March 2012
26 posts
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Fine Cell Work LINK
For this week’s logo, I chose Fine Cell Work. This is actually charity for prisoners to create and spend their time sewing products and selling them for a profit. I think this is such a clever and creative logo. It’s appropriate for what the company stands for and gives the feeling of a prison, with some entitlement. I think it’s...
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Seymour Powell LINK
This week I chose Seymour Powell’s website for product designers and product design consultants. I wanted to focus on their Flash version of their site. I think it’s pretty creative and interesting how they have chosen to design it. It’s very simple and basic, with what it seems to be a desk of business cards. It has a very simple...
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Channeling Children’s Anger LINK
This week I chose the graphic that was used to promote a public service campaign that promoted healthy attitudes and television programming for children. I think this is a great logo, or identity for the company. I think it’s appropriate and versatile. It clearly depicts what the purpose of the company is, and it gives the feeling...
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We Are Royale LINK
This week I chose We Are Royale’s website. This is a design company based in Los Angeles. It’s a pretty near website because you are welcomed by this little character who actually continues throughout the entire site. Even though there’s some pages that aren’t really consistent with the website as a whole, it really shows what the...
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Newspaper Marketing Agency LINK
This week I chose Newspaper Marketing Agency’s logo. It caught my attention because of it’s colour scheme. I think this is great because it’s simple, crafts some thought from the user and appropriate. It has crafter the 3 leading letters into one, using a vibrant and youthful colour scheme and gave it some dimension. I think...
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Psych & Psych LINK
For this week’s website, I chose Psych & Psych’s website for their mental health consultation company. I found this while exploring other student’s blogs. I think this is actually a really neat website. It’s very creatively put together, and the designers have paid very close attention to detail. The scrolls, clicks and...
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Designer’s LINK
For this week’s logo, I chose a designers creation for a potential company called Watermelon Event Management. I attempted to search if this was a real company, but no results. I think this is a really creative logo design. It’s appealing to the eye because of the colours used, and as you look more into it and read ‘event...
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Jim Carrey LINK
This week I chose Jim Carrey’s promotional website. I was browsing through other student’s blog and came across this one to check out. This website has just so many elements and such detail to every little click and scroll imaginable. The user is taken through an entire experience of Carrey’s work and the website has a whole is pretty...
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LoveClip LINK
This week I chose the LoveClip logo that was created by Rich Scott, creator behind Designabot. I don’t believe this logo has been geared towards any stationary company yet, but it’s definitely ideal for a creative, maybe girly or different view on stationary products. I think it’s simple and suitable. It’s something I’m sure...
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Emotions Live LINK
I chose Emotions Live website for this week because the bright colours really caught my attention to explore it further. I think it’s well planned and thought out, and the colours are great. It’s vibrant and appealing to the eyes. It has a simple navigation on the top banner for easy exploring. It is at first a little deceiving as to what...
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BookTalk LINK
This week, I chose booktalk’s logo because I think it meets a lot of the characteristics of a good logo and is clever. The logo itself is cleverly put together and the font itself shows personality along with the book colour. I think the small graphic has both a book and speech bubble is great in showing what the company is about. I think this logo...
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Swirls Bake Shop LINK
For this week’s website I chose a gourmet cupcake bakery in Singapore called Swirls Bake Shop. The bright colours initially caught my attention. The site itself is very basic, yet so appealing to the eye. It has a simple navigation bar on the left and keeps the rest of the space for bright, appealing photos of the cupcakes. It really...
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MumMade LINK
This week, I chose MumMade’s website. It’s so delicate and appealing to the eye. It is an online based store that’s geared towards the selling and purchasing of different products made by stay at home parents. I think this website is so well suited and appropriate to the company itself. It has a great colour scheme and really signifies what the...
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For this week’s logo, I found this simple but crafty logo that I don’t believe is used by any company but was merely just a creation of an designer. I liked this logo initially because it’s so simple but so well thought out. I never actually realized that the shape of a bowling pin could turn into a shoe. I think it’s just clever, and simple. It’s...
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Cat Rabbit Plushies LINK
This week, I chose Cat Rabbit’s website. It’s a website geared for hand-stitched plushies that are customized and designed for you. The website caught my eye because of the settle colour scheme and graphics. I initially really liked the white space and how the website overall looked. It’s user friendly with only a simple head...
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This week, I chose a logo that was designed for what I’m assuming would be a wedding photography and filming company. I think this is a clever logo that can be adapted for any wedding photography company because of its creative components. It’s appropriate with the right symbols put together and can be very versatile with coloring and background. This...
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Arcade Fire Sprawl II LINK
For this week’s website, I chose Arcade Fire’s Sprawl II interactive website. Something about their creativity and media group behind them fascinates me, and I’m always excited to discover more of their work. They have incorporate creativity, interactivity and of course, their great music into their pieces. I think interactive...
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Discovery History LINK
This week, I chose Discovery channel’s History alter logo. In my opinion, I think this logo is completely appropriate for it’s target audience. It’s simple, and has a clever settle hint of a page turning. This is clever because I think the target audience is an older crowd, like my dad and he much prefers a book over anything.. And this could...
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Google Music Tour LINK
For this week’s website, I chose GoogleMusic’s Music Tour. This attracted my attention mainly because of the colours, I guess I was feeling a bit festive this week. I like this website because of it’s simplicity and the concept of it. It follows the standard header and bottom banners with the links and then the center for the main information. The...
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Folksy - Modern British Craft LINK
For this week’s logo, I chose this British company that focuses on crafts called Folksy. It’s neat to see that others in the class have also chosen this logo before, and it so happens to be people that I am with during class. The colour scheme and font is what stuck out to me the most out of the hundreds of logos on the site. I...
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For this week’s website, I chose Nikon’s site for one of their cameras. I have a thing for simple and easy colour schemes when dealing with websites. It showcases the camera beautifully and allows the camera to be center staged. A camera lover, which is ideally who the target audience is would love this because it does exactly what it needs to do. It shows the...
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People Group LINK
This week I chose PeopleGroup’s logo, it’s a communications company from Denmark. I think this is a really neat logo concept because of what the logo represents. It plays on the idea of social groups that come together in a circle, and illustrates what the point of the company is. It is very appropriate for what the company offers, and it’s...
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For this week’s website, I chose Claire Coullon’s portfolio featuring her graphic design and typography pieces. Trying to decide which website to take the time to explore is already difficulty, but the colour scheme (I guess I had a very settle mood colour this time, refer to logo) attracted my eyes and the structure. I personally think Claire did a great job...
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Bread & Breakfast artist LINK
This week I chose Bread & Breakfast’s logo, it is a coffee shop/bakery that serves all day breakfast and sells bread and baked goods. The logo creatively combines both aspects of the business into the logo, illustrating the coffee cup and the bread. I think the designers of this logo created an effective logo because it is...
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For this week’s logo, I chose ‘Fork & Knife’ restaurant’s logo that was found on www.logodesignerblog.com. I feel that this is an effective logo because it’s simple, really suitable to the company itself, and appropriate. Even though it’s very basic, it clearly illustrates the text in a creative way. I like the colours that the designer used, and I think...
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For this week’s website, I chose the classic ‘Arcade Fire’s The Wilderness Downtown’ website. This website was shown in First Year Digital Media and stuck with me since, and I was happy to see that it was given an award as well. Just the entire idea and concept altogether is great in my opinion; it’s effective to its target audience and catches the attention...
