Business Cards DIY
Business Cards DIY

June 20, 2018

Take a look at this bold new Sans Serif business card template available at AbukooThe expressive messaging area allows you to craft a more playful introduction when you are meeting prospective new clients or business opportunities. 

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Hello Business Card Design - Adobe Indesign Template
Hello Business Card Design - Adobe Indesign Template

June 16, 2018

The new 'Hello' series of business card templates are now available on Abukoo. They have an easy to use and quirky style all wrapped up in an editable Indesign template. The template comes packaged with the fonts, with three different abstract 'Hello' designs in green blue and red, you can then edit the greeting to anything you like.

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Minimal Signage Design
Minimal Signage Design

June 05, 2018

Incredibly simple signage design for this clothing retailer. I'm not sure where it came from, or who designed it, but it has a beautiful minimal approach to the typography. It's also been expertly manufactured. I'd love to know if anyone can find out where this came from. 

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Minimal Business Card - Editable Indesign Template
Minimal Business Card - Editable Indesign Template

April 25, 2018 2 Comments

It’s always important to make the right first impression when you hand over your business card. The last thing you need is to lose opportunities because of your ugly card. This simple, beautiful and minimal design will help do the talking for you. You won’t scare away potential customers or give the wrong impression.

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TINTIN Logo Design in Blush and Gold
TINTIN Logo Design in Blush and Gold

April 21, 2018

Minimal logo design and colour palette for TINTIN. Simple condensed type treatment helps accentuate the vertical nature of the brand name.

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Recipe Book Cover Design For Vitamin Sea
Recipe Book Cover Design For Vitamin Sea

April 16, 2018

This recipe book cover design for Vitamin Sea really shows off the brands core color palette and sophisticated design aesthetic. 

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Logo Design for Vitamin Sea Bistro & Bar
Logo Design for Vitamin Sea Bistro & Bar

April 14, 2018

Vitamin Sea is a conceptual bar & bistro business. The logo design is suited to a beachside venue with an ocean view. As the name suggests it would lend itself to food with a healthy slant. The graphic styling is a perfect fit for a highend hospitality spaceif you'd like to purchase the design and use it on your new venture get in touch.

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Logo Design and Business Cards for Fanshaw Rose
Logo Design and Business Cards for Fanshaw Rose

April 07, 2018

Very simple styling on this logo design for Fanshaw Rose. The typography and word mark help support the relaxing tone and vibe of the business. The subtle color palette is maintained throughout the business cards and letterhead helping the concept to lean towards the female demographic.

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Minimal Business Card Design for LUXIM
Minimal Business Card Design for LUXIM

April 06, 2018

I thought a few people would enjoy seeing the minimal business card design for LUXIM. The brand continues express the same stylish aesthetics as the core word mark, but extends the angular graphic elements into the background shapes. The simple clean approach helps elevate the branding into a more sophisticated space, while always keeping the logo as the hero.

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Cover Design | Photography Diary
Cover Design | Photography Diary

March 26, 2018

I love finding and creating beautiful everyday experiences. The cover design of this simple letterpress photography diary is definitely one of those things. It's a perfect place to plan, sketch and record your photo missions. The strong use of typography and graphic design all add to the tactile experience. Simple pleasures are always the best.

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Minimal Cover Designs for Fluvia
Minimal Cover Designs for Fluvia

March 24, 2018

Fluvia is an incredibly adaptable lighting system intended to give interior designers a new layer of creative freedom. The minimal graphic aesthetic is central to the lighting designs and supporting printed material. The product brochure cover designs continue this theme with simple use of colour and typography.

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Graphic Design Ideas: Make your own Printable Ruler
Graphic Design Ideas: Make your own Printable Ruler

March 15, 2018

This beautiful DIY printable ruler is the perfect measurement solution. It's a simple practical blend of graphic design and numbers. You'll never need to buy another ruler, and best of all, if you lose it you can just print it again.

