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Cultural Connectives: Understanding Arab Culture Through Typography published by Mark Batty Publisher and written by Rana Rjeily looks like such an amazing book in better understanding, and appreciating, Arabic typography.

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I really did resist all weekend, but I just couldn’t resist. I promise this will be my list post about the Windows 8 logo…

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forevermark identity

Not being a diamond type of guy the Forevermark logo design has only just recently come my way, and the first moment I saw it I loved it.

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windows 8 logo design perspective

  Post Update: 19th February 2012 Now that the official statement on the Windows 8 logo published by Pentagram the perspective issue that I pointed out in the post below is now a mute issue. It also appears that the …

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One of my favourite photographs of my two dear friends, Mr Dylan and Miss Charley.

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Making progress with the gradual redesign of my responsive website with the latest round of changes focusing on the display and use of my main logo design portfolio.

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Quite possibly the most outstanding retro-concept mash-up of the Apple iPhone iOS and vintage Macintosh OS circa 1986 which would put these OS Icons around System Software 3.0-3.2.

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Hilariously Ferocious Underwater Dogs by photographer Seth Casteel (Facebook) who captures these canine expressions.

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Some logo design sketches for a previous project. Unable to put a name to this project which means it’s a little difficult to put any of this into context,

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I’m ashamed to say I am quite a fan of the various Derp meme’s so when I saw the Android “Derp” logo from Derper.com I just giggled like a girl

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Quite often we hear how Apple will make a move against some company for possible infringement against it’s numerous and heavily protected trademarks

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Just had to show this lovely vintage style logo design by the talented A. Micah Smith.

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You’ll need to view the larger size so head over to BayerBerg’s Flickr stream to see sizes of Life & Career of Your Average Designer Infographic up to 2620px in width.

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Fascinating look at how some of our beloved cereal brands—mostly references US cereal brands, but many have reached UK shores— have evolved over the last 50 years.

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Something very special going on with the ultra-minimalistic branding for Baxter Atlantic Beach Soap.

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I read in the comments on FinerThingsInMac the new icons for Mac OS X 10.7.3 are very Micky Mouse.


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