50 GD Tips

50 Things Every Graphic Design Student Should Know, by Jamie Wieck. I think it seems pretty relevant for any designer. See the full list here.

BEATO

This might be a saying a lot, but André Beato has some of the best typographic work that I have seen in a while. A complex technical style combined with extremely clean vector illustration skills.

Augmented Reality

Going to have to add a technology category to NT for this one. Aurasma, an app designed by Autonomy, uses “augmented reality” to turn regular printed images into multimedia videos. It uses a pattern recognition platform called IDOL and a vast database to store mass amount of reference images, which are converted to the videos. I guess that this technology has been used for other purposes, but it seems like a really cool idea that could take off pretty quickly.

Symmetry

(via Defgrip)

Hovering Art Directors

Know that feeling when someone is hovering over your shoulder, watching you work? Well get used to it, because it never goes away… at least not until YOU’RE the art director. Here’s the proof.

Paper Record Player

This wedding invitation, designed by Kelli Anderson, includes a paper record player that only requires a little folding and minor elbow grease. I have seen (and posted about too, I think) similar concepts such as the cardboard record player, but this is done very well.. and for a wedding invite! Kelli has some other very nice work, so be sure to check out her site. (via The Egotist)

Janine Rewell

Helsinki artist Janine Rewell has some very beautiful illustration and elegant design work. (via The Black Harbor)

Face.

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“Face is an intelligence-driven multidisciplinary design studio, based in Monterrey, Mexico whose work range includes design solutions, advertising, editorial projects and custom publishing, corporate identity and brand development.” They did the new identity and site design for Myspace, which I pretty much forgot about, as I’m sure most of you did. It looks and functions much better than the previous design. By the way, if you haven’t already noticed, the image above is a newly available slideshow feature. Going to try it out for a bit to see if we like it or not.

Zahia Dehar

An elegantly designed site for model, Zahia Dehar. It features photography and video from multiple artists. I swear it was the site design that attracted me… and mmmmmm what a nice site it is.

Exhibition Monet

This site is amazing. It is a must-see, so go check it out and take the highly interactive “journey” through some of Monet’s beautiful works.