Bricks & Timber - Design Inspirations

Chart design concept (legibility is king) You probably noticed...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:48:42 -0400

Chart design concept (legibility is king)

You probably noticed that there (on-line) is a lot of cool looking infographics, but when it comes to searching for data, they tend to stop looking so well.

This example of design shows how you can make a legible and also elegant chart. With a good grid and marks searching for specific data is easy.

Large icon concept Large icons can have a text description...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:15:00 -0400

Large icon concept

Large icons can have a text description inside. It gives you some new design options.

Print-inspired digital display ad concept It’s an ad...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:03:00 -0400

Print-inspired digital display ad concept

It’s an ad loosely inspired by Ogilvy’s print ad layouts. This is how it works:

1. The first thing people usually notice is a picture. That’s why it’s the main element of this ad.

I encourage you not to use a popular photo with a smiling blond chick. It’s better and far more original to choose a deep picture with an interesting story that fits to your ad idea. Maybe chicks get clicks, but for many businesses (for some companies it works) it’s not a good branding. It can look like a cheap trick.

BTW, I think that today we have a lack of nostalgia in digital advertising.

2. When photo is interesting, people tend to read its description. Why not to use that?

3. Than we have a place for the main copy.

As you can see, there’s no text on the picture and there’s a lot of whitespace. That’s what makes the ad clean and legible.

4. I used a grid. It helps keep everything in the right order. Very useful thing.

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It’s just a concept. I didn’t test it on the market. However, I hope it will be helpful as an inspiration.

BTW, that space shuttle photo is originally published by NASA in the public domain.

File-size icons. Based on symbolic calibration...

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 19:40:00 -0400

File-size icons.

Based on symbolic calibration weights.

It’s good to use something like that close to size descriptions (like 1MB, 10,5MB).

Minimalist, origami-like twitter icons.

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:33:00 -0400

Minimalist, origami-like twitter icons.