Google's Earth Day Promo
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
What do you think about Google's take on an Earth Day promo?This is the logo on their main search engine page. At first look I loved it, I knew it was meant to promote Earth Day for 2009 and I took in all the colors and themes. The greens and the blues, the water and the earth, everything is lovely.
But I'm not sure I get the lettering. I see the waterfall is representing the "L" but what is happening with the second "g" in Google?
Thoughts?
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There is an event on May 3, 2009 hosted by the Earth Day Event Board, the Virginia Beach Clean Community Commission, and Virginia Beach Parks & Recreation. Their logo is big, very green and seems to be taking advantage of some of the better vector shapes out in web land. But I'm not sure it reflects any sort of "Earth Day" theme message although it's not a bad piece of art to look at otherwise.I will say it looks like a young designer just had fun splashing vectors all around.
What do you think about it?
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I'm seeing many websites right now talking about the "selling" of Earth Day. Since its creation by United States senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970, Earth Day's reach has spread around the world and is now marked in about 175 countries. It seems only natural that companies and brands would try to piggy back on the awareness factor, right?
Forbes.com has an article online right now about this topic.
How Do You Make Earth Day Good For Your Company?
Labels: earth day, google, logo design
Photo Inspiration; 3D Contest and Easter Brushes
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Sunset Balloons by TiaraMia, isn't this a clever, simple and yet gorgeous photo? I love the colors!Pixel2Life has a tutorial online about taking photographs of aquariums. I could have used this last month when we took Braeden to the Baltimore Aquarium. I struggled with the lighting and angles at which I could get a good shot of what was inside the tank.
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Okay so aside for the balloons and aquariums, I admittedly don't have much inspiration in my brain today. But I did come across a contest on the web for those of you who dabble in 3D design. It is from the evil villain in the TeknoChronicles of Z, General ShadowFinger, and he has a contest "Benign Design Contest in 3D".
"Finding good design talent is almost as hard as getting 10,000 giant mutant crabs to obey you."
The deadline is June 30, 2009.
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And here is a link to E-maniacs so you can scoop up their collect of Easter themed photoshop brushes. You'll find bunnies, eggs, baskets and all other sorts of spring time Easter fun.
And here is a link to their Easter icons, much fun to be had with these cute graphics.
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Just found another contest type opportunity for you. This one isn't as intense as the 3D contest above. The company is looking for a logo designer who will be able to create an original logo for a new website.
They say, "You create the logo, we pick it and we will give you your fee."
The logo is for the Company: "Networking Works"
It must include the words "Speed Business Networking" in a smaller font.
Labels: 3D, brushes, contest, icons, logo design, photography, photoshop
Alex Wilhite Oil Paintings; Plus Some Challenges and Inspirations
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Alex Wilhite has been deaf since birth. He has been painting when he was four years old. He attended to Central Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis at age of 4 until 15 years old. He was awarded B.F.A. from the University of North Alabama and M.F.A. in painting and art history from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. He has had several solo and group exhibitions all over the USA, Japan, and Europe include the White House under President Clinton.He now has an Etsy shop which just opened on February 2, 2009.
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Would you like to get over 1,000 icons for free?
The best of best collections of free icons collected mainly from the icon gallery sites and interesting articles. Webbyarts is glad to display the best list of icon resources for free icon set download. The download icon set includes icons in .png, .icns and .ico-formats. An .EPS vector file is available as well.
They also have a post with "31 Spectacular Logos for your Inspiration" to boost up your inspiration.
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Web Designer Depot has a post with 13 iPhone Apps said to be perfect for Graphic Designers. The applications help with task management, enhance photos, sketching and a whole lot more.
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ARRL announces second homebrew challenge
In 2009, ARRL ups the ante in the Second Homebrew Challenge by upping the power limit to 50 W. All entries are due no later than February 28, 2010.
"Low power (QRP) operation is fun, but often a little more power is even more fun," said ARRL Technical Editor Joel Hallas, W1ZR.
"For our new challenge, we are asking readers to design, or adapt a published design (with appropriate credit), and build a 50 W amplifier to follow a 5 W/40 meter transceiver. This could be used behind one of the radios from the original challenge, or from other QRP radios at similar power level."
There will be two cash prizes for this challenge. In addition to the prizes, the winners will receive the usual QST page rate for published articles.
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Design Is Mine has intrigued me again with their Flickr Friday piece from yesterday. It's called Flickr Friday: Into a Story Book.
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Greenlaunches is offering another chance to win a stylish eco-friendly gift for its ardent readers as well as all those who care for our planet and environment.
Participate in the contest to walk away with a chic, green bag by Matt & Nat.
All you have to do is suggest interesting and innovative ideas to recycle plastic bottles. Anybody from any corner of the world can share their passion for a greener life and grab this $300 bag recycled out of plastic bottles.
Labels: alex wilhite, apple, challenge, design is mine, Etsy, flickr, icons, logo design, painting, web design
Weekend design links to ogle
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Kreative Garden posted 23 Wonderful Origami Designs. Interestingly enough there is even a portion of the post dedicated to web icons which are designed to look like origami including one for flickr. Plus there is an origami alphabet set which is very cool.*~*~*
Logo design resources, A List of 11logo design inspirational websites and poster art inspiration from Mieczyslaw Wasilewski - Poster artist.
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At the Melaka Campus the "Web Design Competition" and "Banner Competition" is back!!
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Oh My So Cute posted an entry about cute handmade soaps. They found them on flickr and then followed through to find they are items on sale at Love Lee Soaps.
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Crystal's Creations has been working on their website. Stop in for inspiration, designs, layout ideas and helpful hints, hidden freebies from the digital scrapbooking challenges in the Challenge of the day and a recipe from time to time also.
She also has freebies available throughout the site if you're a good enough detective, like the scrapbook freebie of Grandmas Kitchen.
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Meet the design team at Cuttlebug Challenges. Their blog states their goal is to provide you with inspirations to use the Cuttlebug to create and preserve your memories. Each week their Design Team members will bring you fun ideas to use in your own creations. We created this blog for the love of the Cuttlebug machine and all the things you are able to do with it :)
Labels: contest, crystals creations, cuttle bug, kreative garden, logo design, oh my so cute, origami, scrapbooking, soap
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