Archive for the ‘Design’ Category



Ten Timeless Logos

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Logo Design Love has a list of ten logos that transcend the era in which they were designed.  Numbers two and ten are favorites of mine.

Five Facts About NetNewsWire

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Brent Simmons takes a walk down memory lane.

Pepsi Cooler

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

FriendFeed and Pepsi have teamed up to give you the Pepsi Cooler, a FriendFeed room to discuss Pepsi's new logo. Love the typography, love the simplicity, hate the logo.

• MacBook Pro Review

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

At last Tuesday's notebook event, Apple released a new set of MacBooks and MacBook Pros.  The reviews and the press so far have skewed toward the MacBook, and deservedly so; the high-end MacBook is now significantly closer to the low-end Pro, and the aluminum models boast far better on-board graphics ...

Crowd Favorite Door Sign

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Alex "The Kodiak Killer" King just had signage adhered to the door of the Crowd Favorite office.  Clever, simple, and serves their brand well.

Periodic Table of Branding

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

From Kolbrener, a fun and wonderfully thought-out cheat sheet for branding and marketing terms. (Via LogoDesignLove)

New DS Rumored

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

From Kotaku, the rumor is that Nintendo is preparing a a new iteration of the DS, this time with a camera, music playback, and improved wireless.  Some are jumping to the conclusion that this is Nintendo's answer to the push Apple is making into the handheld gaming market with the ...

National Punctuation Day

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

An entire day to recognize the glory of proper punctuation?  The Internet is beautiful. (Via Devin)

Best Global Brands

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Some selections from the 2008 Rankings: Google at #10, BMW at #13, Cisco at #17, and Apple at #24.

Typographic Calendar

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Pentagram is offering up their 2009 Typographic Calendar.  It's like those swimsuit calendars, except with fonts instead of improbably-tanned women. Harry Pearce on his choice for the month of March, Enigma: “I have only used Enigma once and at a very small size. I tend to be very faithful to a relatively ...

Clever Shopping Bags

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Some of these are hilarious.

Luckyfish

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Beautiful new brand design from Pentagram.

Cylence Blog

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Ryan Cross has expanded the purpose of the blog for his business, Cylence Web Design.  Company news will still be posted, but the space will also be used for Rails tutorials and code sharing.

MillerCoors Logo

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Fantastic new logo design from Pentagram. “The leadership at MillerCoors was positive about two things,” said Michael Bierut, who led the design effort. “One was that the value of the company is all about the power of the consumer brands. And the second is that no matter what happens in the ...

Brilliant Scrolling

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

This is how you design with CSS.  These guys will probably get a ton of business from the link being passed around alone.  Inspired.