Author: Margarit Ralev
You are probably working with fonts from some time now.. and you don’t consider yourself as a type nerd, but it’s a good thing to go back to the basics and check what’s what. Here you go – practice : Stem Counter Shoulder Serif Ascender Arc of stem Link Loop Ear Serif Arm Crossbar Ascent Ascender line Cap height X-height Baseline Descender line Descent Apex Aperture Finial Axis Crotch Leg Chin Swash Spine Flag Tail Adnate Abrupt Beak Lachrymal etc. There are many posters and pictures of the anatomy of the letters, but I believe this one is good example.…
prometheus-movie-logotype-1 prometheus-movie-logotype-2 prometheus-movie-logotype-3 prometheus-movie-logotype-4 It’s always hard to present a logotype in an original way when it comes to motion graphics. We’ve seen all kind of fades, particle animation, drawing, spinning, you name it. But simplicity will dominate forever. Just a simple step by step, stem by stem appearance with some cool rhythm can make the regular “allien movie” looks interesting.
coffee-cup-logos-logoblink Just found some cool coffeecup logo designs. The dynamic-logo-design trend is coming with full power. Are we gonna register visual marks at all after 30 years ? – And yes – some of these may be characterized more as illustrations.., but they are cool, right ?
trust-projected-logotype-logoblink This TRUST sculpture by Tobias Rehberger reminded me to look for some more shadow logotypes and marks. This trend is very popular last few years and it will become even more popular thanks to the new technologies. Here’s my selection: lego-magic-cube-shadow-art shadow-instalation-mickey-mouse shadow-logotypes-logoblink1 shadow-logotypes-logoblink2 shadow-logotypes-logoblink3 shadow-logotypes-logoblink3a shadow-logotypes-logoblink4 shadow-logotypes-logoblink5 shadow-logotypes-logoblink7 shadow-logotypes-logoblink8 still-projected-logotype-logoblink2 Bonus – some other shape designs shadow-logotypes-logoblink6 shadow-instalation shadow-instalation-metal-rats-fcking shadow-instalation-kumi_yamashita_01 Sources: http://io9.com/5893084/gruesome-shadow-art-transforms-garbage-and-mummified-rats-into-severed-heads http://www.designartnews.com/news/tobias\_rehberger\_museum\_dhondt\_dhaenens_deurle http://gizmodo.com/5400618/magic-volumes-have-three-different-magic-shadows
suntan-logo sun-tan-logo-poker-logoblink Sun tan logos are great to experiment if your design is simple-shaped … sun-tan-logo-poker-logoblink2 suntan-logo-logoblink Tan tattoos give wearers a memory of their summer holiday and turn the imperfection of tan lines into a sweet message of love. You can buy these on kiskin.it or just try to make your own sun tan logos / tattoos 🙂 sun-tan-logo-logoblink
the story about the Jewish symbol The Days of the week are named for the ancient gods/planets. There are 5 planets visible to the naked eye from the earth, plus the sun and the moon, that make up the pantheon of 7: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. representations of the Jewish symbol You can see some interesting pictures of the candlestick symbol in this blog post
b-s-letters-calligraphy-graffiti Just something spotted on facebook for your inspiration. Does somebody read the text in the S ? 🙂
touch-app-logos Any idea what these icons/logos stand for ? They are the Adobe touch logos, launched in 2011, which I somehow overslept 🙂 In case you are wondering ( as I was ) what are these Adobe touch apps for – watch the movie: touch-app-logos-meaning I’m not sure I’m impressed with the touch logos, but I like the illustration for the recent advertising campaign 🙂 adobe-touch-fingerprint-illustration
logo-design-product-placement-logoblink The image above is a contest proposal for a magazine cover of Signcafe ( Bulgarian mag for advertising ). The theme of this specific issue was “Product placement”. My question is : how many logos do you recognize in inside ? 🙂 The author is Nikola Arnaudov ( facebook prifile link ).
meetme-branding-logo-design And it’s not so pretty. A new big player in the social websites market is coming and it brings its own logo. Meet… “meetme.com” 🙂 It’s the product of the merger of QuePasa and myYearbook. Check the stats bellow and you may get an idea what’s that all about. meetme-branding-01 Whole new 874 million people to meet! meetme-branding-02 Of course – we can’t check if these figures are correct, but the stats are definitely interesting. Do the logos influence ? Does anything matter all ? Pinterest has the coolest logotype for sure. Facebook the most boring one, but that’s what’s interesting…