Mood Boards

I am obsessed with mood boards lately! School has made me construct lots and lots of them, and I find them a great help when I get stuck on a design project. Photography and colors are obsessions of mine too, so communicating the feeling of an event or project by collecting inspirational material is super fun for me. I found a fabulous wedding blog (which is inspirational and fabulous even if you aren't tying the knot) that regularly features mood boards like the pretty one below. 100 Layer Cake is totally beautiful and worth a browse.

ASDA Lunch Packaging

Cute and creative lunch packaging by Emma Smart:


"The brief asked for them to be seperate solutions, however still maintain a strong visual idenity throughtout the collection. The lunchboxes cover three distinctive ranges, healthy, satisying and childrens."

(via the dieline)

Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre

I've seen these funny and pretty little things in several places, and took some time to actually visit the Silhouette Masterpiece Theatre site today. Well worth it.

Branding Obama

Logo Design Love summed up an interview with Sol Sender, who led the design team for the Obama campaign logo. The post featured some of the ideas that didn't quite make the cut. It is interesting to see the process preceeding the ubiquitous "O"–some of the solutions were beautifully modern.

Max Kerning

My friend and fellow graphic design student Briana turned me on to this funny and fabulous promotional site for Suitcase Fusion 2.

Good design cannot happen without proper Typography. And a big part of making type look pretty is the space between the letters, which is adjusted through kerning. As Max says:

Improper letter spacing is a visual assault. Serif or sans serif, all text must be sans chaos. Fulfillment can be found in a clean font.

He must have heard of my loathing for Comic Sans. Oh Max Kerning, marry me.