Love logos? Drool over graphic design? These articles are for you, covering everything from creative layouts (both web and print) to double-meaning logo designs and artistic illustrations.
Nothing softens the harshness of the world wide web like a little watercolor. Whether used as a sheer splash of color on an otherwise minimalist website or as the basis of an entire web design, ...
How do you make a website visually dynamic, without using any special effects? There's nothing quite like the artsy and adventurous look of hand-drawn graphics. The juxtaposition of these ...
A well-designed logo is timeless, simple, memorable, versatile and appropriate. But then there are the hideous, the bizarre, the unreadable and the offensive (whether due to unintended double ...
Clean, graphic, simple and powerful. In a sea of logos, the ones that stand out say the most with the least amount of fuss. Clever designers pack memorable corporate branding into professional ...
The art of typography goes far beyond Arial and Helvetica. There is a certain elegance in the way that typographers can take a standard set of letters and turn them into unique and lovely works ...
A logo is a company's most visible piece of visual branding, stamped on everything from billboards to promotional pens. But sometimes, you can stare at a familiar design again and again before ...
Hobos have played a big part in the history of America - one that's often ignored. They were the nomadic workers who roamed the country at the start of the 20th century and through the Great ...
(Above Designs, Clockwise from Upper Left via: Pinoy Athena, iKnod, Mukhtar & Bloc) Much of what we feature on WebUrbanist is the culmination of an artistic or designer process, but it is ...
No matter how often the huge number of professional Photoshop screw-ups are pointed out to a very amused world, more just keep cropping up. Why is this phenomenon still going strong? Short ...
Take the bold, dynamic, careful editing of vintage poster design and combine it with modern imagery like Star Wars and Army of Darkness, and what do you get? Tom Whalen’s “Strong Stuff”, a ...
