Web 2.0 Designer News

I haven’t posted on Logo Designer Blog for a while (due to a rather full schedule) but when I saw this, I just had to share. The National Basketball Association thinks it has figured out what fans are hungry for besides a championship: edible team logos. The league recently signed unusual licensing deals with companies that offer these edible  items – and more.  The pizza logos, made of sugar, starch and food coloring, will add about $5 to the price of a pizza

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Logos For Lunch

A Security Advisory has been posted in regards to a new Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player issue (CVE-2010-1297). A critical vulnerability exists in Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and the authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x for Windows, Macintosh and UNIX operating systems.

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Security Advisory for Flash Player, Adobe Reader and Acrobat

In advertising, companies want to put as much as possible into a small space, giving prospective clients a solid idea of who the company is and what it does. Logos and ad banners are great examples.

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Eye Catching versus Cluttered Logo Design Usage

A few months back, I discussed whether a successful logo designer is talented or taught . We came to a conclusion that it is a blend of both qualities because creating a logo design requires both knowledge and creativity

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Street beggars and logo design – A source of success!

Recently I was working on a client site and he wanted a hover effect on some of the affiliate banner ads. The first approach in my mind was to do the typical CSS Sprites but this requires CSS work which my client did not know much of

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CSS Sprites w/out Using Background Images

In the 18 months I’ve really focussed on HTML5, I’ve seen approximately 238 different HTML5 “testing” sites appear. Most of them wildly pick and mix specs, checking for HTML5, related WHATWG-derived specifications such as Web Workers and then, drunk and giddy with buzzwords, throw in SVG, CORS, CSS Media Queries, and some Apple proprietary CSS extension before hyperventilating and going to bed for a lie down

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IE and HTML5 testing

Latest Version: 2.00 Updated on: 2010/06/03 Vector images store the lines, shapes and colours as mathematical formulae. Thus, the images give sharper and higher resolution output as compared to the raster images that are based on pixels. The Vector Art theme, comprising heavy use of vector graphics, is sure to give a fabulous artistic look to your blogs/sites! Click on the “Free Download” link above to get the theme now! Vector Art PSD File Gain access to the fully layered Photoshop file for quick and easy tweakage

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Vector Art

With the World Cup 2010 just days away from kick-off, the management of FIFA has unveiled the official logo for World Cup 2014. The logo design was informally revealed on July 1, 2010 and awaits official exposure on the final of World Cup 2010. After Brazil was voted as the host of the next edition of the coveted event, it was no surprise that the logo would attribute the features pertaining to the host nation

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FIFA World Cup 2014 Logo revealed – The ‘Z’ controversy!

Advanced content-aware plugins for Adobe Photoshop and compatible image editors that you can use to put a wide range of sparkling star filter effects on the highlights in your images, with no loss of overall contrast. Replace glass filters entirely

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StarFilter Pro and StarFilter Lite plugins

n this post, I will show you 5 Good Photoshop Habits You Must Form Right from the Start. Personally I think it will be quite beneficial for you to try and adopt those good practices, especially if you consider using Photoshop as a working tool and be professional with it

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5 Good Photoshop Habits You Must Form Right from the Start

Use some quick keys combinations to create selection by choosing bright color areas on the picture automatically. Now we will do examples to see how useful is it to shorten steps in our work.

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Create quickly interesting effects in photoshop

In today’s tutorial we are going to turn a flawless blonde beauty into a sword-wielding survival huntress. To do this we are going to make her skin sweaty and dirty, her dress stained and torn, we’ll add blood stains to the sword, manipulate her hair, and create a post-apocalyptic background full of smoke and fire effects.

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Turn a Beauty Into a Fantasy Action Hero

With business development, any company starts to feel necessity of information feed, attraction of bigger quantity of potential clients, use of new advertising levers. One of the elementary but at the same time obligatory and effective tools of achievement of the given purposes is the site-calling-card. The site-calling-card is the purely presentation resource, which main objective

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Site-calling-card: From Acquaintance To Sales Is Only One Step

Los Angeles-based clothing manufacturer American Apparel has relaunched its vintage fashion line, California Select.

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American Apparel relaunches California Select fashion line

Actress and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini addressed the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) class of 2010 at commencement ceremonies in Savannah and Atlanta. Rossellini spoke to close to 1,650 graduates at SCAD’s 30th Savannah commencement ceremony and later addressed more than 250 graduates at SCAD Atlanta’s fourth commencement ceremony at the Georgia World Congress Center

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Isabella Rossellini addresses design graduates at SCAD

Once upon a time, there was a dream called interactive television. With interactive television, the thinking went, people could do things with their television they never could before – comment on programming, vote on reality shows, and respond to advertising offers, to name a few. Marketers and advertisers were excited—the possibility a new and recurring revenue stream seemed assured

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Interactive TV: The myth (and new reality)

LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A. announced the winners of its third annual Design the Future Competition, which challenged participants to create a concept for the mobile phone of the future

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Winners announced in Design the Future Competition

When Sex and the City 2 had its world premiere in New York, Benchmark Growers was front-and-center with its floral designs and decorations. Benchmark decorated the premiere’s after party at Lincoln Center with 20,000 of its Pink Intuition roses

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Pink Intuition roses dominate SATC2 after party

One of my favorite things I like to do when I’m online is browse the Internet, and check out other marketing websites.

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5 Useful Website Design Tips For A More Reader-Friendly Site

If you have a brick and mortar store, and rely on walk-in traffic for your survival, you may be wondering what the Internet can do for your business. Believe it or not, a lot – and you don’t even need a website

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“Google’s Local Business Center: A Major Update & A New Name -’Places’”