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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.

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Logology – The Wonderland of Logo Design Book and Photos | Freelance Logo and Identity Mark Designer - Logo, Icon, Mark & Typographic Design - ImJustCreative - Graham Smith
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.

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.

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Marketing: Time to Rewrite the Brand Playbook for Digital - Advertising Age - CMO Strategy
Instead of simply appropriating everything that we know about branding for digital media, it may be time to focus on how digital media change branding.

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Arbenting Asks Aloud : Is The Client Always Right? Arbenting Freebies - The Product of Being Creative
Another monthly discussion for the online design community about whose judgment should matter more when it comes to the final outcome design project.
A discussion on ‘How to choose a new logo’ at Identity Works | Freelance Logo and Identity Mark Designer - Logo, Icon, Mark & Typographic Design - ImJustCreative - Graham Smith
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.
Typography in NYC Flickr Set | Freelance Logo and Identity Mark Designer - Logo, Icon, Mark & Typographic Design - ImJustCreative - Graham Smith
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.

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.

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Vintage logos Flickr set from World Of Logotypes book | Freelance Logo Designer & Brand Identity Design - UK Logo, Icon, Badge & Typographic Design by Graham Smith - ImJustCreative
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.
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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.

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Typefaces from Stereotypes.de – Free and Commercial | Freelance Logo Designer & Brand Identity Design - UK Logo, Icon, Badge & Typographic Design by Graham Smith - ImJustCreative
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.
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AeroFrog Font – Exclusive Free Font Download | Freelance Logo Designer & Brand Identity Design - UK Logo, Icon, Badge & Typographic Design by Graham Smith - ImJustCreative
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.
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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.

KiloGram Font – Free Heavy Display Font for Download

Graham Smith — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:21:45 +0000

Kilogram font is designed by Karl from Kalle Graphics and was based on a font called Anagram by Nick Curtis. Kudos to Karl for designing such a stunning font and not charging for it. Not to mention the work Karl has put into creating the various promo designs for Kilogram, some of which are here. Visit his website to see the full collection of designs based on Kilogram.

Logo Design – You often get what you pay for

Graham Smith — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:39:02 +0000

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...

Raleway Font – Free Open Source Thin Font for Download

Graham Smith — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:21:00 +0000

Raleway 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 free download below.

Sneak Peek – Unholy Ladies Undergarments Logo

Graham Smith — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:52:27 +0000

This is just a sneek peek of a logo and identity design I recently completed for a ladies lingerie/underwear/undergarments company, 'Unholy'. 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.