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Minimal Logo Design for LUXIM
Minimal Logo Design for LUXIM

March 09, 2018

You have to admire brands that connect pure graphic design with naming and ultimately business outcomes. It's really the pinnacle of commercial design, without a clear business outcome, it's really just a pretty picture. I love the minimal approach in this concept. So simple but seems to harness some sort of visual energy through the font and diagonal line.

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Editorial layout and graphic design by Kuudes : Vuoden Huiput XV
Editorial layout and graphic design by Kuudes : Vuoden Huiput XV

February 26, 2018

This stunning piece of graphic design was created for the Finnish association for visual communications designers. This concept by Kuudes references boxing iconography and was designed for Finland’s most significant annual creative design competition. The high impact editorial layout direction has been easily adapted across channels, including printed materials, online content and event materials. 

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Modern Farmhouse Architecture
Modern Farmhouse Architecture

February 13, 2018

Architect Vincent Van Duysen has completely transformed this 19th-century farmhouse into a modern day architectural masterpiece, ”I wanted to reinterpret the classic Flemish country house.” says Van Duysen.

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Minimal Canvas Bag Design
Minimal Canvas Bag Design

February 09, 2018

This cool green canvas beach bag really hits the mark with it's minimal design approach. This one comes in three colours – green, red and yellow and is available here at fashion store Toast

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Graphic art
Graphic art

February 01, 2018

For years the world of fine art has been a source of inspiration for both fashion and graphic designers. The uninhibited and expressive nature of this work can provide a unique ignition point for many creative explorations and ideas.

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Printable Graph Paper
Printable Graph Paper

January 27, 2018

This range of printable graph papers are the perfect addition to your DIY design kit. The grid paper selection features 3 different grid sizes, plus a bonus dot grid template. The sheets are ideal for sketching plans or creating your own DIY designs.

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Amazing hotel pools
Amazing hotel pools

January 26, 2018

Every once in a while you come across something special when researching a trip, or indulging in a special travel excursion. This post is dedicated to capturing all of the worlds best hotel pools.

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Insanely beautiful nautical calendar design (2018)
Insanely beautiful nautical calendar design (2018)

January 16, 2018

The latest Abukoo calendar designs have arrived for 2018. These DIY calendars are the easiest way by far to track the year in total style. The best thing is they are completely free.

Visit the Abukoo Website to get the Printable Calendar Download

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Abukoo Printable Targets
Abukoo Printable Targets

January 12, 2018

Have some fun with your Christmas toys and download these new free targets from Abukoo. You can download these at home and print them on standard A4 or A3 paper sizes. There are both color or black and white formats. Ideal for darts, nerf guns or your classic tennis ball.

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Lightroom Tutorials - Getting Started
Lightroom Tutorials - Getting Started

January 03, 2018

If you are looking to get started with Adobe Lightroom (LR4, LR5 or Lightroom cc), then this video tutorial is a great place to begin. It focuses on how to use Lightroom in a creative, non destructive way. There is an in-depth tutorial on how to use the develop module, covering exposure techniques, gradient filters, color grading and image sharpening.

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Printable Sudoku | Free Download
Printable Sudoku | Free Download

December 20, 2017

If you or your kids love puzzles then you'll really like this free printable Sudoku download. It's beautifully designed and the perfect way to satisfy your puzzle cravings. The Abukoo store is now offering the worlds most popular puzzle game in a beautifully designed typographic format. It's been created in black and white for easy home and work printing. There are 4 puzzles per page, with answer sheets at the end (easy medium and hard).

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Inspiring Cover Designs
Inspiring Cover Designs

December 04, 2017

Here are a few of my favourite book cover designs. It's always fun seeing how my imagery will translate into a finished piece. Some of themes unlikely images can suddenly come to life when they are surrounded by some well considered graphic design and typography.

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Business Card Design for Hugos Bristro
Business Card Design for Hugos Bristro

November 30, 2017

This beautiful design was created by Hannah Stout for the folks behind Odettes (another eatery that Hannah Stout worked on), Hugo’s is a cozy but sumptuous space with a interior fit-out all about tactility and understated luxury. The design challenge here was to mark out a clear identity for Hugo’s, while still maintaining a subtle connection to its “big sister” restaurant.

