tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15236789704134645662024-03-07T05:33:41.745+02:00Grafic Notes / Σημειώσεις ΓραφιστικήςGrafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.comBlogger592125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-91446441205364351922022-03-05T21:30:00.003+02:002022-03-06T07:09:00.499+02:00Lorem ipsum και άλλα ψευδοκείμεναΤι είναι τελικά το "Lorem ipsum "; Γιατί μας είναι τόσο χρήσιμο; Και ποιος έλληνας κρίβεται πίσω από όλα αυτά;Με τον όρο Lorem ipsum αναφέρονται τα κείμενα εκείνα τα οποία δεν έχουν κάποιο ιδιαίτερο νόημα. Τα ψευδοκείμενα αυτά αρχίζουν συνήθως με τον όρο «Lorem ipsum», απαρτίζονται συνήθως από λατινικές λέξεις, χωρίς να αποκλείονται και κείμενα άλλων γλωσσών και χρησιμοποιούνται πολύ Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0Πειραιάς, Ελλάδα37.9429857 23.64698329.6327518638211558 -11.509266799999999 66.253219536178847 58.8032332tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-74299656821898513892021-01-05T21:39:00.003+02:002022-06-15T23:34:15.519+03:00Brand Funnel: Πως θα αυξήσετε τα έσοδα σαςΚάθε επιχείρηση που σέβεται τον εαυτό της, αναπτύσσει ένα marketing plan και συνδυάζει ενέργειες προώθησης σε διάφορα κανάλια προβολής για να χτίσει το brand funnel της.Τι είναι το Brand funnelΤο brand funnel είναι ένα σενάριο που περιγράφει στάδια στη σχέση των καταναλωτών με τα brands. Τα στάδια που προσπαθεί να επιτύχει μία επιχείρηση σε ένα τυπικό Brand funnel είναι τα εξής:Brand Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-29304268413018543612020-12-02T22:52:00.000+02:002020-12-02T22:52:52.697+02:00CREATIVE ISPIRATION 01 Kalypsys Concepts [wip] | Apr 2020 | Szende BrassaiStay Home. Stay Safe. | Allan PetersCactus | Ana MiminoshviliSummer 2020 | Burnt ToastRead more7 Ways to Set Your Creative Inspiration on FireWhite space and MAThe power of white spaceElevating Design & Design ThinkingUsing Pictures of Paper Money. Legally Using Illustrations of Paper CurrencyFreelance Creatives. How to not beGrafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-5123451992064506282020-11-29T11:28:00.000+02:002020-11-29T11:28:15.140+02:00Oxford Circus’s tube signs are now PlayStation-themedTfL’s hallowed roundel has been transformed into the iconic PlayStation symbols, as part of a stunt to celebrate the launch of Sony’s latest consoleSeveral of London’s tube stations had a makeover last night, courtesy of PlayStation. Just in time for the arrival of the PS5 console tomorrow, signage at Oxford Circus has been updated with the console’s trademark square, circle, triangle and cross. Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-63642393471223793882020-09-21T21:46:00.002+03:002020-09-21T21:46:58.032+03:0020 Creative Examples of Envelope Design ideasWith an attractive and unique envelope design, you will immediately get the attention of the receiver, and it will be easier for you to develop a good business relations. Envelopes serves not only as a medium for correspondence in a business or a company, but also can affect judgment and trust of clients.Envelope design, Including the supply of well-designed correspondence is needed to support Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-5788580836309345902020-09-16T09:47:00.004+03:002020-09-16T11:39:24.333+03:007 Ways to Set Your Creative Inspiration on FireCreative Block Begone!But seriously. How can you actually get inspired, beyond the obvious? There’s got to be more to it than just the same old ‘doodle in your sketchbook’ advice. What about going to a pop-up museum for inspiration? Watching a movie on one of the world’s most iconic designers? Here are some tips from the pros on how they take time off to recharge, vault over any lingering Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-25294575700908961362020-05-22T16:38:00.003+03:002020-05-22T16:38:40.803+03:00An alphabet book for travelers
The project combines the shape of a letter, a city whose name begins with that letter, and an iconic landmark from that city. For example, the letter “V” is illustrated with Venice’s twinkling lights and one of its iconic gondola boats.
Designed by collaborators Rigved Sathe and Payal Jagwani, the project, “Around the world with type”, speaks to the duo’s passion for seeing the Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-41908379823282830712020-05-22T15:56:00.001+03:002020-05-22T15:56:42.065+03:00Magnificent collages made from old photographs. The details are incredible!
