Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Winter Olympic Poster Showcase

Friday, February 26th, 2010

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While playing around on the internet I was looking at some poster designs and came across some olympic posters for this years Vancouver games. I thought it would be good to go and look at some of the past olympic posters and see what they were like. Coming across some VERY old posters from the 1930’s and 40’s was pretty surprising and yet, very great because I got to see how the designs varied between years.

I picked out 10 of the posters that I found that show a great difference of designs. Some retro design, modern, and maybe a one or two that don’t really seem to work extremely well. Here they are:

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1924

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1932

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1936

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1998

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2006

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2010

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2010

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These were just a few of the many posters, obviously there are several years that I skipped, and there are even several renditions from different countries that I didn’t put in my selection. If you have any to share please feel free to send them to me or post a link in the comments.

As always, comments are encouraged and appreciated. Thank you.

IT’S ALIVE!!!!

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

its alive

Yes, I have yet again re-designed my website, this time I have integrated my template into Wordpress.

I welcome, and appreciate any comments that anyone might be able to give. I know there might be a small fix here or there, I am still tweaking slightly, trying to perfect certain areas at the same time as I am familiarizing myself with Wordpress. Also, Thank you Andrew for the PHP work on the integration, I appreciate it!

I look forward to seeing some comments.. Thanks.

Design Snack – An inspirational tool.

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

DesignSnack

Design Snack is a great website which showcases many different designs which are added to the website for several different reasons. One of them being to show off your work in a sort of portfolio which allows visitors to like or dislike your site, and comment on it as well.

I have been using Design Snack now for some time now, to find inspiration for different websites that I have been involved in designing. I find it great to see what people are currently using for certain types of websites ranging from retro, grunge, corporate or even just personal portfolios & blogs. Obviously while using a site like this for inspiration, copying the design is not intended so I do not suggest doing so. This tends to make the designer quite angry, and can result in a potential lawsuit.

Design Snack has sections for HTML/CSS based websites or Flash based sites. The ability to set up a profile and save websites to view later is also available, this is great if you are browsing on lunch and wish to come back later on to have another look at a particular design you were slowly falling in love with. Submitting a design is simple as well, sign up, and submit a portfolio item by uploading a screenshot of your website. Your screenshot can be cropped accordingly toward specific areas on your site, etc.

My personal posting is currently located here: Nickburd.com – Design Snack Please feel free to comment, or rate my posting. Rating will help move my website up the ranks to allow it to be more viewed by others. Thank you in advance.