Remember how graphic designers were told that spec work is the “ new reality ” and that in order to continue working in the graphic design industry, they’d have to “ evolve or die “? That translated loosely to “ be prepared to work for free, cause other people are “
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Crowdsourcing hyperbole. Rumors about demise of graphic design industry greatly exaggerated?
We first wrote about this classic logo porn by French electro-pop duo Justice on The Factor! a few years back when it was first released. While taking care of some blog house-cleaning a few days ago, I discovered the original YouTube link for the DVNO video had gone dark, so I spent a bit looking for another.
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Logo porn revisited: Another look at awesome DVNO motion video by Justice
Oscar weekend is upon us and the awards show will undoubtedly suck up the oxygen on the Tee Vee and the Internet for most of next week. As this is supposedly a logo design blog, not much to write about really, except wondering how Logorama , a cool little animated film that should interest graphic designers, will fare.
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Snippets: The Oscar weekend, Logorama, Blog Fail & new Ubuntu logo edition
With the 2010 Noise Pop festival just ending in San Francisco (without a trace of any of this year’s posters???), I’ve uploaded some of my favorite posters from the past Noise Pop festivals. Poster design by Gregg Gordon, available for purchase here Poster design by Gregg Gordon, available for purchase here Noise Pop 15 poster designed by Lil Tuffy, available here .
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Noise Pop Festival – Posters from 2009, 2008, and 2007
A Web portal, also written web portal, or Internet portal, also written internet portal, also shortened as the portal, is a website that provides a point of departure, port of entry, to a large group of resources on Internet or on an intranet. Post from: UK Web Hosting | Linux Windows Server Tutorials | PHP MySQL Service What Is A Web Portal | Part 1
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What Is A Web Portal | Part 1
The primary purpose of domain names and Internet domain name system (DNS) is to translate the IP addresses of each network in active mode to terms memorable and easy to find. Post from: UK Web Hosting | Linux Windows Server Tutorials | PHP MySQL Service Domain Names And Domain Name System – DNS
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Domain Names And Domain Name System – DNS
Domain registration relates to the process through which a webmaster begins to possess control over the website name in return for spending some money to a domain registrar. The process is usually as mentioned below Post from: UK Web Hosting | Linux Windows Server Tutorials | PHP MySQL Service Domain Registration Process | Part 1
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Web programming can take many forms: from simple static page to page with dynamic connection to a database. We will outline here a brief overview of different technologies available in the programming client side or server side. Post from: UK Web Hosting | Linux Windows Server Tutorials | PHP MySQL Service What Is Web Programming | Part 1
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What Is Web Programming | Part 1
As I mentioned before , I got the book Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development for review. It took me a bit more time than I though to do this (one of the reasons will become clear soon) but here it finally comes. I think it is a great book for somebody who is somewhat acquainted with Zend Framework and wants to get really good at working with it.
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Obama plan worries cities that rely on space jobs HUNTSVILLE, Ala. ? President Barack Obama’s decision to scrap NASA’s back-to-the-moon program in favor of private spacecraft created an outrage in places like Huntsville, where jobs depend on a return lunar trip
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Obama?s plan to end NASA?s moon trip sounds like the wrong stuff to cities with space jobs
After celebrating Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday on 4th January with a special doodle, Google, the search engine giant, has once again taken a great move. This time Google is celebrating Norman Rockwell’s birthday with a new doodle, dedicated to the painting of him. Norman Rockwell was an American painter of 20th century.
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Norman Rockwell on Google
more images more images ComScore Inc, a leading marketing research company unfurled an striking report relating email and instant messenger market in Brazil. Data in the report shows that Microsoft is the ace in email as well as instant messenger, followed by Google.
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Windows Live Messenger Captures 98.82% of Instant Messenger Market in Brazil
On Tuesday, some nexus one users received software update over the air regarding multi-touch for some applications, fix 3G problems and some changes of the software on the Google devices. The software update will help multi-touch features that includes pinch-to-zoom style navigation through different applications like Google maps, the built-in Web browser and the …
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Nexus One Users Got New Software Update
more images more images AP signs up 900 sites for its Winter Olympics site NEW YORK ? The Associated Press said Tuesday that more than 900 newspapers and broadcasters will be supplementing their online coverage of the Vancouver Winter Olympics with a special package of stories, photographs, video and blogs produced by the AP.
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AP says newspapers, broadcasters to use online hub to showcase Olympics multimedia coverage
I have a VPS that has an option to compress content under “Software/Services–> optimize website” and on another account I do not have this option…. can I achieve this same result by some other means since I don’t have this option maybe through php.ini or some other way.
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Optimize Website Option on Cpanel/alternative
The Oscar nominations were released this morning and I thought it might be fun to not only list the contenders, but also take a look at the logos of the top ten best pictures, ranking them from one to ten (according to my humble opinion, natch). Granted, some of the movies don’t technically feature ‘logos’ (while a few are quite strong) and the overall idea a bit of a stretch, but this IS a logo design blog, and if I don’t crowbar Oscar nominations into a blog post el pronto , someone else will.
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Oscar best picture nominations and their logos
Logorama , a stunning film by French collective H5 (filmmakers Francois Alaux , Herve de Crecy and Ludovic Houplain ), is a violent, profane, action-packed caper set in a world comprised entirely of well-known corporate logos and mascots.
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Logorama. Short film featuring corporate brands as villains and heroes gets Oscar nod.
Selling your services to people can seem like a hit-and-miss proposition, but if you understand the purchase decision-making process, you’ll have a better grasp on the factors that affect your ability to sell. More importantly, though, if you understand the purchase decision-making process, you’ll be able to target your communications and sales efforts to help move prospects toward purchase.
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Move Prospects to Purchase Using Decision Theory
“Death By Chocolate is a corporate design and packaging concept for a non-existing chocolate label. It is my final year project in communication design at Folkwang University in Essen. The dbc products are divided into a candybar range, wrapped in a soft, matt foil and a more sophisticated range of chocolates. Both product ranges are finished with UV-Varnish and blind embossing. The aim was to create a unique packaging concept, that focuses on the myth of chocolate but transfers it into a modern, rock n roll kind of context.” Designed by Denise Franke .
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Student Spotlight: Death By Chocolate
You can add a simple drop shadow to any object on its own layer in Photoshop by clicking on the “Add a layer style” button at the bottom of the palette and choose Drop Shadow from the drop down menu. This opens up the Layer Style dialog box and you can choose your drop shadow settings from there. Simple
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