Tips and News on Logo Design and Tutorials

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.

This is the first time in 8 years that Google does not a specified St. Patrick's Day logo on the Google.com home page. Google does have a special logo on Google Ireland but not on Google.com. Speculations abound about Google not posting it globally because of the enormous crisis in Japan, yet no one from the Google camp has confirmed anything yet.

The self-proclaimed "Conference of Champions," the Pac-12 (previously known as the Pac 10) has won more NCAA National Team Championships than any other conference in history. In fact, the top three schools with the most NCAA championships belong to the Pac-10. In July of 2010, the Conference announced it would rename itself as the Pacific-12 Conference (Pac-12), upon addition of Colorado and Utah. The Pac-10 has just released a video in which it displays the new logo for the Pac-12, which becomes official on July 1.

We’ll continue our series of posts featuring totally free collections of Photoshop brushes with this huge collection of high resolution smoke brush sets for you to add to your personal stockpile. These free brush sets will enable anyone with PS skills to create incredible designs using these numerous cool smoke effects. They are perfect for adding smoky touches to your designs, especially on dark backgrounds.

NBC is in production on a remake of Wonder Woman. The network revealed recently that "Friday Night Lights" star Adrianne Palicki will play the the title character in David E. Kelley's new series. As any comic geek will tell you, Wonder Woman is a reinvention of the iconic DC Comics title in which Diana Prince is a vigilante crime fighter AND a high-powered corporate executive in Los Angeles.