Richworks | Design Blog of Richie Thimmaiah Design Spartan : Art digital, digital painting, webdesign, illustration et inspiration… A Super-Quick Introduction to Style Guides This week the Tuts+Web Design team is bringing you an in depth series of pieces on the wide world of Style Guides and all the moving parts that go along with them. The term "Style Guide" is very broad and can encompass several different areas, potentially covering everything from company branding, to interface design, to coding methodologies and more. To get the ball rolling on our Style Guide week we're going to simplify things a little bit. Let's start with the most fundamental question: what is a Style Guide? In a nutshell, a Style Guide is a set of standards that apply to the creation of text or design based assets for an organization, a publication, or a field.(1) It is a comprehensive reference of DOs and DON'Ts which ensure content is produced in a consistent manner, in keeping with the goals of that organization, publication or field. The types of assets Style Guides can relate to vary widely, and outside of web design can cover everything from print material to apparel.
Advanced Creation - Photoshop, tutoriels et image numérique Fuel Your Blogging Adham Dannaway » A systematic approach to logo design By Adham Dannaway on September 26, 2012 Designing a logo can be a very time consuming process as it is often quite difficult to come up with logo design ideas that match our clients requirements. There are so many different elements you need to consider when designing a logo including colours, typography, balance and symbolism to name a few. So where do you start? Today I’ll show you a systematic approach for designing any logo which will hopefully add some logic and structure to the very creative and sometimes haphazard logo design process. So you have just finished talking to your client about the new brand they want you to create. Do some research First thing’s first, we need to do some background research. It’s also important to do some background research on your client’s business. Generate some ideas Once we’ve done some research and have a pretty good feel for what’s needed we can create what’s called a “morphological matrix” to help us brainstorm ideas. Decide on the type of logo
Vale Design | Branding, Logos & Print Collateral: Freelance 101 :: How to Make a Moodboard Moodboards come very easy to me. I would LOVE to figure out a way to get paid just to moodboard! I thought I would share my process of how I develop my boards. I have been in design long enough to remember the days when you used to have to scour the internet looking for images. I start by creating a secret board and begin to pin items I feel would help my clients visualize their brand personality. Key elements you should be looking for: - imagery pertaining to the actual business name- imagery pertaining to the business product or service- textures- patterns- restaurant & retail interiors and exteriors- color palettes- analogous logos- logos with fonts (serif or sans serif)- style of photography or illustration Once you have plenty of images to choose from, save each image as a jpeg and place it in a moodboard folder in your job file. I start with a generic 8.5 x 14 inch template (based on my printer) that I have already created in Illustrator. This step takes some thought.
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