Tips and News on Logo Design and Tutorials

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.

Choosing the right font is one of the most essential parts of design. Things to consider include: making content accessible and readable while maintaining the overall aesthetic balance of the site or project. A designer must make sure that text is not hard to read on any and all of platforms and browsers. Some of the key font elements to be aware of are: correct leading, spacing, amount of white space, color contrast and font sizes.