Are You a Journalist?

I remember sitting in a grad school course in journalism school listening to a twenty-something talk about how important blogging was going to become and how it’s changing the essence of journalism. I was so in disbelief as to what I was hearing that my chin was basically resting… read more

Free download: Silver UI Kit (PSD)

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25 Most-Buzzed Universities on the Internet

MIT is the most-buzzed about university on the Internet, beating out its Massachusetts neighbor Harvard for the top spot.

The Global Language Monitor‘s TrendTopper MediaBuzz rankings measure the brand equity of 210 universities and 200 colleges, using data from social media, the blogosphere, and more than 175,000 print and electronic media… read more

8 Tips To Maximize Your Brand’s YouTube Presence

Michael “MJ” Jaindl is chief client officer at Buddy Media, maker of the social-enterprise software of choice for eight of the top ten advertisers in the world. Visit Buddy Media’s blog for more on social marketing.

Creating an account on YouTube is simple, and building a channel for your brand… read more

MLB Fan Cave: The Core Of Major League Baseball’s Social Strategy

On Major League Baseball’s Opening Day, the MLB Fan Cave was alive with energy. Nine baseball uber-fans, still pleasantly reeling from their meeting with former New York Yankee Bernie Williams, were watching three important things occur: The Boston Red Sox vs. Detroit Tigers game, the Atlanta Braves vs. New York… read more

Pinterest Gets More Personal: Time to Choose Your Own Board Covers

Pinterest released Thursday a much-requested feature: the ability to choose the pin that appears on the cover of your boards.

The update gives you greater control over the appearance of your profile page. For addicts like me, it’s an opportunity to more extensively obsess.

You can now edit a board cover… read more

Mashable Launches New Events Board

We’re delighted to announce the launch of a new Events Board, which aims to bring together event organizers and the Mashable community.

We have long recognized that one of the great challenges for the Mashable community is that it’s difficult to discover all relevant regional, national or international events for… read more

Key tips to become professional logo designer

Key tips to become professional logo designer

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6 Freelancing Tips from Han Solo

Unlike some couples, my husband actually reads some of the blog posts I write for FreelanceSwitch. Which makes me really happy considering my own parents hardly read the articles I write for the regional magazine I work for. Heck, Shane even reposts some of my blog posts on his… read more

Types of Posts and How to Successfully Combine These on a Web Design Blog

Having a blog could be dangerous because, for many of us, the entire process of administering and maintaining can turn into an addictive task, one not being happy until a new post is published; moreover, the addiction may be acute and one will wait for the first reaction of the… read more

How to make more as a freelancer

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70+Bird Logo Designs Inspiration

70+Bird Logo Designs Inspiration

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Selling Your Photographs Through Stock Libraries: A Primer

Before the advent of digital photography, there was no micro and macro in stock photography, royalty free was a little used term and image catalogues were large glossy books with just a selection of the best images. To purchase an image you either asked one of the library’s researchers to… read more

Manage Appointments With SetMore, and Win a Free Subscription

Do you keep putting off those trivial tasks just because you don’t have any time? Is your salon flooded with customers and you don’t have the bandwidth to handle the crowd? Trying hard to reduce the waiting time of your patients at your clinic? An appointment manager would be an… read more

30 inspiring calligraphy works

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40+ Legal Institutions Logo Inspirations

Honest by Levogrin

CastleWay by Logotyped

Cassidy Law by ZainabFH

Lonestar Legal by Logoturn

Law Library by Brandsimplicity

Notaria7 by ggg

Adw. by Woelve

Frankel Law Firm by YGD

Watson & Associates by joeydetuned

Seed Legal by wo0f

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StarCast: Digital Auditions Changing How Aspiring Actors Get Noticed

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: StarCast Auditions

Quick Pitch: Actors can be noticed by top producers without leaving their house.

Genius Idea: Submit… read more

Fly Baseball Star Brian Wilson’s Beard on This Awesome Airplane [VIDEO]

It’s a beard! It’s a plane! It’s Brian Wilson’s beard on a plane!

