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…
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- 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