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Patrick McNeil looks at the possibilities of CSS3 for the people who aren't working with code.
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Behind the Design: Amazing Designs, Projects & Designers
Behind the Design: Yeah Burger! Restaurant Branding
YEAH! Burger is a quirky burger joint that needed in store graphics and restaurant branding. Tad Carpenter drew inspiration from vintage newspaper cartoons and illustrations to craft branding elements.
Categories: Behind the Design: Amazing Designs, Projects & Designers, Design Inspiration: Creative Ideas for Designers, Design Projects, Featured, HOW Magazine, March 2012 HOW Magazine, Web & Graphic Design Illustration
Tags: Behind the Design: Amazing Designs, Projects & Designers, branding, illustration
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Behind the Design: Naturally Smart
A natural cereal-maker wanted to grow their shelf presence, so they turned to HartungKemp to update their branding and packaging design.
Designer’s Self-Promo Lands him TV Cameo
Designer Ty Mattson, creator of the LOST poster series, found similar inspiration in Showtime’s Dexter. The poster designs he created went viral and attracted big buzz. So much that Mattson found himself rubbing elbows with Michael C. Hall.
Categories: Behind the Design: Amazing Designs, Projects & Designers, Design Inspiration: Creative Ideas for Designers, Designer Spotlight: Famous Graphic Designers, Design Firms, Featured, HOW Magazine, January 2012 HOW Magazine, Self Promotion for Graphic Design & Designers
Tags: design projects, designer promotion, Designers, poster design, self-promotion
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Behind the Design: Energetic Space
Go Behind the Design of this dynamic environmental graphic design project, featured in the September issue of HOW. Poulin + Morris renovates the corporate offices of MSG Media, the sports, entertainment and media arm to Madison Square Garden.
Sidelines: Alexandra Charitan and Blue Carrot
Designer Alexandra Charitan parlayed her love of vintage printed ephemera and accessories from the 1940s through the ’60s into an online store, the Blue Carrot Shop. Explore this designer’s side business.
Categories: Behind the Design: Amazing Designs, Projects & Designers, Design Inspiration: Creative Ideas for Designers, Design Inspiration: Ideas for Designers, Designer Spotlight: Famous Graphic Designers, Design Firms, HOW Magazine, September 2011 Issue
Tags: handmade, typography, vintage design
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Behind the Design: Sagmeister Teams with BNS
Sagmeister, Inc. gave the renewable energy subsidiary of Energias de Portugal (EDP), a growing wind energy company, a strikingly fresh brand identity. The renowned designer and studio partnered with Brand New School to create an animated storyline.
Behind the Design: Escape Artist
Australian creative services firm Houdini landed a magical name, but needed an identity to bring it to life.
Behind The Design: HOW’s Cover
In 2005, HOW magazine debuted a new bold cover design onto newsstands with a larger than life logo. This cover setup for the then 20-year-old magazine presented interesting opportunities for art directors and illustrators to push the creative envelope and …
Adobe: Flash Catalyst
To introduce you to a new world of design possibilities, HOW and Adobe asked some of their favorite designers to convert their static print work to fully interactive projects—without writing code!—by using Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5, part of Adobe Creative …
Categories: Behind the Design: Amazing Designs, Projects & Designers, Design Inspiration: Creative Ideas for Designers, Design Projects, Design Technology News, Industry Trends & Software Reviews, Designer Spotlight: Famous Graphic Designers, Design Firms
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Creative Suite, Design Army, Flash Catalyst, Interactive Design, Nicholas Felton, print to web
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Sidelines: A Modern Eden
Designer/illustrator Ryan Clark and his colleagues at FORGE in Dayton, OH, turned decorative items for Clark’s son’s nursery into a growing product line, A Modern Eden.