A Virgin America aircraft that began regularly scheduled flights on Tuesday has a painted-on homage to the San Francisco Giants closer’s bushy beard. And there’s a social media tie-in too; travelers who spot the plane — dubbed Fly… read more

Case Study: Logo Revamp for Hong Kong’s New Forest Restaurant

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In the summer of 2011, when I was lingering in the Time Square shopping mall, I suddenly received a phone call from the owner of New Forest Restaurant. He probably found my contact details from my website. He told me the brand of the restaurant needed a… read more

Billable.Me: Easily Bill Your Clients

Being a freelancer, I’ve tried many applications to help me produce effective and professional invoices for my clients. I’ve experimented with everything from Microsoft Word to other applications on Mac OS X and iOS. Recently, I have come across Billable, a web-based application for invoicing clients.

Billable allows you to easily create beautiful and… read more

Stumble Into StumbleUpon’s San Francisco Office [PICS]

The Startup Spaces Series is supported by Turnstone, a Steelcase brand. Running a small business is hard enough, having a great space to work in should be easy. myturnstone.com.

StumbleUpon is all about discovery, and if you happen to stumble upon the company’s San Francisco headquarters, you’ll have plenty to see.

The… read more

40 Examples of Book Inspired Logos For Inspiration

40 Examples of Book Inspired Logos For Inspiration

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Logo Design Inspiration: 36 Water Drop Logos

Logo Design Inspiration: 36 Water Drop Logos

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Change Your Point of View for Success

I really liked what blogger Emily Heyward had to say on her recent FastCompany.com blog post called Desks, Where Creativity Goes To Die. The SXSW attendee stepped outside of her comfort zone at the conference and learned a thing or two.

Initially, I tried to attend talks or panels directly… read more

Vectortuts+ Celebrates 30,000 Facebook Fans – Comment to Win!

In 2009 we launched our Facebook fan page, four years and lots of posts and comments later we’re proud to announce that we now have over 30,000 fans! To celebrate this milestone Vectortuts+ is giving away some fantastic prizes, including a grand prize of a 1-year membership to Tuts+… read more

When Your Clients are MIA

One of the most difficult things to deal with when working with a client is when they’re unengaged, absent, missing, and seemingly disinterested in the work you’re doing.

Developers and designers people crave recognition. We love hearing “this is wonderful”, whether it’s from a peer, client, or anonymous blog comment…. read more

50 Mac Apps That Will Teach You Something

With the recent release of iBooks Author from Apple, I started to think more about using Apple products as learning tools. The iBooks Author announcement and accompanying video certainly generate some excitement at the possibilities using the iPad in classrooms and that is great, but I became curious as to… read more

Techniques for creating modal windows

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Typography Inspiration: Calligraphic Masterpieces

Calligraphy is an ancient skill, whose origin is difficult to date. It spans across a wide range of cultures and continents, and can be seen to this day all across the globe. Some track calligraphy back to the inception of the Latin alphabet in 600bc, although other notable examples can… read more

Creative Fuel #3: Sass Resources, 3D Virtual Tours & FontShop’s Photoshop Plugin

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Creative Fuel is a periodic collection of design and creativity awesomeness found around the web. Find out about new apps and services, the best freebies, and other significant news from the design community!

35 Great Resources for Compass and Sass

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Tips for Planning your own Design Studio

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Getting started in freelance web design is an exhilarating process. Along with the added stresses of daily work you actually become your own boss, set your own hours, and even choose who you will work with. It’s truly a great way to earn a living!

Now consider… read more

10 Useful Tips on Creating an Effective Logo Design

10 Useful Tips on Creating an Effective Logo Design

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World Autism Awareness Day: Mobile Apps, TV Networks ‘Light It Up Blue’

Autism Speaks has been illuminating iconic landmarks around the world with blue light for World Autism Day for the last three years, as part of its “Light It Up Blue” campaign.

This year, the tech world is joining the campaign for the first time, as Outfit7‘s Talking Tom mobile app… read more

Branding Your Freelance Business

If you are a solopreneur, branding yourself is key. You want to make a statement and interest people while being true to who you are as a person and a professional. No matter your niche, creating a brand for yourself is important! But how do you do that as… read more

Best of Tuts+ in March 2012

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials

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Turning propaganda poster images into modern web design

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Daily Inspiration #1097

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Mar 26-Apr 1, 2012

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Shock Bundle Giveaway – The Winners

Last Sunday we published the competition giving away 10 Shock Bundles (valued at $129 each). With just under 200 comments it proved to be very popular. The competition has now ended and it is time to announce the randomnly chosen winners of this fantastic bundle.

