LUXUS BRUT FONT
Luxus Brut breathes the spirit of hand lettered signage of the Fifties. It’s a formal script, inspired from a well concealed shop portal in Vienna/Austria. Large and distinctive capital letters (that won’t share the baseline with lowercase letters), wide spacing as well as a low x-height make it an excellent choice for posters, magazine headlines, logotypes, branding and any design that requires a touch of luxury and sensuality. This Open Type font comes equipped with endings, underlining swashes and a powerful contextual alternate feature. When used with OpenType-savvy applications (such as InDesign CS, Illustrator CS, Photoshop CS or XPress 7) it automatically chooses from three complete sets of capital characters and four sets of lowercase characters, ensuring perfect connections. Luxus Brut covers Western and Eastern European character sets including Baltic, Romanian and Turkish. 830 glyphs in total.
BOOKBOOK
Hard on the outside and padded on the inside, each handmade leather BookBook from Twelve South is actually a clever protective case for your MacBook Pro. Zip it up and the solid 80-buck wrapper looks like a vintage hardback instead of a thief-magnet. http://twelvesouth.com/products/bookbook
WEST IS BACK
“Power” is the first single from American rapper Kanye West off of his fifth studio album Dark Twisted Fantasy. The song features singer Dwele and is co-produced by Kanye West and Symbolyc One. The song strongly features a sample of “21st Century Schizoid Man” by British progressive rock band King Crimson. Impressive video on his blog. Such a talented artist, just hope he got his act together and he stays out of trouble. Really looking forward to this one.
KRISTA KELTANEN
The Scandinavian in me just couldn’t resist sharing these beautiful images from Finish photographer Krista Keltanen. Already a fan of Retro-Lofi photography, I am fascinated and inspired by her feel good style. Visit http://villasolbacka.blogspot.com for loads more.
D&G FALL CAMPAIGN 2010
The first images of Dolce & Gabbana’s new fall campaign featuring Madonna have been released. Photographed by Steven Klein in Harlem, the black and white pictures portray Madonna as a glamorized housewife—at the local market, at lunch with the family, with the baby in the bedroom, and with granny the seamstress. “It’s a testament that fashion is part of life and not vice versa,” said Domenico Dolce.
FORM MINUS FUNCTION
It’s fair to say that type and ink only ever meet on a printed page. In this series of images, the two elements are presented to us in a way that is a little more unusual. Images of black and white ink in water are accompanied by small typographical letters to generate strange yet captivating forms that appear to float effortlessly in the air. A contemporary tribute to traditional methods of print. Absolutely beautiful.
RETRO-LOFI PHOTOGRAPHY
WELCOME 2010
Welcome to the 2010 new look BigSky Advertising. We are starting fresh with brand new posts, a modern identity and tons of new ideas to inspire and educate. BigSky was started in 2008 as a platform for a group of creatives to create, inspire and involve each other. We are all professional, dedicated designers with a extreme passion for everything involved with the design process. BigSky is a daily design blog and community, run by Gauteng based designer, Andre Hansen, full of new design trends, news and events, great new music, great design portfolios, young design blood, design articles, photography, fashion, creative global advertising, architectural inspiration, cooking ideas, recipes, amazing motion design and special hand-picked international design stuff. We are a forward thinking design collaboration specializing in creating strong brands for our clients. Friends of BigSky has over fifteen years combined experience in Graphic Design, Advertising, Branding, Animation, Copywriting and Web Development. This is a creative platform to share all the things that inspires us with the world.
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