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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 March 28th, 2010

The bitter-free, Spring 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 Upstack. In this spec work, crowdsourcing and design contest era, would be remiss if I didn’t tip a pint towards people who are tilting [...]

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In internet parlance, they’ve been called ‘Twitter storms‘ and ‘Tweakouts‘ (freak outs) but always seem to follow the same pattern. A real or perceived slight, often involving plagiarism and alleged copyright infringement, is announced on a social platform and via a web-based echo chamber, Twitter retweeting and Facebook fan pages, it becomes an internet cacophony [...]

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Steve Douglas on February 10th, 2010

According to news reports, Google has taken legal umbrage with Goojje, a Chinese language search and social-networking site whose logo (above) bears a striking resemblance to the design made famous by Big G. If that weren’t enough, the Goojje logo also features a paw print component, nicked from Baidu, China’s most popular native search engine. [...]

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