These packaging designs are a great source of inspiration. This is a showcase of the most creative and cutting-edge designs from the world of packaging. Package design is a very important design element due to its direct relationship with the environment and therefore climate.

Here we present the second ‘weekly best of the web’. This is a weekly post that showcases news, inspiration and interesting offerings from the design community.

Here we present the first ‘weekly best of the web’. This is a weekly post that showcases news, inspiration and interesting offerings from the design community. We have worked hard at collecting all these from around the interweb and really  hope you enjoy them.

Some of these include long exposure which combined with lights can create spectacular effects. To make professional looking images a tripod and a good camera are essential.

Looking at Business cards are always a great way to get inspired. As a designer they offer a rounded and cohesive graphic design project from layout to print.

Macro photography is close-up photography. The classical definition is that the image projected on the “film plane” (i.e., film or a digital sensor) is close to the same size as the subject. On 35 mm film (for example), the lens is typically optimized to focus sharply on a small area …

Continuing on our theme of movie posters from each decade here are a selection of posters form the 50’s. In the early 1950s Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning were enormously influential. Pop Art used the iconography of television, photography, comics, cinema and advertising.

Once again here is another decade’s film posters, this time the 1960′s. What is truly awe inspiring about these posters is they are all originally drawn and painted by hand, no Illustrator or Photoshop here. Tomorrow there will  be a tutorial and next week we’ll continue this movie poster series.

As promised here is another selection of awesome movie posters. This time from the 1970’s.

Movie poster art is everywhere. It is designed to leave a mark in the 2-3 seconds you see them on the subway escalator, walking down the road and driving round. Here are a collection of movie posters from the 1980’s; it’s amazing to think some of these films came out …