Design
Apple Watch marketing trusts printed advertising
It is supposed to be the newest digital hype, the Apple Watch, but to start the hype Apple is using a trusted an proven medium, printed advertising. The company bought no less than 12 pages in the very big March edition of American Vogue. Apple hopes to make its Watch the ´must have´ luxury product…
Lees meerThomas Knoll: I never imagined that my digital darkroom would turn into a product such as Photoshop
19 February marked the 25th anniversary of Adobe´s Photoshop which turned the imaging world upside down. From that moment on high investment in tools as sold by Scitex and Crossfield were no longer necessary. With an Apple Macintosh any creative designer who wasn´t scared of the steep learning curve could use Photoshop to create the…
Lees meerPaper Link: Creative packing with inspiring paper uses
Paper Link by designer Sabine Lenz is a site with many inspiring uses for paper. One of the tools used by Sabine to inspire us is video. Her YouTube channel has many short videos such as “dVice4: From Sustenance to Sensation” in which she unwraps a package from Digital Color Concept which not only has…
Lees meerWild Format Guide #9: Sign Design Software
Standard software is available for wide format printing. But, software packages especially designed for wide format printing with more options are also available. Nessan Clearly lists them in the Wild Format Guide #9. Download the guide via the Blokboek.com downloads page.
Lees meerDutch designer wins biscuit tin design challenge
The winner of the international design challenge for Biscuiterie Jules Destrooper is Dutch designer Femke Veltkamp. Her winning design for a new biscuit tin will be taken into production this year and become available worldwide. Femke Veltkamp is a professional illustrator and lives in Utrecht. She combines drawings with digital design which gives the biscuit…
Lees meerDocker: building cloud apps for any OS
Building and distributing apps can be done in many ways, but if, like Yelp, Ebay and Spotify, you want an app which works with any system and is distributed via the cloud to registered users Docker is one of the best solutions. Docker apps do not need an operating system, are very compact and easy…
Lees meerDirect Mail becomes interactive through clever folding technique
Last week Trish Witkowski showed a very clever ´fold of the week´ on her site Foldfactory. It was a direct mail campaign which by using a clever folding technique, shows an interactive graphic which is sure to get the readers´ attention. Do you want to know how, look at the video on our video page.
Lees meerPaper Peepshows: an 18th century method to give books a third dimension
In the middle of the 18th century Martin Engelbrecht from Augsburg invented a way to bring drawings to life using a certain kind of perspective. He used a special cabinet with lenses and mirrors. More than half a century later printers in Vienna, London and Paris invented a similar effect with what we would now…
Lees meerA calling card
German design bureau Intertone in Hamburg created a Christmas card which makes a call when you open it. Intertone created the card for telecon provider O2 who used it for a special Christmas campaign. The card has an integrated sim card. After opening the card it dials a phone number which allows the recipient to…
Lees meerLaurel Brunner: Fespa´s Planet Friendly Guides, a must for any graphics company
Fespa have published a new version of their Planet Friendly Guides. The 11 short and concise guides describe important topics on sustainability for our industry. Read Laurel´s blog on Blokboek.com about the guides and their contents, such as environmental management, emissions and the ISO 16759 standard for calculation the carbon footprint of print media.
Lees meerThe Top 10 Mistakes Designers Make and How to Avoid Them
From Not Embedded Fonts to PDF Madness, read the Top 10 Mistakes Designers Make and find out how to avoid them with Enfocus Connect. Get the complete A3 size PDF on the Blokboek.com Download Page.
Lees meerTwo and a half meters of Pantone colours
Wim Koning, together with CMI has produced a Pantone fan of 2,5 meters long on the Screen Truepress jet L350 UV Label printer. He is so convinced of the quality that there is nothing he likes better than showing people. Anyone who is interested in this super long colour fan can request one for free.…
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