Congratulations to our winners,… read more

70 Best Music Logo Designs Inspiration

70 Best Music Logo Designs Inspiration

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Best of the Week #216

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Comics of the week #123

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Invoicebus: Invoicing Made Simple

Anyone doing business with clients should be familiar with the dreaded invoice. Though they signify that you’re going to be paid at some point in the near future, something you would think would be a a good thing, if you have to deal with quite a few of them on… read more

Tweet to Win a Kindle!

Want to take a little more time away from your glaring computer monitor and read some books? Perhaps you want to spend less time at your business so you’ll have more time off this year? Sounds like our giveaway is exactly what you need.

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Logo Design Inspiration: 60+ Fresh Logo Designs

A Logo is a graphical element that, together with its logotype (a uniquely set and arranged typeface) form a trademark or commercial brand. Typically, a logo’s design is for immediate recognition. The logo is one aspect of a company’s commercial brand, or economic or academic entity, and its shapes, colors,… read more

Free download: “Inspire” Backend Admin Template (PSD)

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Exceptional Dribbble Invite Shots

Dribbble is one of the most famous online designers community. It’s an amazing gallery where people can show screenshots of their recent or upcoming works and share high-quality freebies with others. But Dribbble is not only place where you can show off your skills, it is also a source for… read more

30 Bright & Energetic Logo Designs

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If you’ve ever had to give a logo a lively, energetic feel while working with, for instance, a juice bar or sports organization as a client, you know it can be difficult to pull it off with the inanimate logo. Energy is all about movement and animation…. read more

6 Ways to Acquire New Customers via Social Media

The Customer Experience Series is supported by Webtrends. Get insider tips and a step-by-step guide to acquiring, engaging and nurturing fans. Download the Playbook.

We all know social media is an important tool for brand awareness and customer acquisition — but how exactly are you supposed to convert random Twitter… read more

Are Job Ads Phishing For Free Innovation?

A recruiter recently announced an employment opportunity but it came with a test. Candidates would have to write a business plan they would implement in their first year with the company. The request was to “be innovative with your thinking!”

The recruiter insisted candidates needed to “wow!” this company. With the… read more

Top 10 Places to Get Your Logo Design Recognized

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Depending on whether you subscribe to the concept of Effective Frequency or the age-old Rule of Seven, a customer needs to be exposed to your brand at least three times and as many as seven before making a purchase decision. Therefore, it stands to reason: the wider… read more

10 tools to analyze your website

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Creative Logo Design: 20 Bird Logos for Inspiration

Creative Logo Design: 20 Bird Logos for Inspiration

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40+ Coffee/Espresso Logo Designs for Inspiration

40+ Coffee/Espresso Logo Designs for Inspiration

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Logo Design: Feathers

We keep going through our weekly journey checking out great logos! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new topics, good ones, to share with you guys. Last week we had a great post about logos with cherries, and today it’s all about logos with feathers!

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Turn Your Tweets Into Toilet Paper — for $35 a Pack [VIDEO]

Last year Bill Gates announced plans to revolutionize the toilet. Now one startup is attempting to revolutionize toilet paper -– by putting tweets on it.

The service, called Shitter, will take one or more feeds from your Twitter account and print those tweets on toilet paper you can then display… read more

Did This Pinterest Spammer Make $30,000 in a Month? [UPDATED]

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated with new details from The Daily Dot.

A 24-year-old man who calls himself “Steve” makes more than $1,000 per day pinning Amazon product links on Pinterest, one of 2012′s hottest social networks.

Taking advantage of the startup’s fast growth and optimal user demographics… read more

11 AP Style Guide Rules That Are Easy to Mess Up

When I was in journalism school (in both the late 1990s and mid 2000s), the AP Stylebook was our bible. We didn’t go to class without it and frequently had quizzes and assignments built around it.

I recently wrote a blog post about the future of journalism and how astonished… read more

30 Ways Your Business Should Leverage Social Media This Year

Social media is big in business circles and every business is scrambling to implement social media strategies to take advantage of this new opportunity. If your business is not already on the social media bandwagon, you still have time to create a social media strategy and start getting social.

