S<span class=”“capitals”>ignsphere a monthly col­lec­tion of inspirational links and resources for typog­ra­phy, design, archi­tec­ture and more. Do you want to be fea­tured in next months sign­sphere? Just send your design work to my email adres as spec­i­fied in my about page. Thank you for send­ing this months links, enjoy reading.

Intro­duc­ing my new cor­po­rate sig­nage website

Bau­mann Sign is the name of my new cor­po­rate web­site (at the moment Dutch only). For quite some time I haven’t had the time to imple­ment the new cor­po­rate sig­nage web­site for my com­pany. We are a sig­nage & wayfind­ing com­pany in Ams­ter­dam, The Netherlands.

Design­ing & pro­duc­ing signs for office build­ings, park­ing facil­i­ties, pub­lic build­ings, hotels and more. We are spe­cial­ized in cre­ate unique sig­nage sys­tems through the use of well thought out design in com­bi­na­tion with color, archi­tec­ture and typog­ra­phy. Our main goal is to cre­ate signs & wayfind­ing sys­tems that work in the envi­ron­ment and lead vis­i­tors in the right direc­tion. As a wayfind­ing prod­uct I designed a sign sys­tem called Sign­Switch, a flex­i­ble sig­nage sys­tem with a touch of design using mate­ri­als such as stain­less steel in com­bi­na­tion with col­ored acrylic.

Please take a look at our sig­nage projects page to see some of the things we have done in the past. Please let me know what you think of the design of the web­site, your com­ments are highly appreciated.

• Please visit my new cor­po­rate sig­nage web­site Bau­mann Sign for more information.

Use of Design­Work­Plan Arrows collection

Logo Designer Kathy Moore used var­i­ous icons from my arrow & icons col­lec­tion as a basis for the logo design of South Logan County Rural Health Care Net­work. Great work! Thank you for send­ing your materials.

The rea­son I chose the cir­cles with the arrows is that I needed to rep­re­sent the com­mu­nity as a whole and the health­care com­mu­nity com­ing together. I liked the idea of hav­ing the arrows inter­sect to rep­re­sent that con­nec­tion. Sus­tain­abil­ity is a major goal for our project so the cir­cles help to express that because cir­cles are often rep­re­sen­ta­tive of some­thing that goes on and on. Over­all, the graph­ics I used from your site couldn’t have been more per­fect to rep­re­sent the project and the goals of it and all of the mem­bers were very happy with the final prod­uct. Kathy Moore

• Visit the web­site of Kathy Moore to see more of her work.
• See the pro­fes­sional arrow & icons col­lec­tion.

Re-design of InspirationBit

The long awaited re-design of Inspi­ra­tionBit, a faboulus web­site about design, inspi­ra­tion, art, pho­tog­ra­phy and much more, writ­ten by Vivien. The re-design is great work, I really like the way she has put up the web­site, the focus on the con­tent and thoughts on nav­i­ga­tion. At the home­page at the top you will find the three lat­est arti­cles with below that the lat­est fea­tured arti­cle. At the bot­tom of each page you will find a huge footer con­tain­ing every­thing you want to find at Inspi­ra­tionBit. The web­site is scal­able, with a wider screen the tree on the left will have a big­ger impact on the design. A nice draw­ing and looks great aswel! The color usage is pur­ple and green which is a col­or­ful yet pro­fes­sional look. The con­tent of Inspi­ra­tionBit is just superb, posts are really thought out well and giv­ing a in-dept look on the arti­cles topic. Take a look at Inspi­ra­tionBit and tell us what you think!

You know you’ve achieved per­fec­tion in design, not when you have noth­ing more to add, but when you have noth­ing more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• Visit Inspi­ra­tionBit or com­ment on the new design in this arti­cle. Do you want to know more about Vivien then sub­scribe to InspirationBit.

Launch of Typerepublic

Type­r­e­pub­lic is an inde­pen­dent type foundry based in Barcelona (Spain). Founder and prin­ci­pal designer Andreu Bal­ius has designed (and designs) an exclu­sive col­lec­tion of type­faces to be dis­trib­uted through­out this website.

• Visit Type­r­e­pub­lic for more information.

