New Work: Embliqué

Posted by: admin @ 3:40 pm | Date: July 27, 2010 | Comments (0)
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The flowers connect to the organic nature of the product.

Trent Design has been hard at work on a branded design for a local cosmetics company called Embliqué. Tasked with the challenge of marketing a soon to be launched line of products, our designers guided everything from art directing photo shoots, swanky press checks (those metallic foils and screens aren’t going to print themselves folks!), and a new e-commerce website to be launched mid-August. Feast your eyes on a few of the smaller details (more to come later) that emerged from this job.

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Carefully considered photography for page spreads and the product brochure.

Photo by Iryna Zhygalkina

Thank you to Scherer Inc. for a fascinating project. It gave us a chance to stretch our design muscles a bit. Also, another big thanks goes out to our co-conspirators who helped us with all the usual business (copy editing, printing, and product photography). All in all, a unique project. Stick around — As more pieces of the design enter the last phase of being built, we’ll continue to post what we cook up!

Blogging is Good for Business

Posted by: admin @ 2:54 pm | Date: January 24, 2010 | Comments (2)
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With the overload of information out there, you might think that starting your own blog is a waste of time. But au contraire my friend, it is just the opposite. Good blogs are still in demand and chances are you have insight and knowledge that your customers and your prospects are interested in. The operative words are ‘good,’ ‘information driven,’ ‘timely,’ and ‘useful.’

Letters to Loveliza

Posted by: andrew @ 12:23 am | Date: May 16, 2008 | Comments (0)
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Design by Marian Bantjes. “Love” Letters, get it? But that’s an entirely different story.

Pretty funny. Letters to Loveliza: Daily Design Questions Answered Firmly.

Via I Love Typography

The Sky is Falling

Posted by: andrew @ 5:59 pm | Date: April 30, 2008 | Comments (0)
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Movie poster of The Night the World Exploded!, 1957

I haven't even finished reading this yet but, Steven Heller over at Design Observer paints a picture of existential gloom and doom in this article focused on interpreting the end of the world.

Aptly named: The Sky is Falling

These are the kind of things that shoot through my brain on any given day. And my reaction to all-out-armegedeon is share it with the rest of you. Visit my cloud of unwholesome global devastation for a minute won’t you?

Read the rest of the story here.

What is it with Graphic Designer’s and Music?

Posted by: andrew @ 1:45 pm | Date: April 28, 2008 | Comments (1)
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Writer and all around observer Adrian Shaughnessy talks about the effects of music on the designer and their ubiquitous connection.

“I’ve never worked in a design studio where music wasn’t played pretty much constantly. Nor can I recall visiting a studio where music wasn’t being played, or where designers weren’t wired up to headphones and bobbing rhythmically to unheard sounds. What is it with graphic designers and music? Is there a symbiotic relationship between the two? Are there studios where music is considered a hindrance? Or does music aid creative thinking and make us better designers?”

View the rest of the article here

Via Design Observer