Here are the top 10 of the most creative Tweets that we find on the web that can be of interest to designers. Hopefully, you will find some useful information or you will pick up some creatives to follow.
To keep up to date with all our top links, follow us @logonest
1. How to Create a Professional Logo @DesignerDepot
A professional logo can enhance a company, an organization, or a product. On the other hand, an unprofessional logo can ruin a brand and mar an otherwise good designer’s portfolio. Many logos in use are unprofessional and carry all the tell-tale marks of an amateur or a beginner. Everyone thinks they can design a great logo, but simply knowing your way around Photoshop is not enough.
Here are some insights into the process and workflow of effective and modern logo design. With these tips and your creativity, you can make your logo designs shine with the very best.
2. SimpleFolio: A Free Clean Portfolio WordPress Theme @smashingmag
Today we are glad to release a beautiful, simple and clean portfolio WordPress theme — SimpleFolio, designed by Omar E. Corrales and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. SimpleFolio is a portfolio theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page that allows you to exclude all your portfolio items from the blog page. It also includes a front page slider.
3. 15 Design Tips to Learn From Apple @designshack
There is no shortage of companies that follow popular design trends to appeal to a mass market. Much more rare is the breed of company that actually sets design trends. Today we’ll examine the techniques of a company that occupies the top of the design food chain: Apple.
4. Logorama: A Short Film With Animated Logos @theroxor
Logorama is a short film that was made by a French graphic design studio called H5. This great short film already won the Kodak Short Film Discovery price at the 2009 Cannes Fim Festival. Every person or object in this film is composed of corporate logos. You’ll see logos from well known companies such as Michelin, Haribo, McDonalds, Bic…
5. The Top 20 ‘Clients From Hell’ of The Past Year: @theroxor
This week i’ve decided to give you all a laugh and feature some of the funniest, and sometimes unbelievable world of, Clients From Hell stories…be warned, some people know nothing about business or computers.
6. 6 Reasons Crowdsourcing And Spec Work Sucks
It’s a revolution, or at least it seems to be if you listen to just about every hype-filled business blog out there. While crowdsourcing has resulted in some cool promotions and occasionally even a worthwhile end result for both parties involved, it’s rarely the best solution for any business (or any service provider, for that matter).
7. Custom letters of 2009 @lettercult
Appreciation for the people making Custom Letters. Inspiration for everyone else. A whole lot of great work.
8. Information is beautiful: 30 examples of creative infography @mirkohumbert
Unfortunatly I never had the opportunity to do client work on an infography, but it seems to be one of the most challenging task for a graphic designer. The perfect infography must synthetize complex information in a simple visual representation, which is not easy. The following examples take information architecture to another level by making it beautiful.
9. What The Jersey Shore’s Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino Can Teach You About Branding @160over90
Branding can be a vague, nebulous concept to folks, particularly clients. We often try to teach them the value of building a strong brand by citing great ones that already exist. Unfortunately, we tend to fall back on a small list of great brand case studies, such as Apple, Nike, Harley Davidson, and a few others.
10. 10 Things Clients Look For In a Design Portfolio @smashingmag
There’s no formula for a perfect portfolio. There’s no format that’s guaranteed to land you clients, as long as you follow it. However, there are certain questions that a prospective client has in mind when he’s looking for a web designer. If your portfolio can supply the answers a client wants, you can improve your portfolio’s ability to convince a client and land a new project.
No Comments
Trackbacks/Pingbacks