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Thought this was kinda cool and worth a mention. The 2016 Paralympic Games held in Rio, Brazil debuts its multi-sensory logo created by Tátil, a Brazilian design agency. The innovative logo is designed in full 3D, offering accessibility to everyone, regardless of a disability. Referencing the traditional olympic brand, the team devised an off-balance human [...]
After ten years of selling logo design services, Utah-based Logoworks announces that it’s closing up shop. Arguably one of the first crowdsourcing design sites, and since its inception in 2011, Logoworks was one of the top-ranked and successful logo design websites of the internet era. Purchased a few years back by Hewlett Packard for a [...]
Amid claims of plagiarism, Thailand has stopped using its logo for the World Expo 2020 bid. Yet another logo. Yet another controversy. This time, it’s the design for Thailand’s 2020 World Expo bid which has been dropped, at least for the time being, amid claims that it’s a knock-off from the design currently used by [...]
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Guess it’s time to roll out the Borg graphic again, because according to Techcrunch, Facebook and Forbes backers Accel Partners has ponied up $35 million to invest in spec work and design contest site 99designs. That’s a healthy chunk of change (and props to 99designs’ founders for pulling it off) but with the money intended [...]
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Anyone remember the curious case of Jon Engle vs. Stockart from a few years back? What turned out to be an anti-spec work parable has become even more so, with an initial $660,000 judgment against the hapless designer. Many of you will remember the weird tale of Jon Engle and Stockart LLC. For those who [...]
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