“Logos are dead.” Image from Flickr Simon Manchipp, one of three creative directors and partners at London-based studio SomeOne, said on Twitter yesterday: “Logos are dead.
Yet we have been featured in the new book Logo Design Love as an example of how to do Logos. “They are a hangover from old-school thinking about branding. There is no desire by the public for a new logo. Upon questioning, Manchipp explicitly meant, “…that symbols invented to accompany brand names are a waste of time, money and effort.” I asked David Law, Manchipp’s partner at SomeOne (and the man who kindly submitted SomeOne’s designs for inclusion in my book), what he thought of his colleague’s statement: “It’s something we have been debating internally for quite a while.
Symbol or no symbol is a valid question, and one I talk about in my book: “Sometimes your client just needs a professional logotype to identity its business. Quoted from chapter 11 of Logo Design Love. Pip.io integrates public and private online conversations. In most circumstances, you wouldn’t talk about the latest WordPress release to your mom.
You also wouldn’t want to broadcast the pics from your best friend’s bachelor party to your boss. In the real world, we use filters to make conversations contextual. In the voyeuristic and very public world of social media though, there are often no ways of making these distinctions. Pip.io is a social network that, according to its CEO Leo Shimizu, “is based on the core principles of privacy”. Pip.io does indeed aggregate from Twitter, Facebook, RSS and YouTube in the same way FriendFeed does, but it allows you to broadcast messages to only certain people within your social circle.
Between email and public feeds, “There’s all this in between that’s missing”. Learn more at: Adobe: “Go Screw Yourself Apple” The claws are out.
Adobe’s Platform Evangelist, Lee Brimelow retaliated today against Apple blocking Flash developers on the iPhone with a post on his Flash Blog. Brimelow holds little back, lambasting the company for trying to exert a “tyrannical control over developers…more importantly, wanting to use developers as pawns in their crusade against Adobe.” He says any real developer could not support Apple’s moves in “good conscience.” “Personally I will not be giving Apple another cent of my money until there is a leadership change over there. I’ve already moved most of my book, music, and video purchases to Amazon and I will continue to look elsewhere. Brimelow may not be explicitly calling for a boycott (although he is requesting a change in leadership— is he looking at you Jobs?). And if his sentiment wasn’t clear throughout the post, he caps it all off with: “Go Screw Yourself Apple.” UPDATE: They downplayed that “harm” in Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch’s formal response.
See and post Twitter messages from Terminal. Croatian teenager wakes from coma speaking fluent German - Teleg. The girl, from the southern town of Knin, had only just started studying German at school and had been reading German books and watching German TV to become better, but was by no means fluent, according to her parents.
Since waking up from her 24 hourcoma however, she has been unable to speak Croatian, but is able to communicate perfectly in German. Doctors at Split's KB Hospital claim that the case is so unusual, various experts have examined the girl as they try to find out what triggered the change. Hospital director Dujomir Marasovic said: "You never know when recovering from such a trauma how the brain will react. Obviously we have some theories although at the moment we are limited in what we can say because we have to respect the privacy of the patient. " Psychiatric expert Dr Mijo Milas added: "In earlier times this would have been referred to as a miracle, we prefer to think that there must be a logical explanation – its just that we haven't found it yet.
A Gold Mine of Adobe Illustrator Resources. By Melissa Scroggins What could be better than striking gold?
How about a huge list of Adobe Illustrator resources? For many designers, a list of resources to help finish those design projects in a quick and easy fashion is like finding gold on the Web. In this article, there are over 200 (mostly) free resources for Adobe Illustrator. Since many designers have made these resources free for others, please take the time to check out the license agreements before using any resources for projects. Finally, have fun stockpiling all the brushes, patterns,, symbols, vectors, swatches, and fun additions to the Adobe Illustrator presets. 1. There are a multitude of brush sets that can add volumes of creativity to design projects. 17 brushes for Illustrator 28 Free Illustrator Brushes for making Swooshes and Swirls 33 More Paint Brush Style Illustrator Brushes 20 Free Illustrator Art Brushes: Ink Sketch Lines 57 Exclusive Illustrator Multi-Colored Paint Brushes.
A Gold Mine of Adobe Illustrator Resources.