Solopress Design Weekly – latest news and tips for print designers

Are you passionate about design and printing? Welcome to our Top 10 round-up of this week’s news, hints, tutorials, freebies, interviews, case studies, competitions and other cool stuff for print designers. Please join the Google+ circle at http://gplus.to/RikHaynes for lots more design news and tips… every day!

1. Bambino Goodies news | Pantone Box of Colour kids book, priced £6.29

“Why stick to the colours of the rainbow when you could be introducing your child to the Pantone spectrum?”

Pantone colours kids book

2. Computer Arts tips | How to design a killer logo

“Tips for creating a cracking logo every time, from David Azurdia, creative director at Magpie Studios…”

Killer logo design tips

3. Creative Bloq feature | 10 eye-catching examples of flyer design

“How do you grab attention in an instant? From club nights to sporting events, these awesome examples of flyer design point the way…”

Awesome flyer design examples

4. Creative Bloq tips | 20 best Photoshop plugins

“Energize your photo editing projects with this life-saving selection of the best Photoshop plugins…”

Best Adobe Photoshop plugins

5. Creative Bloq tutorials | 75 awesome Illustrator ideas to try

“Expand your vector knowledge with these creative Illustrator tutorials…”

Adobe Illustrator tutorials

6. Creative Review feature | Preserving the work of India’s famous street typography

“Saving India’s street type…”

India street typography

7. Design Week news | Numbers in Graphic Design book, priced £28

“This new book looks at the beauty of numbers in graphic design…”

Numbers in graphic design book

8. Design Week news | Stencil Republic by Ollystudio book, priced £19.95

“Ever fancied yourself as a bit of a street-art rebel, but don’t quite have the nerve?”

Stencil Republic desktop street art book

9. Design Week news | The life of the logo

“This new book tells the life stories of 100 famous logos…”

KFC logo and other world famous logos

10. Eye Magazine feature | Pan Am’s early 1970s print advertising

“Before retiring in 1968, Juan Trippe, the charismatic founder of Pan American World Airways, ordered 25 Boeing 747s. The world’s largest airline would never recover from this bold move…”

Pan Am posters and print advertising in 1970s

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