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Beautiful Branding: The Argonauts
Although being a fictional brand, The Argonauts is the name given to a hotel in San Francisco inspired by the gold rush era that made the city so famous back then. Created by Dawson Beggs,the logo was inspired by the sails of a ship and the golden gate bridge, creating a very simple geometric figure that manages to be memorable while still being trendy. The applications of the logo...
Typographic Love: Rio 2016 Reveils Their Custom Type
While the London Olympic Games haven't started just quite yet, the organization behind the next Olympic Games in Rio 2016 have unveiled the design process behind the custom font they've commissioned for the event. Created by a Brazilian team under Dalton Maag, the custom typeface channels the spirit of Rio de Janeiro, its people and landscapes as well as taking inspiration...
Beautiful Branding: Vier
As a part of their re-launch campaign Belgian TV channel TV4 got a whole new re-branding process to consolidate their appearance as the new broadcasting channel VIER. London based agency Why Not Associates is the creative power behind the brand and they've opted for a very trendy look that relies on a very minimalistic use of graphic resources and a vintage inspired aesthetic.
Typographic Love: Alphabet100
Here's an interesting project: coming up with hand-drawn characters every single week, for a year. That covers both lower and upper case letters, and each week's task is to come up with 100 versions for every letter. Hence the name Alphabet 100, a fun project created by Toronto based designer Christopher Rouleauand that so far has completed the entire lower case set. The principle...
Cool Findings: Skin Color as Pantone
Angelica Dass is the artist behind the project called Humanae, a chromatic inventory of skin tones. In her own words, it's a project that reflects about color over the barriers of the established codes. The project consists of a series of portraits of people from diverse ethnic backgrounds in front of a colored background that matches their skin color. The specific shade for...