Tips and News on Logo Design and Tutorials
Beautiful findings: Birth of a Book
This short video by Glen Milnerwas shot for the Daily Telegraph at Smith-Settle Printers, Leeds, England. It captures the process that's behind the production of a book using traditional methods. It's quite interesting to see how many people are involved in the making of these books (would you ever have thought that such lovely and well-dressed ladies would be behind book binding?) and the...
Photography love: René Maltête
To finish up the week with a good mood, I'm bringing you here the really clever and humorous photographic work of French photographer René Maltête. Using fairly simple tricks and perfect photographic timing, Maltête works around humour as his main subject but with a permanent underlying social commentary. The pictures have this very non-chalant look to them and even make you...
Great Illustrations: Pictographic songs
Viktor Herz, swedish graphic designer and creator of the Honest Logoseries, has brought up a different version of illustrated minimalistic interpretations of the overdone movie posters- he decided to take this approach with popular songs. Based on the song titles and lyric he has come up with a series of pictograms that are actually really clever and might put a smile upon your...
Graphic design humour: naked logos
Iconic brand logos are so installed in our visual language that sometimes just a colour or a font is the immediate recognizable element of a brand. We've already seen a version of honest logos that put into a funny manner the reality behind them. Well this time, myHOTjuly came up with a logo series that they have called naked logos, which has the same principal concept. It has a...
Graphic design news: Liechtenstein votes for their new logo
The small Principality of Liechtenstein is currently having a voting contest to choose the country's new visual identity. Every citizen over 14 years old is allowed to choose between five proposals that were made by agencies from all over Europe. The basic guidelines of the logos are based on the national's colours -red and blue- and some of them refer to the royalty condition of the...