Tips and News on Logo Design and Tutorials

Google is back in the news today for acquiring a U.S. patent for its changing logo system, something they call "Google Doodles." The patent was granted this week, after being in submission purgatory since 2001.

The patent goes by the name "Systems and Methods for Enticing Users to a Web Site." The description declares that the patent is for the invention of "periodically changing story line and/or special event company logo to entice users to access a web page."

Norwegian artist and graphic designer, El Ducko, has created some Star Wars fan art that will appeal to Jedi geeks and computer nerds, all at once. He has taken his love of the characters in the Star Wars universe and turned it into bitmap beauty. Enjoy!

Boba Fett

Boushh

C-3P0

Darth Vader

Han Solo

Luke Skywalker

Scout

Stormtrooper

The Entertainment Software Rating Board has decided that North Americans will be too disturbed by the image of a dead ZOMBIE hanging from a tree, and so have asked the highly anticipated game's makers to replace the dead zombie with a "living" one. I guess someone didn't get the memo about zombies because as everyone knows, zombies are ALREADY pretty much dead. Undead is basically dead, in case you aren't versed in zombie lore.

Most of the tech nerds out there knew that the Nexus S was coming to Sprint for a while, but leave it to Engadget to be the first to leak the official logo for the project. Take a look below, courtesy of Engadget.

Happy 5th birthday to the one of the top three social networking sites in the world. Five years ago today, the first tweet ever was sent by co-founder Jack Dorsey. That legendary first tweet read ‘Inviting coworkers’. Since that fateful day, Twitter has achieved insane success, with current tweets in excess of one billion tweets per week. Twitter employs over 400 people, and approximately 460,000 new Twitter accounts are created every day. The website is currently valued at $4 billion.