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Steve Douglas on September 25th, 2010

The bitter-free, September wrap-up, Tip o’ the Pint, weekend edition of our regular snippets feature. Throwing a little link love to blogs, websites, logos and logo design articles we kinda dug. To David Airey. Actually, that should be two pints to UK designer David, author of Logo Design Love (book review here). The first is [...]

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Steve Douglas on September 21st, 2010

It’s cheap and it’s easy to get something designed at The Design Contest Factory. Just hurry up, before people start catching on Getting something designed at The Design Contest Factory is real easy. Even though you could totally do it yourself, we’ll help you run a “design contest”, using something everyone’s calling “crowdsourcing”. That’s where [...]

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To effectively describe a website concept in a few lines of type, summing it up in concisely and succinctly, is an art form all of itself. Ain’t easy either, so I positively loved this description of a new World of Warcraft inspired, medieval role-playing website: “We provide you the battlefield and weaponry to conquer the [...]

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Rolling Stone LA, a 10,000-square feet blend of restaurant, bar, and private event space slated to open later this summer in Los Angeles, needed a new logo. And who better to tap for the gig than Jim Parkinson, the renowned designer of the original Rolling Stone magazine version. Parkinson has been designing logos and letterforms [...]

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Chicago-based Crowdspring have taken a new ‘nuke on sight‘ policy on members who insist on entering stock images into their logo contests. In case you didn’t know, most stock image licenses strictly prohibit the use of their artwork in ANY logo (or trademark) and can cause all sorts of legal hassles if, or when, it [...]

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