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January 21, 2008 in Learn
This week the interwebs have been alive with the sound of the so-called ‘touch icons’… a low hum possibly produced by them gently jiggling away on your homescreen. Like many a designer looking for the frequent digital distraction, I’ve been…
October 1, 2007 in Learn
Hey folks. We’re currently moving over to a new version of Carsonified! We’re really excited but please bear with us while we transfer everything over and iron out the creases… You’ll notice things chaning over the next day or so,…
September 21, 2007 in Learn
By Elliot Jay Stocks It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Sorry guys – we’ve been so busy! The rebranding is now heading towards its very exciting conclusion and we’re going to show you where we’re at… Part 11a: Part 11b:…
September 13, 2007 in Learn
By Elliot Jay Stocks I’m going to be speaking at the ‘iDesign: design for life’ event next Tuesday (18th), and the organisers have given me two free tickets to offer as a competition prize. The event is part of the…
September 10, 2007 in Learn
By Elliot Jay Stocks Everyone liked the direction I started to explore with the ideas you can see at the end of the last post; the bolder, more immediate direction was starting to remain legible and recognisable at smaller sizes,…
September 9, 2007 in Learn
By Elliot Jay Stocks ‘ Sorry for the shortage in blog posts recently, everyone; let me get you up to speed with the development of our new identity. The insigia examples went down a treat and I think we all…
September 6, 2007 in Learn
By Elliot Jay Stocks While we prepare the next post, we thought you might enjoy a light interlude of some more recent sketches. Click the images for their full-size versions. General rough ideas. Among other things, a study of the…
September 4, 2007 in Learn
By Elliot Jay Stocks The other day, I mentioned we’re going to go down a different route with the new logo. That’s not to say we don’t like the one that was developing so far; we just feel it would…
September 1, 2007 in Learn
By Elliot Jay Stocks … and now for something completely different After a run of daily blog entries, I apologise for the opposite end of the spectrum you guys encountered the following (last) week; I was on a short holiday…
August 24, 2007 in Learn
By Elliot Jay Stocks In his comment on part 4, Andy Croll raised a really interesting point: It did remind me of the US university sports team logo thing you often see on GAP or A&F sweatshirts, [and] that kinda…
August 23, 2007 in Learn
By Elliot Jay Stocks I’ve split the videos for part 4 into two: 4a explores what it means to be ‘Carsonified’ and summarises the thoughts from yesterday’s meeting, and 4b is a screencast about one particular logo idea that’s starting…
August 22, 2007 in Learn
By Elliot Jay Stocks After recording yesterday’s screencast, I knuckled down to some more logo ideas, refining some of the font manipulation I’d started on Photoshop and Illustrator. I’d begun doing this after hand-sketching yielded poor results, but after a…