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When logos collide 2008-05-07 08:10:41 From the Sometimes You Can’t Catch a Break Dept. DataPortability WorkGroup is a new tech project aiming to allow users to control how their info is distributed through social networks. Released to otherwise positive reviews, the group encountered a major hurdle back in February - a cease and desist letter from Linux developers RedHat regarding [...] Read more:collide
Satan’s Logo - The Dark Lord gets brand 2008-05-07 07:55:14 Speaking about sinister, over at Art Backwash, illustrative designer Von Glitschka takes a stab at designing a logo for Satan
. Lots of branding potential. Established presence. Built-in market. Client brief mercifully short;
A) 666 has to be in the logo.
B) A brand name has to be developed. (Think Zoloft, Viagra or Crestor.)
C) Must use “Red”. (Satan [...]
Most sinister logo ever? 2008-05-07 07:15:13 Sure, you’ll find articles on the interwebs about the best logo. Maybe even the worst logo. But how about the most sinister logo? Only here at The Factor will you find that award, doled out to the Sherwin Williams Paint Company for their Cover the World design (left). Dripping (quite literally) with Spectre like imagery, [...]
Orphan Works - Legalized Scumbaggery? 2008-05-06 17:56:08 Lot of frothing going on in the design community, revolving around an alleged bit of scumbaggery - The Orphan Works
Act - sitting in front of Congress. Summed up - an Orphan Work is to be considered any creative work of art where the artist or copyright owner has lost control of their copyright, by [...]
So many levels of fail 2008-05-06 17:36:22 Australia’s Channel 9 news dude talks about the Apple iPhone on the tee vee. Why not, it’s a pretty cool toy. Trouble is, the iphone used in the piece is running Windows XP. Next up - Mac fanboy heads explode all over the outback.
Simultaneous hat tips to Photoshop Disasters and MacTalk Forum. Read more:levels
Design your own logo - tips & pointers 2008-05-06 16:14:54 After spending some time on naming your new company, registering that matching domain name, we’re now ready to get down to business - the point of this entire series - designing a logo. Before we start scribbling away, we’re going to take a look at some things you’ll need to kick around during our upcoming [...]
Naming your company. Website & Domain names. 2008-05-06 07:26:24 An important part of naming your company
is how that name will impact, or be impacted by, your web address. If you’ve already established your company moniker, and registered a reflective domain, you can skip this part. You’re on good stead to move forward. If, on the other hand, you’re struggling to come up with [...] Read more:Naming
As much as I love logos… 2008-05-09 08:21:15 I’m not sure about this one. A Lexington-based company has developed a new way of getting corporate logos all up in our face. By filling the sky with them. Snowmasters - better known for creating artificial snow - has developed a method of floating logos (and other simple icons) across the sky, opening up yet [...]
Google catches heat for keyword trademarks 2008-05-14 08:20:48 In Trademark News: American Airlines has filed a infringement lawsuit against search engine giant Google
, that if successful could fundamentally change the way search engines, and more importantly their pay-per-click advertising services, work.
In the suit, American claims Google sells the airline company’s trademarks to other websites that use them, via Adwords, to divert potential [...] Read more:catches
Mississauga graphic design job opening 2008-05-14 07:51:16 Graphic Design Employment Opening. The Logo Factory has one immediate design
position opening in our Mississauga studio. Applicants need to be able to demonstrate the ability to work in a fast-paced (some might say chaotic) creative environment. If you take a gander at our logo design portfolio, I think it’s pretty clear what it [...]
Why logo contests don’t work 2008-05-25 07:09:57 Despite being exploitative, unfair, bad for business, downright unethical and even potentially illegal, is there still a place for logo contests in the design world?
Can an prudent contest business owner still get a decent logo for pennies on the dollar through a design contest site or forum? Outside chance - maybe. More likely - [...]
Logo equations 2008-05-24 17:26:24 Brilliant stuff if you’re a designer a need a good chuckle. Logo Logos, an blog hailing from Argentina has assembled a series of pictorial Logo Equations - graphic representations of the design process that might have gone into some famous brands (with tongue planted firmly in cheek). Speaking of cheek, Hewlett Packard (featured above), is [...]
