Movie poster designs have always intrigued me. Although the studios often spend millions in dollars for advertising a movie, for some odd reason we have a hard time seeing good poster designs. We figured it would be necessary to highlight the movie posters that actually turned out great. We’ve collected 38 awesome poster designs from random films and movies, regardless of year, genre, popularity or language.

Move Poster Design Inspiration

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Ever come across a really cool coaster and wonder, “Am I drunk or is this coaster really cool?” Well here is your sober chance to take a look at some clever and creative coaster inspiration. We’ve rounded up 30 coasters that would definitely liven up any bar top or table.

Bottoms Up! Let’s See Those Coaster Designs.

Mehmet Gozetlik

Kent and Jim

Dave Hall

Kaleb Coleman

Niyati Mehta

Tiina Ilmavirta

Yvonne Schüttler

Kamal Patel

Jennifer Stetson

Kelsy VonderHaar

Thapanon Khongraksa

Joshua M. Smith

Devika Khowala

Elizabeth Crowther

David Garcia

SLAMS

Chris Trivizas

Emily Cowdrey

Renee Richards

Jeff Burger

Hrishikesh Shinde

Carolyn Paluch

Simon Bent

Veroyama

Ink Design

Vrinda Kataruka

Margaret Hanson

Matt Heindl

INOUDID’s Attic

The art of graphic design is continually evolving with society, fashion, technology and politics. Our styles and colors are inspired by everything around us and in turn, we can see snapshots of our evolving culture in the designs of the recent past. Taking a look at 2 years of magazine covers from major publications, I collected 20 contemporary magazine covers that I appreciated.

Twenty Magazine Covers from 2007 – 2009

Bon Apetit Magazine – August 2008

Departures Magazine – October 2008

GQ Magazine – March 2008

Harpers Bazaar – March 2009 (Subscribers Edition)

Home Miami – May 2009

Latina – March 2008

New York Look – March 2009

New York Look – Spring 2008

New York Magazine – March 2, 2009

New York Magazine – March 9, 2009

New York Magazine – November 2007

New York Times Magazine – December 2008

New York Times Magazine – June 2008

New York Times Style Magazine – Spring 2008

Sports Illustrated – December 2008

The New Yorker – November 2008

Vanity Fair – January 2009

Vanity Fair – September 2007

WIRED – April 2008

W Magazine – March 2009

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This is the ultimate logo inspiration post packed with 25 amazing logo collections. Many designers put together collections of their logo designs each year or a few times a year depending on how many they do as a way to showcase their work and inspire others. We have searched Behance.net for the best logo designers and their logo collections. If you ever need inspiration when it comes to logo design this is your go to post! Did we miss your logo design collection? Show us in the comments!

Best Logo Design Collections

Animals have always played a huge part in business branding. Sometimes an animal is used because of what it represents such as a bull representing strength or a sheep being synonymous with sleep. Other times, an animal is simply used because its in the business name or works well in representing what a business is about. So if you ever have to create a logo for a business and an animal is to be included, you will love this round up of some of the best animal logo designs on the web.

Animal Logo Design Inspiration

If you are reading this blog you are probably really into design and if you feel like showing off your love of design check out this collection of t shirts for graphic designers. Perfect for wearing at design school, in the office or around town these tees will let people know what you love to do. The one thing I found funny while searching for tees designers would like, is the crazy amount of ampersand (&) tees I came across! I guess this is a universal symbol for graphic designers haha! Anyways, if you know of any cool tees I missed please show us in the comments.

Tees for Graphic Designers

I’ve always been a fan of cars (even though I own a truck!) so its always fun to look at custom and concept car designs online. I like to see where car designers think automotive styling is going. Unfortunately most concept car designs become much more boring looking when they go into production, but as the years go by, car designs do seem to get closer and closer to what we view as futuristic looking now. Anyways here are some sweet new car designs (not all concepts, some are just cool car inspired designed) from the design community.

Powerful Car Designs

Typography has always been a fundamental aspect of design, but many designers are now making type the centerpiece of their designs. Not only is typography becoming the design, but type is being pushed to the limits by being used in cool new ways such as 3D typography. Designers have been dabbling in 3d typography effects for a while, so here are some new type projects you may not have seen yet form the online design community.

New 3D Typography Effects

Photoshop gurus never seem to stop working, because every day I run across dozens and dozens of exquisite new Adobe Photoshop design examples. A lot of designers get stuck with doing corporate style designs and a great way to vent your pent up creative energy is to work on some creative Photoshop designs. Looking at these Photoshop examples can be really inspiring for both new and professional designers and its always interesting to see what the latest trends are!

Exquisite New Photoshop Examples

Halloween is creeping closer and closer and that means movie studios are releasing some cool new movies! I’ve always been a huge fan of zombies, so I’m excited to see the new Zombieland movie coming out October 2nd starring Woody Harrelson. In honor of what I hope turns out to be a very good movie, are some frighteningly good zombie photos taken by a variety of photographers. Hope you enjoy this early Halloween inspiration treat!

