Well only 3 months after launching Logo Of The Day, I now have another surprise for you… a new blog totally dedicated to logo & identity design. I introduce you to Logo Designer Blog! This blog is for logo design discussion, inspiration, tips and resources (and then some) which will be provided by myself and the many contributors to the site (we’ve already had 11 articles submitted). Please feel free to submit an article to the site.
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On another note, you may have noticed the familiar pink, white and grey colour scheme? I have kept with these colours to cross brand all three of my sites (Just Creative Design, Logo Of The Day & now Logo Designer Blog). You may have also noticed the dot as the logo, quite similar to the Logo Of The Day logo. In short, I have gone with this simple approach because the circle is a very common design element found in many logos which in turn, reflects the blog quite well. It was quite a challenge though… how would you design a logo for a logo design blog?
So what type of articles can you expect on Logo Designer Blog? Here are a few already on offer:
- The Dot Grid Book For Logo Designers
- How To Use Colour In Logo Design To Effectively Communicate The Right Message
- My Favourite 17 Logos From The Past 3 Years Of Wolda
- Logo Designs After The Recession
- 3 Ways To Successfully Design Your FavIcon
- Lindon Leader (The Man Behind The FedEx Logo)
- Top 10 Logo Design Inspiration Galleries
- + lots more to come!
I would also like to thank those who have already submitted articles (which are or will be appearing soon); Alex Charchar (RetinArt), Anthony Zinni (Positive Space), Chad Mueller (Inspiredology), Chris Spooner (Spoon Graphics), Graham Smith (ImJustCreative), Lauren Marie (Creative Curio), Liam McKay (WeFunction) & Selene Bowlby (iDesign Studios).
Please do feel free to submit an article yourself.
Promote the new site & win!
To entice you to promote the site, there are a few prizes on offer! Each task you do will get you one entry into each prize draw (ie. 6 prizes = 6 draws). You don’t have to do all tasks but the more you do, the more chance you have of winning a prize! Winners will be announced in a new post next week.
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Task 1 – Win $50 & Art
Write a blog post about the new site (preferably) or mention the new site launch in a blog post. Ensure you leave a trackback so I can track your post.
Win: USD$50 credit at Think Geek, courtesy of the kind OfficeHax AND an awesome piece of artwork (11″x14″) done by the talented Darlene Lee, be sure to check out her work! Very inspiring! Darlene is also on LinkedIn.
Task 2 – Win 1000 Business Cards
Leave two comments on the new site, on two different articles.
Win: 1000 business cards courtesy of the kind Jeremey Duboys from AllBusinessCards, a quality online print shop!
Task 3 – Win a Designer T-Shirt
Add a logo to the Logo Designer Blog Flickr pool.
Win: Any shirt from DesignByHumans. Postage not included.
Task 4 – Win $60 worth of Advertising
Stumble Review The Site
Win: One free month advertising (125×125) on the new blog.
Task 5 – Win a Caricature Drawing
Twitter about the new blog – Ensure you put ‘#LDB’ in the twitter message so I can track it. (without the quotes, but with the hash)
Win: A caricature drawing of your wishing, courtesy of Ben Capozzi who is a very talented political cartoonist!
Task 6 – Win a CMYK Clay Pack
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Suggest an article that you would like to see on Logo Designer Blog – leave the comment on this page.
Win: A CMYK clay pack from the kind Michel of BlackEye. Looks like fun!
Also any feedback, advice, suggestions or ideas for the site would be appreciated. Thank you and good luck!
Congratulations on launching the new site Jacob! Looks great and I’m so grateful that you wanted me to be part of it, thanks again 🙂
Jacob, Thanks once again for the mention it was a great experience writing for Logo Designer Blog!
Congrats on getting the new site up! I’ll definitely add it to my faves.
BTW, here is an article you could consider posting on the site:
http://tinyurl.com/bfnway
(Winning Over A Client After Initial Proposal – Kodespark)
Cheers!
Josiah
Jacob,
Thanks for another new site. How about an article covering metaphor and logo design.
Posted comments, Stumble reviewed it, tweeted, and suggesting an article…now!
I’d like to see a little expose on musician’s logos someday!
Nice work with the color scheme. I have been to this site & I recommend that people bookmark/signup for the feed, this site has great articles.
Nice site ! I would suggest theme logo articles. By theme logo articles, I mean examples of similar logo for the same type of business.
For example, since I work on the car rental, I would like to see the comparaison between the different car rental companies logos.
Wow! Definitely gonna do some of these! Im Lovin the new blog aswell. Im starting to get into logo design myself so your new blog will help a lot 🙂
Best of luck with the new venture! I’ll head over there and start participating 😉
Good luck with your new project 🙂
I will be a potential reader to it, like i am to this blog. So good luck. Ive gained lot of useful tips from your site so far, and Ive used them in my design works. I also added 3 logos in your flicker pool (hope i got the tags right), also that made me register there, so now im gonna post my work there more someday. What i would like to see here more? Probably more blog posts from your private live, more photos, and some design secrets used by yourself (ps tips) 🙂
great work, look forward to follow your progress
Nice solution with color palette. I will be happy to read and join this blog! Really nice work.
Congratulation Jacob for the launch of new site. M sure it will definitely rock just this one. M going to write an article for your site.
Good luck with the new site Jacob – I have entered various of your compeitions so I have my fingers crossed – at this rate you will have more sites than me!
By the way, can I mention there are just two days left for people to enter my own competition to celebrate my 1,000th blog post. It isn’t as grand as yours but you can win a PDA!
http://www.jasonslater.co.uk/2009/02/06/1000-post-celebration-competition/
I just submitted a logo to your Flickr pool, too! Hopefully I win one of the 5 contests I’m in…but I suppose we’ll just have to wait and see.
Thank you everyone for your comments and suggestions, hope you enjoy the new site!
Jason, thanks for the link to your competition!
Lovin the new blog! Cheers
just checked out the new site, very nice jacob good job, more resources to learn from!
Really like the new blog. You have put up a lot of quality tips and designs to get inspiration. Thanks.
Nice Work.Thanks for another new site.
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