Design Contests - The battle continues 2008-05-24 08:25:10 Despite our umpteenth promise to leave this particular subject alone, the battle over design contests continues unabated, with another round of tit-for-tat discussions opening up at various points about the web this week. Site Point - an Australian web developer and ’spec’ site - fired the opening salvo with a positively giddy ‘thumbs up’ interview [...] Read more:Contests
E-mail of the day 2008-05-29 09:46:56 Sometimes our morning e-mail brings a smile. Had to share this one.
I have found several spelling errors on your website which makes me wonder if you actually pay attention to detail and whether my project (if I decide to go with you) would also be handled with similar deligence.
Snicker.
Jeff Fisher gets AP attention 2008-06-09 13:36:44 Over the weekend, uber logo designer Jeff Fisher
got himself a mention in an Associated Press article on the use of business cards as a marketing tool, especially in this, the internet age. The piece takes a look at the use of unorthodox sizes and shapes of cards (Jeff’s is based on the railroad card [...] Read more:attention
Design contest war breaks out. 2008-06-09 13:08:04 A few posts back, we wrote about the battle continuing in the logo contest debate. Continuing with that metaphor, looks like a war may be breaking out, with folks cheekily posting No-Spec! logos as entries into 99 Designs logo design contests. 127 logos to be exact. According to the 99 Designs blog and their No-Spec [...] Read more:breaks
Uhm. Okay… 2008-06-09 13:07:33 Not sure what to make of this story -
Student rocks MTV with logo made from deadly E coli bacteria.
Scientists at Edinburgh University have created a new MTV logo – made up entirely of the potentially deadly E coli bug.
The project is the brainchild of Edinburgh College of Art student Ross Colquhoun and will go [...]
What makes designers tick? 2008-06-29 02:59:55 Think Vitamin offers a decent read in their everthing you wanted to know about designers article. While it’s primarily talking about web designers, and their love-hate relationship with developers, some of the observations are pretty universal and applicable to any client & designer ‘relationship’.
I found this quotable quote particularly germane for anyone trying to [...] Read more:makes
The mysterious case of the stolen logo 2008-06-27 00:33:06 Or how a simple design project turned into an International incident. A while back we told you about the shop getting stung in an episode of credit card fraud. To recap - a new ‘client’ submitted a design brief for a couple of logo projects - one for some outfit called Ministering Angel Casino, another [...] Read more:stolen
Logo color formats and palettes 2008-06-26 08:32:21 One of the issues that crops up at the shop on an almost weekly basis is the subject of logo file formats and the various color palettes required for effective brand management. Seems that this is a portion of the logo design process remains a little foggy for some, and completely misunderstood by others.
Not really [...]
Creating a 3D spinning logo animation 2008-06-25 08:37:52 A few posts ago, we featured an anatomy of a Flash logo animation in which we took a general overview of an animation project typical of The Logo Factory. That post glossed over the 3D portion, so I figured this time around, I’d delve a little deeper into spinning
logos using Electric Rain’s Swift [...] Read more:Creating
Logo design for new Green Hornet movie 2008-06-25 06:48:15 Hype for the new GreenHornetmovie
has got to get rolling at some point, and I guess now’s as good a time as any. Not one frame of the flick has been filmed, and from what I’ve been able to dig up, pre-pre-production hasn’t even started on the super-hero movie (correction - crime fighter [...] Read more:design
Anatomy of a flash logo animation 2008-06-24 16:02:17 Around the shop, we pride ourselves in coming up with decent animations using client logos and Flash (see here for a few flash animation examples). I’ve always viewed animation and logo design as going hand-in-glove, especially when it comes to the web, and I’ve been messing around with Flash since the mid-ninties (when it was [...]
Obama Presidential Seal logo flap 2008-06-24 12:10:58 The Barack Obama
presidential campaign caused quite a kerfluffle last week, as conservative critics lambasted him for a new campaign logo (above left), an eagle design that bore a likeness to the official POTUS seal (above right). For those who are interested, VERO POSSUMUS is a loose translation of ‘Yes, We Can’, the Obama campaign’s [...] Read more:Presidential
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