Web Design Inspiration #1

http://www.matrizcomunicacao.com.br/

GB Signs & Print: Logo and Business Card

I am working on a few larger projects at the moment and as such, I cannot show them here yet. However, I have a few smaller ones to present as I go along. Today I completed a logo for a local printing company (my dad's) and a business card.

The design makes use of simple typography and clean CMYK colours to represent the nature of  his business. I went with a  retro feel (probably because its for my old man...) that I think suits his business and will look great on his vehicle (now to convince him to let me rebrand it...).

I've chosen an off white, slightly textured paper (preferably recycled) to continue the retro/ vintage feel.

No Design but some cool quotes

So I haven't managed a design a day yet. At least I can claim some victory in the fact that I know myself well enough to know that new year's resolutions are a complete waste of my time. However, I have been busy doing some work but will post it later (once my clients see it first..). For now, I thought I'd share some cool quotes that I found at: http://inspire.boranikolic.com/ :


"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
— Douglas Adams


"What works good is better than what looks good. Because what works good lasts."
— Ray Eames

"Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don't hesitate to make it beautiful."

— Shaker design philosophy

"Becoming a top expert takes about 10,000 hours of hard work."

— Malcom Gladwell

"A designer should only use these 5 typefaces: Bodoni, Helvetica, Times Roman, Century, Futura."
— Massimo Vignelli

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty.
I only think about how to solve the problem. 
    But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, 
I know it is wrong.”
— Buckminster Fuller

These thought provoking qu0tes are just a small taste of Bora Nikolic's site.  I'm off to find him on Twitter.

A design a day keeps design block at bay...

The Digital Vineyard has decided to get onto the blogging band-wagon. The reason I have decided to do this was because of challenge originally sent out by Smashing Magazine entitled: A challenge for 2010:"Design Something Every Day!. Which was brought to my attention by Cassandra Miles on Twitter. 

Basically, the challenge is to spend less time looking for inspiration online and more time honing my design skills by designing something new each day. Now, I am not committing myself to every day because I know I won't do it (New Year's resolutions are a waste of time so I don't make them). However, I think its a great idea. I have already bought myself a flashy new journal to start scribbling in (which is all I have done so far) and now I am starting a blog to kinda keep myself accountable (to myself a this point because no one else is following me yet). 


So watch this space!