It’s hard to believe it’s been a year already since I wrote about their last report (Logo design trends for 2007), but LogoLounge has again released their thought-provoking, mid-year report on trends in logo design. The report, written by Bill Gardner and published in the April issue of GD USA magazine, can be viewed in… Read more »
Posts Tagged: design trends
Racial diversity in the design industry
First published a year ago now, but still all too relevant, Terry Lee Stone has written a terrific article for Step Inside Design entitled White Space: Examining racial diversity in the design industry. The article details the disproportionate percentage of white designers in the U.S., relative to the racial breakdown of the entire U.S. labor… Read more »
“Preserving Logos, Preserving History”
For New England sports fans, that great time of the year is approaching where Red Sox’s late-season Major League Baseball action overlaps with the excitement that comes with the beginning of the Patriots’ season in the NFL. So I thought this might be as good a time as any to look back at how the… Read more »
Logo design trends for 2007
What do DNA strands, rubber bands, dots, family crests, and plant life all have in common? They are all among the list of emerging logo design trends, as described in LogoLounge.com’s recently released report authored by Bill Gardner, “The 2007 Report: From Science to Sustainability, Logos Don’t Exist in a Vacuum“. As the internet’s largest… Read more »
Getting past green
As the still-emerging area called “Green Design” builds momentum among graphic designers and other design disciplines, I find myself growing increasingly frustrated. The use of this term, and perhaps even the perceived need to create such a term, implies to me that it is somehow different than good design in general. Good design is not… Read more »
