Graphic design
Typography, color, layout.
8 entries
March 8, 2005
February 28, 2005
January 28, 2005
January 30, 2004
DESIGN BY HZL (dbhzl) byhenzel.com - Swedish design for modern rebels
“Design by HZL deliver creative and contemporary design for modern rebels.
A mixed collection for a global design conscious city life. We prioritize quality and durability in design and material.”
October 19, 2003
Learning to Love the Pixel: Exploring the Craft of Icon Design
“Designing web-based enterprise software involves creating complex artifacts like architecture wireframes, object models, screen flows, and clickable prototypes in order to articulate aspects of the online experience for product stakeholders. As an interaction designer at Oracle, this is quite the norm for me. This routine, however, was recently disrupted when I was assigned the task of creating icons for some of our products.”
October 14, 2003
Judging books by their covers, October 2003
“It’s Scary Books Month here, and there are plenty of things to be scared about: a Bible masquerading as a girl’s fashion magazine; a picture book author so taken with herself that she neglects to mention who did the pictures; and the horrors of stroking text.”
A recipe for color
“How do you choose color? One methodology we recently employed aimed at collecting naturally occurring color combinations. Yep, we took images of all of our eyes. Those images were then exported out of Fireworks as a gif which reduced the color palette to a manageable 16 colors. We eliminated repetitive colors like grays, and, using a sharp eye, arrived at one harmonious color palette. Fresh, I tell you.”
September 12, 2003
Creative Bank - Danmarks Designskole
“Creativebank.dk includes both a visualization of the graduation projects and video sequences introducing the new designers and their ideas. We see Creativebank.dk as the design educational meeting-point of the future. The idea is that designers and people interested in design can visit the website for information on design projects from the creative educations and get inspired.”