Little Box Of Ideas

In the past few months, I have read quite a few logo design processes and stowed them away in my mind for a post just like this one. Barring the ones I remembered from the top of my head, I googled the words "logo design process", "brand creation process", "rebranding case studies" and a few

Having met Leighton on Twitter a few months ago, I was at first intimidated by him. How can you not be, when the designer has over 20 years of brilliant experience under his belt, has won numerous awards, is talked about and is well respected in the design community? With increasing correspondence on and off

Logo designing tends to be a serious business [a tad more than some of the other disciplines of design] and most logo designers tend to be a serious bunch too. But when they loosen up, they can produce some really light-hearted and fun branding. A lot of them [including myself] adapt the "Whimsy", a style

Sean Farrell is a very talented creative who designs beautiful logos and envisions unique brands. He has been at the helm of Penflare Designs since its conception in 2007. His style is very unique and has constantly evolved with time. He recently got married to his sweetheart and is on the verge of unveiling a

  Alen Pavlovic is a nice guy and a brilliant brand and identity designer. What sets him apart from the others is that he is tireless. Quite literally! There is an energy about him that manages to spill over even in his emails. I can vouch for that. A few correspondences with him and I

Have you seen the Michael Jackson Farewell Tribute logo? If you don’t watch much television, then maybe you haven’t. It is beautiful and very well executed. On that note, let me begin a round-up of logo design and branding news across the globe for the month of August 2009. These little bits of information and

Today I am very happy to be interviewing not only an extremely talented Logo & Web Designer, but a dear friend as well, my fellow Aussie mate Fabian Marchinko of Brand Simplicity, the man behind the pink bunny. Fabian has been developing brands and building websites for almost a decade. He is extremely inspired by

According to Wikipedia "A fictional brand is a non-existing brand used in artistic or entertainment productions — paintings, books, comics, movies, TV serials, etc. The fictional brand may be designed to imitate a real corporate brand, satirize a real corporate brand, or differentiate itself from real corporate brands." And you may have seen instances of such

Wes Wilson is a former banker and entrepreneur whose vision for cutting the cost of "briefing" in brand development, gave birth to Brandstack. Launched in early 2008, Brandstack [formerly known as Incspring] is a brand marketplace where designers from all around the world offer unused brand concepts or specially researched and developed brands for sale

I love these logos showcased in the post today because they are unbelievably simple [well, most of them] and brilliant in their simplicity. I love words and seeing them used effectively to brand an image gives me a lot of joy. Words are very powerful and with a little imagination once can really produce fantastic

I am probably going to get a lot of flak for the title of this post, but hold your horses. In this case, I mean it quite literally. Because, today I am showcasing some amazing logos that have monkeys in them. There are all kinds .. shy ones, rebellious ones, funny ones, cute ones, geeky

  Twitter is a funny one, yes it is. It is highly malleable. It bends and twists to suit your needs. And though it might not feature on any of those lists that design bloggers love to concoct as a place to find inspiration, it definitely is one such place on the web. I find

  How far and how long have you gone for that perfect pair of jeans? A lot of you are shaking your head right now, a soft smile starting to play on your lips. Some of you are thinking "A perfect pair of jeans is pure myth!" and some of you lucky ones are thinking

 I have 40 more terrific twitter logos in the followup to 46 Awesome Twitter Based Logos today. Some of these are being used in applications and on websites. Some of them are up for grabs if you plan to start a twitter based business or blog or website. Some of them are just a terrific

Green is the new black! Look around you and you will see words like eco, earth, organic, sustainability, recycle and reuse being used at an alarming rate. It is almost as if everyone has suddenly developed a conscience, which is not a bad thing at all. The media is largely responsible for fueling this collective