Design Inspiration
On Location at London Design Festival
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Anybody visiting London’s V&A Museum this week would have encountered a playful scattering of contemporary exhibits that offer a refreshing contrast to the Museum’s permament collection (rumoured to be in excess of 4.5 million objects).
The V&A is the first port-of-call for this years London Design Festival, nine days in September where the city’s pivotal role in global design is showcased across hundreds of venues in city. Reflex send me (armed with only a camera) to check it out report back…
Don DeLillo Illustrations by Noma Bar
Posted by: Henry Rivers | Comments (0)About 3 weeks ago I bought myself a copy of Don DeLillo’s ‘End Zone‘ for a bit of summer reading. I can unashamedly admit that this choice was strongly influenced by the cover!
Whilst browsing for some inspiration today I was delighted to discover that the cover is part of a series of ten powerful illustrations by ‘It’s Nice That’ and Noma Bar…
Noma Bar:
“After a long process that involved in reading, researching & sketching, I started to pull out some of the main elements of each story and tried to understand how Don DeLillo tailored them together. The result is a bold image for each cover that can looks conventional at first, but at second glimpse reveals the whole story.” (from Picador’s blog)
Note: I have not yet got around to reading ‘End Zone’, but when I do you can be sure I’ll enjoy looking cool on the underground with Noma’s cover.
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Iconic Illustrations by Paul Tebbott
Posted by: Henry Rivers | Comments (1)Here at the reflexstock blog we are fans of simple, minimalist vector design. In our eyes self-taught graphic designer (& electronic musician Horizon Fire) Paul Tebbott can’t put a foot wrong. Here is some of his work for your inspiration.
Awesome Creative Advertising from Leagas Delaney
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Today’s inspiration comes from International Advertising House Leagas Delaney. Their beautifully polished images and witty concepts get two thumbs up from us. Enjoy!
20 Surreal Photographs (that want your captions!)
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How this post works:
These great photographs are literally begging for captions. All you need to do is scroll through these awesome images (hopefully enjoying the captions as you go)… once you’re done, simply put any captions into the comment box and we’ll add them to the pictures!
Example:
Penguin & Girl on Sofa – “Oh dear Mum, I think the man at the Pet Shop has been lying to you again. This isn’t a cat.”
Note:
All captions will be accepted*
When face painting gets serious…
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Today we’ve put together a showcase of works from some of the most creative minds in fine art body painting. If you thought face painting was all about pink butterflies and comedy moustaches, prepare to think differently.
Note: this post does feature a spotty leopard painting… but not the sort you would find at a village fête.
A Brief History of Lobsters in Advertising
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The subject of today’s post was originally intended to be ‘Vintage Adverts’ or perhaps ’50 Inspiring Vintage Adverts’.
I set about my research (on none other than www.vintageadbrowser.com) and came across a collection of amusing 1950s Budweiser adverts – naturally the subject was set to change to ’50 Inspiring Vintage Beer Adverts’.
After some further research I was surprised to find that a popular theme in vintage beer adverts was lobsters… and so I arrived at a new title for today’s post – ‘A Brief History of Lobsters in Advertising’.
Amazing Digital Paintings of Exotic Cities
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Some designers showcase their photoshop skills by distorting people’s faces, others make surreal montages using dolphins and elephants, whilst some just simply isolate colours to create ‘cool’ images… this post is about designers who go a little bit further and create entire cities.
One advantage of creating a city yourself (rather than taking a photo of a pre-built city) is that you have total control of the weather. Digital artists spend days creating these insanely detailed images – one thing you can be sure of is that they are going to choose weather that is appropriate to the style of the city. For example a city with industrial style steel skyscrapers would probably have a menacing stormy sky.
This post celebrates cities that are not only blessed with perfect weather, but are also located in stunning natural landscapes…
A Masterclass in Vibrant Colour
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Here are 27 photographs that share at least one thing in common. They all use strong colours to create a sort of arresting / ‘wow’ effect.
Some photographs look better in black and white – I would venture that these images don’t. Themes include shoes, underwater, the colour red, and Michael Cera from Superbad.
Wine Bottle Design Awards 2011
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Lets face it – the design of wine labels is important.
For those of us whose knowledge of wine goes little beyond red and white (I think there’s a pink one too) the appearance of the bottle is the only fall back we have when browsing the shelves. Here at the reflexstock blog we’ve decided to pay tribute to designers who have excelled in various areas of the field (or should I say vineyard) of wine bottle design.
Please enjoy this post responsibly!