Here is… read more

40 free high resolution leaf textures

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45 Logos Inspired by Famous Proverbs

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Proverbs are often metaphorical expressions, most of which are well known by all of us, and are pithy ways to express truths in a way that is memorable to enable that wisdom to be passed on.

In this article, we look at remarkable logo designs through the lens… read more

Helvetica and the Vignelli Canon: How Typefaces Ought to Be in Graphic Design

I had my first brush with typography when I had a subject about freehand lettering in high school. In that class I was exposed to lettering and some of typography’s history. From there, I began admiring different type designs on printed material, from magazines (Ray Gun, Esquire) to posters (“Your… read more

Introducing Tello — a Faster Way to Solve Customer Service Issues

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: Tello

Quick Pitch: Review and talk to businesses about your experience from your smartphone or tablet

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Second-Screen Experience Gives Snowboarding Fans a Shredder’s-Eye View [VIDEO]

Extreme sports fans and Shazam app users planning to watch the Red Bull Supernatural snowboarding competition this month are in for a second-screen viewing treat.

Here’s how it will work: Fans watching the event on NBC on March 31 will occasionally be shown a Shazam logo on their TV screens… read more

29 Fantastically Simple Fashion Logos

When creating your own logo for any niche, it is very important that you create one that will stand-out from all the rest. In fashion, branding is huge and is the make or break of any fashion-house. If you look at any of the world renown brands such as  HUGO… read more

LinkedIn Updates ‘People You May Know’ Feature

LinkedIn has tweaked its People You May Know feature with a streamlined look and more accurate recommendations, the company announced Tuesday.

The update, announced on LinkedIn’s blog, has also made it easier to filter results by company or school. To do so, you merely click on a logo to narrow the… read more

Stickers Galore: Check Out GetGlue’s Fun-Filled Office [PICS]

The Startup Spaces Series is supported by Turnstone, a Steelcase brand. Running a small business is hard enough, having a great space to work in should be easy. myturnstone.com.

At GetGlue’s headquarters in New York City, it’s all about the stickers.

One of the most loved aspects of the entertainment check-in and… read more

Redesigning With Personality

We are very happy to present a sample chapter from the upcoming printed Smashing Book #3, written by Aarron Walter. In this chapter, Aarron explains how sharing our personalities can help us create lasting relationships with users, and how it can improve the bottom line of our business. The sample… read more

Building Websites with a Priority for Mobile

Today it’s more common to find a skilled web artisan who understands desktop support over mobile. This appears to be a symptom of building on the desktop browser for decades as opposed to other screens. Yet there is a growing case to argue that mobile development is the… read more

The 20 coolest and most interactive websites of bands and musicians

I saw almost 200 sites before making this list and, sadly, just few of them are really great.
Sorry guys no Madonna, no Lady Gaga, no Coldplay, no Radiohead, no U2, no Beyoncé, no Linkin Park but something more particular.
Enjoy this collection ;)

David Guetta

Broken Bells

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi

Killers

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Back to basics: how to code an HTML5 template

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Freelance Guidelines for Getting Paid on Time

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The lifestyle of a freelancer can be very hectic at times. You have to juggle multiple projects and meetings with clients all to make sure your bills are paid. And the only way you’re going to keep ahead is by managing your money properly!

Freelancers don’t often… read more

Daily Inspiration #1092

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, You can submit your images and inspiration to RAWZ via http://raw.abduzeedo.com and don’t forget to… read more

The Perfect Office #132

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

Mashable Connect Is More Than a Conference

Mashable’s largest conference is returning to Orlando, FL from May 3-5, and this year we will explore the future of digital with some of the brightest minds in the industry.

Why attend Mashable Connect? The real value in attending our signature conference is more than just content sessions. Here’s what… read more

40+ Meaty Packaging and Label Designs

Aidells Sausage by The Engine Room

Billante by Fammilia

Yorkshire Dales Meat Co. by Robot-food

Ehe 100% Liha by Mart Kont

Delinatura by Mika Kanive

Dyroy by Tank Design

Helt ra by Tank Design

El-Gaucho by Blend-It Design

New Hellers by Dow Design

Emmett Fare by Caryn Scheving

Dorsogna Alfresco by Harley Spick

MEAT by Jaan Selg

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Can User Experience Be Beautiful? An Analysis Of Navigation In Portfolio Websites

When users land on your website, they typically read the content available. Then, the next thing that they will do is to try and familiarize themselves with your website. Most of the time this involves looking for navigation.

