Tips and News on Logo Design and Tutorials

Today is Valentine’s Day and Google has done up a fancy new logo to celebrate. This year, the logo is very clearly based on the infamous design of Robert Indiana, who was a famous artist during the Pop Art movement of the 60s and 70s. He first designed the image seen in Google’s 2011 Valentine’s logo in 1964. The design originally spelled out the word “LOVE” and was used for a Christmas card of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

W3C today extended the charter of the HTML Working Group with clear milestones for HTML5, the cornerstone of W3C's Open Web Platform for application development. In May 2011, the Working Group will advance HTML5 to "Last Call," an invitation to communities inside and outside W3C to confirm the technical soundness of the specification. The group will then shift focus to gathering implementation experience. W3C is developing a comprehensive test suite to achieve broad interoperability for the full specification by 2014, the target date for Recommendation.

Logorama from Marc Altshuler on Vimeo.

The entirety of Logorama is made up of brand images and logos, with these brand images and logos used to represent characters, props, locations, vehicles, and other content.

Valentine’s Day is nearly upon us, so rather than going out and getting a store bought card, why don't you make your own! We've collected this set of free Valentine fonts for you to use in your DIY Valentine's Day card. You can also check out our collection of free Valentine's Day heart themed Photoshop brushes. Nothing says "I love you" like a card that suggests that you sat in front of your computer for hours making it!

Ford Motor Company is suing Ferrari for trademark infringement. The suit was filed in Detroit federal court today.This is happening because Ferrari has named their 2011 Formula One racing car the F150. Ford claims that the Ferrari logo bears too close a resemblance to Ford’s F-150 pick-up logo. Ferrari’s counters that their name, F150, is not hyphenated, as it is on the F-150 Pickup. According to The Detroit News, "Ford has used the F-150 name on its flagship, full-size pickup trucks since the 1975 model year." Ferrari’ is saying that they chose the name in honor of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy.