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Free roofer and roofing contractors logo design samples
This set of free logo design samples for roofing companies and other roof related services or products is an update of several designs that didn’t get picked up. To this day, i still think that they are significantly better than the one which was eventually chosen. Yet, that’s a choice the client will have to live with until their next rebranding. In the meantime, i thought someone might actually make good use of these ideas. They’re mainly targeted at professionals specializing in modern residential [...]
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Tagged colors, contractor, design, free vector graphics, ideas, logo, roofer, roofing, samples
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Free musical instruments twitter backgrounds and vector graphics
Several variations of an almost seamless pattern that can be used as a Twitter background, made from a number of hand drawn musical instruments and notation elements. These include: the piano, pan flute, drum kit, violin, guitar, trumpet, a couple of congas, harp, tambourine, triangle, a clef etc. These are mostly outlines of the actual objects. Although they are vector graphics, they work better at smaller sizes, looking more like cartoons. In one of the archive at the end of this post you’ll find [...]
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Tagged clef, congas, drum kit, free vector graphics, guitar, harp, musical instruments, notation, note, panflute, piano, tamburine, triangle, trumpet, twiiter background pattern, violin
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Feedback, communication and respect during a design contest
One of the most frustrating aspects of participating in online design contests is receiving little or no feedback at all. There’s no point to single out a certain website, because you’ll get to see the same pattern, whichever one you browse. Once you go past certain guidelines, which let’s face it, are mostly empty words published to inflate some corporate egos and project a spit polished aura of false empathy, it boils down to the type of human beings that interact within those online [...]
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Tagged clients, design contests, experience, feedback, red flags, respect, working
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Sets of blue waves and surfing boards with flower patterns
Several groups of shapes in the form of blue and white waves on a soft gradient background. This is somewhat a rework of a previous design, although much of is either changed or added in this version. The original elements are mostly visible in the background. There are four sets of wave shapes that can work either as a group or broken down into individual pieces. There is also a set of three surfing boards vector graphics with hand pointer, leaf and flower drawings. [...]
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Tagged blue waves, flower pattern, free vector graphics, hand pointer, leafs, sets, shapes, surfing boards
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Type Style Finder – search by mood, concept, era or age groups
If i were to sum up this book review in a few words and spare you of several minutes of reading, i would just say “Go buy it, NOW!”. Why? Because, if you’re dealing with type on a regular basis and have to constantly pick up appropriate typefaces for your projects, you probably know just how time consuming this task really is. “Type Style Finder” written by Timothy Samara and published by Rockport Publishers, helps you make the right choices by showcasing over 850 [...]
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Tagged book review, categories, choices, organized, themes, type specimens, type style finder, typeface, typography
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Cuckoo clock with ornate leaf decorations against joker pattern
Large old style brown cuckoo clock with ornate decorations featuring curls, leaf motifs and a couple of abstract figures. The clock has a cream and silver display with long black roman numerals. On either side of the two doors near the top there is a strange looking figure appearing to blow smoke into the air. On the background there is a dimply lit seamless checkerboard pattern with alternating blue and brown joker hats. Again, this is a rework of a previous design with different [...]
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Tagged cuckoo clock, curls, decorations, free vector graphics, hat, joker, leaf, ornate, pattern
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More free logo designs for urban spa and relaxation centers
This is the sequel to a previous post containing a series of logo designs for an urban spa or posh relaxation center. You’ll find more details about the brief of the project if you click here. Basically, it was for a brand new health center where active individuals, mostly corporate go-getters with hectic schedules would spend some of their spare time, relaxing after a stressful day at the job. The main requirement was to keep it simple in order to be easily applied on [...]
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Tagged free logo design, logo, modern, posh, relaxation center, spa, traditional, urban
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Tips on writing a professional brief for your design contest
In the last post on how to maximize the efficiency of your design contests, I’ve wrote about deciding what is the right amount of money for the winning design. Once you’ve gotten over establishing a prize, the next step is to provide a detailed and professional brief. A poorly written or incomplete documentation is a sure way to alienate designers, as they usually perceive it as forebearer of wasted time and confusing tasks. If a significant amount of essential data is missing, you’ll see [...]
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Tagged analyze, brief, design contest, project information, requirements, tips, writing
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Japanese Graphics Now! – Taschen design book review
As i might have mentioned before, i’m not a big fan of modern art, nor am i a supporter of societies driven/ruled by technology. That’s the main reason why i often get a claustrophobic feeling and a general unease whenever i think about Japan or watch photos/videos of that country. From an outsider’s point of view, who’s never been there, it feels like an overly crowded bee hive, where people live and work like small robots, while ever changing futuristic technology is slowly replacing [...]
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Tagged ads, asian, graphic design, japanese graphics, package design, posters, print
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Lamp with shade, retro flip clock and photo frame free vector graphics
A common nightstand lamp with a classic light bulb, next to a gray metallic, retro styled flip clock which shows the time to be 12:45 AM. The clock has a shiny rectangular case with round corners. On the wall behind them, covered with a seamless pattern of fleur-de-lis and medieval cross symbols there is a small oval photo frame. The table lighting source has a soft lampshade with a simple floral repeating pattern and a shiny circular base. It projects some bright light areas [...]
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Tagged flip clock, free vector graphics, lamp, photo frame, retro, seamless patter, shiny, wallpaper
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