Opinion & Ramblings

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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Steve Douglas on August 18th, 2011

Or, the perils of do-it-yourself logo generators. Continued. Couple of days back, I wrote about buying the WWF Panda logo (for a paltry $69.00) from do-it-yourself logo design site Logo Garden. It was a short and light-hearted ‘take the piss’ post, written to demonstrate the very-real risks of purchasing a logo from these DIY logo [...]

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Steve Douglas on August 14th, 2011

Or how I bought the WWF Panda logo from Logo Garden for only $69.00. According to the press release that hit my e-mail account this morning, Logo Garden is “poised to disrupt online logo design and biz card space” with their do-it-yourself logo maker. Ooooh, that does sound swell. Billed as the ‘fastest growing logo [...]

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Steve Douglas on August 10th, 2011

The launch of another anti-spec work initiative proves that the controversy about crowdsourcing, design contests and free-pitching isn’t going anywhere soon. If there’s a topic of discussion that’s sure to get most designers riled up, it’s spec work (when a designer is expected to design something in the hopes they may get paid for the [...]

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