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Podcast: Finding a logo designer

Steve Douglas — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:02:23 +0000

Finding a logo designer via the internet: what to look for and what to avoid

Third in our podcast series. Run time 15:10

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Podcast: History of The Logo Factory

Steve Douglas — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:50:49 +0000

Retrieved from the depths of our hard drives – an unpublished podcast abut our company and its humble beginnings.

Rummaging around my hard drives this afternoon and found this little gem. Don’t remember recording it (was quite a while ago – it refers to our old logo and website) but it’s an unpublished podcast that talks abut the history of The Logo Factory, the web, early SEO and how the business has changed over the years. Weighing in at 20 minutes it’s a bit long, but contains all sorts of funky and interesting stuff for designers who are looking to start their own businesses or those who want to know a little more about our studio.

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Podcast redux. Help us pick our new podcast topic!

Steve Douglas — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:00:35 +0000

As part of our brand and site retooling, we’re planning to release a regular series of podcasts through iTunes and our site. Gearing up for a weekly release, though that might be a tad optimistic if earlier efforts are any indication.

Previous Podcast fail

We started recording podcasts last year, but our ‘weekly’ series fell quickly to the wayside after one pretty lame attempt (still available on iTunes and here). Complete and utter podcast fail. Several reasons really. One: I relied on too much technology. Had a flipping semi-pro level recording studio set up before I uttered my first podcast word. This meant I had to talk into a mike while wearing headphones and became too formal and stilted in my presentation. Two: I hate my voice. People tell me that they hate their voice too, which is fair enough, but I really, really hate mine and Three: I am a disorganized cluster feck. We’re working on One & Three, and I’m just going to have to deal with Two.

Podcast redux

With some of the original bugs now worked out (we’ve simplified our recording setup greatly for a more informal approach), think it’s time to have another go, this time trying to make our weekly podcast, well, weekly. We’re going to create two podcast themes – one for designers and one for clients – to tie everything into The Logo Factor overall concept. And this would be week number one.

Have some suggestions for a topic?

With all this talk (and blogging, and Twittering) about ‘crowdsourcing’, we’re going to do a little of our own and ask readers to select the subject for our first podcast series redux with a simple poll (see below). Feel free to pick a subject from the choices below or if you’d like some other subject covered, drop us a suggestion in the text box provided or in the comments thread. If you have a question you’d like to ask, feel free to do that as well. Otherwise I’ll probably go off on some anti-spec-work rant.

And none of us want that.

Logo Design Podcast 1 – Starting out right

Steve Douglas — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:11:07 +0000

Finally got around to uploading our first episode into our logo podcast library. Spent quite a while ironing out the technical stuff and dealing with the occasional hiccup. I tend to work on my audio-visual stuff at home (the studio is just way too hectic) which, alas, caused some major headaches when recording. Can’t count the number of times I had just about finished when the dogs started barking their fool heads off, some salesman ran the doorbell or a frikkin’ ambulance tore down my street. Still not terribly happy about the sound of my voice (who is?) and there’s way too much himming and hawing for my liking (though my daughter tells me that this is acceptable in podcast world). In any case, got tired of trying to get it perfect and wrapped it up. Second one will be better. Promise. You can download here to have a listen or subscribe to the series through itunes.