Steve Shanabruch loves design and his home of Chicago. Bringing together these two passions, he’s launched The Chicago Neighbourhoods – One designers take on Chicago.
Steve plans to design a few logos a week until he has covered all 77 community areas of Chicago.
I’m looking forward to seeing how this project progresses. You can track The Chicago Neighbourhoods on both Twitter and Facebook.
If you dig this project, you may also be interested in checking out Branding 10,000 Lakes.… Read more
New York-based design firm, COLLINS, has developed a permanent mark to honour 10 years passing since the tragic events of 9/11, 2001.
From honoring911.com:
For us‚ this mark conveys the challenging but eternal lesson of that morning: we are as one. Just as we fall together‚ we can only rise together. Living with such empathy for one another is a steep mountain to climb. But we believe it is both the path out of 9-11 and the path we must… Read more
Brand guidelines don’t get much more geek-cool than this.
Via Blair Thomson.… Read more
By now, you probably know that I’ve got a bit of a ‘thing’ for vintage logos and branding. As you can see here, here, and here.
Just when I thought I’d seen every possible collection available on the web, I stumbled across this lovely Flickr set, featuring logos from a mid-70’s edition of the World Book of Logotypes.
Lovely.
Thanks Coudal.… Read more
Update: Giveaway Winners Announced
Congratulations Bill S Kenney, Keri Thornton, and Matt Yow — a copy of Symbol will be on its way to you shortly.
If you lucked out this time, don’t despair. We’ll be giving away a copy of the limited-run, Codex magazine next week.
Stay tuned!
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During our move from Australia to London, one unfortunate casualty was our collection of design books. Being heavy, and therefore too expensive to ship, they now sit in storage, gathering dust until… Read more
This stunning collection of vintage logos (1950s to 1960s) came to my attention via the always interesting, Aqua Velvet.
These vintage Japanese logos really really caught my eye.
Expo ’70 Osaka Logo
Kokusai International Travel Logo
There are plenty more where they came from, so be sure to check out the complete Flickr set.
Also, if you are a fan of vintage logos, Retro Logo Goodness and Scandinavian Logos from the 60s and 70s may be of interest to you.… Read more
Just stumbled across this outstanding Flickr set titled, Retro Logo Goodness — a study in retro/vintage logos.
Nothing like a bit of logo porn to cap off a busy week. Enjoy!
See the full Flickr set here.
Source: Coudal… Read more
The 2011 logo design trends report has just been released courtesy of the fine people at LogoLounge.
It’s always interesting to peruse the report for recent logo fads – if not at least to see whether oneself has been guilty of following any.
I found this comment from the report summary particularly interesting:
It feels like what people believe a logo to be is also becoming more transcendent. A logo is no longer a single piece of flat art. It… Read more
This is a guest post by Dennis Salvatier, blogger at Tanoshiboy and designer at Salvatier Studios, an award-wining design studio located in Southern California. You can reach Dennis through his website or on Twitter.
Crowdsourcing Won’t Help You
In the last few years crowdsourcing has become the single greatest enemy to design, more so when it comes to logo design. Let’s start off with an explanation about what crowdsourcing is.
This is when a company or an organization offers a… Read more
Every now and then I like to throw an opinion out there on Facebook or Twitter, and gauge the reaction from my followers.
Sometimes they agree, sometimes they disagree, but it always helps me to achieve some perspective on a particular issue.
A few weeks ago, I sent out this Facebook post:
While I admit the post was a tad melodramatic, I stand by it. In my opinion, Google AdSense has no place on a design blog. It’s spammy, kills… Read more
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