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The Olympics Infographic

zaheed — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:44:15 +0000

To gear up for the olympics, we’ve put together an infographic to get us all up to date with all the host cities, medal winners and participants thereof.

pen and paper series

zaheed — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:31:55 +0000

Petrol head days

zaheed — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:18:34 +0000

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I found these design pieces on our backups earlier this morning and I had to post it to the www. Back in 2006, we got involved with the petrol heads of Cape Town. I think it is safe to say that Cape Town was at its peak with the car club culture in 2006. Every month there would either be a Dyno Day, Park off, Show n Shine, etc. I can remember even a big brand such as Castrol Edge got involved in the scene. Our little contribution to the scene was the design of a few flyers, posters and magazine layouts.

30 Funny & Creative ads that will make your day better

zaheed — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:15:50 +0000

We have gathered a collection of 30 Funny & Creative Ads and we think that you shouldn’t miss them under any circumstances. There are several reasons for that. Firstly, they are hilarious. Secondly, they are smart. Thirdly, they will probably make your day better. Thus, we gave you enough reasons for viewing them with extreme care.

Now, below you’ll be seeing some hilarious ads made by some great and giant advertisement agencies such as Leo Burnett, Grey, MCcan or Saatchi & Saatchi. Nevertheless, other less mainstream agencies are present, and the quality of the ads they’re producing is sometimes even better if compared with the multinational agencies. Nevertheless, we’ve got Volkswagen, Jeep, McDonald’s, Samsung, Adidas and many more. Therefore, enjoy, be inspired and if you will like this article, then please share it with your friends or community! Many thanks! Cheers!

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Valentine’s Day

Preuss Und Preuss

New Wife, New Rules

Dynamix

Jeep

Leo Burnett

Australian Surfer Sunblock

Bondi Advertising

Begendik Supermarket

SV Studios

Ültje Crispers

Kolle Rebbe

Turinta (The Faster You Get There, the better)

McCann

Cow Parade

Propague

Canon PowerShoot S90 with optical image stabilizer

Draft FCB

Volkswagen

DMG

Sandoc

McCann

Prudence

Z+

Moustaches Make A Difference

TBWA

Cam

BBDO

Délifrance

Saatchi & Saatchi

Burgus Burger Bar

Almog Dvir

Nikol-Stop Using Newspapers

Gitam BBDO

Schweppes

Grey

Google

Grey

Masterdog Light

Young & Rubicam

Granny is Back

Young & Rubicam

Voltaren

Saatchi & Saatchi

Great Cinema’s Collateral Effect N.2

Young & Rubicam

McDonald’s

Leo Burnett

Samsung

Leo Burnett

Adidas

TBWA

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Abstract Collection Of Retina Ipad Wallpapers

zaheed — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:56:54 +0000

This is age of iPads, people just like to have these amazing inventions of information tech. Convinced that you may be some sort of iPad user and additionally like to transform the iPad into a mobile TV, or perhaps personalize your own iPad springboard with Retina backgrounds , best themes, and tweaks. Searching for the best iPad Retina wallpapers, consequently this is going to be a good time to grab from here. Details after the hop!
Below is a selection of wallpaper designs for the iPad (third Gen). A lot of the designs are really character of the CUBEN Area show specifically for utilize to the iPad because wallpaper at Retina resolution.

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CUBEN Space 1

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CUBEN Space 2

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CUBEN Space 3

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CUBEN Space 4

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CUBEN Space 5

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CUBEN Space 6

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CUBEN Space 7

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CUBEN Space 8

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CUBEN Shambles 1

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CUBEN Shambles 2

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CUBEN Fibre 1

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CUBEN Reflect 1

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Twisted Geometry J

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Impressive Art Inspired by The Avengers

zaheed — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:51:48 +0000

by alegarza

The Avengers 4

by JasonMetcalf

Avengers

by hanzthebox

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70 Fantastic Cake Designs Which Will Make You Look Twice

zaheed — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:13:18 +0000

When we saw the awesome cakes made by Ilhaam Wise-Serhan from Van De Kaap Cakes, we had to find some cake eye candy. See below cakes from around the world that will make you look twice.

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Zebra Cake by Christina

Crazy Cupcake Cake by Claudia

Remy and his Le Creuset Pot by Nati’s Cake

Vegetarian Sushi Cake by Zoe Lukas

Toadstool House Cake by Shamima Desai

5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Cake by Gene Eiseman

Big Mac and Fries Cake by Sarah Rich

Sewing Basket Cake by Lisa B

Moet Champagne Celebration Cake by Gelly Kalouta

Custom Ring Box Mini Cake Design by Amy Eliert

Shoebox and Stiletto Cake by Julie

Diaper Bag Mini Cake Design by Julie

Food and Drink Cakelet Designs by Amy Eliert

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New website and logo – Cathkin Caterers

zaheed — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:01:47 +0000

Zaeem and Saajida Rawoot commissioned us to rebuild their website and freshen up their existing logo. This was quite challenging and a fun project. All the delicious food just made us hungry all the time. The creative direction was too build an identity that was classy, timeless and professional. Our first task was too “freshen” up the existing logo.

Cathkin Caterers logo
The logo was quite a challenge as the brief was not too go off far from the original logo. Thus we had to keep the greens and blacks as well as the spoon, knife and fork.

Old logo

New logo

Cathkin Caterers new website

Their old website was built in flash. Yes in flash. After careful planning and strategizing along with Zaeem and Saajidah we officially came up with the site map, which gave us an indication of how many pages we need.

We then moved onto the wireframes. We went for a clean and practicle layout so that the end user can easily navigate through the website. Their are four call to actions on the home page and 1 in the right column of the other pages.

