D. Halstead Design

Thoughts about graphic design

Oil Inspirationist :: Harold Hollingsworth

May 5th, 2009

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Seattle oil evokateur, Harold Hollingsworth, captures a swirling Retro style in his unique paintings. These large-scale canvases capture movement and depth while encompassing fragments of the 50′s, 60′s and 70′s design styles.

Geometric :: Pattern Fonts

April 29th, 2009

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Containing 100 geometric pattern fonts for Mac and Windows, Geometric is a book which gives designers a mountain of resource material. The book comes with a CD containing the 100 pattern fonts – the most extensive pattern font collection available from any foundry.

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Pixelated Pop

April 21st, 2009

cristianzuzunaga-4-thumb Artist & designer Cristian Zuzunaga, a Barcelona-born artist & designer, captures sheer imagination in his pixelated fabric prints, clothing designs and architecural influenced pixel-pop prints.

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Stihl Ad Campaign – Blown Away

April 9th, 2009

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Kudos to the team at Winsper in Boston for a brilliant ad campaign for Stihl products. Above is one of the magazine ads which is part of the campaign, with great copy highlighting the bad economy. It’s rare in today’s advertising marketing, with tighter and tighter budgets, to actually write briliiant copy for such a visually-based ad that will only be blown away. See more ads after the link.

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Everything Old Is New

April 5th, 2009

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Created in-house, the new Antropologie Home Catalog features a clever retro-scrapbook look. As evidenced by current trends of design and marketing today, the use of retro-colors and fabric patterns seem right at home on this home catalog site.

Type Desk Reference

March 23rd, 2009

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It’s rare to find a contemporary book with such clarity which details the details of typography. This book serves as a handy desktop reference book yet is chocked full of details for a more in-depth study of typography.
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