GraphicDesignBlog.com shares some of the attractive and creative package designs which tempt customers to purchase these grocery products not only for the product but for its enticing package designing as well.

	Successful food packaging designHargreaves, Ben. RotoVision, 2006. Call No: NC1002.P33H279S [check availability]
	Eat me : delicious, desirable, successful food packaging design Hargreaves, Ben. RotoVision, 2004. Call No: NC1002.P33H279 [check availability]
	Package design Savoir, Lou Andrea. Daab, 2008. Call No: TS195.4.P119PD [check availability]
	Packaging : design successful packaging for specific customer groupsStephenson, Keith. RotoVision, 2007. Call No: TS195.4.S836 [check availability]
	Packaging makeovers : graphic redesign for market changeKing-Gordon, Stacey. Page One Publishing, 2005. Call No: PN1993.8.U5G848 [check availability]
	Package form and design : encyclopedia of paper-folding designsPIE Books, c2007. Call No: Z261.P119 [check availability]
	What is packaging design? Calver, Giles. RotoVision, c2004. Call No: NC1002.P33C167 [check availability]

Graffiti and street artwork is another form of artwork which expresses a message. Take a look at creative graffiti artworks compiled by Jacob Gube from SmashingMagazine.com, and view how messages are conveyed through street art.

Sending out resumes to potential employers for the creative jobs available? Check out these visually appealing & creative resumes collated by by Walter from WebDesignerDepot.com, which stands out from the rest will surely get the hirer to give a second look to the resumes.

Trends are always welcome in design, and logo design is no exception as it can bring about design variations. Charlie B. Johnson shares some of his predicted trends in logo design in 2009, namely:

1. Classic modernism
2. Typographic logos
3. Psychedelic pop backgrounds
4. Puzzle patterns
5. Arabesque
6. Pictograms
7. Tactile
8. 80’s Geometry
9. Origami
10. Street Art

Find out more of the logo designs and trends to find out how each logo trend has evolved and is being applied in designing of logos today.

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 Even after the historical inauguration of Barrack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, Americans are still displaying their love and support for this “Man of change”, thorugh art & design.

Click here to view a compilation of graffiti,posters, digital art and t-shirts with Obama designs.

Also, check out TheArtofObama.com, a blog specially for images of Obama designs.

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“Persepolis ” is an autobiographical graphic novel by Iranian- born French author, Marjane Satrapi.   Although the graphics seems solemn and austere with black and white being its primary colours, the novel is surprisingly witty, funny, tender and heart- rendering.

The red book (Persepolis 1) draws on the childhood of Marjane in post-revolutionary Iran.   It focuses on her life with her left-wing intellectual parents, and their struggle against the Shah dictatorship and later their resistance against the ruling mullahs. What I love about the book is that there is nothing extraneous about the plot and graphic presentation.   The black and white world of “Persepolis” engages the readers by drawing them into an internal space fraught with political tensions and uncertainties.

The blue book (Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return) is a continuation of the red book.   It literally begins where the first book ended.   It is just as captivating as the first albeit a little more emotional as the reader journeys together with Marjane during her time in Vienna as her parents deemed Tehran as being too constraining for her emotional and intellectual well-being.   Here, the novel takes a different trajectory as the story focuses on the protagonist’s struggles as she copes in an alien culture.

Persepolis is available in the Art, Design and Media Library (ADML).�
Call number:  PN6747.S245P466

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