Logo Design Ownership: Make it Easy For Your Client To Own The Logo [AQfG]
I’m seeing, and hearing about, cases where some logo designers are not making the practicalities of logo design ownership straightforward for their clients. I have also heard of some designers refusing...
View ArticleAwesome Vintage Publicising of the Public Gothic Font by Antrepo
Here’s some tasty visual inspiration for a Sunday afternoon for you. In terms of nailing the marking and promotion of their vintage style font, Antrepo sort of hit it smack bang middle of the head....
View ArticleProper VIntage Porsche 356 Color Charts
This Porsche 356 Color Chart is rather seductive. Little bit of auto creative inspiration for this New Years Day. Really liking the circular ‘infographic’ style graphic on the front page, quite...
View ArticleAsking Clients for Full Payment Upfront [AQfG]
As part of my A Question for Graham series [AQfG], Chris from PixelHatch, emailed me a follow-up question with regards to an earlier post of mine on the topic of asking clients for the full payment...
View ArticleThe Horror of Logo-Design-Approval-by-Committee
One of the more frustrating scenarios when working as a self-employed logo designer is the ‘logo-design-by-committee, or more precisely, the horror of ‘logo-design-approval-by-committee’. Obviously...
View ArticleThe Absolut Logo Comes of Age
Once in a while a rebrand (logo redesign ) comes along that simply looks like how it should have always been. By that I mean the revised logo simply looks like a natural evolution, but at the same...
View ArticlePrinciples in Logo Design Pricing: Courageous, Responsible or Downright Foolish?
I had an interesting experience a while back that really has caused me to reflect on certain priorities I place regarding my logo design business, specifically in the area of logo designing budgets and...
View ArticleThe Thrill of The Squarespace Logo Design Machine
I really have been a little taken aback (in a good way) by the number of people asking me for my opinion on: The Squarespace Logo Design Machine, so here’s my tepid reply. As you can see, my The Logo...
View ArticlePreview of Preliminary Logo Design Idea for Logixoft
Logo Explanation The ‘X’ logomark sort of came about through some abstract sketching, trying to find some ‘hook’ within the brand name that could be used with a logomark. Often one looks at the...
View ArticleStar Wars Icon Set-Free Download by Jory Raphael
These Star Wars icons were initially designed as part of an icon-a-day (year of icons) project, furiously designed by Jory Raphael (@sensibleworld), who incidentally, also masterminded the popular...
View ArticleIn Progress: Custom Lettering-Preliminary Design Sketches
All posts, articles and logo designs © 2006-2013 Graham 'Logo' Smith: Forging Logomarks of Distinction since '86. In Progress: Custom Lettering-Preliminary Design Sketches Nothing like a blank-slate...
View ArticleIf you need a logo designed, if no one else can help…
All posts, articles and logo designs © 2006-2013 Graham 'Logo' Smith: Forging Logomarks of Distinction since '86. Yup, gratuitous self promotion time. Frankly, it’s been a somewhat sloth pace like...
View ArticleTumblr Gets A New Logo – See What’s Different Between The Old and New Tumblr...
All posts, articles and logo designs © 2006-2013 Graham 'Logo' Smith: Forging Logomarks of Distinction since '86. I actually love it when a brand redesigns their logo, but due to the subtleness of the...
View ArticleMinimal, modernist silkscreened posters of Wes Anderson films, designed by...
All posts, articles and logo designs © 2006-2013 Graham 'Logo' Smith: Forging Logomarks of Distinction since '86. Lovely package of minimal, modernist silkscreened posters which are inspired by Wes...
View ArticleThe New Le Mans 24 Hours Logo Design – Shakes Head
All posts, articles and logo designs © 2006-2013 Graham 'Logo' Smith: Forging Logomarks of Distinction since '86. Allowed some time to collect my thoughts, upon seeing the new Le Mans 24 Hours logo,...
View ArticleHazy Evening Sun: Seaford Beach Photograph – Free To Download and Use
All posts, articles and logo designs © 2006-2013 Graham 'Logo' Smith: Forging Logomarks of Distinction since '86. Hazy Evening Sun: Seaford Beach Photograph “One of my favourite photographs of...
View ArticleHow Many Times Can You Spot My PureStorage Logo In This Funny Promo Video?
All posts, articles and logo designs © 2006-2013 Graham 'Logo' Smith: Forging Logomarks of Distinction since '86. http://vimeo.com/42294236 Never ceases to amaze me how cool PureStorage is as a...
View ArticleThe Pure Storage Logo Now Made with Lego Bricks
All posts, articles and logo designs © 2006-2013 Graham 'Logo' Smith: Forging Logomarks of Distinction since '86. This has to be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen one of my logo designs being...
View ArticleIconic Brand Packaging Simplified & Abstracted to Dots by Silas Amos
All posts, articles and logo designs © 2006-2013 Graham 'Logo' Smith: Forging Logomarks of Distinction since '86. A while back there was a super duper cool study on dots, well, to be more precise, an...
View ArticleType Hero #8: Glober Type System Designed by Ivan Petrov of Font Fabric
All posts, articles and logo designs © 2006-2013 Graham 'Logo' Smith: Forging Logomarks of Distinction since '86. Some of the offers on Myfonts are simply ludicrous. When you consider HOW much...
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