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Some more cool posts I’ve found interesting, inspirational and funny around the web this week.

Inspirational type design by Birk Kizilay

Great Examples of Typographic Humor

Via: Fuel Your Creativity

90 Beautiful Book Cover Design in Different Style

“A picture says a thousand words” – these words have been written on book cover and I think it’s really truth. Book cover is one element that usually caught the most attention of the readers and visual memorization is the strongest one. Without reading the entire book, you could be able to get the concept of the story just by looking at the book cover design.

Staple city fun

via: Ubersuper

Pop Icons In A Different Light Part 5

via: I Can has internets

Witty Ads Based on the Social

ShoppingExperience

Via: Fuel Your Creativity

Self portrait | AJ Fosik’s photostream.

found via @neilbennett on Twitter

And saving my favorite for last!!

Drowning Beautiful

Via: 24 flinching

Sometimes an artist creates something so beautifully simple that it takes your breath away…. literally. (hack line – couldn’t help it) Artist Jason de Caires Taylor creates life-size cement sculptures of people and submerges them into the waters of South America. As time passes the sculptures become part of the underwater landscape and slowly become artificial reefs ripe with marine life.

graphic design funniness

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Some of my favorite design related jokes, japes, funnies and hilarity to keep you smiling during any difficult brief.

Funny graphic design videos.

Original Design Gangsta’ – Great Rap Video

Make My Logo Bigger – Parody of clients asking for their work to be the way they want.

Enter The Serif – Fight between Serif & Sans Serif.

Trust Your Graphic Designer – The Graphic Avenger

South Park style – Mac vs. Pc – Computer Commercial

Holiday Photoshop Advert – A very humorous photoshop.

Paint Shop Pro vs Photoshop – As it says in the link.

How Not To Use Powerpoint – A parody of how people use Powerpoint in the wrong way.

Web page humor.

Weapons of Mass Destruction – A humorous 404 page saying that the weapons of mass destruction could not be found.

404 Page with Terrible News - A 404 page that breaks the news to you that you have found the wrong page.

The End of the Internet – The last page of the Internet.

Off Button – Turn off the internet.

First Page of the Internet – The first page of the Internet..

Logo design humor

Make The Logo Bigger Song – Song made for logo designers.

Most Unfortunate Logos Ever – Some of these logos are um… you know…

Fake Google Logos – As the link suggests.

The font of all humor

Design and Fonts Jokes – Design and fonts jokes

Song “I Like Big Fonts” – A parody of the song, ‘Baby Got Back’

You Know You Are a Fontaholic When…

More funniness this way…

You know you’re a designer when…

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Here are my favorite creative inspirational discoveries while surfing the web this week.

1. How to Make an Orca (Shachi) from a Plastic Straw.

In Japanese, 鯱 (pronounced “shachi”) means “killer whale,” or orca. (Note that 鯱 鉾 can also be pronounced “shachi-hoko”, which refers to a mythological animal which has the head of a dragon and the body of a carp. Temples and castles in Japan were commonly decorated with shachi-hoko ornaments, because it was believed that the mythical animal could elicit rain and would thus protect the building in case of a fire.)

2. Phenomenal Planet Photography.

Planet (Stereographic Projections) Photography is simply crazy and fun! The technique is not only all about skillful digital manipulations, but the raw photography side is very technical. The use of wide angle lenses help to overcome the need for multiple photographs to get the entire scene, but then there is the mapping of your photographs to ensure that you capture all of the surroundings and not to later find a gap in your equiangular panorama.

3. Munny Madness & Munny Madness 2
via Lee Gustin creative design blog

Munny is a “Do It Yourself” vinyl toy from Kid Robot . Check out these cool custom designs.

4. Folding money

Won Park is the master of Origami.  He is also called the “money folder”, a practitioner of origami whose canvas is the United States One Dollar Bill. Bending, twisting, and folding, he creates life-like shapes in stunning detail.

5. redesigned Movie posters.
via Design Daily Blog

4 fantastic vector art posters of classic movies.

