Design

Oliveira Longboards

Oliveira Longboards

Just found a project from my area that I didn't had a clue that existed! Meet Oliveira Longboards... This is the proof that Portugal has great products, projects and designs! Now i have an urge to ride a board again (geez that was a long time ago) and to spend some money in one cool longboard like these. My sincere congratulations to Oliveira Longboards and wishes of a successful project. Here are some photos of their products. In case you are wondering, here's Oliveira Longboards facebook and website.

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Pantone Tarts

Griottes Pantone Tarts

French food designer Emilie De Griottes has come up with dessert tarts that resemble Pantone color swatches. Griottes uses everyday foods such as berries, bananas and candies for the respective colors, and marks each tart with the Pantone color represented. Source: Plenty of Colour

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Modern Movies, Vintage Posters

Trainspotting Vintage Poster

Ever wonder how the posters of some modern movies would look a few years ago? Well, wonder no more, Peter Stults and his photoshop skills took modern films, recast them and created retro B-movie posters in their likeness. Peter Stults has more projects in his Behance account, if you wish to peek. I suggest the Everyday Posters for Everyday Things. Source: death + taxes

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Pantone Color of the Year 2012

Pantone Color of the Year 2012

As usual Pantone announced next year's color of the year. For 2012, Pantone has chosen the Pantone 17-1463 Tangerine Tango, a vivacious and appealing reddish Orange that  provides the energy boost we need to recharge and move forward. Orange combine the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics, it represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation. The "reddish" orange corresponds to desire, sexual passion, pleasure, domination, aggression, and thirst for action....

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Quinta do Vale – Kiwi Farm

Quinta do Vale

I recently was asked to develop a logo and to photograph a Kiwi farm. For the logo, the client only request was a kiwi, so, keeping the kiwi, i went for a more vintage/classic look since its a traditional hand picking farm, but without losing the elegance. The objective of the photography session was to capture the hand picking process of the kiwis (not staged), and also to show some details of the farm. Here are a few photos of that session, and also the final logo.

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Designer’s Professional Card

Designer's Professional Card

A few weeks ago I received my professional card emitted by the Portuguese Nacional Designer's Association (Associação Nacional de Designers). This card is a recognition that I'm a licensed design professional.

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Famous Letterheads

Charles Schulz - 1958

Some time ago i made a blog post with business cards of ten famous people, now it's time for ten famous letterhead designs... Source: Letterheady

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Business Cards Of Ten Famous People

Steven Jobs, Apple

Here are the business cards of ten famous people. I wish i could get the dates for them, these are probably the first cards they had. Either way, i thought it was something interesting to share.   (source: stocklogos)

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Hiring a freelancer

mac

Why hiring a freelancer? A freelancer work on his own and that can have advantages in several ways. For example, saves resources, better prices compared with some worst services offered by some companies, qualified work and a web of freelance contacts in diversified experties if he needs qualified work for expecific work. How can this be beneficial? When you hire a company to develop your work, you need to have in mind that the company has to support the rent of the space, bills, paychecks of the employees and still have profit for the company. A freelancer normally has knowledge of several...

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