The new Firefox icon – a logo refresh we could have done without
Last week Alex Faaborg, Principal Designer at Firefox, in charge of its interactive design, visual design, and overall vision posted the most recent in a long series of articles on the refresh of the Firefox icon. Firefox has finally settled on a final version of the updated icon, originally rendered by Jon Hicks based on initial [...]
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5. March 2009
Logo design: Very cool logos from Los Logos 4
It’s finally here: my new Amazon-ordered, eagerly-awaited Los Logos 4. 519 pages of really cool logos, selected and published by Gestalten in September 2008.
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9. February 2009
The truth about the Alexa rank updates
After no updates for weeks, the Alexa ranking has now been updated in the Sparky toolbar, but not on the Alexa website, and only for the main domain, not for secondary pages. Meanwhile, Compete.com picks up the game and pitches itself as a more reliable alternative.
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Logo design review: Logica and Ethical Strategies
I always find it interesting to examine logos – and sometimes I come across some interesting ones.
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Illustration experiment: Dawn over Mount Fuji
This is what happens when one reads too many books about Hokusai an Hiroshige. One gets in the mood for drawing Mount Fuji. So here you go, a couple hour’s work, my Dawn over Mount Fuji illustration.
Continue reading...6. February 2009
Oh dear. The Macquarie University logo disaster.
Gotta love this one. I was just reading David Airey’s “Is your logo design phallic” article yesterday; and what do I come across today? Yep, obviously, another brilliant – and high-profile – example.
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23. June 2009
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