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Mar
04
2010

Best of the Web: Design Juices

Whats the Best Way to Promote your Latest Article?

How do we all drive people to our site? To see the articles we all slave over for hours each day?

Each of us are all out here to get the most hits we can onto our pages, (whether it’s to create advertisement revenue or not.) There are several ways in which to achieve this, and I hope to discuss two of the easiest and simple in which to setup and carry out.

Devilishly Deviant: My Favourite DeviantART Photographers and Artists

These are some of my favourite deviants I have found to have not only great artwork/photography, but are also talkative and are willing to converse in the community as well. Be sure to check them out and favourite their works, I can also be found on DeviantART here.

Five Design blogs to Watch out for in 2010

I personally use Google Reader to organize my blog roll, and keep up-to-date on a daily basis with several blogs. These are just some of the blogs which pop out in their design, content and originality.

I Love Typography

Design and Typography go hand in hand, designers the world over use typography in logo’s, advertisements, packaging and posters. It can make any piece of work stand out from the crowd.

This round-up shows off the best in typography in all forms styles, quality is of the highest callibre and approaches range for the conventional to the unique. Design can’t be made without the inclusion of characters and type, the more consideration you give to the minor details the more you will find these subtleties give your design the edge in quality.

Graphic designers and artist’s can use typography to give there work the edge, whether they want to make it look clean cut and minimal or grunge and street like.

20 of the Best Typographical Portraits Found on the Web

Typography affects everything, its how big a title to be, its how widely spaced your having your paragraphs on your page. I want to show the best in typographical portraits found on the web, typographical portraits show the highest quality in artistry and skills. Text art is a growing passion of mine and these works are a small roundup of some of the best works you can discover today.

The Best & Most Popular Cosplay Photography from DeviantART

Cosplay put simply is short for ‘costume play’ and stems form the Japanese love for Manga and Anime cartoons. Although I don’t confess to be a big love of this subculture I have often found myself admiring the quality of the work gone into these type of costumes and characters.

Photographer In Profile: Micala Michuad

Recently I have had to opportunity to connect with several artists, photographers and designers over at DeviantART. Immediately over the past few days and weeks I have become rather drawn to the photography of Micala Michaud, I recently got the chance to interview her with a few lightweight questions. Also be sure to check out a selection of her work below, with me showcasing some of my favourite pieces by Micala.

Check out my guest posts

I was lucky enough to recently get the chance for the esteemed design site, Tripwire Magazine: ‘What Benefits does Guest Writing bring for Designers?’ If you would so kind as to read, comment, RT and/or post I would be most greatful!

Today I have also been published over at Design Woop, such a great article came out of working with @stugreeham; find the article ‘Thinking Outside the Box: Desirable Packaging Collection.’

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Feb
15
2010

The Best Of: Design Boom

Design Boom is a great site for the best in design news of all types and disciplines, Luckily I am subscribed to their RSS feed. This allows me to receive each of their articles into my Google reader inbox each day. Here I am going to round-up some of my favourite articles from which they have released in the past few weeks.

Lego McdonaldsLego Big Mac

Ever Wanted your chips made of bricks?

Istvan Kulinyi: Mobil Pixel Lamp

This is one sexy lamp, made by Hungarian designer Kulinyi.

Lava: Tower Skin

International architectural firm LAVA has developed a simple, cost effective, easily constructed skin that promises to transforms aged 1960′s buildings in Sydney, into sustainable, iconic buildings.

Augmented Reality T-shirt

The future in augmented reality is amazing to think of!

Solar Powered Lawn Mower

Creative design thinking at its best!

Monopoly Revolution

The classic board game undertakes a new look.

Notion: Air Helmet

A new form of head protection for snow sports.

Airmouse

The concept aims to prevent repetitive stress injuries by dissolving the standard desktop mouse into a floating device worn on the user’s hand.

Julien Renault: Hand Forged Aluminium Stools

Hand craftsmanship at it’s very best.

House Made with 15 Shipping Containers

How can you not be a little interested in this concept?

2010 Vancouver Olympics Medals

Everyone is buzzing over the Olympics, check out the medals the athletes are vying to win.

Olympic Medal Design

The design process by Omer Arbel.

Karim Rashid for XO

You’ve seen him on Objectified now check out his furniture and stools collection.

Toronto Interior Design Show: Prototype

Love some great prototype designs.

Article written by Jared Thompson

Owner and writer of Design Juices, currently studying Product design at the University of Central Lancashire in his final year. He has interest in minimal, clean and simplistic design styles.

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