6. Incredible Self-Portraits by Levi van Veluw

This dose of inspiration comes from Levi van Veluw, a multidisciplinary artist from Netherlands, famous for his remarkable self-portraits.

7. Clever Condoms Advertisements – 61 Prints
Via Design your way blog

The copywriters and art directors must be extremely enthusiastic when they get a contract for a condoms company. I can’t explain how otherwise they can make advertisements so damn clever and funny. That and maybe because they’re top notch in the advertising industry. You have here 61 excellent print advertisements from the most known condoms producing companies.

Get committed to creative captioning – November

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Studio time prizes expire after 6 months
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The winner of October’s competition is Brian Selway !! :D for the second month running congratulations Brian!

November.

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This months picture is an old one I found from my time at university.

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You know you’re a graphic designer when…

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Just a few signs you may be a graphic designer and not just a loony! Sourced from around the wonderful world wide internetty web type thing! [1] [2] [3]

  • You organize your CD collection according to the Pantone chart.
  • You’ve destroyed a great design idea/concept because the client thought they know best.
  • You’re up ’til 5am because you came up with the best idea ever while brushing your teeth.
  • Activating your entire font collection makes your computer crash – and you’re running OSX.
  • You see Apple products and you are like “OMG… IT’S SHINY!!!”
  • Your blood pressure increases drastically when you see someone using the Comic Sans font.
  • You HATE Comic Sans (just to be really sure!)
  • You like Helvetica but you think it is absolutely unnecessary to use it everywhere.
  • Just by the mere sight of Drop Shadow, Lens Flare and Bevel effect, you have a nervous breakdown.
  • You see a typeface in a Logo and you go, “What if…..”
  • If you lay your eyes on a board sign, you immediately start to wonder, “Is that Helvetica or Arial?”
  • You get excited when a non-designer asks you to explain your works and eventually get bugged trying to make him understand.
  • You have subscribed to nearly 50 RSS feeds.
  • You know all the shortcuts by heart and can work in Photoshop blindfolded.
  • Your Bookmark collection is begging for mercy.
  • You get seriously MAD when someone uses Typeface and Font interchangeably.
  • You get totally pissed when you realize the free Photoshop brushes you downloaded are less than 1000px in size.
  • You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word ‘Final’ in any file name when saving.
  • You see HTML and CSS like Neo sees the Matrix.
  • When you look at an Album art, all you see are Grunge Photoshop Brushes (you notice the album art a few minutes later).
  • You giggle whenever you use the colours F0CCED, EFF0FF and 44DDDD.
  • You maintain a grid system for your refrigerator magnets.
  • You sit at work for eight hours straight just looking at your monitor, waiting for a spark of inspiration that doesn’t come.
  • You know Lorem Ipsum by heart.
  • Looking at a menu makes you go “hmmm, ITC Baskerville italic” rather than “mmmm, lunch!”
  • “cmd + Z is the first thing you think of when you drop something.

Feel free to add your own in the comments section below :)

Get committed to creative captioning – October

ASYLUMseventy7 caption competition. Running on the 1st of each month. Prize varies each time and could include… Studio time, props, prints or merchandise etc

Rules…
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My decision is final
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The winner of September’s is Brian Selway !! :D congratulations!

October



Thanks to Helena Atsuko for letting me use this picture

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Get committed to creative captioning – September

ASYLUMseventy7 caption competition. Running on the 1st of each month. Prize varies each time and could include… Studio time, props, prints or merchandise etc

Rules…
One winner per competition
Studio time prizes expire after 6 months
My decision is final
Not exchangeable for any monetary value
Winners notified via Facebook
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The winner of August’s competition is Rich Wardle!! :D congratulations Rich.

September

Thanks to Peggy Soo for letting me use this picture

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Get committed to creative captioning

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Rules…
One winner per competition
Studio time prizes expire after 6 months
My decision is final
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August

August caption competition entry

Thanks to…
lolly
MissBrutal
tattoo23

…for letting me use this pic to start off the competition.

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