Brazilian artist and photographer Vik Muniz uses old hand cut photographs for his mind-bending large-scale collages. The artist has used all sorts of found objects to create various artworks, however his newest collage series “Album” is dedicated to praising the field of photography and its legacy. Most of the images are in sepia or black and white, projecting a highly nostalgic Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-12068029725594118292020-02-04T22:22:00.000+02:002020-02-04T22:22:33.170+02:00Graphic Experiments by Marvin Kim
In his Type Plant project, graphic designer Marvin Kim explored the relationship between the organic growth of plants and the evolution of design shapes.
The illustrative typeface that results from the organic designs may not be the most readable, but the unpredictable shapes that came out of it look pretty damn cool.
Source: www.designer-daily.com
Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-14245835411349490342020-02-04T22:17:00.000+02:002020-02-04T22:17:06.962+02:00IKEA Releases the Best Grater Ad Ever
A couple of weeks ago, Apple released its long-awaited new Mac Pro. To say that it was not appreciated would be an understatement. The pricing of the screen stand was widely commented, which sounds quite normal when you take a look at the price of $999.
However, there was more too it. The main complain was probably about the design of the computer tower itself, which was quickly&Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-76767582259829678042019-11-25T10:01:00.000+02:002019-11-25T10:01:00.779+02:00How to place multi-page PDF into InDesign
I have 250-page PDF file, which I would like to place into InDesign. Do I have to place each page separately, or is there a way to do all of them at once?It's hidden away but it is possible.1) File > New > DocumentEnter the number of pages of your PDF in "Number of Pages". Deselect "Facing Pages" if you want individual pages. If you know the dimensions of your PDF, set that as your Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-19825512607070509152019-11-16T20:47:00.002+02:002019-11-16T20:48:14.861+02:00Το νέο σήμα για τα ελληνικά μακεδονικά προϊόντα
Το νέο σήμα, το οποίο θα συνοδεύει τα ελληνικά μακεδονικά προϊόντα στις διεθνείς αγορές, βασίζεται σε αυτό που είχε παρουσιάσει ως πρόταση ο ΣΕΒΕ στον κ. Μητσοτάκη και τους άλλους πολιτικούς και επιχειρηματικούς φορείς της Βόρειας Ελλάδος στις 22 Οκτωβρίου.
Η αρχική πρόταση
Το επίσημο νέο σήμα που θα χρησιμοποιείται συλλογικά για τα μακεδονικά προϊόντα παρουσιάστηκε στις 14 Νοεμβρίου Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-37435897465810890172019-11-16T19:55:00.002+02:002019-11-16T19:57:32.853+02:00Warner Bros celebrates 100 years with a logo refresh
A new brand message puts the stories at the centre.
(Image credit: Warner Bros)
Warner Bros, the home of programming spanning from Looney Toons to The Sopranos, is approaching its centenary and has celebrated with a logo transformation. The streamlined update of its time-honoured shield has been unveiled on the famous water tower in the Burbank lot in the presence of more than 500 Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-78792848664098334012019-08-09T15:16:00.002+03:002019-08-09T15:16:52.269+03:00TIME Magazine’s Harrowing Cover Says ‘Enough’ To US Mass Shootings
Image via TIME Following two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, TIME magazine has focused on America’s growing struggle with “white nationalist terrorism” for its 19 August issue. Its cover story, entitled, ‘We Are Being Eaten From Within’: Why America Is Losing the Battle Against White Nationalist Terrorism, identifies the culprits behind 73-percent of America’s mass Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-31401239775240777362019-08-08T09:51:00.000+03:002019-08-08T09:56:59.432+03:00Google has a secret design library. Here are 35 of its best books
[Source Images: stendec/Blendswap (book mesh), Andrey_A /iStock (pattern)]
The company’s industrial design team shares a handful of titles from its studio library, which is curated by team members.For just over a year, Google’s hardware design team has been working inside a new, highly classified design studio. Only a small fraction of Google’s employees are allowed inside Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-6064677916419520462019-08-07T15:01:00.001+03:002019-08-07T15:01:31.106+03:00Create an Inspirational Vector Political Poster
This tutorial is inspired by Sheppard Fairey's famous political poster series for the Obama campaign in the US. We'll be showing you how to create this style of design. We'll start with basic image editing techniques in Adobe Photoshop to get our guide layers setup, and then we'll jump into Adobe Illustrator. You don't need any fancy equipment to do this. I used an older mouse that stillGrafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-64761992966635242152019-08-06T17:33:00.003+03:002019-08-06T17:33:55.350+03:00Reducing the total ink limit in CMYK images using Photoshop
Having too much total ink in your CMYK document is a pretty common problem. Sure, there is a total ink limit option embedded in your CMYK ICC profile but that doesn’t stop you from boosting the colours a bit more in Photoshop after a conversion to CMYK. You can quickly spot the locations that have too much ink by preflighting your PDF using Adobe Acrobat Pro or other preflight software (Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-92015428175828454022019-08-06T11:59:00.001+03:002019-08-06T11:59:43.943+03:00Identity: Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv, by Standards Manual
Standards Manual is an independent publishing imprint founded in 2014 by designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth. The talented duo are also partners at design consultancy Order, and Jesse kindly took time to answer a few questions about their latest book release.
