Have you noticed how majority of your social media feeds are saturated with images, videos and memes? Or how sometimes when you’re looking for a simple article on your daily commute, you end up just jumping from picture to picture, losing sight of why you were on the page in the first place? Simply put,… Read more »
Here are the awards for best logos of 2010:\n\n“Look what design can do for you” Award\nArtyarns: A re-designed Artyarns logo came to light from it’s participation in American Express’s Project RE:Brand, where three small businesses were paired with a design firm in order to re-brand their company. Not unlike what we do here at Blue… Read more »
A few weeks ago I finally found the time to watch the movie Logorama, an entertaining 16-minute animated film, that is entirely made up of 2,500 different brand logos, icons and mascots. This came out last year and garnered an award at the Cannes Film Festival and later won the Academy Award this year for… Read more »
Every four years, a city is chosen to host the Olympic games. Among the many responsibilities for hosting is the challenge to create a unique brand that captures the spirit and culture of a country, for one of the oldest and most celebrated sports traditions. The great city of Vancouver, Canada rose to the challenge… Read more »
Last week, iStockphoto announced that they were going to start selling logos and is looking to pay designers $5 for the first 10,000 logos that they approve of. For those of you who don’t know, IStockphoto sells stock photography for a fraction of the cost of other larger stock photo houses. They pioneered the micropayment system of selling photos for less then $20, which resulted in them selling a lot of photos for a lot less. Contributors receive a commission of between 20% and 40% of each sale, which collectively is a large sum, but individuals probably average less then $20 a year.