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Wow. Guess Forbes ain’t looking to rustle up too many subscribers among the designer set, at least if their The Creativity of Crowds article is any indication. Subtitled CrowdSpring aims to slash the cost of graphic design work–and democratize a snooty business, the article (Feb 16 issue) is a glorified puff-piece on one of the [...]
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One of the in-vogue euphamisims for design contests is ‘crowd sourcing’ and there’s a ton of related sites popping up all over the interwebs. The concept of crowdsourcing is simple – would-be buyers post design gigs on a bulletin boards and would-be ‘designers’ post concepts and designs, hoping to ‘win’ the gig. Like most design [...]
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While a majority of our flash logo animation projects involve logos that we’ve designed at the shop, we also do quite a bit of animation using logos that we didn’t design. We work with quite a few video production houses, as well as one-one-one with clients who have had their logo created somewhere else. Most [...]
Just plain bad logo design Everyone wants their logo to mean something – to represent some vital part of the company, product or service. Fair enough – that’s usually the point of the exericise, though often easier said than done. Creating a graphic image that tells a specific story about a sometimes fairly specialized business [...]
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