design

Breakthrough Logotype Moment

February 12, 2011

I have been sitting on this logotype for the climbers festival for over a year now. I keep revisiting it, trying to figure out how to take it from cool concept to polished and professional. I feel like I am starting to make strides in it, and wanted to share the latest draft (finished?). What [...]

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The Climbers Fest creative team has been back at the grind. We are busy coming up with secondary illustrations to help support and elevate last year’s theme of the old west meets dirtbag climbers (see: King of Hearts, rapper/climber oDub’s cowboy poem using names of local area routes to drive the story). Below are some [...]

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Foundries/designers often promote themselves by releasing a free font. This drives traffic to their site and awareness to their brand/style. Below are examples of two quality typefaces I have come across recently, Lobster and Franchise Bold. For more free fonts check out Font Squirrel. It seems that the fonts available have undergone a quality filter, [...]

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elance.com + 99designs.com – I have been reading a lot about spec work recently. This post from Chris Brogan got me up to speed. Spec work is when an individual/company asks a community of designers for work, lets say a logo. 50 designers submit 50 logos and one gets picked as the best and gets [...]

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