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Here is a simple cheat-sheet, print it and put on your wall ;-)

Last week I have decided to ask our team members to lift up their asses and stay in front of the camera for few moments. All photos were made in the office by Balazs (he is on the right side).
So now you can see all of us face to face. We are not virtual, we are real, working hard making this portfolio of Artamax nice and sexy. :)

Artamax Gang

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Dust fields on Mars? Snow?
Right.
This is a view on typical vinyl record under electronic microscope.
More at: http://www.synthgear.com/2010/audio-gear/record-grooves-electron-microscope/

http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/
Handy website with 100,000+ vintage advertisements to explore

Here is a link (in case you haven’t seen it) to a short illustrated story how website designs being ruined with client’s help.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
Very true.

CardCow has collection of approximately 25.000 vintage postcards http://www.cardcow.com

Not very high resolution, but this site can be a good source of inspiration sometimes.

You probably heard of SpaceShipTwo already. No, i don’t have $200,000 for this flight.
I just have noticed nice picture on the side of the aircraft during the presentation Yahoo News

Here is a bigger version of this superb illustration

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Here is one more print explaining small icons on the left side
http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2006/09/Comparison_DNA%20of%20FLIGHT.jpg

There is a website http://www.issuu.com well worth keeping between your bookmarks.

This website is collecting for free on-line viewing various magazines in PDF format, you can see them page by page or even download the whole issue.

Only for the keyword “design” i could find 8300 files!

You can embed them into your pages as well, here is an example:

Enjoy the future.

Last summer and this one as well Budapest had opened a new artificial beach on the Danube. Budapest is a European capital, ok. The Idea is fine also.

Problems begin when organizers hiring people to do design and promotion work for the place. Well, i can only guess what sort of criteria they selection is based on.

Here is what these people could come up with as a website: http://www.uszalystrand.hu/index.html
This will definitively make me fell like swimming.

But what completely knocked me off was the billboard for this place.

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This is so fucked up i have no idea where to start!

Metaphorical power of this masterpiece beats any expectations. Girls in outer-space, delirium, right side girl with lamps in the toes, bridge to nowhere …
Rock and roll and roll and rock.

Additionally for those, who haven’t visited Budapest yet, probably it worth to take a look at at the bridge, which is actually standing in front of the Castle.

There is a website: MX Toolbox [ http://www.mxtoolbox.com ] it’s not just useful toolbox for various website checks but take a look at how logo of the website changes when you performing actual check.

Logo becomes animated while system is working. I think this is a fantastic idea to explore, logo can bring much more meaning to the web site besides being simple company or project identification.

I just finished design for the Williamson & Klark.

Here is the current site:  http://www.williamsonandklark.hu

Here is new design prototype: http://www.artamax.com/wk/

Slogan of the client says  something like “Sound of success “  or “Success in sound”

What you think? Lemme know your opinion!

We are currently looking for a web programmer to join the team. Here is one of the websites listed in the candidate’s references:

http://www.traexbau.com/

Oh god, i could not imagines these are still exist!

This is a classical example of mutual oligophrenia between client and designer.

P.S. Can you read HTML code? Then open the source code of the site and freak out.

I was surprised to find out that it was Salvador Dali who designed the logo for Chupa-Chups in 1969.

The same year he made a poster for Eurovison song competition.

Here is A fantastic idea how to decorate cacao milk for children.

Yeap! Just put on the package a freaky looking guy dressed as superman with mental attachment to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Mom, what he is trying to show me under his half-opened robe?

Somehow I have real doubts that this truly mutated dude will make you thirsty.

Here is what I found today in the local store near the office.

Dracula energy drink - Power of blood.

This drink is suppose to look attractive for who exactly?

I guess the taste and effect of this drink is matching the quality of the sticker on the bottle.