2010

Posted December 31st, 2009 in Everyday life by Zélia

It’s almost here… I wish you a very happy new year, with lots of helvetica, glossy effets, dropped shadows and lense flares. Wait…No. Let’s just say, keep designing, keep loving, keep being a creative person.

Lots of love,
Z.

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Let’ s enhance

Posted December 18th, 2009 in Just for fun by Zélia



Yeah baby !
Via Boing Boing

Oh, and I’m giving a try at tumblr, take a look :D

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Stop sign designed by commitee

Posted December 17th, 2009 in Graphic Design & trends, Just for fun by Zélia



Saw this quite a log time ago, yet it still makes me laugh…
Via usedwigs

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Wise word of the day

Posted December 10th, 2009 in Graphic Design & trends by Zélia

“I’m a believer in what I like to call “hardcore” design. This is design focused on results. It can employ any of a multitude of treatments. It’s not personal in nature, unless this is in fact necessary. Hardcore design is driven by insight, strategy and purpose.”

Eric Karjaluoto in Fuck Style

It seems to me that when you deliberately reclaim yourself of Hardcore design, people always find a way to spit at you. Eric really makes a point there and I definitely thank him for that.
We’re not here to make things pretty, nor stylish for the sake of it. We’re here to serve a purpose and function — the client’s.
Aesthetics play a role, and so do grids, visual culture, type knowledge, balance, contrast and the like.
Not trends. Not glossy effects. Not flourishes.
This is graphic design.

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