Category Archives: Design issues

On Tuesday I picked up a copy of The Metro, which was running an article about how logos are ‘dead’. But whats wrong with a good well designed logo?
A logo is broadly defined as a graphic mark or emblem used by organisations to promote and assist public recognition.
Before the modern contemporary logo people were using [...]

As a frequenter of design based blogs I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about HTML 5.
Every few years theres an overhaul of web technologies or someone comes up with ‘the latest thing’ which will apparently exponentially improve our webby lives. So I often come at these things from an overly critical stance. Out [...]

I wanted to come back to an earlier post I made about symbols, icons and how we each interpret them differently.
I’m a big fan of the AIGA website, my only gripe is that because I don’t live in the US I can’t join. Anyway, their site is a great repository of articles about design. It’s [...]

So a few weeks ago I was working on a landing page – for those who don’t know a landing page is used in online marketing. Its the page that you see when you click on a paid for banner ad or link in a search engine.
It allows the marketeer to target a specific market [...]

When I was doing my blog rounds the other day I came across an interesting article about how our eyes perceive colours.
I think the easiest way of describing the theory is that in our minds we see a shape and then the shape has a colour attached to it. So when we look at a [...]

I was going to post something fun about Halloween, however I think I may leave that for a later point. I also realise that I often neglect to post to my own blog for one reason or another so its been some time since theres been anything new.
Part of that is being able to find [...]

With Halloween looming there is much talk about goolish fonts for use during the season. Personally I love halloween and scripted gothic fonts.
So with that in mind I’ve been thinking about fonts and font sites. One of my favorites is da fonts it offers a comprehensive list of fonts often getting new ones in weekly [...]

I’ve been a designer for awhile now but I’ve never designed apparel before, t shirts and designing them have become quite a hot subject of late with sites like threadless allowing user submission and the lucrative potential of gaining money and fame from having your shirt featured.

But since its my first time I’ve been researching [...]

I recently set up a shop on the crafting network Etsy. For the uninitiated Etsy is a network of shops where handmade or recycled goods are sold from sellers all over the world. Its tag is ‘your place to buy and sell things handmade’ and you could imagine it like ebay but for handmade goods [...]

I nominated Ragnarok Radio, the heavy metal podcast I run to be in the North East Digital Awards.
Its getting close to the time when public voting closes and nominations are opened up to the judges. When I initially came to looking at the site I kinda thought there were a lot of categories which could [...]