Opinion & Ramblings

Steve Douglas on February 27th, 2012

Despite grousing by NoSpec this, and Antispec that, everyone and their dog are opening up design contest sites, so we figure it’s time to pitch our less-than-principled hat into the crowdsourcing ring. At least, until people start catching on Getting something designed at our new design contest site is easy. Real easy. Even though you [...]

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Steve Douglas on December 31st, 2011

Notable rebrands and redesigns Ditching their stylized mascot, the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team rolled out a new logo that is a hybrid of the original Jay’s design launched back in 1977, with bits and pieces from a later version that was unveiled in 1997. See the National Post’s Jay’s logos throughout the years for [...]

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Steve Douglas on November 7th, 2011

Interbrand has released their ‘Top 100 brands’ for 2011‘ list. Based on the total value of the brands named, it makes for an interesting read (Coca-Cola, at brand worth of $72B is number one). But what about these brands’ logos? What logo design secrets can we learn? Taking a look at the top 100 logos [...]

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Steve Douglas on October 8th, 2011

How Google’s newly improved image search can make policing logo design knockoffs a whole lot easier. Take a few seconds to watch the little video above. It pretty succinctly describes the newly improved features of Google’s Image Search and how you can use it to find images that are similar to one another. Pretty slick [...]

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Steve Douglas on October 6th, 2011

“I want to put a ding in the universe.” – Steve Jobs. 1955 – 2011

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