For 25 years living in Kraków, I must say, that it’s easy place to get inspired – you can just get out of home and take a walk thru the streets. As any other big, popular city, it’s full of graffiti and street art, made either by local or passing by artists. We also have few local very good graffiti crews, full of real artists, including probably the biggest and oldest one – DONS (is it still Dealers Of New School? Used to be when I was active on local graffiti scene – props, guys!). Here are few pieces made by both local and passing by writers on walls of my city (click to enlarge).
Monthly Archive for June, 2009
Just recently, I came back to my all-time favorite music which is punk, hardcore and every offspring of those two. Since hardcore rock is an incredibly big genre, it’s hard to assign tags to every kind of music I am listening to – I just call them post-hardcore, no matter if others call it mathcore, metalcore or even moustachecore (yes, that’s true, there are people who actually call bands that play something between hardcore and southern rock “moustachecore”).
One of the things that I’ve always admired in bands from this genre is how creative and totally different their album covers and posters can be. Here is a quick round-up of few covers that I find particularly awesome.
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Recently, I have been doing few projects that required designing a logo (and designed a logo for a local Ruby Conference logo contest). The biggest problem for me and probably most designers I know is getting a point to start – starting a logo design requires not only research and brainstorming about the brand itself and meanings of the words used in the name, but also knowing the universal patterns that could be seen the logos over the years, logos of competition and current logo trends. I have assembled a list of sites, books and magazines that you should check if you are need logo inspiration. Here we go!
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As you probably have read before, I absolutely love Tim Burton and his freaky ways of showing things. I was absolutely delighted when I heard that Tim is preparing his own version of classic “Alice in Wonderland”. Here are some first shots that have been published – you can feel the weirdness and spookyness dripping from those, I love it.
As you might or might not know, I do not have a design degree currently. I plan to get one some day, but at the moment, I just finished my university with a degree in a totally different matter (computer science. And even though it was not the best choice considering my current work, I think having background in more tech side like programming, servers, databases etc. helps, when you work with the web). Everything I’ve learnt about design comes from books, magazines, blogs, websites, local design communities like Digart and trial & error.
The following is a list of books that helped me learn what I know now, with my comments. Hope you will find it useful, and if you do – please drop me a line in comments or Twitter. Anyway, here we go!
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