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The Wide Eye Optics logo design was the product of a ‘fluky’ approach, I don’t mind admitting. It started with the logomark, I was playing with concentric circles then all of a sudden I ‘saw’ a eye, yes, a wide eye. Then always thinking, as I do, it seemed a reasonable action to convert that particular idea into it’s own logo.

Every week or so, in a brand spanking new compendium post, I will summarise the most interesting links that I have Tweeted, Posterised and Tumbled in that last week. Topics could include everything from logo design, typography, humor, photographs, inspirational blogs and websites etc. So for the week up to, and including the 9th December, some of my fav links are as follows:

It’s that crazy time of year again, so to mark the occasion in style, I have prepared the following Christmas typographic giveaway. Up for grabs are 12 pretty neat ‘gifts’, and as the title clearly states, mostly typographic in nature.

How NOT to Approach Me for Logo Design Work

Orbitron is another open source font from The League of Movable Type, one of my favourite font web sites for quality fonts. It is available for download below.

Every week or so, in a brand spanking new compendium post, I will summarise the most interesting links that I have Tweeted, Posterised and Tumbled in that last week. Topics could include everything from logo design typography, humor, photographs, inspirational blogs and websites etc.

A personal logo project playing with negative space in logo marks. This logo, in Helvetica of course, came about more by accident, so nothing overtly planned. Whilst playing with another client logo, and looking at quote marks, I saw this thunderbolt shape that appeared when you put two together.

Now ready to announce the 2 winners of the very popular Typodarium 2010 Typographic Calendar. You can see further details of this calendar on a previous post ‘Typodarium 2010 Typographic Calendar’ and the official website.

I was humbled and delighted when Vitaly Friedman from Smashing Magazine approached me to come up with a new logo/badge for their new Smashing Network. Chalk another one up for the logo design porfolio.

Some time back I posted an article detailing the customisation of my Helvetica logo ‘Bastardizing Helvetica for the ImJustcreative Logo Design’. Since then I have made a couple of minor changes, mostly to the way the tag line ‘Logo Identity Design’ is positioned and styled. So here is the latest incarnation of the ImJustCreative logo design.

This is Part 12 of the Logo Design Round-Up series. This ongoing series showcases a collection of logos and brand marks, self submitted by a bunch of freelance designers and creative folk in many creative areas. These designers use the logos to sell, promote, brand and market their various skills.

232 MKSD Round was designed by Masayuki Sato from Maniackers Design. It comes in the 3 above weights, Light, Medium and bold and you can download it as a Mac Truetype, Mac Postscript and Windows Truetype font file. You can download it for free via the visiting the link below.

Every week or so, in a new compendium post, I will summarise the most interesting links that I have Tweeted, Posterised and Tumbled in that last week. Topics could include everything from logo design typography, humor, photographs, inspirational blogs and websites etc.

Do you design fonts? Do you create usable and quality fonts like the ones listed above? Do you include reasonable glyphs like standard punctuation, Cyrillic characters, bold, italic? Do you care about the sanity of the end user with details like kerning? If so, and you are looking for more platforms to promote your work, rather than just have it setting in your portfolio, then give me a shout.

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Frazzled on the heels of the Typodarium 2010 Typographic Calendar and subsequent Typodarium giveaway, this rather beautiful SketchBook and 2010 Pocket Calendar from Typotheque hit my retinas at full speed earlier this evening. With an apparent limited run of 500 copies, I have ordered several to be given as Christmas giveaways in forthcoming weeks.