Posts Tagged ‘Design’

The 50 Dollar Logo Experiment

In Design, Odd, Websites on 20 February 2009 tagged Design, links, logo with 1 comment

The 50 Dol­lar Logo Experiment

I turned to the clev­erly named 50DollarLogo.com, a site based in Sri Lanka or some­where prom­ising six logo designs, unlim­ited revi­sions, and a 1–3 day turn­around. Who needs messy things like research, insight, or even a modicum of inform­a­tion about my busi­ness, when I can have unlim­ited revi­sions?

This feels a lot like my life at the moment, only I am the one try­ing to make a decent logo out of cheese and Naz­areth and the people I work for want some­thing with more anthropomorphism.

Bed Head After-Party

In Design, Odd, Things on 28 January 2009 tagged Design, hair, packaging with Comments Off

I have a pack­aging thing. I love pack­aging design. This comes in espe­cially handy to pass time when doing some­thing I really don’t love, like hav­ing my hair cut. All that sit­ting still and not fid­get­ing and mak­ing small talk about Christ­mas (come on, people, it was a month ago. Try harder.) and hav­ing to sit in front of a mir­ror for an age when, for the most part, I’m vam­piric about mirrors.

A big chunk of hairdresser income comes from selling over­priced hair product, and over­priced hair product gen­er­ally has bril­liant pack­aging in order to make people like me buy some over­priced hair product they won’t use but will gaze at lov­ingly.  Depend­ing on the tar­get mar­ket,  pack­aging ranges from classy to fun to, err… this:

… oh come on, it’s not just me, is it? Is it?

Email Standards Project

In Design, Websites on 11 November 2008 tagged Design, email, standards, webdesign, Websites with Comments Off

The Email Stand­ards Pro­ject works with email cli­ent developers and the design com­munity to improve web stand­ards sup­port and access­ib­il­ity in email.

Our goal is to help design­ers under­stand why web stand­ards are so import­ant for email, while work­ing with email cli­ent developers to ensure that emails render con­sist­ently. This is a com­munity effort to improve the email exper­i­ence for both design­ers and read­ers alike.

As someone who churns out spam opt-in email news­let­ters as part of their job, I can assure you that this is way over­due. (via swiss­miss)

Keep calm and have a cupcake

In Design on 6 November 2008 tagged calm, Design, poster, Things with Comments Off

My cur­rent frame of mind is most prob­ably related to the dis­tinct lack of cup­cakes in my life. [Paint­ing by Etsy seller, jennys­bakeshop.]

Japanese Kangaroo mug

In Design, Things on 5 November 2008 tagged Design, kangaroo, mug, wants with Comments Off

Should any­one who reads this be able to read or speak Japan­ese or be in Japan, I need this mug:

Kangaroo mug avail­able from sunny-style.com So far, my attempts to cir­cum­vent the Japan­ese­ness of the check­out pro­cess have failed miser­ably, but I can’t even begin to tell you how much I want this. There must be a way!

Vitra Uten.Silo stores the awesome

In Design, Things on 20 October 2008 tagged covet, Design, objects with Comments Off

This Vitra Uten.Silo organ­iser is so supremely cov­etable that the small shelf in our hall that’s covered in pretty much everything we don’t have a place to store — receipts, keys, cam­era tri­pods, old crumpled bus tick­ets — is weep­ing as I write this. Luck­ily for it, I don’t have £200 to spend on an organ­iser board, and it’s ages until Christmas.

Avail­able at Nest.