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Cool Business Cards - More design inspiration!

Speaking to another designer friend of mine the other day about business card design, I remembered a flickr photostream that I stumbled across whilst messing around on Google. The gallery is brimming with some of the most amazing, clever, clean, sophisticated, and downright crazy business card designs you’ll ever lay eyes upon. If you fancy stepping away from the usual double/single sided, vertical/horizontal designs that a lot of businesses use then this is the place to go to get some ideas.

Here are some of my favourites, not all of them are designs I would choose, but the creative ideas used on some of them are quite remarkable! Continue reading ‘Cool Business Cards - More design inspiration!’

Design Inspiration – Where to go when creative block sets in

As all you designers will be aware, graphic design books professing to conjure inspiration for those creatively challenging days are abundant, but most cost a small fortune, and with the web expanding faster than the universe there are a whole host of resources available for us to use. This not only benefits the design world, but also the clients that we work for – they too can now browse through thousands of designs to be found on gallery sites all over the web. Continue reading ‘Design Inspiration – Where to go when creative block sets in’

UPDATE: Is the BIG Media Design website ready yet?

As some of you will know I’ve been working on my new company identity and website for a while now…. Ok, ok, it’s been an eternity. If you are a designer you’ll know that designing something for yourself can be a pain in the backside, with the inevitable create-hate create-hate create-hate problem that all designers struggle with. Continue reading ‘UPDATE: Is the BIG Media Design website ready yet?’