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Valentine’s Day is on Sunday, but as most of us will be busy with our sweethearts (the entire point of the exercise), thought we’d get the jump and offer up this keen little Valentine’s Day love heart illustration (download buttons below). Might be worthwhile for anyone who’s in a do-it-yourself card making mode. The artwork [...]
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Crowdsourcing platform Crowdspring has announced that they’re going to be offering writing ‘projects’ using the same spec-work model that graphic designers never seem to tire carping about. Which means we can expect a whole bunch of tireless carping from professional writers too. This ‘taking over the creative world’ thing kinda reminds me of a sci-fi [...]
When I first learned about David Airey‘s then in-progress book Logo Design Love. (named after his excellent design blog of the same name) I’ll admit to feeling a slight twinge of envy. Dammit, I’ve been trying to write a book on logo design for years, but finding it rather exasperating, it remains firmly entrenched in [...]
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In an announcement that took some in the design industry by surprise, iStockphoto today announced that they were planning to roll out some sort of stock logo service, presumably after the New Year. Shortly after the news hit Twitter (and after receiving an e-mail from David Airey about the plan) I received this e-mail from [...]
Designers often talk, a great lengths, why a logo design has to be simple, some going as far to say it’s a “carved in stone” kinda rule. While I agree in principle with that basic premise, it’s a rule that we’ve been guilty of breaking, on numerous occasions (in our defense, we always make sure [...]
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