Everyone knows that Avatar is a great movie. It really is a breakthrough in filmmaking technology, for its development of 3D viewing and steroscopic film making with cameras that were specially designed for Avatar’s production. The acting is wonderful and the scenery is beautiful. The official budget for the film was $237 million. It took four years [...]

I spied this clever marketing on a series of postcards in an eco store in Bellingen, NSW.

B_E_E – ‘Beauty Engineered for Ever’ is a range of cleaning products from New Zealand and these postcards perfectly embodies their drive to be “designed for pleasure, function and the environment”. I just love the way they have interacted [...]

Woodward Design in Canada have put together a typographical feast of desserts just in time for the holidays. There are eight recipes inside, each one with a fun typographical spin (the fonts are listed and sourced as well). The perfect Christmas gift for the dessert and/or typography lover.
Woodward Design: http://woodwarddesign.ca/
Reference: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=34656598
Yours in Design,
Tanya-zinosaurus

I am getting to a certain age where my friends are starting to get engaged, married or having babies. As their token graphic designer friend the tasks generally falls on me to come up with invitations. Now being a designer I don’t want my friends to have run of the mill invitations, I want to [...]

I came across a concept recently called “Alphabet Soup”. I had a great time trying to identify a company simply by the first logotype letter in its name. I have adapted it with some of today’s best-known companies. See how many you can name! 

If you’re stumped, take a peek at the answers.
Yours in Design,
Tanya-zinosaurus
 
Answers: 1. [...]

I have long been a fan of the Penguin Classics range. The beautiful orange and black that look so neat and professional on your bookcase. Not to mention that they are must reads from all periods in time. Well, recently while browsing in a bookstore I saw that the Penguin Classic collection has been given [...]

Exhibition Opening 
Monday 29 June 6.15pm 
AGDA International Speaker event — Kris Sowersby, NZ typographer
Queensland College of Art Auditorium, 226 Grey Street, South Bank
The theme ‘NZ identity’ – how nine separate designers from all over the world imagine New Zealand through typography. Now it is possible to discover our contemporary world through Flickr, webcams, online news, in a ‘couch journey’, from wherever [...]

It is proven that if your mind is active you will have a better memory and what better way to improve your memory than with a game of memory! Brazilian design studio ps.2 created this typographical memory game as a self-promotion piece. It features 20 different type families and comes with a typographical glossary and [...]