Source Cre­ative: Inspiration

An Eng­lish design com­pany who pub­lish their design work on the web­site. They update their web­site a few times a month with new cre­ative work. A inspi­ra­tion to look at the design work they accomplish.

• Visit Source Cre­ative for design inspi­ra­tion and more information.

Japan­ese Icons

Via iLT I dis­cov­ered this page, the web­site is com­pletely writ­ten in Japan­ese, so can­not read any­thing. But the icons are superb. Nice bal­anced and beau­ti­ful designed.

• Take a look at these faboulus designed icons

Largest LED adver­tis­ing screen: Podium

Via The Inquirer I found this image of the biggest ever build LED adver­tis­ing screen. Size? 100 x 20 metres, that is huge! Build by Dubai-based con­struc­tion com­pany Tamee and will be placed on a office build­ing at the Kingdom’s Majan district.

Vis­i­ble at a dis­tance of 1.5 kilo­me­ters, the mag­nif­i­cent screen on the façade of Podium is designed by the L.E.D. tech­nol­ogy. This curved façade will be a pow­er­ful medium for adver­tis­ing, mes­sag­ing and art. Highly-reflective tinted glass will be uti­lized to achieve astound­ing visual qual­ity, as the mas­sive screen gives off an ele­gant bluish sap­phire glow.

• Visit the web­site of Tameer for more infor­ma­tion about this LED screen

Name that Pan­tone code:iPhone App

In one word, what a faboulus app for your iPhone. I recently got mine and can’t stop work­ing with this tool. It con­tains the com­plete PANTONE® color books, so you can quickly search through PANTONE® solid coated, PANTONE® solid uncoated, PANTONE® Goe™ coated, PANTONE® Goe™ uncoated, Web Safe Col­ors, HTML Col­ors. The real power of this app is the snap-shot func­tion. Take a photo with your iPhone and select the color, voila Col­or­Ex­pert will tell you the PANTONE color. I’ve checked it with sev­eral col­ors and it matches almost every­thing cor­rectly. Beautiful!

• Take a look at the web­site of Code-Line for the Col­or­Ex­pert and install the app for only just under ten Dol­lars (or 8 Euros).

Graphic ExchanGE Design

A graphic design web­site that shows show­cases of inspi­ra­tional designs. Graphic ExchanGE cov­ers many dif­fer­ent design top­ics, but this page is full on (laser) engraved design graphic, on dif­fer­ent mate­ri­als with superb taken photos.

• Visit Graphic ExchanGE for more inspi­ra­tion resources and be sure to take a look here.

The visual his­tory of 11 suc­cess­ful blogs

Over the years blog­ging has become more pop­u­lar than reg­u­lar web­sites, this post from Royal Ping­dom com­pares the design of 11 suc­cess­ful blogs from the start to the cur­rent design. Inter­est­ing readings.

• Visit Royal Ping­dom to read the com­plete post

Envi­ron­men­tal Graphic design

In this post from +KN Kit­sune Noir the author writes about the impor­tance of envi­ron­men­tal graphic design. The exam­ples are of great design and serve their purpose.

• Visit Kit­sune Noir for the com­plete article

Zabox: Design News

Yet another vot­ing design news web­site has been born: Zabox. So why is Zabox dif­fer­ent than the other design news web­sites? It is a bit more focused on just design than other news web­sites. I sub­mit­ted a story recently and I will post my find­ings in a future article.

zaBox is a design related social book­mark­ing web­site, focused on offer­ing its users design news, tuto­ri­als and resources in a spam-free environment.

• Visit Design News web­site zaBox for more infor­ma­tion & news

Vis­com Fair Frankfurt

One of the largest media fairs in Europe will be hosted in Frank­furt this year. With over 260 exhibitors in var­i­ous fields of print media, visual com­mu­ni­ca­tion, sin­gage, dig­i­tal sig­nage and more will bring you their lat­est infor­ma­tion. It will be a great fair, although the exhibitors list is quite the same as last year in Italy. I really enjoyed the Italy fair… So any­one is going to Frank­furt? Let me know and we can meet there.

Vis­com frank­furt 2008 will be open­ing its doors at the Exhi­bi­tion Cen­tre Frank­furt from 30 October.

• Check the web­site of Vis­com for the lat­est details, pro­gramms and more.

Enjoy read­ing

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