Packaging design is challenging enough with the everyday evolution of products as manufactures constantly search for better ways to make their products smaller and a bit “easier” on the eyes of consumers. More than anything, it can be a hassle having to look for increasingly efficient ways to package your product, especially if your design has to provide a solution for current ecological needs.
Eco-friendly packaging need to be well-designed, streamlined, biodegradable and easily recycled or reused. Greener packaging design fulfills the needs of a business having to connect with it’s targeted consumers without sacrificing our environment.
Tailing along with the eco-friendly movement and viable advice listed above we’ve provided you with 30 creative and stunning eco-friendly packaging concepts.
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Jam3 have created this interactive companion for the award-winning National Film Board documentary Waterlife. Waterlife is the story of the last great supply of fresh drinking water on Earth â the Great Lakes. Jam3 have taken all the major content and themes from the documentary and by utilizing Flash, Papervision and a truly amazing soundtrack they have created an online experience which tells the story of the extreme state of distress that the Great Lakes are in. Full credits and a Q&A with Jam3 on the site are here.
The internet is continually growing, but how big is it really? And what about Twitter, is it as popular or as big as we think? These are a two questions being asked in todays news, oh, we also have 40 free iconsets.
40 Free and Useful GUI Icon Sets for Web Designers
The demand for free GUI icons is always great, so when a post as good as this comes along you have to bookmark it and share it. The post contains quite a few new iconsets, all are well designed, and, as the title says, useful.
40 Free and Useful GUI Icon Sets for Web Designers
How big is the internet?
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A great discovery courtesy of Behance :
Mexican designer Sergio Vichique has a high-quality selection of works in his portfolio.
5 days to fill up all the empty spaces in a room. That's what the brazilian duo Mulheres Barbadas asked for as part of a project they are working on in partnership with Micasa and the studio 2087. The work is LIVE at http://www.mulheresbarbadas.com
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The free transform tool can be daunting if you don’t know how to use it. The tool has a lot of hidden options that make it quite powerful. In this tutorial we will be manipulating a simple square to show you the basics and then we will move on to a real life application.
First: The basics
Step 1: Draw A square with the rectangle tool (u)
Step 2: Select Edit>Free Transform Path (or Command+T)
You should see little handles on the corners and the middle of the sides of the square.
Step 3: Grab one of the handles and drag it from the square
Go ahead and experiment. Adding keyboard shortcuts while using the transform tool is being used really unleashes its power.
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'Transitionist' Deanne Cheuk effortlessly shifts between the roles of designer, artist, illustrator, and art director, establishing an epic body of work.
By Matthew Newton, Senior Editor
Deanne Cheuk landed her first job as an art director at the age of 19, the same year she graduated from Curtin University with a degree in graphic design. Since then, she has produced a wildly diverse body of work, everything from art direction and design, to illustration and printmaking. She has art directed Tokion Magazine; been commissioned to create art by corporations like American Express, Urban Outfitters, and The New York Times Magazine; published a book of her art titled Mushroom Girls Virus; and ...
Don’t you find it frustrating to browse Flash sites because you can’t use the browser’s back/forward button or send your friend to a certain section? The solution to this problem would be SWFaddress — a small Javascript library that lets you create virtual URLs for Flash and Ajax. SWFaddress has been around since 2006, and surprisingly not all Flash sites are utilizing this tool. In this post, I’ve collected 20 sites (Flash and Ajax) that are using SWFaddress. (more…)
The popular design community site DesignBump, has undergone a major facelift, read about how the site was redeveloped. Also, we have the most overblown guide to Twitter, 20 pages and using 5382 words, all for a service that limits you to a 140 charcter message!
Behind the Scenes of the DesignBump Redesign
DesignBump has recently had a major overall. The pioneer behind the design was, the multi-talented, Chris Spooner, from blog.spoongraphics.co.uk. In his article he talks about the web development process from sketch to end product. The article gives you a great insight into a professional designers workflow.
Behind the Scenes of the DesignBump Redesign
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