Business cards are a must-have for every self-respecting company. Some designers like to create business cards with lots of colors and illustrations while other designers prefer a more minimalistic approach. The latter use subtle gradients and textures instead of bombastic visuals. In this article you’ll find some examples that will hopefully inspire you.
Twitter users are sending 55 million tweets per day. That’s circa 640 tweets per second! There’s a lot of spam and rubbish between these short messages but occasionally you’ll also find some interesting stuff. This week I found some tweets that have been very useful and/or interesting to me. I discovered Inkerlinker, found some great icon sets, learned a useful photoshop tip… More interesting tweets after the break.
Sometimes it’s hard to find well-designed, inspiring logos. Thankfully I came across this logo a few days ago, the perfect candidate for our logo of the week. This beauty was designed by voxsix, a designer from Alabama, USA. I found it on Brandstack so this means that you can buy it from the designer himself.
For those of you who are freelancing or maintaining a website or blog, it’s important to monitor your online presence. Your online presence and/or influence can have a great effect on the number of clients or visitors. Monitoring your online presence can help you make decisions about communication and marketing. It’s also a great way to gather feedback.
This doesn’t have to be a time-consuming task. A few hours per week can help you a lot. And with these free tools to monitor your online presence, you’ll be able to work even more effectively.
This great logo was designed by Gert van Duinen, a logo and brand identity designer from the Netherlands. He was asked to design the new logo of the UK based video production company ‘Storm Foundry’. This logo really shows one important lesson in logo design: keep it simple. Combine this with excellent use of negative space and you have a great logo design.
We already took a look at 15 awesome and inspiring offices a couple of months ago. Fortunately there are more than 15 great offices in the world. This is a selection of offices that stand out from the rest because of their creative design or crazy decorations. Surely, you wouldn’t mind working in one of these awesome offices.