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Further to my mini-series on vintage building signage and typography ‘Robins Brewery’ and ‘Vintage Typography in the Wild’, this post tackles a modern version of these painted building signs. The building in question is based in the historic town of Lewes and sits on the edge of the towns main through road junction.

Hotel Chain, a logomark which came about whilst working on some idea’s for a hotel identity project I am currently working on. Just an example of how sketching and playing with endless rounds of idea tweaking in Illustrator can result in something quite fun.

Stumbled on this excellent collection of vintage and minimal identity work created by Noel Martin. Noel Martin was a renown self-taught typographer and designer who studied drawing, painting, and printmaking at the Art Academy of Cincinnati.

Martin was celebrated for modernizing museum graphics and industrial trade catalogs. In 1953, he was featured in MoMA’s landmark design exhibition, Four American Designers, along with Herbert Bayer, Leo Lionni, and Ben Shahn.

Collection of vintage logos from a mid-70′s edition of the book World of Logotypes. This Flickr set has done the rounds countless times, with views in excess of 4568. Time to include a link to it here.

Not often I just post one photo, but this is beautiful. See the original on Flickr.

Finding some real ace logo sets on Flickr or late, this one is no exception. Various logos, emblems, signs, letterpress blocks of 1950′s and 1960′s machinery and supply catalogues. Depression Press also has other Flickr sets of typography, design related images.

I’m inviting a discussion on the risks of showing all your sketch ideas for a logo design process. Logo development and design process posts are becoming more popular and are a valuable way to show your work in context. Reading about how other designers reach their final logo designs can be very enlightening to say the least, often showing the rest of us new ways to approach our own logo development.

Another Flickr set of logos from Oliver Tomas, this time based on 1960′s and 1970′s Scandinavian (Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway) design logos, covering : furniture, textiles, glass, porcelain, housewares.

Just like design, books can be quite subjective. Some books speak for themselves, some need help reaching a audience. I had no such reservations with David Airey’s first book, based on his logo design website titled “Logo Design Love”. Pulling in everything to do with successful logo and brand identity design, this book really achieves what many books seem to fail to do.

Came across this article ‘How to choose a new logo’ on the IdentityForum part of the Identity Works website. Some interesting points of view from the author Marius Ursache. As usual with these open ended discussion pieces, the subsequent comments provide interesting and enlightening reading.

A huge selection of vintage logos taken from a 1970′s book called ‘World of Logotypes’. This is a great Flickr set and was put together by Mr Carl. Definitely worth a look as its gives you an appreciation of work and styles done decades ago, yet many still look fresh. Logotypes, logomarks, initials, monograms, icons, symbols, every style of logo is there.

The logo is the one constant in their marketing and advertising armory. It will be around when the last brochure becomes out of date, when the business moves location, when the website is due for a system wide redesign, when the CEO or MD retires, when their own clients come and go, when the Conservatives get back in power…

This is just a sneak peek of a logo and identity design I recently completed for a ladies lingerie/underwear/undergarments company, ‘Unholy’. The Sneak Peek is to provide an initial view of the logo images and is linked to my portfolio. An in-depth ‘logo design process’ post will be done in time brief and to the point information on that design. It will be linked to the images currently existing in my portfolio.

“I’d like to ask if there’s a noticeable benefit to updating a wide range of sites for you. Would love to know if “expanding your reach” through the use of many portfolios as opposed to a few has truly lead to worthwhile client relationships.” That was a question posed to me in a comment on a earlier post titled 22+ Creative online portfolio sites and felt it warranted a small answer.

Flelix Stockwell is a legend. He is renowned for his icon drawing skills, identity design and illustration. He was featured in the last edition of LogoLounge, a showcase of his icon work for the New York Times iPhone application GUI (this link will take you to his post about the process involved with creating the NYTimes GUI).

This is just a sneek peek of a logo and identity design I recently completed for a wedding photography studio, ‘Illumina’. The Sneek Peek is to provide an initial view of the logo images and is linked to my portfolio. An in-depth ‘logo design process’ post will be done in time brief and to the point information on that design. It will be linked to the images currently existing in my portfolio.