Well, this can be taken quite literally by the title of this post.

Have you ever considered as a designer of how to add that little bit of extra difference to your design?

We came across this image in the office today and thought it worth sharing a piece on what we considered a fine piece of work.

Although the image you can clearly see the context of the image and the holder of the proposed image should this ever be a poster design, this image is truly brought to life by the additional line drawing sketch exceeding the boundaries of the image.

We particularly like the fact the majority of the colour within this design end at the natural edge of the Six Sheet.

The next time you are doing a design...

Being such fans of the dwarf trees and with one member of staff an owner of a Bonsai Tree, when we found these fantastic creations online we just had to share them with our readers.

The level of detail that and concentration requried to make these sculptures can only instill us with the deepest of admiration.

Truly beautiful work.

We want one for the office now!

Design can take almost any form. In the world around us everything we interact with has had some element of designed consideration somewhere down the line. Years of development and aethsetic evolution to result in the latest trends in usable objects.

Humour, we could argue, is a designed process...

In all honesty, we are just trying to justify showing you this video, when in reality we just found it seriously humourous! We hope you enjoy...

Whilst using StumbleUpon this morning we at TheDesignOven office where thrown a big blank green screen surrounded by a black border. This is usually the kind of thing that suffers by poor ratings on said inspiration site because of the instant nature that is required to generally succeed.

However, feeling in an inquistive mood, we investigated this unusual blank screen. Slowly moving the mouse down to click on the green as if expecting it to spring to life. It didn't. Usually by now, this would have been a thumbs down. But there was something about this green screen that continued to captivate. Perhaps because our mouse pointer had vanished?!

Then, all of a sudden, the moment ar...

Really nice illustration of a hand created from paint strokes.

This graphic has a real depth to it because of the bright colours used in the texture of the hand and paint. It is a very abstract style and the subtle texture to the background really helps the image stand off the page. We hope you will share it out.

 

We forgot about this one, but it's one we thought worth sharing...

There have been some interesting, fascinating, cool, standard and more often than not boring 404 error pages on websites over the years that we have been working in the industry.

We really found this one from our sister company ClarityWEB very interesting though : 404 error page.

How does it compare to other 404 pages you have seen? What is the best you've seen? Be sure to send us the links below!

We've been at it again.

We were approached by Jesmond Dene Badminton Club to assist them in taking their club forward. The club has been running for over 20 years and has never had an official brand for their club.

TheDesignOven set about creating a logo that would see them have a strong brand in the coming years and further establish themselves in the future as one of the best badminton clubs in Newcastle.

The club are leading the leagues of 3 of their competitions in the Northumberland leagues (two of which have definately been promoted this season). A fantastic achieveme...

For any artist or designer, we thought this a very apt quote to share today...

What a photograph!

It is no wonder that Barcelona and Spain have become the best technical sides on the planet when you look at this!

A beautiful composition and even more stunning colouring captured by the photographer. The photo, which was submitted to the 2011 National Geographic Photographic Competition.

The photographc shows these 'aficianado' players competing on a pitch which has looks surreally and impossibly placed into the middle of the dense city suburbs of Barcelona.

The colour from the deep blue at the top coming down to the lime green of the pitch at the bottom exudes vibrance.

Well worth sharing!

Well, it would have been very rude of us if we didn't share this one out!

Possible the best animated gif file we have ever seen.

To view it, simply click here. And then smile.

From (now way back in) 2007, this poster has been executed very well.

Although you might associate the use of circle vectors and paint daubs and splats with relatively amatuer designs in recent years, we think the use of depth has been incorporated very well into this particular poster.

The viewer is dragged into the center of the circle (we are wondering if it is deliberately reminiscent of an eye-ball) with the subtle use of the drop shadows with a top left light source. The shadows on the orange and red circles are the most dominant and provide real steps into the picture which drag you in.

Perhaps if this design was being made with modern trends the designer would reduce the prominence of the paint...

If only your desk was as well organised as Adobe Photoshop...