In may our company is getting 1 year old and to celebrate this event we decided to upgrade our website a little.

With the use of CSS3 we added nice and smooth transitions to several elements as well as exchanged the main collection of fonts on the website to make it even cleaner than it was before. Old browsers users may be disappointed, but come on, it’s 2012, we have to be in line with rapidly developing technologies.

In the end we made a slight redesign of both blog and single post page. Moreover, in the sidebar of the blog page we added a Twitter and an Instagram feeds, so now it’s double fun.

And now we proudly present Landegra Design 2.0 🙂

Borgerlig skymning by Simon Fruelund came from printing house and Lethe förlag sent us this gorgeous picture 🙂
The cover looks very nice and we are very proud of this work.
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When somebody is looking and a very simple and minimalistic cover, he/she has NO idea, how long designing process can be. Sometimes pretty simple idea takes a lot of steps to arrive to.

Client: Five Spice Street is one of the most astonishing novels of the past twenty years. It’s a pretty … mystique book about a street in a chinese city, and a “Madame X” that no one knows what she’s like.
AD: Got your point, we’ll make some sketches …

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It was a very nice year for Landegra. First of all, it was the year Landegra officially became a company and made a lot of awesome stuff.

We started in June and during this period of time we created:

• 18 Websites
• 10 Books
• 25 Printed design items (posters/ads/pages/business cards)
• 6 Logotypes
• 12 High-quality vector Illustrations
• HUGE amount of animated and non-animated web banners and e-mail ads

 
And it is only a beginning 🙂

In 2012 our resolution is to become even better and bigger.

Hello my dear people,

Several weeks ago I received a copy of the book I had designed and was a bit disappointed and even a bit pissed off. I was prepared for everything but not for what I saw.

Nowadays publishing houses try to give their books more accent by adding various kinds of fancy effects as emboss, UV-varnish, foil.

Sometimes it works well, but most of the time it’s just spending money on a castle made of air. In some cases (soft covers) cool fancy effects on the front can even ruin the inside page and usually this page is used to put “about author” information on it.

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