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This is a wordle – a word cloud visually representative of what our Tweets look like (click on the picture to see it full-size). Cool, isn’t? Looks like we tweet a lot about design, surprisingly enough If you’re not already a follower on Twitter, find us @ycdesign (Vicky) or @yellowcardesign (Marc). To create your own . . . → Read More: Twitter Wordle I came across this website – http://kuler.adobe.com/ – a little while ago but didn’t take time to experiment with it much… However, yesterday was a rainy bank holiday so I chose a few pictures taken during the past summer and uploaded them to my Kuler. Kuler is actually a free tool (simply create an account) by . . . → Read More: Kuler – Nice tool for designers
Logo Drafts – Croquis Créations Titi is a new company specializing in “personalized nappy cakes”, which are actually cake-shaped baskets full of baby toys, accessories and of course, nappies. The owner and designer, Stéphanie Lauzon, creates each cake according to her client’s tastes and needs so that every single cake is a . . . → Read More: Créations Titi – Logo! Eat Pray Love The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Fight Club The Beach Trainspotting Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Recently I was in a bookstore where they had a display of the latest edition of the novel Eat Pray Love. The cover featured Julia Roberts sitting on a bench next to a nun, eating something . . . → Read More: Hey, are you a book or a DVD? Yalumba – The Y Series (+ Steve The Cat's nose) Just as we often buy books for their covers, we usually choose our wines according to their bottles. We chose this 2009 Y Series Viognier because we liked the texture, embossing and overall look of its label. The illustration shows vine shoots found in a vineyard . . . → Read More: The Y Series – wine bottle label YCD Paris I recently re-read Made You Look by Stefan Sagmeister, one of my favourite designers. He’s not one of my favourites because of his work (rather ugly, sometimes!), but I like him because of the thinking behind his designs and I just find that the stuff he writes in his books/interviews is quite hilarious and . . . → Read More: YCD Paris
Académie d'Excellence Linguistique Last week I met up with one of our past clients who gave me a few of the business cards that Yellow Car Design created for her company a little while ago. They feature the logo we designed for her language school L’académie d’excellence linguistique. Since most of . . . → Read More: Our work – Business Card + Logo for Language School Eat your burger!! Is it just us, or is this M&M advert really weird? First, what mum is crazy enough to force an hamburger the size of her little child’s head down the little fella’s throat? Hasn’t she heard of the morbidly obese children syndrome? Second, why does the semi-proud, semi-disgusted dad look as if he’s . . . → Read More: Creepy M&M family From Marc ♥ From the in-laws From the sister in-law A few days before my birthday we went on a trip to Niagara-on-the-Lake with Marc’s family, who came all the day from England to visit us. Off the main street we found a great little shop that specializes in selling Japan-imported goods (From Japan Inc. – . . . → Read More: Greetings from Japan (via Niagara-on-the-Lake) Measuring Dolls Latest addition to Yellow Car Design‘s kitchen. Those pretty little things are actually measuring cups (each body and head is a different quantity, see here) and they stack up so don’t take much place. Great example of simple design allying form, function and fun! ______________________ Cuisine Russe En direct de la cuisine de Yellow Car Design, ces . . . → Read More: Russian Tools in the Kitchen |
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