The Planning Lab » Graphic design http://www.theplanninglab.com Selected thoughts on branding and communications for creative planners and strategic creative types. BETA. Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:16:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 The anatomy of a great idea http://www.theplanninglab.com/2010/10/the-anatomy-of-a-great-idea/ http://www.theplanninglab.com/2010/10/the-anatomy-of-a-great-idea/#comments Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:03:06 +0000 Leon http://www.theplanninglab.com/?p=814

Me and my colleague and wiz designer Daniel Forero here at Jung von Matt Stockholm just made this poster.
Hope you like it.


More colors coming soon!

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Most slides are ugly. Here’s a grid to make nicer ones.

Download PDF

]]> http://www.theplanninglab.com/2010/05/better-looking-slides/feed/ 0 Become your own artist http://www.theplanninglab.com/2009/02/become-your-own-artist/ http://www.theplanninglab.com/2009/02/become-your-own-artist/#comments Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:00:16 +0000 Leon http://theplanninglab.com/?p=113 Bild-2

Here's a totally addictive thing that Max sent me:

Become your own artist with your own album

To Do This

1 – Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random… Read more”

or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 – Go to "Random quotations"

or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 – Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”

or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days

Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 – Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.


The album above is mine (which looks like a 90s ambient-electro-chill CD btw). 

Here are some more from Jon, Oskar and Magnus:

Bild 30

Awhile

Jimmyluxory

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Color theory according to Wassily Kandinsky:

“Green is like a fat, very healthy cow lying still and unmoving, only capable of chewing the cud, regarding the world with stupid dull eyes.”

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Full-size version

DeviantART [via Boing Boing]

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Wallpaper* magazine celebrates 100 issues and 11 years of travel, design, entertainment, fashion and media.
Link

]]> http://www.theplanninglab.com/2007/06/100-wallpaper-covers/feed/ 0 The London 2012 brand http://www.theplanninglab.com/2007/06/the-london-2012-brand/ http://www.theplanninglab.com/2007/06/the-london-2012-brand/#comments Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:24:13 +0000 Leon http://theplanninglab.com/?p=478 Largepinkwhite

Not sure what to think about the new London 2012 brand logo (made by Wolff Olins). It doesn’t appeal to me aesthetically, but it’s something new and different, dynamic and modern -attributes I associate with London. What do you think?

Watch a video about the brand here.

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These awesome Black Panther newspaper covers from 1969-1971 are now available as posters from Bobby Seale.

Bobby Seale [via Boing Boing]

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