Logos with a hidden meaning – Who knew!

There are some pretty well know logo’s in this post from StockLogos created by some pretty clever designers  – Im going to have to start paying more attention! I must have seen the FedEx logo a million times, but never really SAW it until today. This logo was made by Stylo Design, a design agency from […]

Adobe Muse: Web Design With No Code Necessary

Oh HAPPY DAY for print designers!  Anyone who has ever tried to create a website from a print designers layout knows that there are many limitations which usually result in frustrations – mainly for the digital designers.  Things such as kerning or leading are practically a foreign language – until now! Adobe has created a […]

Video: Wearable Technology – The Twitter Dress

Microsoft is thinking way outside the box and into your closet. Wearable technology just might be the new black! THE PRINTING DRESS You are probably familiar with the old saying, “You are what you eat” but how about, “You are what you tweet?” What if this concept were incorporated into garments of the future? The […]

‪Print And The Qualcomm Augmented Reality Challenge

I wanted to share this so you could all see that the common denominator in these AR executions is the use of PRINT as the starting point. Makes it nice that the print has to be SAVED as well (unlike QR on a printed piece that could be tossed after the scan). So AR not […]

The Art of Letterpress and Some Amazing Business Cards

Often when making the “argument” for print at some point the word tangible will pop up.  There is no better example of that than Letterpress. Not only are these cards capable of being touched, they are mini works of art that can be explored by the fingertips and create a USER EXPERIENCE . Something to […]

British Authority Bans Two Ads by LOréal

This is quite interesting.  Certainly it is understood that there is a fair amount of retouching in Advertising.  I for one oversaw the retouching of a female celebrity of a certain age that had “kill rights” to ANY images of her – and by the time we were done and she had approved it – she had magically […]

10 Unmissable TED Videos For Designers

Alvaris Falcon over at hongkiat.com has put together this list and writes: “I’m going to introduce you 10 unmissable TED videos that either explore the way to create great design, or urges you to think big in your design career, or even predict the next 5000 days of the web. All 10 videos might cost […]

QR Code to the Moon?

These didnt scan for me but my assumption is they are just not linked to anything yet as my Android did try it’s hardest and the markers are there… if you get results please let me know! By Roger via QR Code to the Moon?. Robs Ned has designed two QR Codes images below for Team Selene […]

A Typeface Made Of Exploding Virtual Paint

By Belinda Lanks A Typeface Made Of Exploding Virtual Paint – Skyrill.coms letterforms look like splashes of paint frozen in mid-air. We’ve seen our fair share of clever typefaces, based on everything from photocopied hands to Ghandi’s rounded spectacles, but rarely have we come across a typeface with as much energy and motion as this […]

Some Really Creative Outdoor Print!

A handful of some really creative uses of outdoor space and creative brain-power combined with the power PRINT!  OOH has always been my favorite medium as a Print Producer.  I have been very fortunate to experience in real life projects I have been involved with as I walked through Times Square, or as it drove […]

Using Multi-Channels to Rethink The Receipt and More

Why shouldn’t receipts be a way of connecting with customers, in a whimsical way? A sales receipt generally does two things: It tells you what you bought and how much you paid for it. But since cash registers can already spit out a yard’s worth of coupons, why couldn’t they also dispense a fortune-cookie surprise: […]

LG Electronics Laundry Bag Takeover

To communicate the LG Steam Direct Drive Washing Machine’s “wrinkle-free washing” promise, Y&R Dubai reinvented the laundry bag and gave them to neighborhood laundries to deliver their ironed clothes. The bag became a piece of ambient media on the street, in buildings, on public transit and in delivery van windows. Husen Baba, art director; Ash […]