxed pages; the idea being for designers to think beyond the boundaries and serve as a simple subtle [...]