Inkbot Design

JANUARY 24, 2024

They balanced clean, grid-based layouts from the International Typographic Style with handmade brush strokes, fabrics, origami textures, and calligraphy. Prefectures, cities, towns, and train stations adopt cute mascot characters or “yuru kyara” to promote tourism and local goods. trillion yen.

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Graphic Design Graphic Arts and Crafts Print 40

Inkbot Design

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This spans Art Deco influence in the 1930s, Swiss minimalism in the 1950s and 60s, psychedelia in the late 1960s, earth tones in the 1970s, and digital emergence in the 1980s. These Swiss design principles spawned vintage minimalist logo marks across transportation, tourism, finance, insurance, and beyond.

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Inspiration Arts and Crafts Graphic Tourism 80

Inkbot Design

APRIL 8, 2024

Gargantuan Font Fail One colour crime to avoid at all costs? Gargantuan font sizes are the only way to salvage those terrible contrast levels, but it makes for an ugly, awkward UI. Or vice versa with dark backgrounds requiring light font colours. Light-coloured text on a light background (or dark-on-dark). So be safe.

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Coding Brand Branding Animation 80

Inkbot Design

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Avant-garde typography broke free of strict modernist conventions with wiggly, hand-drawn letters or futuristic, space-age fonts. Designers rebelled against previous eras' stiff, uniform fonts by hand-drawing display type and logos. Fashion also took a wild turn, from flared jeans and retro prints to glittery disco flair.

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Graphic Design Graphic Fashion Print 89

Shillington

MARCH 27, 2023

Interestingly, you could google almost any location alongside the words art deco and find a classic tourism poster from this style. American kitsch designs of this era were known for their particular font styles and a futuristic stylisation with dramatised or caricatured imagery. Try it and see what you find.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

I begin sketching initial ideas, then refine them digitally in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. I might say, “This layout draws the eye down the page like a cascade, mirroring the waterfall image to reinforce the eco-tourism theme.” Choices like fonts, shapes, and symbols should reinforce the desired brand image.

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Graphic Design Graphic Client Layout 79

Shillington

APRIL 13, 2020

Interestingly, you could google almost any location alongside the words art deco and find a classic tourism poster from this style. American kitsch designs of this era were known for their particular font styles and a futuristic stylisation with dramatised or caricatured imagery. Contrasting imagery and fonts. Characteristics.

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