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AJ Alias Jim York – Public Portrait – @ajinnashville | MonoExpression
My name is Jim, but you can call me AJ. I live in Nashville, Tennessee and…oh, did I mention? I’m officially the luckiest guy in the world. Well…that’s how I feel anyway.
Creative Binge - imjustcreative

21 Creative online portfolio sites and applications

Graham Smith — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:54:48 +0000

The following is a healthy collection of 21 online portfolio websites and applications. Some are free and some are paid. We have the usual suspects in this collection and I also some lesser known portfolio solutions, at least to me anyway. I spent some time trying to discover alternatives to sites like Behance and Deviant Art to provide a wider audience reach for your work.

Sneek Peek : Optoloop Logo Design

Graham Smith — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:52:53 +0000

This is just a sneek peek of a logo and identity design I have finished for a self initiated project called, OptoLoop. The Sneek Peek is to provide an initial view of the logo images. 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.

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Juan Pablo Giusepponi – Public Portrait – @the_juanito | MonoExpression
I'm Juan Pablo Giusepponi, 19 years old amateur photographer and freelance designer, actually living in San Luis, ARGENTINA. I've been into photography and design for many years and managed to read everyday a little bit more about the two.
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Vintage typography in the wild – Robins Brewey | Freelance Logo Designer & Brand Identity Design - UK Logo Design by Graham Smith - ImJustCreative
Always love finding original vintage signage out and about. Finding those faded Victorian signs on the side of buildings is quite a treat. It's such a throwback to a time when everything was carefully painted, on a huge scale, in the absence of plastic and vinyl.
4 Minimal Wordpress themes by siiimple | Freelance Logo Designer & Brand Identity Design - UK Logo Design by Graham Smith - ImJustCreative
Four minimal Wordpress themes from Justin Marcus who also runs the Siiimple minimal CSS gallery. All the following themes are available for free, but a donation if you use any of course would be appreciate by Justin.

4 Minimal Wordpress themes by siiimple

Graham Smith — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:52:12 +0000

Four minimal Wordpress themes from Justin Marcus who also runs the Siiimple minimal CSS gallery. All the following themes are available for free, but a donation if you use any of course would be appreciate by Justin.

Vintage typography in the wild – Robins Brewery

Graham Smith — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:16:00 +0000

Always love finding original vintage signage out and about. Finding those faded Victorian signs on the side of buildings is quite a treat. It's such a throwback to a time when everything was carefully painted, on a huge scale, in the absence of plastic and vinyl.

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Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST

Lisa Marek – Public Portrait – @fatcatartstudio | MonoExpression
I love design, typography and all things beautiful – especially in nature. My earliest memories of designing were as a kid, sitting on my grandparents porch redesigning the Sears Catalog. My lifelong dreams include managing a magazine as creative director and shooting photography for National Geographic.

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Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST

Daring Fireball Linked List: Comcast Rebranding as 'Xfinity'
Comcast rebrands as Xfinity – Sounds pants to me | Freelance Logo Designer & Brand Identity Design - UK Logo Design by Graham Smith - ImJustCreative
This is based on my initial first impressions of the Comcast rebrand. I have not done any educational or rational research to the reasons Xfinity has been chosen. Comcast has rebranded its cable TV, internet and phone services as Xfinity TV, Xfinity Internet and Xfinity Voice.

Comcast rebrands as Xfinity – Sounds pants to me

Graham Smith — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:01:17 +0000

This is based on my initial first impressions of the Comcast rebrand. I have not done any educational or rational research to the reasons Xfinity has been chosen. Comcast has rebranded its cable TV, internet and phone services as Xfinity TV, Xfinity Internet and Xfinity Voice.

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Be grateful for what's not on the iPad | Tablets | MacUser | Macworld
Everyone, it seems, has a reason to be disappointed by the iPad's lack of some functionality or other—but that's exactly what we should be most happy about.
Moretype - Type Foundry

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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PST

