I just love me some trippy animated GIFS, although really to say these are animated GIF's, designed by, Florian de Looij, is not exactly a compliment.
Florian de Looij is a Graphic Designer, and VJ, from the Netherlands. After VJing at some Dance Festivals and Clubs, he realised he wanted to create some of his own looping animations, for his VJ sets.
After seeing some of the many looped GIFS on Tumblr, he decided to try his own hand at them.
These are some of the ones he has created, and his Tumblr has loads more. As far as animated GIFS go, these are pretty amazing.
Trippy and Beautiful Animated GIFS designed by Florian de Looij
This is not the first time, and it won't be the last, that I've seen huge chunks of my logo design portfolio stolen by someone, using it to mislead unsuspecting clients on PeoplePerHour.
Usually though, my logo designs are up alongside other logo designers' work; first time I've seen majority of my own logo portfolio used like this.
I understand that websites like PeoplePerHour can't initially stop shitty people like Jake from uploading other designers' work.
However, they can certainly do a heck of alot more to ensure that they warn people like jake of the consequences of stealing other peoples work, before they sign up.
Not sure they have adequate warnings in relation to plagiarism, and downright utter theft.
I always appreciate the eagle eyes of other designers, like Lee Weaver, who make the effort to tell me when they see my work so blatantly stolen like this, so thank you very much Lee.
Obviously, you'd be much better hiring a more reputable logo designer, such as myself.
Let's see how long it takes for Jake to apologise, and remove my work. Thought I'd take the opportunity to leave Jake an Endorsement…
The Hipster Logo Design Guide, designed by Tim Delger, is something found in my StumbleUpon Likes, and thought I'd post it again, mostly because I like that pretty teal colour.
In six easy steps, and no concepts necessary, you too can create a fabulous hipster 'artisanal vintage themed logo.
The Hipster Logo Design Guide was first Posted in 2013, by Tim, and was eventually named one of Fast Company's 21 best infographics of 2013.
It's actually available as a nice print, so you can find that over on Society 6, poster description below:
Society 6: "Gallery quality Giclée print on natural white, matte, ultra smooth, 100% cotton rag, acid and lignin free archival paper using Epson K3 archival inks. Custom trimmed with 1" border for framing."
The Hipster Logo Design Guide Infographic by Tim Delger
Just a bit of TV logo fun for a Friday afternoon. Found this Stranger Things Logo Generator, by Nelson Cash. the other week, whilst looking at some other Stranger Things related stuff.
Not an awful lot to say about it, other than it's a bit of 'fun' for a few unimportant minutes.
See how much stranger your name looks like after being Strangified: Make it Stranger
The Typography of Stranger Things
The other related stuff I was looking at, is actually far more interesting than this logo generator, and maybe I should have lead with that first.
So yeah, if you're into the whole 'design process' behind famous logos and typographic masterpieces, then you'll want to check out this post: The Typography of Stranger Things
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This selection of marker art in Designer Spotlight, (as in brand logos of various felt-tips, pens etc), by Serge Lowrider, really caught my eye.
Something I love about the pure simplicity, and the natural imperfections inherent in 'doodling' with a marker pen, or a Sharpie.
I'd really like to see more genera brand logos designed in this way, as I think this would be a fab side-project for some creative to get stuck into.
I'd have a go, but I'm useless with markers. Anyone?
Via http://thisisnthappiness.com
Marker Brand Logo Designs by Serge Lowrider
Serge does have these for sale, as limited edition prints, over on his Colab-Gallery page, under projects titled: Marker for Life, and Hall of Fame.
About Serge Lowrider
Born 1972, lives and works in Fribourg, Switzerland.
Due to printing his first stickers at the dear age of 8, Serge Nidegger knew already he would make it his job.
After learning the tricks of the trade the regular way, he realized, that the only way to keep on printing and painting with passion is to open his own studio, in 2000 he takes off as Lowrider.
Serge sets great value upon the craftsman tradition of the computer-free era of the 60's, when sign-painting was it. The experimenting that one can find in his work can also be found in the numerous collaborations that he leads with designers, brands, rock clubs, art galleries and festivals, seizing those opportunities to try to push things forwards.
For this exhibition, he chose to pay tribute to the Markers.
Movie Spectrums, by Dillon Baker, is a fascinating, and beautifully surreal, study of colour choices used in films.
Specifically, each vertical line represents the average colour of a frame within each movie, which are then stuck together to create this amazing colour movie palette.
