Logo Design Steps
So, if you read in one of my past articles, a bar/restaurant in Italy is using a logo I designed for one of my clients. They modified it somewhat, but its quite obvious that they stole it. I do a lot of logos, some I'm proud of, some I'm not. But this one, the Flannery's logo, I'm somewhat proud of.
When designing a logo, usually the client has a pretty solid idea of what they want. As the designer, it's your job to take what they say and help them reach that vision. This particular logo job was a little different, the client really didn't know what they wanted. All the really knew was what they didn't like. So it was my job to come up with a design, present the mock-ups and continue based on the feedback I received.
I just put the wraps on phase one of a new boxing news website. Check it out at www.datruthboxing.com.
Logo Identity Theft
Not sure if I should be a little flattered or pissed off, but a friend discovered a restaurant in Italy that stole one of my clients logos. (One in which I designed).
They're just using it on a Facebook profile, but still it's a little insulting because they did such a bad job on it.
[Updated: 01-25-10 02:59PM]
Creative Juices 4.0. Bigger, Stronger and Now With Moxie!
If you haven't noticed, the site had gone though it's fourth major revision, since I originally launched back in 2005. It's been a slow and painful process but instead of using some off-the-shelf solution for the site, I decided to write something completely new from the ground up. Why would I ever do this, you ask? Well, sit back and prepare yourself for a little story.
When I first launched, it was a very simple ColdFusion site. It didn't have a blog and it really didn't have any content management methods in place. Everything was hand coded and manually updated. It was time consuming, but it fit better with what I was trying to do. I could spotlight some of my clients, show some examples of my work and to provide some sample code to give back to the community. About 6 months after I launched, I soon realized that the site was taking more time to maintain than I had available. I had to come up with some sort of solution to let me focus on the content and not the code.
Well, he didn't resign from Washington, but he did from Missouri. For those of you not familiar with the situation, I worked on a documentary project awhile back that followed a 2004 congressional race between Jeff Smith and Russ Carnahan in Missouri. I handled all the graphics and design for the marketing material as well as some other stuff. Jeff wound up losing this race with Carnahan, but eventually went on to win a seat in the Missouri state senate. This was largely possible because of the success of the "Can Mr. Smith Get To Washington Anymore?" documentary. After the movie, there wasn't to many people that didn't know who Jeff Smith was.
The movie portrayed Jeff as a very charismatic, for-the-people type of guy. You couldn't resist liking him after you met him. Unfortunately, looks can be a little deceiving, because apparently Jeff was a very bad guy.
