Archive for April, 2008
Emotimug
Very nice cups made by one russian designer. as i understood they’re just a concept and production is in process.
Source: ru_designer
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Competitions for designers
Two competitions for young designers:
Young Illustrators Award 2008. Entry deadline is the 31st of july, 2008.
PostIt Awards 2008 or The Fourth International Students Poster Competition. Open for students only. The deadline is the 30th of April, 2008.
If you’re young and you love design - go ahead!
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Geek Pants
Designer Erik De Nijs has made “Beauty and the Geek” jeans for all “hardcore computer fans” (or geeks, if you prefer). At least keyboard is always with you.
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Free fonts form Font Boutique
Two free fonts from Font Boutique - Samba and NeoRetro. If you like them - just download and use.
More free fonts at xlt blog
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Funny backwards bus ad
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The Beauty Of Programming
Via Bytec.
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Device Charging Holder
Does messy wires annoy you when you put your mobile phone or any other portable device to charge? Company Driinn has designed simple yet very handy mobile phone holder. It comes in a variety of colors and is just around $7 at Amazon.
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Robots made from sans-serif fonts
Jonathon Yule’s Invdr features a lovely gallery of robots made from various sans-serif fonts. He calls them ‘font bots’.
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Free packaging templates
I have to make an packaging design of supplements as my school work. So searching for some inspiration I incidentally came across a website ideem.it. They offer free packaging templates. Some of them are really interesting. They came as vectors in EPS for download. That’s pretty handy.
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Fresh and free icons for your computer
Fresh and free (for uncommercial use) spring themed iconf for your computer for ikonka.ru. Click on image to download icons.
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