The Apple iPad has already proven itself to me | Freelance Logo Designer & Brand Identity Design - UK Logo Design by Graham Smith - ImJustCreative
Tried to resist the urge to blog about the iPad, seems everyone else is fulfilling that spot frequently enough for most of us. But i have considered writing a small piece that would just explain how I would plan to use the Apple iPad. This is a small introduction to a post that Mark Crump on theAppleBlog wrote up which sums up nicely my own thoughts.
Die Speech Bubble Logo, Die. | Freelance Logo Designer & Brand Identity Design - UK Logo Design by Graham Smith - ImJustCreative
During the briefing process with a client, the subject of speech bubbles surfaced, namely they wanted one as an integral part of the logo design. In their case, the concept was quite warranted, but I still felt burdend by the cliché and overuse of speech and thought bubbles in logos. Interestingly enough, after provided them with a basic logo concept, that included the speech bubble, they sent me a link to this post entitled. Die Speech Bubble Logo, Die.
Jalixa Ramirez – Public Portrait | MonoExpression
Coming from a broken home in South New Jersey & facing many obstacles as a young girl, I began to develop my relationship with art and it then became my obsession. I spent most of my time preparing myself for my IDEAL career as a graphic designer and one day opening my own business.

Die Speech Bubble Logo, Die.

Graham Smith — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:19:47 +0000

During the briefing process with a client, the subject of speech bubbles surfaced, namely they wanted one as an integral part of the logo design. In their case, the concept was quite warranted, but I still felt burdend by the cliché and overuse of speech and thought bubbles in logos. Interestingly enough, after provided them with a basic logo concept, that included the speech bubble, they sent me a link to this post entitled. Die Speech Bubble Logo, Die.

The Apple iPad has already proven itself to me

Graham Smith — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:45:39 +0000

Tried to resist the urge to blog about the iPad, seems everyone else is fulfilling that spot frequently enough for most of us. But i have considered writing a small piece that would just explain how I would plan to use the Apple iPad. This is a small introduction to a post that Mark Crump on theAppleBlog wrote up which sums up nicely my own thoughts.

TypeTweets – Typography Twitter mash-up

Graham Smith — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:42:48 +0000

Typetweets displays the last 100 tweets from Twitter that mentioned a typographic related term for your viewing pleasure. These tweets range from humorous, to useless, to providing hours of fun with links to other sites. It’s really up to the community at large to determine the quality of its contents at any given time, but that’s what keeps things fresh.

10 Faces you may know on MonoExpression – Part 2

Graham Smith — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:38:25 +0000

This is Part Two (Part One) of a collection of recent faces on MonoExpression. A fun photographic based creative side project that I set up last year. It's goal: to collect as many black & white portraits of creative souls. For no other reason than, because I can, I love photography and I especially love black & white portraits. Here are ten portraits I picked to show you what is going on over there.

Logorama Animated Movie Trailer by H5

Graham Smith — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:03:51 +0000

Logorama Trailer - A movie based entirely around logo characters, logo buildings and pretty much logo everything else. There is a detailed post over at BoingBoing which is worth a read.

AquaVelvet – An Inspirational Source of Visual Creativity

Graham Smith — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:22:31 +0000

If you follow my daily bookmark and link updates on my Posterous blog, then you will probably have seen a number of links sourced from Aqua-Velvet. It is one of a few creative blogs that I genuinely look forward to seeing the frequent updates. I am always intrigued to see what is up next and rarely leave without stealing some article to link to on my Posterous blog.

Christmas Typographic Giveaway Winners

Graham Smith — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:10:17 +0000

First of all. Huge apologies for the lateness in announcing the winners for the Typographic Giveaway that ran for several weeks over Christmas. The simple reason was to do with cash flow, more specifically, a small problem with some non-paying clients. This rather messed up my cash flow for the start of the year, and as all these prizes are self funded, it made things a little tricky. But here we are with the lucky lucky winners.

LogoLounge Book Vol 6 – Last Call for Entries

Graham Smith — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:38:37 +0000

Seems the LogoLounge range of books are the staple diet of any designer interested in logo design. I still carry the small pocket sized volumes around with me when I think I might end up in a coffee shop somewhere, a quick flick through for inspiration whilst sipping a coffee. Having all previous volumes of the LogoLoung series, I am in eager expectation of Vol 6.

Free Chilled Audio Mix for Download by Andy Schneider – DJAS

Graham Smith — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:04:34 +0000

In my occasional dealings with Andy, the founder of Redux, the subject of music came about. In reply to one of my probing questions, Andy sent me a link to a music mix with a ‘walking crowd‘ video, also on Redux. The suggestion was that I listen to this track whilst watching this video, at [...]

ImJustCreative Logo in Comic Sans

Graham Smith — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:20:55 +0000

The two most prolific fonts, side by side. I have nothing further to say on this subject...