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Color Reference

Joseph Warren — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:46:09 +0000

Here is a great color reference for those creative types that may need a refresher in color theory. This is a beautifully illustrated, cleanly formatted, goldmine of information whether you work in graphic design, illustration, package design or even web design.

Understanding Through Illustration Looking through the work of Bryan Christine, I can see...
Color Theory Nice presentation for a pencil and notepad set. This...
Combination Dispensing Bag Yet again, another ingenious student-designed package from UQAM. Readers may have...

Product Innovation: USB Cufflinks

Joseph Warren — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:00:56 +0000

2 cufflinks, 4 total GB, 8 character engraving upgrade option, 200 dollars. But hey, the shipping is free! It seems a little outrageous, but I think I like them. Related posts:Product Innovation: Linking Up This set of coffee cups makes fetching coffee a... Product Innovation: Rear View Helmet A 36O-degree view while riding a motorcycle is [...] Related posts:

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Homemade Screen Protector How-To Video

Joseph Warren — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:43:24 +0000

Using these six items, you can prepare your cell phone screen to survive any pocket-scratching scenario. Grab a notepad and take a look at this video.

Honeycomb How-To Video Take a look at this revolutionary structural design method of...
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Understanding Through Illustration

Joseph Warren — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:15:37 +0000

Looking through the work of Bryan Christine, I can see how a picture can say 1,000 words. Take a look for yourself; these images are incredible! Communicating a message solely through an illustration is not easy, but these are some examples of how it can be done well.

Liquid Implosions It doesn’t take many words to introduce the next set...

Chase with No Catch

Joseph Warren — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:38:06 +0000

As good as having a wealthy uncle foot the bill for college, Chase Jarvis has offered to pay for your creative classes – at no cost! Seriously, no catch. Just enroll online and livestream the best the industry has to offer in creative genius.

CreativeLIVE offers free online lessons in creative design and fine arts courses like photography, programming, image editing, design and fine arts. So there is no excuse for not having the means to be more creative; Chase has truly helped to democratize creativity.

Kinetic Mastermind: Theo Jansen Theo Jansen, Dutch artist and engineer known for his wind-walking...
A Celebration of Snow Stevie Famulari, an environmental artist and a landscape architecture professor...
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Under A Microscope

Joseph Warren — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:59:26 +0000

Aspex, a leading designer of tabletop scanners, has challenged its online viewers to submit sample items that they are curious to see magnified to extreme precision. Have you ever wondered what things look like up close and personal? Well, fill out a form and send them your sample to see whatever you have been curious to view magnified.

Below are common items already submitted and on display for the world to see. A penny, sidewalk chalk, cat hair, a piece of hard candy. Maybe you can see your sample on their list of items under the microscope.

Keeping It Hot: Best Designed Cups and Mugs for 2009 It doesn’t matter if it’s coffee, hot cocoa or tea...

A New Year, A Creative New Calendar

Joseph Warren — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:20:46 +0000

Keep a creative calendar at your desk or on your wall, and expect creative things to happen, right? Well, if that is the case, try to get your hands on one of these creative calendars.

10 Creative Halloween Costume Designs With Halloween right around the seasonal calendar, a lot of...
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Deck the Walls……with Clever Designs Check out these clever designs used to hang, mount, hide...

History of the Plug

Joseph Warren — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:45:36 +0000

Here is a not-so-short, short history of why there are so many variations of the outlet plug around the world. A little history, a little geography and whole a lot of humor. Enjoy.

Outlet Gaskets Yeah, that’s right, a gasket for your switch plates and...

Advice on Sketching

Joseph Warren — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:54:07 +0000

This advice for how to better render is a good set of guidelines. I, like others who have read this and posted, do not agree with the last one, though. ”Always cheat” is a bad way of saying reference what is around you. Underlays and references to scale and style are not cheating, so the wording threw me for a loop. But overall, it’s a good article.

Communicating Through Sketching This video is a little dated, but the content is...
The Future Of Sketching? Creating perspective is a great tool in communicating visual ideas. The...

The wonder Of Corrugated Cardboard

Joseph Warren — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:16:05 +0000

Scottish-born Robert Gair invented the corrugated box in 1890; that is, pre-cut flat pieces manufactured in bulk that folded into boxes. Gair’s invention, as with so many other great innovations, came about as a result of an accident. Gair was a Brooklyn printer and paper-bag maker during the 1870′s, and one day, while he was printing an order of seed bags, a metal ruler normally used to crease bags shifted in position and cut them. Gair discovered that by cutting and creasing bags in one operation he could make prefabricated paper boxes. Applying this idea to corrugated boxboard was a straightforward development when the material became available. By the start of the 20th century, corrugated boxes began replacing the custom-made wooden crates and boxes previously used for trade.
(Information taken from Wikipedia.com)

Corrugated cardboard is what Lincoln’s famous top hat was made from, along with beaver fur. Everyone has had pizza delivered in a cardboard box. Amazon’s ever-present brown box with smiling logo is corrugated cardboard at its best; shipped worldwide thanks to the lightweight design and structural integrity of this recycled paper wonder. And as you just read, invention can be stumbled upon and its effects can change industry as we know it.

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