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Archives for the ‘Print design’ Category

Mike Ming: Trendy Illustration Meets Commercial Industrial Design

By Megalongcat • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Drawings, Illustration, Industrial Design, Painting, Print design, Product Design, Recent Posts, Street Art, Traditional Art

The mainstream and the underground have been merging at an exponential rate in the past two years, and to put things into perspective lets take eclectic, trendy hip hop singers Santogold, and M.I.A. Both are known for their unique beats, melodies, and vocals which sets them apart from mainstream hip-hop. But just [...]



Playful Patterns - Nantaka Joy

By Megalongcat • Aug 31st, 2008 • Category: Industrial Design, Package Design, Print design, Product Design, Recent Posts, Stationary

It’s becoming commonplace that I don’t actually find these links to amazing artwork and design on my own, but that I get linked to them by other creative fluff members or one of our many subscribers ( I say many because we’re so popular I can’t be bothered to keep track).  This time around I [...]



Retail Stationery –Independent Print Design Doesn’t Always Cut It

By Megalongcat • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: Print design, Recent Posts, Stationary

There are thousands of design blogs constantly and consistently reviewing the most up to date trends in the field of print design, and more specifically: stationery.  These paper products tend to come from independent, hip, and current designers who more than likely have no affiliation with a major retail provider in their specific field.  What [...]



[ ACDC ] - Black Ice Cover Art

By Eric Swain • Aug 18th, 2008 • Category: Drawings, Illustration, Print design, Recent Posts, Traditional Art, Typography

This is the recently revealed cover art to AC/DC’s new studio album. The mirror image art and the grey and black aesthetic give off the hard rock vibe that the band has become known for. The band name in red with what looks like white clouds wafting over the lettering add [...]



Pure Washi

By Katherine • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: International, Print design, Recent Posts, Stationary

Came across The Japanese Paper Place the other day online and discovered that they had a good collection of all different types of Japanese paper, or possibly “The world’s largest collection of fine Japanese papers”, which sounds extremely promising.

Okay, so The Japanese Paper Place is Canadian. But they stock a wide variety of papers, thousands [...]



Creative Print Design and Illustrations - Keith Thompson

By Megalongcat • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Character Design, Digital Art, Digital Painting, Drawings, Illustration, Posters, Print design, Recent Posts, Traditional Art

I am beyond pleased that I found this artist; he is by far one of my favorite artists, if not my favorite.  I stumbled his website and I have been seriously considering buying one of his prints.   Enough gushing on my part; the most notable thing about his prints is the realism coupled with surrealist [...]



Death Magnetic Cover Art

By Eric Swain • Aug 11th, 2008 • Category: Branding, Drawings, Illustration, Print design, Recent Posts

The artwork on the album is sort of hypnotic. A coffin six feet under with the dirt spread around in a manner to imitate a magnetic field. The work is presumed owned by the record label and no artist is mentioned.

Metallica’s new album, Death Magnetic, comes out September 12th in the US and most other [...]



Typography Humor: Get with the Times, New Roman

By Megalongcat • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Commercial, Recent Posts, Typography

Whoever said that typography lovers didn’t have a sense of humor?



The Imagination of Studiospooky

By Katherine • Jul 24th, 2008 • Category: Current Design Event, Drawings, Illustration, Recent Posts, Traditional Art, Typography

While searching for something to write about, few things caught my eye. It was important to find something first-post worthy. Rummaging through a sea of vectors, product design, and typography, it was basically the same thing over and over again. Helvetica everywhere. When all hope was lost I was linked to Studiospooky’s automatic drawings, a [...]



Blue Vinyl: Free Typeface - “Synthetique”

By Megalongcat • Jul 17th, 2008 • Category: Current Design Event, Print design, Recent Posts, Typography

I stumbled across the Blue Vinyl website and found a plethora of custom designed ( and well) fonts.  The majority of the fonts were pay-for-use, however BV had a few free typefaces and today we’re taking a look at their newest one: Synthetique.
Maybe it’s just me, but I can never get enough of the pixel/dot [...]