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Layout | Book covers by De Vicq

engineersam — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:28:51 +0000

Fantastic book cover designs by De Vicq, that play with different fonts

de Vicq | “graphic design will save you!”.

Typography | Static free font

engineersam — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:45:00 +0000

Static is a friendly looking rounded geometric sans serif font designed by Slava Kirilenko. The font is available to download free in two weights (regular and bold) with matching obliques.

Static free font | Fontfabric™.

Layout | Minimalist Star Wars Posters

engineersam — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:40:27 +0000

I love these minimalist Star Wars posters by Travis English. Check out his tumblr site for more posters such as Dr Who and Harry Potter. Just like the movies, the posters for the original trilogy are probably the best. The posters use simple silhouette illustrations of key locations and protagonists for each film. View other nice Star Wars posters here, here and here.

Minimalist Star Wars series posters — Lost At E Minor: For creative people.

Layout | Vintage Movie Titles

engineersam — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:01:37 +0000

Steven Hill’s Movie Title Screens Page is a great resource for viewing old movie titles, and how they have changed, as well as some great pieces of custom typography and layout. Here are some excellent vintage ones from 1900-1950.

shillPages – Movie Title Screens Page.

Layout | Swissted punk posters in the Swiss style

engineersam — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:01:55 +0000

Swissted is a great project by Mike Joyce, combining two of his great loves; punk rock and Swiss modernism. The result are modern punk, rock and indie posters produced in the sixties Swiss style using Akzidenz Grotesk. Here are some of my favourites, there are plenty more on the Swissted site. It would be great to see the original poster to compare style and see whether the Swissted design is an abstraction of the original, or completely different.

swissted.

Layout | Bon Iver gig poster

engineersam — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:48:15 +0000

A great Twitter inspired poster for the excellent Bon Iver. I love the custom high contrast western wood type font.

GigPosters.com – Bon Iver.

Typography | 2011 free sans serif catch up

engineersam — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:41:18 +0000

Here are a few of the free sans serif fonts that came out towards the end of 2011.

Inder is a modern sans serif along the lines of Futura but less round

Chivo is a wide humanist sans serif in the Swiss tradition, but with large inkwell cutouts

Overlock plays in the space between a serif and a sans serif, much like Optima.

Rosario is a humanist semi serif, that is similar to Gill Sans

Armata is a geometric sci-fi sans serif based largely on an asymmetric squared circle

Sansita One is a nice looking brush sans serif in the style of old sign writing and can be used as a bold italic

Typography | 2011 serif catch up

engineersam — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:29:37 +0000

There were plenty of great looking free serif faces released towards the end of 2011. Here are a few.

Poly is a nice, almost caligraphic old style available free in regular and italic.

Cambo is an attractive old style serif face, notable for the yin shaped ball terminals

With chunky chamfered serifs, Enriqueta occupies the space between an old style and slab serif, coming in regular and bold.

Crete Round is a nice, slightly quirky slab serif. Some of the letters such as the capital L, Z and number 2 have vertical serifs on the end.

Bree Serif is a bold slab serif similar to Rockwell.

Alfa Slab is more extreme, a heavy black weight slab serif

Exljbris has released a new version of the popular art deco Geotica for the new year

Unna is a relatively low contrast Didone style hair line serif

Packaging | Corona Board Game

engineersam — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:57:43 +0000

It is nice to see people come up with uses for items other than the standard. Student John-John Skoog has designed a board game to adorn a standard Corona six-pack beer carton, along with extra elements that can be downloaded to a smart phone via a QR code.

Corona Board Game (Student Work) | Packaging of the World: Creative Package Design Archive and Gallery.

Packaging | Kleenex Desktop Tissue Student Idea

engineersam — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:53:42 +0000

Great idea for Kleenex tissue packaging by student Chris Yoon. Chris designed three boxes that would look great on your desk, and where the tissues coming out are part of the image – house with smoke, typewriter with paper, whale with blowhole.

This is a brilliant idea, and is well executed with a simple illustrative style.

Student Spotlight: Kleenex Desktop Companion – The Dieline: The Worlds #1 Package Design Website -.