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It’s a stretch, but in keeping with the Change theme of the week (Obama‘s Presidential inauguration and all that), let’s crowbar the idea into logo design (I told you it was a stretch). Specifically, the pros and cons of changing a logo that you’ve been using for a while. It will almost certainly be something [...]
For a designer, the most profitable logo design process involves the following steps; One – ask a client what they want. Two – give it to them. This type of project involves the client acting as an art director and in some aspects, the defacto designer of the logo itself. It takes the designer out [...]
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We started this list last spring – calling it 10 Ways You Can Screw Up A Perfectly Good Logo, but never got around to finishing up (which would be #1 in a Top Ten Ways To Screw Up A List, list). Now that 2009 is upon us, we’ve got some resolutions to keep, some unfinished [...]
Last week, I told you about specdebate, a supposedly open forum where designers can duke it out over the design contest issue. While action on the forum is light, George Ryan, the owner of the site (and a design contest site known as elogocontest) posted a pro contest piece, a “are logo design contests really [...]
Continue reading about Okay I’ll bite – Design contest debate
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 [...]
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