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Design finds

I know it’s not Weekly finds anymore, since I forgot to do it every week, mostly because I was a bit overwhelmed with my college assignments and office work, so I renamed it to “Design finds” just for the matter of ’semantic correctness’ (yes, some people in my previous company used to call me a semantic terrorist ;^)). Hopefully this will become “Weekly finds” again when I’ll manage to jump over that pile of assignments that life gave me.

Anyway, here we go.

1960’s pin-up art on Design You Trust
1960's pin-ups
36 beautiful winter drawings inspiration on PSDtop
Impressive Winter Drawings
Kids’ expressions while playing video games on Swissmiss
Kids' expressions while playing video games
The colorful art of mehndi on COLOURlovers
The colorful art of mehndi
Inspiration: packaging design on Abduzeedo
Inspiration: packaging design
18 custom cool fonts on YouTheDesigner
Fresh Bold Font
Geometric Book Cover Designs on Designer-daily
The Underachieving School book cover
Tutorials on working with Wacom tablets on Designm.ag
Wacom tablet tutorial
In brief: Death Metal Branding on Brand New
Death Metal logos by Krzysztof Szpajdel
Creative and unusual lamp designs on Toxel
Teddy bear lamp on Toxel
Designing tables for usability on AEN UI
5 ways to break your design habits: just for fun! on Spyre Magazine

Design Inspiration: Album covers - metal

As a designer, I often seek inspiration in unusual places. As a fan of every sprout of the metal and rock music, I follow the scene (especially not-so-known bands) very closely. I found out that there are lots of widely unknown bands that album covers’ make great design inspiration — mostly dark and spooky, some very iconic, but all of them very inspiring and well done. Here are some that I find particularily interesting lately.

The Red Shore - Unconsecrated
The Red Shore - Unconsecrated
Hypnotica - The Darkness Inside
Hypnotica - The Darkness Inside
I Am Ghost - Lover’s Requiem
I Am Ghost - Lover's Requiem
Battlelore - The Last Alliance
Battlelore - The Lost Alliance
Walls of Jericho - Redemption
Walls of Jericho - Redemption
Underoath - Define The Great Line
Underoath - Define The Great Line
Underoath - They Are Only Chasing Safety
Underoath - They Are Only Chasing Safety
Artas - The Healing
Artas - The Healing
The Demonstration - Existence
The Demonstration - Existence

Weekly finds (3)

It’s almost Friday, I won’t be able to post my Weekly finds section on Saturday, because I will most probably spend some more quality time with my family, so here are the somewhat early finds.

50 quality Asian movie posters at Smashing Magazine
Quality Asian Posters
How to design a font at GoMediaZine
How to design a font
100 Horror Movie posters at WellMedicated
Horror movie posters
Fake Street Signs at Abduzeedo
Fake road signs
Logo Design Love reader’s favorites at Logo Design Love
Fender Logo
Inspirational brochures and booklets on MyInkBlog
2008 Calendar
Vintage and retro typography showcase at Smashing Magazine
Jack Daniels
Great movie posters at Inspiredology
Electric Mini at Core77
Color + Design: The world’s most valuable stamps at COLOURlovers
Retro vintage soviet postal stamp
40+ most powerful anti-meth ads at Elite By Design

Weekly finds (2)

Saturday is close, I don’t know if I’ll have time to write tomorrow, so this week’s Weekly finds will arrive one day earlier. Anyway, here we go!

Vintage Color and Design: Japanese Matchbox Labels at COLOURlovers
Vintage Color and Design: Japanese Matchbox Labels
Why designers fail at Functioning Form
Why designers fail
Few words on Pepsi rebranding at Visual Culture
Pepsi rebranding
Multi level nature inspired designs at Inspiredology
Multi level nature inspired designs

Brilliant glowing websites at Inspiredology
Brilliant glowing websites
The deSign of Times! at My Ink Blog
The deSign of Times!
iPhone Flipclock App at Core77
208 retro Photoshop patterns at Wellmedicated
B&W Peroni ads on Mediafun (in polish)
Typography mega inspiration at Abduzeedo
30 exceptional GIMP tutorials and resources at Noupe
10 tips to avoid designer’s block at GoMediaZine
The ultimate collection of useful Photoshop actions at Smashing Magazine
Walt Mossberg on a new Macbook at 9-to-5 Mac

Weekly finds

This post is going to be the first of the series called Weekly finds, where I’m going to publish interesting stuff I trip over while browsing the web. This will most probably include inspiration sites and pictures, tech news and generally the stuff that I find nice and worth re-posting. Hopefully I’m going to post it every Saturday, but due to tough schedule at my college and work I may miss some weeks, so please be tolerant. Anyway, let’s cut to the chase.

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