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The logos your logos could look like

For those taking this far too literally it is a spin off from the Old Spice adverts, and not something I made up firmly believing to be true.

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Foundation by Zurb

Time has come to dust off the old website—which I have been tinkering with for a good 3 years now—to bring in the new. The new being a fully responsive WordPress website, blog and portfolio based on the Foundation/Boilerplate Framework …

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If you are obsessed about coffee then Brew Methods has your “six”. Not sure I have seen so many ways to make coffee in one place which means there will be some serious experimenting done soon.

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  Enough already with the “make the logo smaller.”, and “make the logo bigger.” Just make the logo the bloody size it needs to be and get on with it. Ya ya ya.

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This is an updated version of my previous Logo design proposal/contract/estimate template which is still available for you to download should you want it.

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herman miller logo design 2011

The Herman Miller logo has always been one of these logos that I have long enjoyed viewing. This is a brief run down of the Herman Miller brand evolution.

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Love this ‘for fun’ logo idea by Gert van Duinen which has really nice curves and a cheeky bit of negative space going on. View original http://idgram.com/

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If you are not sure how best to charge clients for your logo projects, then this post may provide some insights.

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Lloyd Northover

Received a pleasant email/mailer from John Lloyd providing information on a web archive of work spanning his 50 years as a graphic designer, and creative director starting back in 1960.

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evernote logo design

For any one interested in the Evernote logo and brand as well as maybe working on similar logo and icon projects then this is a must see.

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Why do so many logo portfolios only show work as a text heavy list rather than have a quick and easy way to view a selection of designs?

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A client I was doing a logo for, expressing some subjectivist existentialism

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A Website about Corporate Identity contains additional information about corporate identity, including a bibliography and links to related sites on the internet.

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twitter css logo design

Various Logos Created Entirely with CSS is rather neat which I found via Dan Cederholm on Twitter. I am not at all proficient at web design so the idea of creating these logos purely out of CSS seems quite remarkable, but also given …

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http://www.fluorink.net/

I understand, and fully appreciate, the idea behind trademark protection especially with big brand cases like Apple.

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London Sperm Bank Logo Design

The London Sperm Bank Logo is part of the LogoStack collection.


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