Eastern Eggs is an initiative by TWBA London to help raise funds for the Red Cross – Japan Tsunami Appeal.
It brings together various designers and artists, who have had their custom artwork drawn onto 6cm wooden eggs using a robot called the ‘Egg-Bot’.
You can see the Egg-bot in action in the video below. It’s a rather impressive sight.
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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
The time has arrived to announce the winners of our first anniversary giveaway.
If your name is listed below, today just happens to be your lucky day!
Wacom Tablet Winner
Prize: Wacom Intuos4 Medium tablet (PTK-640), valued at $349
Winner: Erica Birkman
Logo Design Love Book Winners
Prize: Logo Design Love book by David Airey
Winners:
Hayley Jones
Anderson Geuring
Eric Leckband
Ellen Brynn Eder
Donna Vitan
Gemma Carr
Gerry Suchy
Tracy Bishop
Rhiannon Folpp
Luis London
Congratulations
Congratulations to all the… Read more
Whether you are doing it solo as a freelance designer, or run your own design studio, your chances of success are pretty slim unless you learn to manage client relationships properly.
I have been running my own design business for around 2.5 years now, and while I don’t pretend I know everything, there are a few tricks I have picked up along the way.
In this post, I will be sharing 15 rapid-fire bits of advice on how to manage… Read more
Logobird was officially launched one year ago. Its been a really exciting 12 months for us, with the growth of the site well exceeding all our expectations.
As is almost customary, I could take this opportunity to go into detail about our subscriber stats, achievements, most popular posts, yada yada – but I’m not here to gloat.
The purpose of this post is to give something back. To say ‘thank you’ to our readers and the design community as a… Read more
While I have experienced both successes and failures as a designer, one thing is for sure, I have certainly learnt a lot along the way. To impart some of this knowledge, in this post, you will find fifteen useful logo design tips.
1. It all starts with the brief
Okay, this first one is really a given. Building a comprehensive design brief upfront is vital to the success of a logo design project. It will become your point of reference… Read more
Its been nearly 12 months since Logobird was launched. Overall its been a great year with the site steadily growing – completely exceeding my expectations.
Despite doing rather well so far, the time for change had come, and here you have it – the all new Logobird.
This post will give you a rundown on some of the changes to the site and what you can expect from us going forward.
We have switched domains
Firstly, we have ditched our… Read more
A new logo controversy is upon us with the news that the NBC Universal logo has been redesigned – dropping its globe silhouette and iconic Peacock.
The redesign marks the takeover of NBC Universal by media conglomerate Comcast. With the takeover NBC Universal has also been renamed to NBCUniversal.
Old NBC Universal Logo
New NBCUniversal Logo
Before getting all up in arms about the change it is important to note that the iconic NBC network logo (pictured below) will remain… Read more
A new logo for HTML5 has been unveiled by the W3C – the international community responsible for developing standards for the web.
The new logo will primarily act as a badge for web designers and developers, giving them a standardized symbol to inform visitors that parts of HTML5 has been implemented into their site. Important to note however, the logo does not imply validity or conformance with web standards.
The new identity for HTML5 was developed by Honolulu-based Ocupop. Here is an… Read more