looking for clients in your spare time?

Bring them to you via Brandstack. Post your design, set a price, and lie in wait... and wait... and wait. Or maybe not. I have no idea. But it might be worth a try, considering how many organizations could use a good idea -- and designers who could use a little extra cash right about now...



How often do you get to create the business name and the logo?



How often do you try to sell something you create on a whim?



About Brandstack:

So we built Brandstack and invited designers from all over the world to sell their unused designs at a price that start-ups can afford. An entrepreneur can browse the brands on the site, choose the one that suits them, get it customized by the original designer and download the files. Itʼs quick, value for money and some of the brands even come with their own domain names for a great head start. All brands are original and removed from the site once sold.

The process is still collaborative but the entrepreneur says goodbye to the brief and in return gets a world-class brand at a rate they can afford and the designer gets paid for a brand that was previously sitting idle.

Brandstack. Everybody wins.

Really? That would be refreshing.

Obama logos ideas that weren’t chosen

The title says it all. Just reposting “Obama logos ideas that weren’t chosen” from Logo Design Love.

In the end, I think they chose the right one.

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Vintage logos…

…on Flickr!

Saved from the scrapheap of out-of-printedness, you can view this “Collection of vintage logos from a mid-’70s edition of the book World of Logotypes” entirely in your Web browser. Oh, right, here’s the link:

Vintage logos

Is there anything Flickr can’t do?

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Tech Company Logos

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Some of you may remember what the original Adobe logo looked like, but how many of us could pick Canon's circa 1934 logo out of a lineup? (Considering the company’s name was Kwanon at the time, not many, I’d wager.)

For your tech logo edification, click over to Neatorama’s The Evolution of Tech Companies’ Logos. You might be surprised at the early corporate identities of many (now-)familiar names.

All Signs Say Paul Rand

I was poking around online for some inspiration (always a fun way to circle a task), and I was led, breadcrumb by breadcrumb, to this site about Rand that is the work of Daniel Lewandowski of Atlanta.

Here's what Lewandowski has to say about Paul-Rand.com:

"This site is meant to honor and pay utmost respect to the life and work of Mr. Rand. When I first began this project, I discovered that there were no “single-source” references to Mr. Rand or his works anywhere on the internet. Thus sparked the idea to build this tribute/archive site. I am in no way a philosopher or critic of design but have a great respect for the history of our industry and the people who have shaped it. In the course of building the site, I’ve been able to more greatly appreciate their thoughts and theories on design and develop my own opinions on the subject."

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There's a dearth of images in the galleries as of yet, this looks like a work in progress, but I was drawn to this page of writings and video interviews that might be of general interest to us design types.

I particularly liked the interview with Steve Jobs about working with Rand for the NEXT logo (logotype?)

50 Logo Design Tutorials

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I’m not suggesting we go all willy-nilly making logos. On the contrary, I think the UC Seal, Berkeley signature, and University Oldstyle typeface are the only key elements we need to represent virtually anything related to the campus (yeah, yeah, send all complaints, flames, etc. to calixton@[thatplaceweallworkat].edu). But, it’s good to see how other creative-types do their work, what their process is, etc.

E Logo Design has compiled a list of “Top 50 Logo Design Tutorials” on their site. Some of the logos are great. Some of the logos are hideous. Some of the logos aren’t actually logos. Same for the tutorials (great, hideous, not tutorials, etc.). But, why just sit here and read about the list? Judge for yourself.