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Breaking through to logo design beauty: David Airey Hat and Socks memoribilia

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David Airey has posted a breakthrough logo design tutorial revealing the fastest way to get the best logo design possible. Go take a gander and then wander back here. Since his new logo is on the internet, I have a license to use it on my new limited edition product line in recognition of his achievementness with design. I now present to you 2 products, both designed with the same loving care with which David created his stunning tour-duh-force new logo. … [Read More]

Logo Design Chosen for Brands of Interest III

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The logo for “BonFX” (see the top-left corner of the website!) was recently selected for the third installation of “Brands of Interest” over at Dache. All of the logos are shown in black and white which reduces them to the same elemental level of design. The logos are all presented at roughly the same size and with the same white space. The article page is very fun to scan down because of how it’s presented. Take a look at the other great work on the site. … [Read More]

Why is the web 72 dpi and print 300 dpi?

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In early 2008, a great question was posed on a midwest Adobe User’s Group list I belong to:
“A question just came up at the happy hour, and none of us know the answer. Standard resolutions in the web and print world are 72, 300 and 600. None of these are natural squares, which assuming a regular dot layout grid seems… well, confusing?”
I’m going to paste my reply as-is below. Several people found it quite useful but now it largely walled-up inside a Yahoo group archive. Since it’s a largely unedited stream-of-consciousness kind of post, I’d be glad to take questions about any and every aspect of what I’m now posting. … [Read More]

Bai! You’ve been pwnd by chirdlike reasoning

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Halfway through the comments on this post over at Just Creative Design, a common typo rears it’s head: Funny & Odd Emails Received The typo is “chirdlike” which seems to be, but I’m not 100% sure, a typo for “childlike”. I don’t understand why this happens so much since “r” is not near “l” on the keyboard. Either way, I didn’t know what it meant the first time I came across it, thinking it was an eighth-grade vocab word I missed, or it was another one of those fancy internet memes like “pwn” or its past-tence version, “pwnd”. I googled “chirdlike” only to find that the number one result for the word in Google was…the post I was commenting on! … [Read More]

Top 10 Freelance Graphic Designers: A (small) Milestone

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Today for the first time, by following all the rules and working hard, and also by having a bit of luck owning an old domain  (9 years) that has always been about freelance graphic design, we cracked the Google top 10 for the following searches simultaneously:
  • “freelance graphic design”
  • “freelance graphic designer”
  • “freelance graphic designers”
  • “freelance graphic design portfolio”
…and a few more, as well as a dozen or so font and typeface related searches. We did this in 3 weeks. … [Read More]