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A Search Engine’s Homepage The Key to Search Success?
From the smoke and rubble of the failed dot-com-bubble era emerged 3 contenders for the search crown. (4 if you count that interesting blip on the radar - Ask) Each hungrily stockpiled features and tested innovative ideas in hopes of building an arsenal that would grant them superiority. Like the real life cold-war, smaller web properties began to be enveloped one after another as the search engines grew their empires through alliances, partnerships and corporate buyouts. Google Steady Front-Runner Today Google, Yahoo and MSN (and Ask... no seriously) still practice a sort of civil warfare, as they continue to fight for search ...
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Fun With Logo Equations
Apparently a little creative math + Photoshop + a Blogspot account goes a long way. The guys over at the Logologos blog have some interesting ideas about the origins of some pretty recognizable logos. I found this through a post from logo designer David Airey over at the LogoDesignLove.com blog recently. Some of my favorites include the Apple logo equation depicted above, circa logo arithmatic below and the QuickTime logo math which depicts it's origin as an amalgam including elements of the Volvo logo, a speedometer and plenty of buffing. SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "Fun With Logo Equations", url: "http://www.azakers.com/fun-with-logo-equations.php" } );
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The Pylon Initiative : The Expanding Typography Lexicon
I just love typography and the depth to which one can obsess about the nuances of type face, kerning and stroke weight. I've always been envious of the clever way that designers incorporate typography into their design. Due to the small number of cross-platform web friendly fonts we see less typography creativity online than in print, but thanks to creative engineering (SiFR, CSS image replacement etc) we're starting to see a rise in typography in web design and the internet is a more enjoyable place because of it. A fabulous subject for a blog post... However, the subject of this post is ...
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10 Free Online Image Editors
While I love my PhotoShop CS2, there are times when I need to edit images when I'm away from my house where I have it installed. Often I want to edit an image for a PowerPoint presentation at work, or a forum/blog posting - so I got to looking around and found 10 online image editors that I felt might meet my needs. I took a little while to review each one and have shared my findings with-in this post. I hope it helps someone else as much as it has helped me! 5 Simple Online Image Editors These are 5 fairly ...
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10 Free Font & Typography Resources
Lovers of typography rejoice! Here are 10 great free font & typography resources to inspire & equip even the most addicted typophile! Great fonts are essential to effective typography, which helps any design or layout have more impact. Although defined by traditional resources strictly as an element of print design, Typography's role as a fundamental part of great layout design is carried through other visual mediums including logo design, video editing and other on-screen media such as websites. Typography & Free Fonts Wikipedia describes Typography as "the art and techniques of type design, modifying type glyphs, and arranging type." (Typography) - Whether your work includes logo ...
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CapitalOne Leads the Swoosh Comeback
Rarely do students of branding and logo design get such a brilliant real life example of 'what NOT to do' in regards to logo design. [ AzAkers ] CapitalOne, the folks who brought us that catchy, albeit overly-curoious tagline "What's in your wallet?", have unveiled their new & "improved" logo (as of January 30th). While it won't win any design awards, the new logo is a boon for graphic design instructors, mentors and aspiring graphic artists alike, because rarely do students of branding and logo design get such a brilliant real life example of 'what NOT to do' in regards to logo ...
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3 Reasons Why Xerox’s New Logo Is Just Fine
I love it when a well known company announces a revamped logo! The design blogs go crazy. For just a few brief paragraphs, we get the opportunity to rant about the butchering of a well known corporate logo, or rave about the beautifully executed modern interpretation of a stagnant brand. For a brief moment we are free to cast judgement, with-out fear of reprisal (unless someone calls us out in the comments). [singlepic=123,150,,,]Unfortunately for me however, I'm about a week late to the "Xerox screwed up on their new logo" party. All of the best comments have already been made. Nearly every conversation I've read contained ...
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Invoice Machine : Web 2.0 Invoice Application
Super simple online invoice builder Have you ever needed to crank out an invoice in a hurry? Ever been on the job-site wishing you could generate a quick invoice? With this very Web 2.0 online invoice builder you can build simple, yet effective invoices in just minutes. I ran across this simple, easy to use little web application a while back but never had the chance to blog about it - so finally I get to share it with you! [singlepic=109,,,,] The website is InvoiceMachine.com The application is extremely easy to use and requires only 3 simple steps. Step 1 : Basic Information Enter simple information about ...
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Vote, Be Inspired AND Avoid Politics Completely
Hot or Not Web Design Inspiration I recently discovered CommandShift3.com, a web design comparison/rating site that has turned out to be quite inspiring. This is a fantastic tool for any web designer looking for some design inspiration! There are lot's of great sites you can look through quickly and efficiently, voting on those sites you like best. Because it's built using AJAX the voting is instantaneous and you move right on to another set of sites to review. Possibly my favorites part of the site, there are sections for the best sites and worst sites ever, as voted on by the sites users. This is an ...
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The Obligatory WordPress Plugins post
I know what you're thinking - "Oh no, not ANOTHER one of those 'list o' plugins' posts!" - and essentially, that's what this post is - a list of super helpful WordPress plugins that I have found usefull enough to install and use them on this blog. I browse through posts like this from time to time in hopes of finding another great widget or integrated/automated tidbit. In fact I've found a greater percentage of the plugins I currently use from posts just like this one. It's frustrating to visit a blog and think, "Wow, I love how they've done 'this; or 'that'!" only to find the ...
