Steve Douglas on December 19th, 2008

Now that the USA Presidential Campaign is over, the dissection of everything associated with it begins. One of the items under the microscope is Barack Obama’s campaign marketing in general, and the Obama logo design in specific. Interesting to look back at what people thought of the Obama mark at the time (referred to by [...]

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Steve Douglas on September 14th, 2008

Been working on a series of Logo Design Workshop Videos and just about finished the first – a look at logo file formats and the importance of vector based artwork. After all these years, we still have to deal with pixel based logos that are created in Photoshop and all the inherent problems that comes [...]

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Steve Douglas on May 2nd, 2008

Speaking about Photoshop (you know we were), found this on the toobz last night. A great series of how-to-Photoshop lessons by Donnie Hoyle, wrapped up in a hilarious back story that follows the host’s descent into madness and ultimately, a Swat raid. You gotta watch the whole series to appreciate the cleverness of the set-up. [...]

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Steve Douglas on March 31st, 2008

Found on YouTube this morning – kick ass music video for French electro-pop duo Justice and their single DVNO. Contains the type styling of just about every cheesy 70’s and 80’s logo you can imagine, with killer motion graphics timed perfectly to the sound track. Must admit, this is the kind of logo animation that [...]

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