Dillon Baker has created a whole bunch of these Colour Spectrums, and also takes requests over on his ArtPal page, Film Spectrum.
There are a handful of enlarged spectrums below, as well as a screenshot showing thumbnails of the spectrum catalog.
Also, right at the end of this post, you can find out how to buy these as: large canvas prints, framed prints, and even mugs.
Movie Spectrums: Sequential Timelines of a Movies Color Palette
Aladdin Colour Spectrum
The Grand Budapest Hotel Colour Spectrum
Finding Nemo Colour Spectrum
Wall-E Colour Spectrum
Dillon Baker: "This is a personal project of mine aimed at visualizing color choices in films.
I created a Java-based Processing program that takes each frame of a given movie and compresses its average color into a single vertical line, creating a timeline of the spectrum of colors used throughout each movie"
Framed and Canvas Prints by Dillon Baker
Not only are these just cool to look at on screen, wait till you see the various canvas prints, and other forms of real-life applications of these works of art.
I could so easily get a few of these on canvas for my studio, they look stunning.
Found via https://www.reddit.com
Saint Hoax, an anonymous: artist; satirist; and sociopolitical activist; took some vintage 1950's misogynistic advert's, and added the truly repugnant sexist quotes from Donald Trump.
I've seen these original vintage adverts doing the rounds, and they are pretty awful then, but adding Trump's various 'quality' sexist quotes, well… shocking.
I don't condone this language in ANY way whatsoever; I do think it's worthwhile though being reminded of what a gruesome example of a 'human being' Donald Trump is, and this is why Saint Hoax uses this creative medium to send these controversial messages.
On a lighter note, Saint Hoax also created this awesome piece.
Saint Hoax: "I removed the original headlines from these misogynistic advertisements and replaced them with quotes that Donald Trump said about women.
The headlines and visuals strongly complement each other, although there's almost a 30-year gap between them."
Misogynistic Vintage 1950's Ads with Sexist Quotes from Donald Trump
"You don't give a shit if a girl can play a violin like the greatest violinist in the world. You want to know, what does she look like." Donald Trump
"Women, you have to treat them like shit." Donald Trump.
"Must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees." Donald Trump.
"When I come home and dinner's not ready, I go through the roof!" Donald Trump.
"I tell my friends to "be rougher" with their wives." Donald Trump.
"Grab them by the pussy." Donald Trump.
Saint Hoax is a pseudonymous Syrian artist, satirist and sociopolitical activist. He combines politics with popular culture to create POPlitically incorrect statements. By manipulating images and icons, Hoax creates beautiful visual lies that tell an ugly truth.
A classy Graphic Design 'Meme', using Da Vinci's Last Supper painting as the bait, nicely designed by Saint Hoax.
Who the fuck is Saint Hoax?
I originally found this on Imgur, then Tweeted it without realising who the 'author' was, so now putting that right by blogging it with appropriate credits and links:
The struggle is real... pic.twitter.com/LKPTi4ScBA
— Graham 'Logo' Smith (@thelogosmith) March 22, 2017
It's a major insult actually, to call this a Meme, but I can't help but feel this is exactly how it'll end up being.
Have to say that this is REALLY well done, and is not your usual internet Meme; this is quality, and @SaintHoax is always about the quality.
This is certainly going to be on peoples' radar, as the unique expressions, and captions, are just hilarious.
When your Tasteless Graphic Design Colleagues Give you Feedback by
The Original Tweet
Here's the original Tweet. Definitely worth Liking and Retweeting this original Tweet, just so show solidarity with the designer:
When your tasteless colleagues give you feedback ? pic.twitter.com/XXmTomQXZ4
— Saint Hoax (@SaintHoax) March 20, 2017
Love trawling through Reddit; often come across many cool things that I end-up sharing on Twitter and my Blog; in this case: this cool Animated Rocket League Ball Logo.
It's a pretty short animation, but don't let that detract from the work that must have gone into producing this.
Especially coming up with how to start the animation, and then progressively build it into the final Rocket League Ball Logo.
Pretty slick.
Animated Rocket League Ball Logo by Thafnine
Click to Play Animation
Rocket League: "Winner or Nominee of more than 150 'Best of 2015' Awards, including: Game of the Year, Best Sports Game, and Best Multiplayer Game.
Rocket League® combines soccer with driving in an unbelievable physics-based multiplayer-focused sequel to Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars!
Choose from a variety of high-flying vehicles equipped with huge rocket boosters to score amazing aerial goals and pull off incredible, game-changing saves!"
Bonus Item: Rocket League Poster
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