Make The Most Blog by Anibe Agamah » Design

Facebook “Like” Stamp

Anibe — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:13:05 +0000

As if it wasn’t enough that everything online these days is integrated with Facebook, some clever designers at Nation studios have created stamps with the now ubiquitous “Like” symbol. Pictures below:

Pics: wearenation.co.uk

More pictures and how to buy can be found here. I may just get one myself, however I might start compulsively stamping on anything I find! Just like we do on Facebook.

Review: Euro 2012 Logo and Identity

Anibe — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:11:00 +0000

UEFA officially revealed the visual identity for the Euro 2012 football tournament co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine. And what a fresh and remarkable design it is!

Photo: DesignFootball.com

The logo clearly does justice to the two host nations by representing their national colours in a flowery design. It also manages to still have a very visible representation of football yet maintain the blossoming plant effect. The natural organic flow of the logo makes it very refreshing to look at and gives a very friendly and welcoming feeling. Perhaps this will even be appreciated more as the positive words of recent times seem to be “green” and “organic”. The official slogan "Creating History Together" goes very well with the visual theme of unity and growing together depicted in the logo. Credit to Portuguese agency Brandia Central for the design.

Personally, I really like it a lot and would say it is the best sport related identity (London Olympics 2012, I’m looking at you) I have seen in a long time. My only criticism may be that it would be hard to see this work on a single colour or 2D variant. It relies too much and the high-colour bevelled appearance.

Anyway, here’s an animation probably to convince the many people who may have initial reservations about the identity:

An Innovative Redesign of the Plug

Anibe — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:53:27 +0000

It’s amazing that it has taken about 63 years for the design of the UK electric plug to be so radically improved but that is just what a student of the Royal College of Arts has done. Min-Kyu Choi showcased his design at the college’s graduate show and seems to have been a deserved “show-stopper”. The main attraction to this design I believe is how it manages to compress the plug into a very sleek and compact component without losing any functionality. When folded, the plug measures as just 10mm in width. To unfold it, the two live pins swivel 90 degrees, and the plastic surround folds back around the pins so the face of the plug looks the same as a standard UK plug. Perhaps even more brilliant is Choi’s expansion of the idea into another pleasant looking and very practically multi-plug adaptor. More pictures follow. You can also read more about this from Icon Eye magazine where I first saw it.