BonFX

(UPDATE 10/12/2010: Gap has pulled their new logo and their crowdsourcing wunder-blunder attempt at damage control. Nonetheless, I hope my contribution of humorous satire for this sad episode has some residual therapeutic value for all parties involved.) 🙂

Gap selected my crowdsource entry for their logo design contest! I won a Gap shopping spree for $20 (limited to the sale rack in the back) plus I get to put the new logo in my portfolio! Here goes:

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Is there a consensus on whether or not graphic designers should know how to draw? Should drawing and sketching be a part of the creative design process? And is the answer relative?

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What is the main reason a graphic design fails miserably? It’s quite simple: you played with graphic content before you worked out your message.

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Let’s face it: clients usually don’t know what they are talking about when it comes to design for both web and print. How do you navigate around a client that insists on A or B, when you know C is what they need? Here are 20 “templates” that you can “use” to convince any client of anything!

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When it comes to making font combinations, there are principles and methods, but no absolutes. You can’t apply all the principles or ideas listed here at the same time. Just peruse this list of ideas and see what strikes you as interesting, and then pursue creating your own interesting typeface pairs! … [Read More]