Louboutins

Christian Louboutin is a footwear designer. Since 1992, his designs have incorporated the shiny, red-lacquered soles that have become his signature. I'll admit it's very "girly" of me to be posting this on my blog in my Design category, but to me Louboutin shoes is one of the greatest pieces of art in the fashion world today. It's so interesting that just the addition of 1 colour, changed the whole look of the shoe. Apparently Louboutin's goal is to “make a woman look sexy, beautiful, to make her legs look as long as he can”. To be honest i don't think I've ever seen sexier shoes than his. The history behind the red soles is that while Christian was working on a prototype of his design in Paris, he loved the color of red nail polish someone was using near him. He quietly put this color on his shoe and ..just with that.. he created fashion history. At some point he thought to use different colors on all his designs, but when he saw how the red looked he knew that it was it. By just adding the 1 colour on the bottom of his shoes, he turned them from any other designer footwear to icon pieces that can be spotted from a mile away. I also really like his logo. it completely suits the whole brand identity, its so classy and french, and i think its timeless. i dont think a logo like that would go out of style, for designer shoes.
I went on the website, and like many other designer brands' sites, it was really cool and properly developed to be completely relevant to the brand image. I love how the image of the shoes walks up to whatever you clicked. the sound effects for that and for the intro of the site makes it more interesting. Some parts of it are quite wacky and weird, but still very relevant.

http://www.christianlouboutin.com/

Life with Editors

This is a piece done by illustrator/graphic designer Christoph Niemann. It doesn't look particularly appealing, however as designers I think we can all relate :).

Film posters

These are a few posters I came across for old Arabic films during the 60s and 70s. I thought it was really interesting to see since they look so different from the posters we are used to seeing of Hollywood movies. While those would mainly consist of highly enhanced photographs, these mainly use illustrations of the actors, and use a certain tone that hints towards the main plot of the story. You could draw certain conclusions about the styles of imagery as well as typography at that time.
These posters were mainly hung on walls in specific areas, especially advertised for people of the working class, as they were the most visitors of the cinema at the time.

10 packaging designs I like

Nice doing business with you

"Materialistic"

"Cut-it-out"

Close to graduating, its time to start thinking about my own identity and style. In a competitive field such as graphic design, it's important to show differentiation and to stand out. A business card can be a representation of those things. More importantly, it gives a first impression of your style and who you are as a designer.
These are some of the business cards that i loved. Each one is unique, and highly relevant to it's field in terms of idea, material, layout, typography... The ideas never end. It's amazing how you can do so much with a small piece of paper.
Looking at many different business cards got me thinking of my own style, how much I've developed of it over the past 2 years, and where I'd like to take it over the next term. Each of the cards is an inspiration towards a different style that i would like to experiment with and apply in my major project.
I think if i had to choose one of the cards that is most likely to be mine, it would be the first. Just type on blank lined paper.