June 19th, 2009 - General Design
In the video below, Steve Jobs (current CEO of Apple) talks about the designer who revamped the NeXt logo, Paul Rand. Its very interesting to hear what Steve Jobs has to say as he clearly see’s design as a business solution not as a simply a creative expression.
Sometimes design companies can loose sight of the [...]
June 9th, 2009 - General Design
It’s always great to gain inspiration from others and the team here at Attitude Design have put together another great selection of websites to get your creative ideas flowing. We place the greatest importance on keeping up to date with modern trends and showcase websites are a valuable resource for this. At the same time [...]
June 5th, 2009 - Attitude Design, General Design, Trends
The effect above is created using Spot UV. “What on earth is Spot UV” we hear you cry! Spot UV is a print finishing expression which allows you to print an area of Ultra-Violet Coating onto your printed material. In English this means you can print a clear glossy vanish instead of an ink over [...]
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June 3rd, 2009 - General Design
The animation below has been created by Chris Gavin of Tandem Films. Using only a retro signage board Chris has created this exciting adventure animation! It just shows that a creative concept can come from everyday materials. We hope you find it as inspirational as we here at Attitude Design have -enjoy:
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May 22nd, 2009 - Trends
Sometimes you can’t see the wood for the tree’s! Have you noticed the amount of “wood” appearing in commercial website designs recently? The wooden grain is warm and welcoming – it’s natural feel can really help distinguish a site and there is something familiar about it.
Do you need to get the key messages of warmth, [...]
May 11th, 2009 - Time Machine
Fashion has always fascinated the public but by the beginning of the 20th century it became much more accessible. Fashion magazines started to include photographs and became more much more influential – showing the power of visual images. With the introduction of cheap colour printing in the 1960s, sales for fashion magazines rose dramatically and [...]
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When producing packaging design, how can you tell how your design will look on a product unless you test it?
One way of seeing whether packaging design is effective or not is to create a prototype. This would normally consist of printing the design out and mocking it up – this is costly and expensive to [...]
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April 23rd, 2009 - Attitude Design
Yes indeed! We are now part of the biggest “micro-blogging” service on the planet! Twitter allows it’s users to “tweet” about what they are up to (tweet means you can write a post of up to 140 characters). The idea is to get small pieces of information to anybody who “follows” you. We want followers! [...]
April 21st, 2009 - Attitude Design
Although we all use facebook individually we finally found 10 minutes to set up a Facebook page for Attitude Design. We’ve been meaning to do this for a while but we have been so busy!
Our new Facebook page will hold all our latest blog posts as well as any new information and promotions.
Become a fan today by [...]
April 16th, 2009 - Attitude Design
Spring is here at last and Attitude Design have had a busy past few weeks working on a variety of projects and producing another fresh set of designs.
Silver Bullet Associates
First up Silver Bullet Associates – an IT consultancy service which helps businesses by reducing their IT/Technology costs. Silver Bullet required a modern, dynamic website which [...]
April 8th, 2009 - General Design
At Attitude Design we love graphic design which catches the eye. These brilliant new posters by the UK police force have appeared nation wide to promote the “policing pledge“. We find them really inspiring.
They are simple and the message clear. They are eye catching and allow the words to do the talking. Maybe this is [...]
April 3rd, 2009 - Attitude Design
We are proud to announce that the new Galleries of Justice Museum website has launched today!
See the new Galleries of Justice Museum website here »
This has been some months in the making and incorporates and builds upon the new branding which we have been working on with the Galleries staff.
The design has been created to [...]
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March 23rd, 2009 - General Design, Trends
We love this super cool animation which shows what can be done with a truly iconic mark. Great for inspiration:
Marks are essential to any logo design – getting a powerful mark like the one above means that the concept of your logo can remain timeless even though it may be displayed differently with every re-brand [...]
March 17th, 2009 - Attitude Design, General Design
Matt Davies, our Creative Director and the founder of Attitude Design, has recently been interviewed by Junk Extreme – a web resource and tutorial website which aims to provide quality content around web-design related topics. A copy of this interview is displayed below or you can read it on Junk Extreme here »
How did you [...]
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March 9th, 2009 - General Design, Trends
We always like to keep up with modern graphic design trends and the team here at Attitude Design are always ’scrap-booking’ and ‘bookmarking’ designs they like. Recently we’ve noticed some brilliant logo designs which have inspired us no end. To show you what we like we’ve compiled our top 50, please also feel free to [...]
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