Why did you decide to produce the Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv (CGH) monograph?
CGH floated the idea when we were Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-32971887710229531812019-08-06T11:54:00.001+03:002019-08-06T11:54:19.323+03:00Hobo signs and symbols
Hobos were the nomadic workers who roamed the United States, taking jobs wherever they could, and never spending too long in any one place. The Great Depression (1929–1939) was when numbers were likely at their highest, as it forced an estimated 4,000,000 adults to leave their homes in search of food and lodging. Of those, 250,000 were said to be teenagers — the economic collapse had Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-80119394313619106602019-08-05T12:36:00.003+03:002019-08-05T12:39:45.046+03:00Evolution of the LEGO logo
The red, white, yellow, and black LEGO logo is synonymous with one of the world’s largest toy manufacturers, but it didn’t always look so familiar.
Photo by Faiz Zaki, in Putrajaya, Malaysia.
The story began in 1932, when carpenter and joiner Ole Kirk Kristiansen established his business in the village of Billund, Denmark, manufacturing stepladders, ironing boards, stools, and woodenGrafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-73575327073178980352019-07-31T09:06:00.000+03:002019-07-31T09:06:35.190+03:00Adrian Frutiger logos, 1960s–70s
While the late Swiss type designer Adrian Frutiger (1928–2015) is best known for his renowned typefaces such as Univers, Avenir, and Frutiger, many people are less familiar with the symbols and monograms he designed. Here’s a selection from the sixties and seventies.The quotes are from Frutiger’s book, Signs and Symbols (PDF via Monoskop), where he talks about the meaning behind simple Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-79090091695380515882019-07-31T08:48:00.001+03:002019-07-31T09:07:22.322+03:00How Paul Rand presented logos to clients
In issue 153 of Graphis magazine(1971/72), Stanley Mason wrote a piece titled “How Paul Rand Presents Trade-Mark Designs to Clients”. It shared examples of the short-run booklets Rand used for showcasing his single-option design ideas, along with Rand’s thoughts on logos.
Mason began, “The trade mark, which in the spacious days before the invention of the corporate image could afford toGrafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-91935390406635924012019-07-05T13:40:00.000+03:002019-07-05T13:42:23.295+03:00Primavera - Sandro Botticelli
"Η Άνοιξη" ή "Primavera", επίσης γνωστή ως "Η Αλληγορία της Άνοιξης" είναι ένα έργο τέμπερας μεγάλων διαστάσεων (203x314 cm) του διακεκριμένου καλλιτέχνη της Ιταλικής Αναγέννησης, Σάντρο Μποτιτσέλι και χρονολογείται περίπου το 1478 μ.Χ. Ο πίνακας εκτίθεται σήμερα στην Πινακοθήκη Ουφίτσι στη Φλωρεντία.
Ιστορία
Υπάρχουν διχογνωμίες σχετικά με την έμπνευση και την προέλευση του πίνακα. Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-53331384636713147952019-04-17T22:56:00.002+03:002019-04-17T22:56:09.919+03:00MOST POPULAR FONT, GETS A FACE-LIFT
“Helvetica is like water,” says a recent video about the most popular typeface in the world. The 62-year-old font family, with its sans-serif shapes and clean corners, is ubiquitous. It is used on the signage in New York’s subway system. It is the brand identity of American Airlines, as well as American Apparel. It is on those unfortunate T-shirts that say things like "John & Paul & Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1523678970413464566.post-38685668464468521342019-04-17T22:52:00.002+03:002019-04-17T22:58:55.632+03:00A 3D-Printed Press Brings Printmaking to the People
Last year, Martin Schneider rolled out the Open Press Project, which provided printing plans for the world’s first fully functional 3D-printed printmaking press, and was downloaded by more than 12,000 people. As a follow-up to that successful open-source endeavor, Schneider is offerings folks who don’t have their own 3-D-printing abilities the option to get a press through a new Kickstarter Grafic Noteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17423957330297572918noreply@blogger.com0