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1950’s and 1960’s Retro Catalogue & Machinery Logos

Graham Smith — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:34:22 +0000

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.

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The retro re-incarnation of ImJustCreative | Freelance Logo and Identity Mark Designer - Logo, Icon, Mark & Typographic Design - ImJustCreative - Graham Smith
Had to share this. Commissioned this cartoon illustration of moi for my freelance business, prior to ImJustCreative. At this time, I was going by the name of DigitalSlave and was a multi-disciplined freelance designer.

The retro re-incarnation of ImJustCreative

Graham Smith — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:50:21 +0000

Had to share this. Commissioned this cartoon illustration of moi for my freelance business, prior to ImJustCreative. At this time, I was going by the name of DigitalSlave and was a multi-disciplined freelance designer.

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Discussion : Logo design sketches; Bearing all
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.
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Discussion : Logo design sketches – Bearing all

Graham Smith — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:39:45 +0000

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.

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LL Replica Typeface and Specimen Book by Lineto | Freelance Logo and Identity Mark Designer - Logo, Icon, Mark & Typographic Design - ImJustCreative - Graham Smith
Lineto is a beauty of a website, leaves you in no doubt the attention to detail lavished on their creations. The website deserves a good rummage around, check out all their fonts, specifically the LL Replica type family for which this specimen book has been created and the focus of this post.

LL Replica Typeface and Specimen Book by Lineto

Graham Smith — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:39:07 +0000

Lineto is a beauty of a website, leaves you in no doubt the attention to detail lavished on their creations. The website deserves a good rummage around, check out all their fonts, specifically the LL Replica type family for which this specimen book has been created and the focus of this post.

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1960’s and 1970’s Scandinavian Design Logos | Freelance Logo and Identity Mark Designer - Logo, Icon, Mark & Typographic Design - ImJustCreative - Graham Smith
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.
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1960’s and 1970’s Scandinavian Design Logos

Graham Smith — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:42:53 +0000

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.

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Logo Design Love by David Airey – Book Review and Photos | Freelance Logo and Identity Mark Designer - Logo, Icon, Mark & Typographic Design - ImJustCreative - Graham Smith
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.
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Logo Design Love by David Airey – Book Review and Photos

Graham Smith — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:24:37 +0000

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.

Logology – The Wonderland of Logo Design Book and Photos

Graham Smith — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:07:41 +0000

Been after Logology for some time, specifically had it on back-order with Amazon.co.uk for about 4 months. Each month they would email me saying it was delayed. Then finally, last week, they emailed me saying they would have to cancel the order as the publishers of Logology no longer had any copies available.

Typography in NYC Flickr Set

Graham Smith — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:44:23 +0000

Just had to share these photos of typography in and around New York City. Taken by a friend of mine, Maxine (wander_by_trade), they show a bewildering variety of typography based subway signage, posters, general signs as well as decades old wood and stone building engravings. Not to mention the odd appearance of Helvetica.

A discussion on ‘How to choose a new logo’ at Identity Works

Graham Smith — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:43:56 +0000

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.

Vintage logos Flickr set from World Of Logotypes book

Graham Smith — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:18:12 +0000

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.

AeroFrog Font – Exclusive Free Font Download

Graham Smith — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:08:00 +0000

AeroFrog is another free font exclusive for ImJustCreative, providing a platform to designers spread the word about their font designs. You can download AeroFrog font for free below.

Typefaces from Stereotypes.de – Free and Commercial

Graham Smith — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:44:05 +0000

A clean selection of typefaces from the Stereotypes foundry, St Mika font being a favourite of mine. With a couple of freebie faces available from Dafont, namely St Booka Shade, St Trasmission and St Substance.

Alphaposters from Happycentro

Graham Smith — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:10:07 +0000

Stunning typographic posters from HappyCentro. This series is a part of a whole alphabet. The concept was: Take a letter of an alphabet, looking for a selection of 10 cities in the world that starts with this letter, say which languages are spoken in these places, say where are you from and which is your language. It was a research project around the concept of the TRAVELLING.

Smashing Magazine Book and Helvetica Moleskine Giveaway

Graham Smith — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:03:02 +0000

Been a short while since my last giveaway, so remedy that I have three copies of Smashing Magazines very own design book and one Limited Edition Helvetica Moleskine up for grabs.

Release your inner Ninja – Ninja typographic designs

Graham Smith — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:25:08 +0000

Just started a silly little typographic gallery based on the Ninja word being designed in anyway you see fit. Called 'Your Inner Ninja' this is a way to show anyone who cares how you usually internally visualise the word 'Ninja' in a typographic style.