Tips and News on Logo Design and Tutorials

With the omnipresence of minimalistic movie poster designs, this new input on classic pop culture movies is well received. It's the result of the mix between minimalistic posters and the retro trend of 8-bit. This is the work of Eric Palmer, graphic designer from Denver, which features the pixel version of iconic movies in vibrant colours and pretty simple layout. A nice reminder...

We've already seen the newest trend in logo design: permutations. But how would that translate into type? Berlin based designer Jacopo Severitanohas come up with what would be the lovechild of this two concepts, it's called ZWEI Plus. Basically, he proposes that working on a base grid you can do all the changes you want to create different letterings. The base grid consists of a...

The Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci's (allegedly) iconic drawing has been a classical reference for human anatomy's drawings. From then on, many artists have taken it as inspiration for other work, but this finding right here sure takes the cake. Can you think of pop culture characters dissected in this geometric proportions? (poor Cartman can't even fit there!) Apparently...

We've all probably had to stand a boring powerpoint presentation or two, and more often than not the design plays against any content they're trying to present (probably thanks to the use of clipart images). Now thanks to Duarte Design, Powerpointers of the world can find more attractive design resources for their presentations in their recently launched Diagrammer. Basically, they have an...

Playtype is a danish 'online type foundry' that embodies all that is typography love. They have worked both for commissioned work and type design for sale. Needless to say their fonts for sale are great and a clear example of Danish type design (as themselves state on their website). As type lovers they've made a visual explicative glossaryof everything typography- from the different...