Spec work. Design contests. Crowdsourcing. Does it really matter what label we hang on them? The dangers always remain the same. For years now, we’ve been barking about design contests, and their recently re-packaged cousin crowdsourcing, as an extremely risky way to have anything designed. By anybody. For anything. One of our major caveats is [...]
Yesterday, we took a fairly in-depth look at how conservative bloggers and some of the media, Fox News for example, found what they believed was an Islamic Crescent in a “new” Missile Defense Agency logo. Barack Obama’s Missile Defense Agency and proceeded to stage a full-core internet freakout. Not going to recap, other than with [...]
Continue reading about Missile Defense Agency logo. More tin-foil hattery
If you’re the curator of a niche blog (in this case, one centered on logo design) it’s generally ill-advised to get involved in politics, especially in these extremely divisive right-wing vs. left-wing times. No real mileage in doing so, as we always risks alienating 50% of our audience, and as this isn’t a political blog, [...]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few days, you’re probably aware that this is the opening weekend of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. We’ll be taking an in-depth look at the design of the official games logo with our next post, but I thought we should get this out of the [...]
Continue reading about 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic mascots. And how they met Pedobear.
According to news reports, Google has taken legal umbrage with Goojje, a Chinese language search and social-networking site whose logo (above) bears a striking resemblance to the design made famous by Big G. If that weren’t enough, the Goojje logo also features a paw print component, nicked from Baidu, China’s most popular native search engine. [...]
Continue reading about Google tells Chinese imitator Goojje to knock off using their logo
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