Tips and News on Logo Design and Tutorials

BMW recently unveiled the new brand for a line of BMW electric vehicles, and Adrian Van Hooydonk, design director for BMW, also revealed the brand direction for the new line, called BMW i.

Great design always returns to its roots, and the classic look of antique vintage is no exception. The resurgence of the vintage style is more prevalent than ever in web and graphic design these day, and is being mastered by a number of designers. Vintage or antique looking designs almost always include elements such as textures, colors and fonts that will give your project that authentic feel. In this post we’ll give you some great resources, in the way of these vintage Photoshop brushes, to help in your project. They, of course, are all free to download.

Looking for the perfect gift for the designer in your life? All graphic designers are familiar with Pantone, the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries. Anyone with a design background would want something from the Pantone Universe Mug Collection from W2.

Iran has sent a letter to Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, outlining its plans to boycott the 2012 London Olympics because, they claim, the logo of games secretly spells the word “Zion”. The letter claims that the logo, unveiled four years ago, undermined Olympic values by being racist, and must be altered in order to avoid the boycott.

Vintage looking design is more popular than ever, and to truly take your viewer back in time, you need to select some really cool old-fashioned fonts to complete your project. Many designers are doing this by using lots of different textures and patterns from certain time periods. However, the most crucial element to create a vintage looking design, is the selection of an accurate and time-appropriate typography from the era you are attempting to represent.

In this post, we’ve collected a number of great vintage and retro fonts that you can use, and all of them are free. You’ll find fonts here that cover time periods from the 1920′s antique look to the retro font style of the 1950′s.