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"Why am I a designer? The facetious answer is, there's nothing else I can do; the real answer is, there's nothing else I can do."

What Your Graphic Design Style Reveals About You

The Nurturer

You radiate warmth, kindness and caring. Your graphic design style carries over that warmth, and is all about sampling the best that life has to offer, and then coordinating it into a beautiful mix of creativity and originality. Color, filters and photography help your designs immortalise themselves. You have outstanding perception and make astute observations of others. You’re very conscientious of the effects and impressions you leave on others, so you always strive to incorporate feelings of happiness and harmony in all your surroundings.

Read more at http://blog.canva.com/graphic-design-personality/#GVjSYLwE2jjPkJeL.99

The Minimalist

You value simplicity in all things, and your graphic design style reflects this by surprisingly using as few graphics as possible.  You use aIt’s not that you don’t care, or that you want to skimp on the basics, but rather that you feel a sense or idea can be conveyed in far simpler terms. To you, complexities are mundane and today’s ‘flat design’ trending encompasses this brave design aesthetic. It’s strong interface and unrivalled ease in navigation, mirrors your personality, and is what also makes you an amicable and reliable individual.

Read more at http://blog.canva.com/graphic-design-personality/#7MdoTciR8suROYxB.99

You radiate warmth, kindness and caring. Your graphic design style carries over that warmth, and is all about sampling the best that life has to offer, and then coordinating it into a beautiful mix of creativity and originality. Color, filters and photography help your designs immortalise themselves. You have outstanding perception and make astute observations of others. You’re very conscientious of the effects and impressions you leave on others, so you always strive to incorporate feelings of happiness and harmony in all your surroundings.
Read more at http://blog.canva.com/graphic-design-personality/#GVjSYLwE2jjPkJeL.99

----- Screen Print Goodies -----

 

Crispin Finn is a duo of creatives who work solely in blue and red and white. Illustrations, prints, homewares are their repertoires. Love, love, love. There are so much screenprinting glory that makes me tear up.

----- The Windows of New York City -----

New York based graphic designer Jose Guizar created a series of illustrations, paying tribute to the idiosyncrasies of New York architecture in a form of their windows. I'm glad to know I am not the only weird child for loving windows. I really love windows. When I see a great one, I really get lost in their beauty especially the Parisian ones and large loft ones. Aside from the window styles, the colour combinations make a great partner-in-crime.

Check the rest of his work, Jose Guizar

----- F*cking Cool -----

Click and Grow

Lazy? Don't worry, this product will water and fertilize for you.

Flatware Clock

goodfuckingdesignadvice

DIY Radio Kit

Labour and Wait

DIY Morse Code Kit

Idea Paint

Turns your walls into a dry erase board.

----- Summer's Finish Line is Approaching -----

Weddings, music festivals, summer eating and debaucheries, the Olympics, road trips, terasses have and will have all passed in the incoming weeks. For now remains the most awkward phase of Summer, and why I say awkward, it's still Summer, technically, but right around the corner Reality is hiding and ready to jump you any moment, so you're not sure whether you can continue to go on vacations or not, to be lazy or not, to garden or to workout since Summer is giving you the cut eye. All the excuses we use for Summer will soon be useless like, "Lets stuff ourselves cuz it's Summer", "Summer keeps calling me Jabba the Hut so I'm working out" Alas, when Summer has taken its final bow, we all bury our heads into the regular programming. That means for me: self-promotion time. In other words, I need to start the engine of my self-branding which has been trying to start since the eve of Summer. 

Why is it taking so long? It isn't the lack of motivation or laziness, it's the lack of confidence and self-assurance. Imagine yourself in a room with a psychologist asking you what you want in life; you know but you don't really know. I'm my own client. I am asking myself what I want and need in my brand. Tables are turned and the spotlight is on me—not an easy task to accomplish. May I add too the pressure to standout from the plethora of visual creators who are equally as talented; certainly creativity is the foremost criteria for employers, our personalities and work ethics are very sought after as well. We can't walk in to a studio with a resume made from Word. We need to showcase our passion by breathing design every second and every step of the creative process, and don't forget, all which will be dissected and questioned by the employer. Essentially how we design ourselves will demonstrate how we design in general. Do you feel me now?! So avoidance is the easiest solution; unfortunately and sickeningly, it has been my drug of the late.

Today I tried picking up the research again and found some interesting inspired self-branding projects from fellow graphic designers around the world.

----- Cool But Unpractical -----

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of these cards may be, and even though these cards are very amazing and carries a quirky concept that is not seen everywhere, I'm not sure how practical these babies would be on a general basis.  My inclination tells me the intention is to give out the cards to specific (important) clients who have high prospects in developing a business relationship with because making concrete card will surely heavily (pun intended) resonate in the minds of their potential clients. Now the question is, how will the receiver store these in their card holders?

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----- Turkey -----

Couple of months later... revisited.

Like? My usual saying: I'll let it marinate.

----- Infographic Mania -----

The post before, True Colors, is an infographic designed by Column 5. On The Creative Finder, their works are displayed copiously enough to satisfy your info-graphic hunger; you can find every subject researched. The graphics grabs your attention and makes you stay. That's the thing about research and its information, at the end it's visually boring. This is exactly when graphic designers enters to the room: fluff it up, powder its nose and dab some concealer over some zits. The liveliness of the research is brighter and breathing. Style-wise and illustrations-wise, these are really right up my own alley, just don't know why I haven't coughed up enough motivation to create some infographics—going on my to-do list of the Summer.

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----- Avengerous -----

Some fan-made posters i found. My favourite is the latter.

I LOVE a good kick-ass action film; not just any. There have only been a few occurrences in my life that I lose myself in an action film (The Matrix, Bale's Batman, Iron Man—does Lord of the Rings and Star Wars 4-6 count as an action film?) and making me feel part of the fighting sequence. My recent addition is much talked about Avengers. Assembling the right formulas and chemistry are critical to pull off such a grandiose, high-expectation stunt and it was all well risked at the end. Of course, we don't expect it to be a mind-provoking, societal piece of art—academy worthy film; for a general good beating and fighting, smack talk, super heroes teaming up to save the world from Armageddon kind of film, it definitely meet satisfaction. guaranteed. 

-----  H2-OH!  -----

Good + Levis has teamed up to campaign for an environmental cause, a sentimental, detrimental one: water. I'm very much behind this cause because, well, i'm very supportive in fighting against global warming and waste. Most of the things they suggest to do to save water consumption are basic habits we can adapt, I have already a long time ago: my showers take at most 5 minutes; I wash my hair every second day; I wash my clothes every 2-3 weeks, longer if I've only worn the item once/twice; and it's true, if it's yellow, let it mellow!—not ashamed, not ashamed! This interactive infographics is nicely designed to get you to the facts and nothing else. Simple and understood. Good for Levis for bringing this campaign into their brand and starting at line of clothing for using less water; my only cynical call is i hope they are seriously genuine and not just some marketing gimmick like (RED) and other charitable brands, drawing "good" as to increase sales + attention.

Try it at the Source

----- Google: Mies' 126th Birthday -----

It's one of my favorite designers, architect, creative god, Mies van der Rohe.

Really? But. I like the style of the logos.

http://hipsterbranding.tumblr.com/

----- Today's Favourite Finds -----