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TGIF: #followfriday & design finds

Published on August 7, 2009 in Design, Inspiration and Twitter; 5 Comments

So, it’s Friday again and it’s time for more Friday Twitter recommendations and design finds in our new column, TGIF! As usual, I’m gonna start off with Twitter #followfriday recommendations and then move to design and interesting finds for the weekend, taken directly from my Twitter followers and other sources!

#followfriday recommendations

: @rutiso; Max R. Scheer, known on Twitter as @rutiso is a designer and art director based in Berlin. His life quote that he has set in his Twitter background is “Work hard, know your tools, support your friends, be critical and curious” – and that’s basically it. You don’t need more words to describe who is Max – he’s honest, critical, tell you if he doesn’t like something, but always will help you get better outcome. Really cool guy.
: @nlupus; Sasha Kovaliov, a. k. a. @nlupus is a sales and social media specialist based in Minsk, Belarus. Friendly, positive thinker, pragmatic, constructive in his criticism. If you’re looking for someone who shares lots of useful social web organizing tools and is available to have a simple chit-chat with you, you’re at the right guy to follow.
: @krftd; Krftd is an awesome lifestyle, design and inspiration magazine based in Singapore. If you’re into art, design, fashion and lifestyle, Krftd is the place to go for quality articles, reviews and interesting stuff. Highly recommended.
: @davidairey; David Airey, designer based in Northern Ireland and the founder of LogoDesignLove blog, and his ramblings on design, spec work, branding and more. Apart from that, great guy, great follow and an awesome creative. If you’re into logo and brand design, you can also check his professional profile at @LogoDesignLove. Great stuff.

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Inspiration: Tim Burton and Henry Selick

Published on June 18, 2009 in Design and Inspiration; Closed

Just recently, me and my fiancee watched “Coraline”, the movie, together. In case you didn’t know – it was directed and written by Henry Selick, a director who worked with Tim Burton on such classics like “Nightmare Before Christmas” or “Corpse Bride”. It is based on a novel by Neil Garman and kept in a surreal, Burton-ish style of animation. The story is basically about a girl who thinks her life sucks, finds a magical door to the Other World made with dolls that look like her parents and friends, except that everything is just too perfect. Until the day that Coraline is asked to put the buttons instead of her eyes to stay forever. She refuses and everything turns into a nightmare. Very scary nightmare.

After watching Coraline, I felt so inspired by the animation and how everything looks in that movie that I decided to do a quick recap of Burton/Selick combo most known animated classics and keep it in case I needed some illustration inspiration. Now, I’m sharing this collection with you, have fun!

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Logo inspiration: Norway

Published on March 23, 2009 in Design and Inspiration; Closed

When someone says “Norway”, some people see colorful cottages, historical heritage and fjords. Other see country full of sleek and clean design, expensive boutiques and modern interiors, so typical for scandinavian countries. The fact is – both are true. Norway is a rich, modern, tech-savvy country based on very firm and solid historical base. As we all know – when you’re moderately rich, you can afford designer stuff which almost always looks great, so you can see design almost everywhere (especially in big cities).

I’ve been in Norway for a brief period of time as a front-end developer for my former employer who sent me to Oslo for release-party of the project I’ve worked on. When there, I did some research alongside with some long evening walks thru the Oslo streets to find design inspiration which could be used later for different projects I’ll be working on during my life. Here’s some inspiration from what logos surround Norwegians.

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Design finds

Published on March 20, 2009 in Design and Inspiration; Closed

Sooo… If the blog’s back, the (hopefully weekly) Design Finds column will be back too. For all of you who haven’t seen my blog before, Design Finds is a column dedicated to interesting and inspiring things I find while browsing the web. I hope to post weekly, but sometimes I simply do not have enough time to do it. Anyway, finds for this week…

The Creative (Re)Touch by Brain Pickings
45+ Best Icon Design Tutorials by Dzine Blog
Cool sculptures by Jessica Fortner by Abduzeedo
20 outrageous, over the top and incredible websites by Webdesign.fm
Inspiration: Emigre Magazine by Abduzeedo
30 Photo Manipulation Tutorials by Vandelay Design

Design finds

Published on November 30, 2008 in Design and Inspiration; Closed

I know it’s not Weekly finds anymore, since I forgot to do it every week, mostly because I was a bit overwhelmed with my college assignments and office work, so I renamed it to “Design finds” just for the matter of ’semantic correctness’ (yes, some people in my previous company used to call me a semantic terrorist ;^)). Hopefully this will become “Weekly finds” again when I’ll manage to jump over that pile of assignments that life gave me.

Anyway, here we go.