Creative Community Bulletin 8 July 2013

Share-worthy cre­ative com­mu­ni­ty news, tuto­ri­als, arti­cles, resources, and mis­cel­lany found this past week.

  • Helsinki Design Museum gets a new visu­al iden­ti­ty | Branding | Creative Bloq
    Finnish brand design agency Werklig has cre­at­ed a bright, con­tem­po­rary iden­ti­ty for the Helsinki Design Museum, a project it com­plet­ed with one eye on the build­ing’s 120-year heritage.
  • The best print ads of June 2013
    Print adver­tis­ing is an extreme­ly pow­er­ful mar­ket­ing tool. Aware of this, ad agen­cies are con­stant­ly push­ing cre­ative bound­aries in order to reach their tar­get audi­ence. Here are five of our favourite print ads released this month…

  • Jessica Hische gives MailChimp a typog­ra­phy revamp

    They didn’t want to do a mas­sive over­haul,” Hische explains, “they just want­ed to give their cur­rent mark a facelift.”

    Hische light­ened the weight of the logo over­all and improved the vec­tor draw­ing, with the let­ter­forms revised for leg­i­bil­i­ty, espe­cial­ly at small sizes. The end result is a more refined, refreshed look whilst still por­tray­ing MailChimp’s play­ful ethos.

  • Print ads use clever illu­sion to save the penguins

    A species in rapid decline, the African pen­guin needs help. South African adver­tis­ing agency Bittersuite and SANCOOB, a non-profit organ­i­sa­tion that aims to pro­tect threat­ened seabirds, recent­ly devel­oped this inno­v­a­tive series of print ads to raise aware­ness of the pen­guin’s crit­i­cal situation.

    Inspired by the art­work of Dutch graph­ic artist M.C. Escher, two of the designs fea­ture clever opti­cal illu­sions to draw the view­er in for a clos­er look and get their mes­sage across. The third draws inspi­ra­tion from optometrists’ eye charts, fea­tur­ing a time­line of dif­fer­ent sized pen­guins to show the decline in the species. 

  • Pixel Press Lets You Draw Your Own Video Game With No Coding Required | Geeky Gadgets
    Pixel Press a new way to cre­ate video games with­out the need to learn cod­ing, by sim­ply draw­ing the game then upload­ing it to the appli­ca­tion for test­ing, design and play.

    Pixel Press is an iPhone and iPad app which has been cre­at­ed to enab…

  • Photoshop’s New Rental Program, and the Outrage Factor – NYTimes​.com

    Dave Pogue’s review of Photoshop CC on Thursday — espe­cial­ly its avail­abil­i­ty only as a rental, with a month­ly or year­ly sub­scrip­tion fee — gen­er­at­ed a lot of read­er feed­back. Some of it was astonishing.

    Here’s a sam­pling, with Dave’s responses.

  • Ampergram – Marrying Typography and Instagram to Create Typographic Compositions
    Typography is every­where. All of it is inspir­ing in one form or anoth­er. Capture it. Tag it. Type with it. AMPERGRAM allows users to cre­ate typo­graph­ic com­po­si­tions using Instagram pho­tos. Capture and tag your own, or use the com­mu­ni­ty’s. The c…
  • 14 Google Tools You Didn’t Know Existed
    Schemer is like a com­bi­na­tion to-do list and social event plan­ning app. Connect via your Google+ account, enter your pref­er­ences, and Schemer will offer some things to do around your area. A great tool for trav­el­ers who want to make the most ou…
  • 15 Tools for Testing your Website

    If you want to have the same expe­ri­ence over mul­ti­ple browsers and dif­fer­ent machines then test­ing your web­site is vital. In this arti­cle I’ve gath­ered some of the most impor­tant tools that you can use in test­ing your site against var­i­ous errors – CSS Errors, HTML Errors, Cross-browsing Errors etc