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Graphic Typography & Numbers
Graphic Typography & Numbers

November 30, 2017

I have been collecting graphic letters and numbers for a while and thought it was worth putting together a post with a few of my favourites. I'll be trying to add images to this post as I stumble across new reference material.

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New Typographic Brand fro Mile Wright & Co
New Typographic Brand fro Mile Wright & Co

November 27, 2017

Mile Wright & Co.brand is a beautiful and simple design solution for the two lawyers who founded the business in 2015. The two owners joined forces to practice law especially for entrepreneurs. The understated styling and sophisticated design help create an unquestionable sense of trust and credibility.

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Minimal Business Card and Stationery Design
Minimal Business Card and Stationery Design

October 29, 2017

This minimalist business card and stationery design for Altea Esteve was intended to help differentiate Altea Esteve from her competitors - she needed a highly credible, fresh and original identity that would continue to grow her presence in the market.

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How to Create Minimalist Landscape Photography
How to Create Minimalist Landscape Photography

October 25, 2017

I have been a huge fan of simple, well constructed, minimalist photography for a long time. As a graphic designer I lean towards this style because it connects well with other design elements. It creates the opportunity where typography and imagery to fuse nicely together, rather than fighting. I wanted to share a few key things I've learnt about how to get started shooting minimal landscape photography.

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Inspiring Minimalist Branding and Visual Identity
Inspiring Minimalist Branding and Visual Identity

October 24, 2017

This beautifully crafted visual identity and packaging concept by Amanda Mohlin redefines how a luxury product should look. It has colour, personality and style - but always delivers on an inspiring sense of understated class. The conceptual graphic approach for Luc & Louna showcases a selection of different flavoured chocolate, each with a minimal design and always leaving the chocolate as the hero.

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Chandra typography and design
Chandra typography and design

October 23, 2017

This simple design layout for Chandra is a great example of classic styling and typography.

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Inspirational graphic design for Stones Throw Restaurant and Bar
Inspirational graphic design for Stones Throw Restaurant and Bar

October 20, 2017

Stone’s Throw is an iconic bar and restaurant that recently under went a full renovation to bring it back to life in the form of a modern watering hole. The design strikes an incredible balance between quirky Illustration, simple texture and sophisticated colour combinations. 

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Brand Identity Design for Watson Vegan Truck
Brand Identity Design for Watson Vegan Truck

October 19, 2017

This new identity for Watson Vegan Truck captures a unique style for the edgy vegan food market. It takes on a slightly retro premium feel, with incredible use of typography and colour. The graphic simplicity of the word mark and monogram feel effortlessly cool. The translation of the design through to vehicle signage and menus is a stroke of genius, I'd definitely stop to sample a burger if I saw this design - and I'm not even Vegan!

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COS MONTREAL SPECIAL PUBLICATION
COS MONTREAL SPECIAL PUBLICATION

October 18, 2017

A beautiful example of what you can still do with the printed projects. The design of this special edition brochure celebrates the store opening by exploring some of the city’s inspiring places. It was given away on opening night - nice work guys looks great.

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Stunning KELLER minimal windows
Stunning KELLER minimal windows

October 18, 2017 10 Comments

These incredible minimalist window frame designs by Keller  open up a whole variety of architectural features for designers. The frame profile is reduced to allow seamless integration into floor, ceiling and walls. It means the glass can take up to 98% of the area giving incredible light flow and near perfect finish. It also seems to substantially reduce the border between glass doors and helps minimise overly heavy appearance of vertical mullions. The office pod design was produced by Podspace

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The East Cut brand identity and graphic poster design style
The East Cut brand identity and graphic poster design style

October 16, 2017

The East Cut is a brand new neighborhood in downtown San Francisco. It's designed to unify these disparate areas into one vibrant modern community.

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