Creative Swell / Design Blog

A Stream of Color

Two of IBM’s Visual Communications Lab employees Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas have created a seasonal color wheel for images added to Flickr. The photos were taken from the Boston Common area on Flickr and used in an algorithm developed for WIRED. The cycle shows the “ebb and flow of seasonal colors.” Check out the [...]

iPhone App – Dragon Dictation

If you are like me you text way more than you make calls. Last month alone I send over two thousand (2,000) text messages using my iPhone! That’s a lot of typing on my little iPhone keyboard. The new app from Dragon Dictation would have saved me much needed time. Check out the preview images [...]

Textured Vector Landscape Tutorial

Create a stylish textured vector landscape with this Vectuts+ tutorial. Again, I don’t recommend any tutorials to my readers that I have not completed myself. In this tutorial you will learn to use compound shapes, the pencil tool, image embedding and masks. I hope you like the tutorial. Enjoy! Share your artwork once you have [...]

Over 21,000 Unique Views

Thank you all for making this little blog successful. Starting out with just 1 blog post in November my archives have grown to over 100 strong! Unique page views have hit 21,000 and my reader base is growing monthly. Thank you all for taking part in this little project, I hope to expand my blog’s [...]

Were going though changes

As you can see the blog is changing its format and styling, instead of going to an “under-construction” page we decided to show you all our customization on the fly, you’ll see the changes as they happen. Hope you enjoy this behind the scenes look.

OkGo new video – This too shall pass

The new music video from okgo is sure to go viral. Their use of abstract objects to create long drawn out sequences flowing to their new music is sweet and noteworthy. This is not the first time the band has focused on the design of their video rather than the music itself. Still pretty amazing. [...]

Snail Mail Marketing

Published in the Small Business section of the January 12th edition of the WSJ was an article on Snail Mail Marketing. Most of us with marketing degrees that graduated after 2001 would probably just pass this article up, “Snail Mail” is a very cliche (often dirty) word in today’s world of Digital Media Marketing. The [...]

T-Shirt Wars!

Check out this creative T-Shirt Wars video from Rhett and Link. More than 220 individually designed t-shirts were created for this video. You can even purchase the very same shirts they wore in this video or design your own. Just click the jump link and check out the video!

What’s the iPad really worth?

Apple has plenty of buzz surrounding their new hybrid device – the iPad – which was unveiled last month. The tablet is expected to devastate Amazon Kindle sales (and hard copy book sales) with its own apps store, bookstore and gaming capabilities. So what is this coveted iPad really worth? The guys over at iSuppli [...]

info-graphics are taking off

Info-graphics are taking off…LITERALLY! This Kulula Airplane got re-branded with some descriptive facts, 101 to be exact. This graphic was created by Kulula’s very own creative team and shares various information about its planes with those on board. FYI the captain is called a “The Big Cheese” the black box is under 42D and the [...]