@LogoDesignAvenu Rips Off My Tucando Logo
After having my PedalWorks logo ripped off over on Freelancer, I now see that Logo Design Avenue also like my logos and have ripped off my Tucando logo! It’s not identical, but close enough for me to...
View ArticleThe NASA Identity Design Program
Some logos, NASA’s included, should never have been retired. Some logos, NASA’s included, were designed with such skill that they could have gone on and on and on and on. I am still in awe over this...
View ArticleExperimental ID for American Airlines by Anna Koveses
Seeing this reminds me I need to get my finger out and do something equally spectacular for my portfolio. As not real as this American Airlines might be, there is something undeniably easthetically...
View ArticleIn Progress: Logo Sketches for Shark
I don’t often share my sketches: I feel that within the sketches are possible other ideas for new projects, and it can sometimes seem a little trusting to bear your creative soul in such a way as to...
View Article8 Page Logo Specification Book Template for Download
8 Page Logo Specification Book Template for Download Along with my other logo guidelines and specification templates available to you, I now have added this 8 page logo sheet and style guide as a...
View ArticleGame Of Thrones Rebranded by Nike Designer Darrin Crescenzi
Been meaning to post this for some time after seeing it in FastCoDesign. A little hard for me to actually understand specifically what is going on here with these designs as I have never watched Game...
View ArticleExplaining Logo Design Budgets to Clients
The question I’m most asked? “How much will it cost me for you to design me a logo?”, and that’s often bluntly asked in the first line of a one line only email. Sometimes I do get people calling me up...
View ArticleA Logo Design Project Nearly Wrapped-up
Been a while since I have been able to post anything of note on my main website blog due to being incredibly busy with some hefty client logo projects over the last few months. One of these logo...
View ArticleNiice: A [Logo] Design Search Engine With Taste
As designers we certainly have a healthy supply of places to draw logo design inspiration from, but it’s always intesting to see new takes on web site inspiration format. Niice simply collects logo...
View ArticleNew York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual by Massimo Vignelli
New York City Transit Authority Graphics Standards Manual There are a few real world establishments that can claim to have the endearing longevity that the brand identity for the New York City Transit...
View ArticleThe Curse of Literal in Logo Design [AQFG]
One of the hurdles I find with some projects is a clients belief that the logo should ‘literally’ convey all and every possible meaning and association that they can find. If a logo design is packaged...
View ArticleBeano Brand Guidelines Designed by Wayne Hemingway
Now this is what I call a serious flashback to some sweet childhood memories! I was an avid Beano reader and was a member of the Beano fan club with some cool dudey membership items that I can’t...
View ArticleLogo Stack: real world logo design inspiration
If you like the sort of logo design inspiration that has it’s feet firmly in the real world, and not in the make-believe, then I’m hopeful you might like what Logo Stack has to offer. I started Logo...
View ArticleAllowing a Client to Choose a Font for Their Logo [AQFG]
I certainly understand that choosing the right font for a logo design can seem to some clients to be a complete mystery that will get them so worked up that they refuse to want anything to do with it....
View ArticleFender Logo Design Evolution
“Spaghetti” Fender Logo Design Fender has used several styles of logos, usually referred to as: “Spaghetti”, “Transition”, and “CBS” which were used to adorn the headstocks of their guitars. As with...
View ArticleADXPRS Logo Design Deconstructed
All these lines, circles and intersecting guides, for my ADXPRS logo design, are very much relevant, and not just trying to look impressive. :-) Maybe I’m a little anal about how I like things to...
View ArticleSEAT’s Redesigned Logo and it’s New Brand Universe
I’ve never particularly been fond of many car brand logos/emblems/badges, something about the way they just sit there, usually in ‘silver’, looking all meh. However, seeing the sketches and process...
View ArticleInterbrands Top 50 Global Green Brands of 2013
This is really interesting viewing/reading if you are interested in what brands/companies are doing their bit for our environment. Interbrand have created this dynamic Top 50 list that allows you to...
View ArticleCarhartt Logotype WIP Process by Sergey Shapiron
Carhartt Logotype WIP Process by Sergey Shapiron Really enjoy studying these marvellous hand-drawn lettered sketches for Carhartt, by Sergey Shapiron. These have not been designed to replace the main...
View ArticleSketching Whilst on a Frustratingly Tiresome Hold with BT Helpline
After having my BT Broadband upgrade to BT Infinity brilliantly ballsed up by a BT contractor, leaving me with no broadband at all, I ended up having to making a number of horrifyingly frustrating...
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