Inspiration

Check out these Design Lion Grand Prix winning call-for-entry posters for the annual Nike Basketball League Competition in Hong Kong.

The creative team Mccann Hong Kong literally translated the spirit of competition onto the posters. 350 posters were handmade by the players. Images of the top 10 players, each representing a unique skill were turned into printing templates. Then they were invited to a silkscreen workshop to print their image on top of each other. The posters became their battlefield. The random cross-printing became their battles. And the printing process became our message.

Home is a movie about our planet by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. It's the most amazing helicopter ride you will ever take. Every frame of this movie is absolutely spectacular. The film was shoot with beauty in mind. To make you realize how precious our planet is. The amazing variety of colors, textures and patterns are truly inspiring. You simply can't walk away from it not feeling motivated to do something. And, if you happen to be a designer, you may actually apply your motivation to design something spectacular. Watch Home in HD on YouTube and check out these random screenshoots I took from it.

Natal — is a technology that science fiction hasn't even written about, and it exists today apparently.

Often we designers ask each other where one finds inspiration. You can get inspired for great new designs from a big variety of sources, but in this post I would like to focus on the subject of nature.

Nature is all around us and it defines us. Our sense of beauty and order is largely based on natural forms and colors. This is why the proportions and rhythms of naturally formed subjects feel just right for a human eye.

We live in the "middle world" to borrow a term from Richard Dawkins. This is the world that we perceive without the aid of technology. The beauty of middle world is well known to us and while it provides a lot of inspiration, one may want look into the micro or macro world to find fresh forms and patterns that are equally pleasant to the eye and less cliche.

Such imagery is fascinating, for example check out these examples:

1. Slime molds that form on food
2. Real snow crystals
3. Micro world images
4. Deep space photography

In this second part of best logos from Brands of the World post — as suggested in an earlier post — I will provide reasoning why these logos were picked from the hundreds uploaded.

Wolda's Best of the World 2008 award winner: One degree logo by Landor.

Brazil without a doubt is the newest capital of advertising next to New York, London and Singapore.

Brazil has a rich and diverse culture. It has sky scrapers with advanced technology and ancient rain forests with undiscovered human tribes. Brazil has the richest and poorest folk in the world. Brazil produced not only the most beautiful people — half of the internationally known top models are Brazilian — but great artists too.

Brazil has become the perfect place to grow and nurture advertising art directors. Here is a collection of some of the recent best illustrative work done in advertising. Hope you like it!

4 minute short film by Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, USA.

You may have heard that Brands of the World (BotW) is now part of Graphics.com, just like creativebits. I thought it would be fun to select the ten best logos uploaded on BotW every week to inspire you.

3 telecom logo by WHAM from UK.

Time for part three of the series about inspirational and creative business cards. Check out what designers came up with for their clients to make a great first impression. And, if you haven't checked already, check out part 1 and part 2 of the series for some truly spectacular business card ideas.

Let's start with a video of a laser cut card. This idea really pushes the limits of what can be achieved with paper.