Little Box Of Ideas

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

I first met "Tass" on Logopond, I quickly came to know his name was Alex and other than the customary "Hey, great Logo!" and "Thanks, very much!", we didn’t correspond much. Long before I came across Alex on Logopond, I had admired and loved the Brand Events Logo. So it was a big deal for

For those of you who are not spammed by my million and one tweets everyday on Twitter, the good folks over at Iconshock recently interviewed me. I have been conducting interviews with designers, chefs and food bloggers for a while now. But it was a totally unique and fun experience to be interviewed instead. When

I recently interviewed Ann Arbor logo designer Sean Farrell on the blog. He was on the verge of carving a new identity for his logo design business. Having unveiled his beautiful new logo, brand name and website BrandClay, Sean is full of new ideas and charging full steam ahead. I had another opportunity to interview

John has been a featured artist on LBOI and has donated his skills to the first ever Cartoonize Yourself contest on the blog in the past. A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing him for a designer showcase on Brandstack where he is one of the top selling logo designers. In the

It’s true you know. You’ll learn more from your mistakes and the mistakes of others than you will from advice and suggestions. I wish there was a mistake bank somewhere that I could log into and read to my heart’s content. Read about other people’s tomfoolery and naivette. Because that would equip me to avoid

 Its been a while since I did a logo inspiration post. A lot of new logos crop up on the design scene everyday and some of them are pretty fantastic. Today I am showcasing some recent logos from various websites that caught my eye, because they all used typography successfully to convey a message or

There comes a time in every logo designer’s life when he has to design a mark with a slightly rounded, rectangular shape. Uh-oh! And thus opens a can of very phallic worms that wriggle through the sludge of words like "inappropriate", "sexual" and "eroticism". Now when that happens, you can do one of two things.

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

I have noticed a recent rise in the number of logos designed in a retro style. Be it colors or design elements that remind you of an era past, retro logos are very charming and induce a sense of nostalgia. Swirly fonts and muted colors are a dead giveaway of a retro style. Then there

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