Category: Colour



CMYK Printing Demonstration using Four Individual Colour Acrylic Slides


Having come from the traditional side of commercial printing, whilst serving out my apprenticeship, I found this simple demonstration of 4 colour CMYK Printing to be pretty useful. If you’ve not had the opportunity to work in a printers, or watch a 4 colour CMYK press at work, it’s not always so clear as to how the…

Demonstration-of-4-Colour-Printing-with-Acrylic-Slides

Minutebook Logo & Branding Designed by Smithographic


Minutebook hired me to design a brand spanking new brand logo design for their company: Minutebook — A toolchain for company builders, investors and lawyers: We’re building the tools to keep teams, investors and lawyers focused on the stuff that matters. Colours These were the primary colours that we finally picked for the internal gradient, used…

Iconography of the Polaroid Mark and Product Brand Identity by Paul Giambarba, 1958 – 1977


Vintage Polaroid Branding and Packaging by Paul Giambarba is one of those branding treasure feasts that one stumbles on from time-to-time. → This post was original published in 2019, but it didn’t have those gorgeous sketches that AisleOne tweeted earlier in September, 2022. I felt it made sense for me to update the original post…

Polaroid packaging sketches by Paul Giambarba

100 Beautiful Colour Swatches and 4 Colour Combinations by Canva


This is an incredibly useful selection of 100 colour swatches and colour combinations that the people over at Canva have painstakingly put together for us. ColourLovers used to be my go-t0, but it’s a bit of a mess now, so I’m always on the look out for new places to gather new colour combinations and…

100 Beautiful Colour Swatches and Combinations by Canva

Brand Logo Mix Designed by Mike Stefanini from Atomike Studios


Brand Logo Mix, by Mike Stefanini, from Atomike Studios, is a fun look at how certain popular brand logos would look like on completely unrelated consumer brand items. How about: the Nike logo on a Coca-Cola can; Tomato Ketchup as an aerosol to spray on your dinner; drinking some Pepsi from a car oil container; cleaning…

brand ogo mix by atomike studio

Color Palettes of the Fortune 500 Brand Logo Designs by Bold Web Design


Fortune 500 Color Palettes by Bold Web Design is a veritable feast of brand logo design colour palettes. Not sure I’ve ever seen such a comprehensive collection of brand logo designs and their respective colour palettes, even if it is ‘limited’ to the Fortune 500 brands. There’s so much here to investigate, as well as…

Color Palettes of the Fortune 500 Brand Logo Designs

Tracer Experiments – Mesmerising Looping Animations by Flavio Carvalho


Tracer Experiments – 25 Neon Series by Flavio Carvalho Tracer Experiments – Mesmerising Looping Animations by Flavio Carvalho Tracer Experiments, by Flavio Carvalho, is a stunning and mesmerising collection of looping animations of the tracer machine which was created in 3D. I’ve been able to get one video sample of the looping animations, which you…

tracer animated experiments by Flavio Carvalho

Colour of Currency – Pantone Colour Guide to Banknotes around the World


Colour of Currency – Pantone Colour Guide to Banknotes around the World Present & Correct are always sharing amazing stuff, like this, first shared by It’s Nice That: ‘Colour of Currency: Pantone Colour Guide to Banknotes around the World’. Money.co.uk have put together a detailed visual guide to all the banknotes around the world, and within…

Colour of Currency Pantone Colour Guide to Banknotes around the World

Solara Car Wrecks – Acrylic Colour Paint on 144 Scraped Cars by Zoer


Solara Car Wrecks – Acrylic Colour Paint on 144 Scraped Cars by Zoer Wow! There’s so much colour and other hugely important ecological topics going on here with Project Solara Car Wrecks, by French Artist Zoer, it’s slightly dizzying to know how to sum it all up. The simple version: French Artist Zoer has used acrylic…

Solara Car Wrecks - Acrylic Colour Paint on 144 Scraped Cars by Zoer