meat symposium invite

Nike London Olympics invitation

Freelance advice from Bryce Bladon

US Postal Guidelines

Postal Requirements Guide
Check it out!

Atlanta Metromix covers events

Michael Cronan, namer and designer of Tivo identity

"In the spring of 1997, he was asked to forge a name and an identity for a new device, a digital video recorder developed by a company called Teleworld that offered more sophisticated television recording choices than the videocassette recorder.

“We reviewed probably 1,600-plus name alternatives, seriously considered over 800 names and presented over 100 strong candidates to the team,” Mr. Cronan told Matt Haughey for his blog PVR (the letters stand for personal video recorder) in 2005."

George Lois also named businesses and wrote slogans in addition to his graphic designs 

Lauren Manning's design sketches

Sketching improves with practice

Creative logo designs

http://designshack.net/articles/graphics/50-fantastically-clever-logos/

Hah

Might i just say, that this made me cringe a little bit:

http://www.personalizationmall.com/Personalized-Just-For-You-Coffee-Mug-p7961.prod?sdest=dept&sdestid=1536&storeid=20&categoryid=1536

Yikes

Type as Illustration

A nice example of type used as illustration. Simple solution!

App Developer?

Here is the URL for the app developer I mentioned in class:
http://www.karppinen.fi/
The website doesn't seem to communicate iPad/iPhone/Mac app developer does it?

I pulled together examples of a simple logo represented in different ways (signage, digitally, embroidery, etc.). Hopefully, this shows you the importance of thinking about execution in tandem with design.