We then moved onto the design after the wireframes was signed off by Zaeem and Saajidah. We kept the design consistent with the new logo so that their is an emphasis on brand continuity.

After the design was signed off we then moved onto the coding of the site. We used some of the new CSS3 features like box shadows, drop shadows on text and gradient on the drop down navigation blocks.

The final result.

CLICK HERE to view the live website!

Web Design Trends for 2012

zaheed — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:49:42 +0000

Web design is a creative process and just like any other creative subjects it has trends that define it for a certain period of time.

Whether it is about colors, coding, shapes, interactivity – trends are the ones that relate to a certain period of time in web design and most designers take them into consideration in order to be up to date with everything.

Trends are also defined by usability, so in my opinion they should not be ignored when designing a web page. Here is a round up for just some of the web design trends for the year of 2012. There are still more to come soon!

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01. Responsive design

We have already gone through this subject in our previous posts, but this is a really popular trend for the upcoming “creative” season in the designer community, as well as for website developers. Many websites started to be coded responsively starting with 2010 due to the increasing number of gadgets that range from smartphones with smaller screens to tablets, to desktop computers. Designing a solution for each screen size is way too costly and in the end not effective, especially if there are so many tools and techniques that will help you create a cool responsive website.

An important thing to consider when designing responsively is how content is visually set on the website. Fonts and typography have to be wisely chosen, so that they would look good and readable, no matter the screen size.

Grids will have a bigger influence on responsive web design in 2012, and they have started gaining in popularity and use. Designers started using them more frequently and trusting them more, even if they have been on the web for a long time now.

02. Interactive and Intuitive Design

What you can see in Flash today on most of the websites is not what was in the past. This is not the annoying Flash interface you could get some years ago; hence it looks more professional and has its own place in design. It is true that many designers might prefer HMTL5 or jQuery for different features they would like to implement when designing their websites, but still Flash is pretty strong due to the interactivity it offers.

The term interactive typography will also make its place more and more in the designer communities this year. Creative typography has always been a trend, but if you would like to create an interactive design, use cool typography and engage the user to know more about your website. The use of modal windows is also acquiring force in website design and this adds a lot to the interactivity of a website.

Presenting important information as simple as possible, with the right use of typography and overall design will make your website intuitive and user friendly and this is yet another important trend for the year 2012.

03. Oversized Logos/ Headers

Even though this is not a trend specifically set for 2012, it is still on and lots of designers start using oversized logos or headers in order to promote their websites or companies. However it’s not only about promoting, once the design is successful it could be quite an eye-catch and might get the attention of the website visitors.

Oversized logos can add up an unique touch to a website and if thought through well, a well-designed oversized logo or header will benefit the overall aspect of the website, hence you can choose on how to better display information for the user. Some users are sometimes more comfortable with scrolling than with clicking. Keep this in mind when choosing the design for a website.

04. Minimalism

Focusing on user experience; hence following the principle: “keep it simple” is a must for the next web design season. This might not be considered as a new trend, but it is taking force in the latest web design samples I have spotted on the web. Information is clearly presented, focusing on the most important pieces, them being presented first and going through to the least important information.

Users are comfortable searching for the content they need when it is simple and user friendly, this is why a lot of designers tend to keep their design minimal, without overcrowding it with different elements that are not quite needed. Minimalism in shapes, features and taxonomies is a real trend lately, the number of websites overcrowded with information and graphics becoming smaller day by day.

05. Infographics

There is no other better way to present information than putting it in a chart or graph. Visualizing things is much easier than reading about them. You would always look for visuals rather than reading tons of text that in the end might be totally confusing. Putting all the information in a nicely done chart will be strongly appreciated by the end user and he will definitely be willing to share good pieces of information with other people.

Compiling one of these infographics definitely takes up from your precious time, and you might spend a lot on photoshop’ing and getting the right result, but in the end you are doing it for the user.

Don’t hesitate to use infographics in your design, if you have some information to present. This step will be greatly appreciated by the people interested in the content of your website.

06. The 3D effect

Applying depth of perception to your design is something rather new to the web design community but it is a trend that has gained weight lately. Playing with colors, gradients and other tricks will make your design interactive and will engage the user to get to see and appreciate it.

Creating dimensions in your design will make it look different than all the other websites out there and will create an interesting effect. Once you play with depths of field correctly, you will get that 3D effect that looks so fresh and new on website design.

07. HTML5 & CSS3

HTML5 and CSS3 team up in bringing fruitful designs, offering new features available for web developers.

Designers envision a bright future for these two, especially if you follow the latest standards out there. There are lots of HTML5/CSS3 project codes online that you can read and find out more about that, rather than reinventing the wheel. This collaboration will definitely offer you more possibilities and let you find the perfect solution for a website design.

image credits – adactio, b0xman .

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40 Funny and Awesome Facebook Timeline Covers For Your Profile

zaheed — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:09:00 +0000

Facebook launched the Timeline in its F8 convention on 22 Sept 2011. Timeline is a totally new design of your profile. Timeline allows you to go through all your history as per months and years and thus the name Timeline. This is not it. The first thing that is visible on the timeline is a Timeline Cover Photo. This is the place where you have all the liberty in the world to try and showcase what and who you are. You can customize your pics in such a way that it could give a totally different dimension to your profile.

There are also quite a few haters of the FB Timeline feature, but I still believe till that feature is present you need to enjoy that to the fullest. There are quite a few Timeline generators available on the net. In this post we are publishing 40 Funny and Awesome Facebook Timeline Covers For Your Profile.

In the meanwhile you may want to read Creative Facebook Timeline Profile Cover Photo see some great examples of how Timeline covers are used by people all around the globe.

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