Category Archives: Design Inspiration

Design Inspiration collected on the net, printed materials, and other everyday stuff.

Effective Homepage Designs

A homepage should catch a few seconds of attention given to it, that is why it is important to have the layout convey the message well. Above the fold placement has been practiced by traditional print media for many years now, it is the upper half of a newspaper fold. […]

Design is AIR

Seoul Design Competition “Design Is AIR” goal is to design environmentally-friendly designs for sustainable city life. The winner was announced last March 2008 and the competition four fields of design: Earth (Environment),  Water (Communication in Flow), Wind (Experience in Media City Scape), Fire (Objects in Urban Culture). The entrees are […]

Sans Serif Font Collection 02

Here is another sans serif font collection that I recently installed on my computer. These serif fonts have a clean look on it making it a good candidate for corporate type of logo design projects.

Illustrated Web Designs

Many design studios and freelance designers have website designs that are rich in graphics and illustrations. Most of these sites are done in flash with animations, the only problem with flash is that search engines won’t be able to index the content of the site, thus lesser possibility of ranking. […]

Graphic Labels and Packaging

Package design has exponentially evolved into a work of art for the past years. Many companies are designing their products with rich graphics and in full color. Thanks to the advancement of the printing industry, printing in full color has never been cheaper. The changes in package design direction cannot […]

Touch 360 Product Designs

Touch 360 is a product development firm with location in the USA and China. I’ve come across this site through one of my stumbles and their Ripple Faucet design caught my attention. The form is futuristic in a every sense of the word. It has a new form factor in […]

Modern Children’s Furniture

Very few furniture companies specialize in furniture design for children. There are many factors to consider and the ergonomics is also different from your normal furniture. Factors to consider are size of removable pieces should not be too small as to be swallowed. The structural safety of the design such […]

Web Developer Tools

Web design and development is so much easier with online tools, after all computers are supposed to make our lives easier. I’m sharing with you some web development tools that makes my web development so much easier. Web Developer Firefox Add-on by Chris Pederick. This tool is very useful especially […]

Interesting Furniture Design – Bed

Every now and then I stumble on interesting furniture design. This time I have three bed design that I find interesting. This is a Float bed design by Max Longin. A suspension bridge is his inspiration for this design. The foot of the bed is made of wooden rods and […]

Tumidei Spa Interiors

I’m featuring this modern furniture design company from Northern East Italy named Tumidei Spa. The interior design using their furniture is what really caught my attention. Their designs are sleek and modern. Most of their furniture are geometrical and plays around on texture. The materials vary from wood, leather, glass, […]

Featured Industrial Designer #2

The featured industrial designer for today is from the Philippines. He is Kenneth Cobonpue. I followed his site from a post by A Dialogue with K on edgy design. Kenneth studied Industrial Design at the Pratt Institute in New York in 1987. In 1996, he returned to Cebu Philippines to […]

Switch Table and Chair

I would like to share with you this remarkable product I found on the net. Switch table and chair is a completely handmade furniture made in Belgium. The furniture is made of leather, polyether foam and European oak. Switch table and chair consists of a u-shaped table or backrest and […]

Creative Print Ads #1

I would like to share with you guys some creative print advertising I have stumbled upon and searched at ads of the world.

Featured Industrial Designer #1

From time to time designers like I will stumble upon a fellow designer who has an incredible passion for design. This particular designer caught my attention with his industrial design projects and ideas that are truly remarkable. I found this designer through a post from Core77 “Rubik’s Cube + Pantone […]

Interior Designed Graphic Walls

I’ve always wanted to paint my walls to show that a graphics designer dwells in it. I hope someday I’ll find the time to put my dreams into work. For now I think I’ll settle with a few inspiring graphic walls.

Handwritten Font Collection 01

As I have mentioned on my Sans Serif Font Collection 01 post, I wanted to create a visual catalogue of the fonts I have installed on my computer. Below are handwriting font collection that you may be interested to use on your designs. Some of it are more readable than […]

Interesting Product Designs from 3 Industrial Design Companies

I was trying to look for what’s new in industrial design and I stumbled upon 3 Industrial Design Companies with interesting and useful product designs. Boone Whiteboard Eraser by blueMap Design This whiteboard eraser can hold up to 4 whiteboard markers. What I like about this is its aesthetic aspect […]

Sans Serif Font Collection 01

Many Designers including I find it hard to look for new and exciting sans serif fonts because there are so many choices. I have 20,000 fonts installed on my computer and looking for the best font to portray a certain image is really tedious. That is why I have decided […]

Logo Design Inspiration – Warm Hues

Logo design should be simple but with impact. It should stand out among your competition and most especially it should be easy to remember. Below are 5 logos with warm hues that’s simple, has impact and can be easily recognized.