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23rd May 2007

Top 50 Logo Design Tutorials

“This is E Logo Design’s list of best logo design tutorials on the internet (in no particular order).” (Note: These tutorials are more about some of the craft that can play into making a logo. -bk)

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23rd April 2007

Adobe CS3 Icon Set Replacement

“Full icon set replacement for Creative Studio 3 based on CS3 retail product box design. What’s missing is document icon for Contribute CS3 and few more small CS3 apps. I’ll do second part as soon as Adobe releases more CS3 apps to public.”

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5th February 2007

Iconize Textlinks with CSS

“Links are fun, but sometimes we don’t know where they take us. With this little CSS technique a user can identify a link by it’s icon… The idea is pretty simple, if a link points to a .pdf file, we show the .pdf icon after the link.”

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8th December 2006

Morphing logo system

“The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics has a logo that changes every time it gets used on letterhead or displayed on a web site. The logo system was designed by Michael Schmitz and is based on cellular automata like John Conway’s Game of Life.”

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21st November 2006

LogoPond - Identity Inspiration

“Logo Pond: A place to fish for ideas, brand and identity showcase”

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21st November 2006

Wonderful logos & the logic behind them

“The SUN Microsystems logo is a wonderful example of symmetry and order. It was a brilliant observation that the letters u and n while arranged adjacent to each other look a lot like the letter S in a perpendicular direction. Spectacular.”

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3rd October 2006

How to design a logo of letters

“Are you known by your initials? Turn those letters into a terrific signature!”

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22nd September 2006

AJAX Activity Indicators

A collection of animated GIFs that can be used on a web page to indicate an AJAX function is running in the background.

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15th September 2006

Tiny icon factory

A web-based application that allows you to draw small, monochromatic bitmap icons. There are a lot of images on this page — may bog your browser.

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14th June 2006

Smartpox

“Smartpox is a mobile ‘viral messaging’ application that allows you to create and share links, phone numbers, email, and text using 2D barcodes and your Java-enabled camera phone. You’ll be able to create encoded messages to share with friends, acquaintances, or complete strangers. You can also create projects to link your offline world with your online world, and meet and collaborate with other Smartpox users.” (Thanks Heather!)

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23rd May 2006

Face-off: The blank faces at Flickr and 43Things

“I chose a completely random goal from the 43Things home page: ‘download episodes of ‘Lost’.’ Then I looked through the list of 539 people who are interested in that goal. Of those 539, just 9 of them (about 2%) had changed the default profile picture to a personalized picture. On the analogous Flickr group, ‘LOST - the series,’ I looked through the list of 128 group members, and found that 120 of them (about 94%) had replaced the default profile picture with a personalized picture.”

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13th March 2006

Google and the Tyranny of Good Design

“The Google logo — that scrap of oddball typography — is perhaps the most famous piece of graphic design in the world today. Milton Glaser’s ‘I ‘Heart’ New York’ may have a prior claim, and the Coca-Cola script, the Nike tick (or swoosh) and the Mercedes roundel undoubtedly enjoy greater global ‘penetration’ (to use the aggressive language of marketing), but for the web-surfing millions, the Google logo occupies a position of unrivalled prominence.”

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14th February 2006

I Would Like To Buy a Vowel (Inside a C)

“While perusing the aisles of the local grocery store, a similarity between a few of the products presented itself to me. Several diverse products, especially in the coffee area, had logotypes where the vowel of the letter was enclosed inside a capital ‘C’.” (Thanks kottke.org!)

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23rd December 2005

iconglobe

“This site is a collection of different visual signs what I found on the Internet. I’m working with visual symbols, researching their different approaches and historical backgrounds. Signs and symbols and their use in human communication referring to typical cultural and social elements.” (Thanks Communication Nation!)

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6th December 2005

Red Cross mulls ‘neutral’ emblem

“In Geneva diplomats from the 192 countries which have signed the Geneva conventions are meeting to discuss a third emblem for the international Red Cross.”

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