Zombie Inspired Photography

When it comes to Photoshop designs and photo manipulations, space is a popular frontier to explore for designers. Space represents the unknown, imagination and vastness, which makes it a powerful theme to use. There has been a large increase in the use of space as a theme over the past year, probably sparked in part from tutorials from sites such as Abduzeedo and PSD Tuts. So I thought it would be interesting to seek out new space designs and boldly go where no design blogger (I think) has gone before!

Photoshop Space Designs

I am always amazed at how fast technology advances, especially in the world of computers. It seems like just yesterday… I was struggling to play Dark Age of Camelot on an old IBM laptop connected to a 56k modem. My old laptop was so slow compared to computers nowadays, I would not even have the patience to let it boot and this was not even 10 years ago.

What also amazes me, is how far web design has come in just a few years. This brought me to check out some big technology related websites to see what they look like now and what they looked like back around 2001. The differences are truly mind boggling and I think the changes have def been for the better. It just makes me wonder what websites will look like in another 7 or 8 years and how technology will enhance the web experience.

Technology Site Comparison – Now and 2001

Adobe Website in 2001

Adobe Website Now

Sprint Website in 2001

Sprint Website Now

Sony Website in 2001

Sony Website Now

NewEgg Website in 2001

NewEgg Website Now

Garmin Website in 2001

Garmin Website Now

Dell Website in 2001

Dell Website Now

CNET Website in 2001

CNET Website Now

BestBuy Website in 2001

BestBuy Website Now

Apple Website in 2001

Apple Website Now

T-Mobile Website in 2001

T-Mobile Website Now

The Jewish New Year, or Rosh Hashanah, is one of the two High Holy Days, the most important religious holidays on the Jewish Calendar. If you have family and friends you won’t see that day, let them know you didn’t forget them. Design and print your own original holiday greeting cards.

With the holiday rapidly approaching, here are some particularly inspiring designs for Rosh Hashanah cards.

Also, please don’t say “rawsha shawna.” It’s “raw-ha-sh’nah.”

Unique Custom Rosh Hashanah Greeting Cards

UPrinting.com helps you design and print greeting cards that will make the whole minyan gasp in delight. And your design can be proofed for free, before you pay or give a credit card number. Visit UPrinting now — it’s a mitzvah!

Few people realize that the business card has its roots all the way back to the 16th Century in Europe (and the 15th Century in China).

In Renaissance Europe, the servants of aristocrats would present “visiting cards” to the servants of other aristocrats, the first step in any formal social interaction between the wealthy and powerful.

In Victorian England, the “calling card” was absolutely essential in polite society. When calling on someone, even a close friend, the visitor provided a card printed with their name. People collected these cards as a way of keeping track of friends who visited, so they would know to whom they were socially required to pay a return visit. It was also a way of screening out unwanted visitors — once presented with a card, the host could simply refuse to admit the person, without having to deal with them face-to-face. (When the telephone was first introduced in England, there was an uproar because now anyone could talk to you without providing a card, or without following any of the other countless rules.)

Historical Business Card Designs

The British also introduced the “trade card,” a calling card containing an advertisement for a person’s business, often with lithographed graphics. The French carte de visite, a collectible photograph cropped to the same size as a calling card, and the trade card were both forerunners of the “trading card,” well known today to fans of baseball and inedible chewing gum.

Today when people print business cards, it’s a synthesis of the calling card and the trade card. They serve three purposes: (1) to introduce yourself, (2) to provide information about your business, and (3) to act as easily-referenced contact information for any colleagues who may wish to get a hold of you.

Modern business card designs tend to be all flash and color. You can stand out by creating an unusual business card, taking inspiration from the simpler designs of old.

From the 19th Century: dress goods; glue manufacturer; carte de visite of John Wilkes Booth.

Victorian trade card; “scrap” calling card (the embossed section lifts to reveal the name); fully decorated, ethnically-insensitive calling card.

From around the turn of the 20th Century: Henriettie Carother; Willie Olds; W.A. Taylor.

From the 1950s and ’60s: Don O. Thayer of Minox; Buck Lacey, Privileged Character; Parker’s Barbecue (back and front).

Three business cards of historical note. Top left: Hamad Hassab was in fact a survivor of the Titanic, as noted on his business card. Top right: A fake business card for Abraham Lincoln, printed in 1984 as a joke by his enemies in the Democratic Party. Bottom: The note, written on a calling card by the Marquess of Queensberry in 1895, that eventually led to the conviction of playwright Oscar Wilde on charges of “gross indecency.”

In this economic climate, it’s vital to stand out from the crowd. Whatever service or product you provide, there are more and more people like you, fighting over fewer and fewer remaining customers and clients. Any little thing you can do to stand out could be the factor that gets you the job or sale.

Small-sized Business Cards Can Stand Out from the Pack

Beirut, Lebanon-based advertising firm Memac Ogilvy has used small-sized business cards to illustrate, both visually and tactilely, that a smaller and less expensive campaign can make a big impact. The very first thing you see when meeting a Memac Ogilvy representative, their business card, communicates to you at once that the firm is willing to do more, for less, in a creative fashion.

Uprinting.com prints beautiful, top-quality business cards in a variety of sizes.