In this article, I’ll be analyzing the navigation elements of a particular category… read more

50+Modern Best Web 2.0 Logo Designs Inspiration

50+Modern Best Web 2.0 Logo Designs Inspiration

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Review: Photoshop CS6 Beta

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A Collection of Great New WordPress Themes

Every year designers are pushing the boundaries of what WordPress can do. 2012 is no different. In just a few short months we have seen a large increase in the number of premium WordPress themes being released, and the bar is certainly being raised with the new additions to the… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Mar 19-Mar 25, 2012

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We have 10 Shock Bundles (value $129 each) to giveaway – Comment to Enter

For this weeks giveaway we have 10 Premium Shock Bundles, courtesy of the guys behind Theme Nation.

All you have to do for a chance of winning one of these books is leave a comment below telling us why you would like to win this bundle.

The Shock Bundle

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16 Examples of Eye-catching Creative Logo Designs

16 Examples of Eye-catching Creative Logo Designs

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Comics of the week #122

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Get An Attractive Design Using Flame Logo Designs

Get An Attractive Design Using Flame Logo Designs

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Mostly Used Symbols in Logo Design Contests!

Mostly Used Symbols in Logo Design Contests!

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45+Photography Logo Designs Inspiration

45+Photography Logo Designs Inspiration

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8 Compelling Content Sessions to Expect at Mashable Connect 2012

Our largest conference, Mashable Connect, is returning to Orlando, Fla., from May 3-5, and this year we will explore the future of digital with some of the brightest minds in the industry.

An array of digital leaders will be speaking on topics ranging from new digital business models, mobile networking,… read more

5 Interesting Pinterest Marketing Campaigns

Pinterest is so new that a lot of major brands still don’t know what to make of it. However, there are a few outliers who have found creative ways to exploit the potential of the new social media destination.

As the following list shows, there are many ways to do this…. read more

Useful WordPress Tools, Themes And Plugins

If you’re looking for some great ways to improve your WordPress workflow, read on for a massive collection of free themes, plugins, tools and tutorials. These resources were all linked via the Smashing Magazine Twitter stream, Facebook stream, and other social-media streams around the Web.

These awesome resources have now been… read more

Ask Clients the Right Questions With Osmosis

While working as an account executive in my previous jobs, I quickly learned that clear communication from the very first meeting is crucial to understanding a client’s needs – and now, working as a freelancer has reaffirmed that many times over. It’s not easy though – between multiple meetings, scores… read more

Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers: Good and Bad

As bloggers, we face a wide variety of tasks each day related to managing and building our blogs. Productivity and efficiency are vital, especially for part-time bloggers. A number of extremely addictive and time-consuming habits stand in the way, though.

I’m sure all bloggers wonder, “How did others make it to… read more

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8 Famous Brands and their Funny Logo Evolutions

8 Famous Brands and their Funny Logo Evolutions

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Beautiful and Inspiring Logos

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Browsing beautiful logos is always inspiring. Logos are actually a very good way to check out how designers put together colors, typography, textures and several other design elements. Today we gathered a few beautiful and inspiring logos to show you. From colorful, bold and textured logos… read more

Creative Fuel #2: Letter-cutting, Presidential Logos, Responsive Design & Chat UI PSD

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Letters & Stone

I Love Typography has an absolutely fascinating feature on Fergus Wessel. Fergus is… read more

Funny Logos – Designer Inspiration

Funny Logos – Designer Inspiration

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70+Badge and Emblem Logo Designs Inspiration

70+Badge and Emblem Logo Designs Inspiration

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30 Stylish Animal Logos

30 Stylish Animal Logos

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Logo Design: Cherries

We keep going through our weekly journey checking out great logos! We’re thinking ahead and we want to find new topics, good ones, to share with you guys. Last week we had a great post about logos with scissors, and today it’s all about logos with cherries!

Every week we search… read more