When Neenah Papers set out to revamp the look of their CLASSIC brand, they entrusted the job to one of the most amazing design firms in the U.S. - Design Army. True to form, Design Army gave them amazing results. A video diary of their design process in this venture provides wonderful insight into the kind of strategic planning that allows them to produce the caliber of work that makes the firm the success it is today.

Cool Advertisement


A Faber Castell advertisement for their artist pens, displays Singapore based art director and designer, Chan Hwee Chong's amazing talent in spiral drawings. Three masterpieces were created for the advertisement - The Mona Lisa, Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait, and The Girl with the Pearl Earring. If these pieces by themselves aren't amazing enough to impress you, watching the actual process to create them is sure to blow your mind!

Would HOW Choose You?


HOW Magazine's Top 10 Websites for Designers for the month of October might inspire the design of your personal website, assure you that you're on the right track, or perhaps persuade you to redesign.

MagaNews


The world of design constantly grows and expands with technological advancements, providing designers with fresh, new and exciting mediums to adapt to. Designing for print, grew into designing for screen, which split into design for animation, web, and mobile devices, and now includes tablets. Quickly gaining popularity among iPad users is 'The Daily', a news app so intricately designed it can't be boxed into one category. Stephanie Orma calls it "a magazine-meets-newspaper-meets-the-most-wow-worthy technology", in her article "Designer Spotlight: The Daily Taps into the Future of Design".

A Great Mind, A Great Loss


Last week the world mourned the loss of Steve Jobs. His contributions to technological advancement and marketing strategies were leading the industries. Since then many have paid tribute to his memory, and continue to do so. 19 year Jonthan Mak created the above design in Job's honor.

Scanners Beware!


Sketch quality, digitally, with ease. 'How?' you ask. With Inkling - a new product from Wacom that captures a digital likeness of a sketch being made on a piece of paper. The product will be on the market in just a few weeks, so watch for it.