Design
Dutch designer wins biscuit tin design challenge
The winner of the international design challenge for Biscuiterie Jules Destrooper is Dutch designer Femke Veltkamp. Her winning design for a new biscuit tin will be taken into production this year and become available worldwide. Femke Veltkamp is a professional illustrator and lives in Utrecht. She combines drawings with digital design which gives the biscuit…
Lees meerDocker: building cloud apps for any OS
Building and distributing apps can be done in many ways, but if, like Yelp, Ebay and Spotify, you want an app which works with any system and is distributed via the cloud to registered users Docker is one of the best solutions. Docker apps do not need an operating system, are very compact and easy…
Lees meerDirect Mail becomes interactive through clever folding technique
Last week Trish Witkowski showed a very clever ´fold of the week´ on her site Foldfactory. It was a direct mail campaign which by using a clever folding technique, shows an interactive graphic which is sure to get the readers´ attention. Do you want to know how, look at the video on our video page.
Lees meerPaper Peepshows: an 18th century method to give books a third dimension
In the middle of the 18th century Martin Engelbrecht from Augsburg invented a way to bring drawings to life using a certain kind of perspective. He used a special cabinet with lenses and mirrors. More than half a century later printers in Vienna, London and Paris invented a similar effect with what we would now…
Lees meerA calling card
German design bureau Intertone in Hamburg created a Christmas card which makes a call when you open it. Intertone created the card for telecon provider O2 who used it for a special Christmas campaign. The card has an integrated sim card. After opening the card it dials a phone number which allows the recipient to…
Lees meerLaurel Brunner: Fespa´s Planet Friendly Guides, a must for any graphics company
Fespa have published a new version of their Planet Friendly Guides. The 11 short and concise guides describe important topics on sustainability for our industry. Read Laurel´s blog on Blokboek.com about the guides and their contents, such as environmental management, emissions and the ISO 16759 standard for calculation the carbon footprint of print media.
Lees meerThe Top 10 Mistakes Designers Make and How to Avoid Them
From Not Embedded Fonts to PDF Madness, read the Top 10 Mistakes Designers Make and find out how to avoid them with Enfocus Connect. Get the complete A3 size PDF on the Blokboek.com Download Page.
Lees meerTwo and a half meters of Pantone colours
Wim Koning, together with CMI has produced a Pantone fan of 2,5 meters long on the Screen Truepress jet L350 UV Label printer. He is so convinced of the quality that there is nothing he likes better than showing people. Anyone who is interested in this super long colour fan can request one for free.…
Lees meerNFC tag in BMW advertisement
BMW will place an advert in the German magazine Spiegel Wissen which will make use of NFC tags. NFC (Near Field Communication) makes it possible to adjust content to specific users at specific locations. By holding their smart phones against the advert readers can download the BMW app immediately. Through this digital interaction potential clients…
Lees meerThe flexibility of paper as a means of communication
Thanks to YouTube, the ultimate form of digital communication, you can see what creative minds can do with paper. A Chinese artist, forced by lack of money to use paper, constructed a female head which is a perfect example of the flexibility of paper. Watch the video on the Blokboek.com Video Page.
Lees meerInk changing colour by breathing on it
Chinese scientists have developed ink which changes colour according to the level of humidity. One use for this could be ascertaining the authenticity of money simply by breathing on it. This would be a much more efficient and cheaper way than previous colour changing methods. The printing of colloidal and photonic crystals has up to…
Lees meerVideo message on beer label
Argentinian beer producer Andes has come up with a campaign where consumers can submit a personal video message. The idea behind it is that bad news is easier to digest with a beer. The sender sends the video message via an app and the recipient can scan and watch it via the QR code on…
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