Sweet Tweets is a weekend feature to The Design Cubicle highlighting some of my favorite, and other Twitterer’s design-related links discovered via Twitter throughout the work week – because having resources and staying up-to-date is important in growth and development. Week of 1-11-10: Design blogs you should be following on Twitter “With the vast majority [...]
Archive for the ‘Logo Design’ Category
On font pairing in logo design
Lately I’ve been receiving emails from designer’s and students asking for my personal critique on an identity design project they’re working on. Many of the emails are typically based around the question: “What font looks better?” or “Do you think a heavy typeface or light typeface would better fit the mark?” The posed questions had [...]
Logo Design Love Book Review
I’ve yet to do a book review on TDC, but with the new year among us, I thought you all might like to hear some thoughts about David Airey’s new book, Logo Design Love: a guide to creating iconic brand identities — a subject of area of design I am particularly in love with (pun [...]
Designing with content in mind
Last week I read an article titled “If Content is Really King, Then What Is Design?” Not only did this article inspire a ‘Self-Expression Fridays‘ poster design, but it also had me thinking: If content is king, what can the design do to compliment the “king,” or in this articles case, the content? If what [...]
What a logo does not have to be or do
Often when designing a logo, designers and clients often focus on what their logo should be. In this article, I focus on the exact opposite: What a logo does not have to be or do. A logo does NOT have to… …be overly complicated Often times when designing a logo we tend to think too [...]
Identity design process for a personal rebranding
Mike Tittel, an independent photographer approached me looking to take his personal brand identity to the next level. Mike Tittel Photography, an adventure sports/active lifestyle photography company based out of Salt Lake City, Utah, decided that if he wanted to move from his “basic Verdana [all type] logo” that he needed to work with a [...]
