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Colour Theory in Logo Design
Whether or not we realize it, colours profoundly affect us every day. Colours cause us to react, they influence our decisions and they stimulate our emotions. Colours can raise our blood pressure, they can cause us to cringe or look away and they can even suppress our appetite. Colours are an especially effective method of communication used regularly to convey meaning,...
YellowPages.com becomes the new YP.com
YellowPage.com, a brand of the AT&T Interactive family, has made some exciting new moves recently. In their attempts to stay current and accessible to the new generation of internet and smart phone users, YellowPages.com has rebranded itself as YP.com. YP.com comes complete with a new logo design, a new slogan, a new company direction as well as a new, more vibrant and versatile website. In my...
Design Winners of Cannes Lion 2010
This year marked the 57th annual Cannes Lion International Advertising Festival. This festival is the biggest of its kind in Europe. It highlights innovation in the advertising and communications world as it showcases some of the world’s best design work. With over 24,000 entries each year from 90 different countries, the festival draws a lot of worldwide press and attention. To...
Illustrator Tutorial: Background Design
This is a great tutorial in which I encourage you be as creative as you want to be. It is an intermediate illustrator tutorial. We will be creating a background design that you can use for your websites, business card designs and even stationery designs.
Here is a picture of the background design that we will be creating:
At the end of this tutorial, there is a detailed video that will...
A new brand image and identity for the United States Mint
I’m not sure where if comes from but I think that it is pretty safe to say that most of us collect things. As children, we grow up with a seemingly instinctual fascination with collections. I remember collecting stamps, coins, baseball cards, rocks and caterpillars. For whatever reason - perhaps it stems from our primal hunting and gathering instincts or from our inherent drive...