Papercut for example, is a simple paper decoration. Though, when it comes to creative ideas they will no longer look simple. Instead, these stunning papercut artwork will leave you with praise. In today’s post, we have selected 45+ amazingly creative papercut artwork for your inspiration. Make sure to check them all and be amazed on how amazing one paper could be.

1. Hedgerow Birds by Helen Musselwhite

2. Gucc Grafik and Film by Julene

3. Bluness by Stealinghearts

4. Main25 by Aoyama Hina

5. Papillon by Aoyama Hina

6. Altop-p by Aoyama Hina

7. Eros & Thanatos by Kako Ueda

8. Reciprocal Pain by Kako Ueda

9. Autobio by Beatrice Coron

10. Dominik by Beatrice Coron

11. Webtime by Beatrice Coron

12. Welcome by Ufocinque

13. Dark Night by Carolg2007

14. Tree by Carolg2007

15. Rimane by Ufocinque

16. Vernissage by Analu Prestes

17. Tree House by Elsa Mora

18. Por Dentro by Elsa Mora

19. Brain by Elsa Mora

20. Française by Kris Trappeniers

21. Mesmerized by Kris Trappeniers

22. Atomic Jellyfish by Bovey Lee

23. Telaraña by Irene Tobón

24. Papercut Spread by Naomi

25. Tarjeta Jimena y Marcelo by Chiquita Boo

26. Blonda by Chiquita Boo

27. Tsunami Oblivious by Bovey Lee

28. Papercut for “The Scene” by Himmapaan

29. Asphyxiation by Lorraine Nam

30. Gender Role by Lorraine Nam

31. Paper cut out map

32. Anna by V_A_A

33. P1 Fragment by V_A_A

34. Follow Your Dreams by Julene

35. Girl & Storks by Iris-b2007

36. Papercut by LI

37. Wip by Ruth Mergi

38. Etsy Papercutting  Art Works

39. Etsy Papercutting  Art Works

40. Papercut by Jam Wu

41. Papercut by Jam Wu

42. Now I Got Worry (StressMonkey) by Patrick Gannon

43. Your Touch, It Does Something To Me by Patrick Gannon

44. Laura by Disaster.Strikes

45. Xinagraf by Christina Graf

46. Rob Ryan – Valentines 2008 by Velda

47. Ceca Sustentável by Uriá Fassina

Make Your Own Papercut

Aren’t they all amazing? It is actually not so difficult to create a papercut artwork, though you will need to be patient and practice on cutting the desired shapes. If you’re really interested on how to create one, check out this tutorial: How To: DIY Papercuts by Skinny Laminx. Don’t forget to tell us which is your favorite piece or if you’re a papercut artist, feel free to show your artwork to us.

Target Your Audience

*Image by Michael S. Schwarzer

Before you start creating the logo guidelines, first you will need to understand who will be using the guidelines are they your client or will they be the employer of your client, what will they achieve from using them, how and/or where they can access the guidelines (this can either be a digital file like PDF or a printed logo guidelines book), and the last one is that why the logo guidelines it self being produced.

Gather The Essential Information

*Image by Metropol 21

Once you set up the target or knowing the reason why the guidelines is needed, you can start gathering the essential information to help your target see the concept through the logo you designed. You have to keep in mind that the following logo guidelines is made to help communicate your idea or concept to your brand’s audience.

Designing The Logo Guidelines

*Image by Industrial Scientific

In designing the logo guidelines, it’s best to match the look and feel of the brand itself and apply it on the guidelines. However, sometimes it is also best to keep it look simple and neat.

While designing on the logo guidelines book or paper sheet, there are few things that you should consider to do to achieve a better understanding for your audience, such as:

• Create section dividers between one subject to the other. For example, you will have the introduction first before the color palette section. You should separate these two sections using lines, rectangle blocks, or even start on new page for each different section.
• Write a comprehensible introduction or overview page to describe why the guidelines have been produced and how adhering to them will strengthen their brand.
• Remember that this is the guideline, therefore try to engage the user. Keep the explanation short and simple to understand.
• Be aware of the typographic hierarchy. Always differentiate the headline/headings with the introduction copy, body copy, or other typography content.
• Provide your logo guidelines target with examples of how the logo should, i.e the minimum size of the logo for print or for the website favicon.
• Always advice them about the mishandle logo, you could also explain it by including “the Do’s and the Don’t's” or “What To Avoid” section accompanied by the samples of common errors.

Distributing The Logo Guidelines

When distributing the logo guidelines, you can either create an interactive PDF or have it printed. This depends on whichever your client or target require them. However, you should always maintain the master file in Adobe Illustrator as it is easier to keep the print quality by using vector based program rather than Adobe Photoshop. As for distributing digitally,create these in the Master InDesign File and not within Acrobat, to save having to repeat the process with each revision.

Free Download

We have created a simple Logo Guidelines that you can download for free as a template to provide your client with the essential information.What other information do you put inside the logo guidelines? Let us know your thoughts on the comment below.

More resources related to logo design and guidelines:

• Brilliant Tips and Guidelines for Professional Logo Design
• Logo identity guideline template for download
• Identity Designed

Today, to find such informational and informative resources for logo is as easy as you snap your fingers. However, if you know which sites to go to, it will save more of your time rather than searching for them one by one on Google. Therefore, we have provided you with 23 of best sites for you to look for logo creation ideas.

Logo Galleries Websites

On sites below, you will find various and hundreds of different logos around the globe. They can be viewed by top ratings logos, recent logos, or featured logos.

1. Logo Of The Day

2. LogoPond

3. Logoed

4. Logo Faves

5. Creattica Logos

6. Logo Moose

7. Logo Fury

8. The Logo Mix.com

9. Logo Galleria

10. TypeBased

11. Logo Spire

12. Logo Heroes

13. Logo Gallery.net

14. Logo Gala

15. LogoHolic | DeviantArt Group

16. Logo Club | DeviantArt Group

17. Youthedesigner.com | 25 Amazing Logo Collections

Informative Logo Websites

Sometimes, looking at the logo galleries is not enough. On the this list, you will find detailed information related to logo designs. Ranging from logo design trends, tips on creating logos, to the free resources.

18. Logo Lounge

19. Brand New

20. LogoDesign.org

21. Logo Design Love

22. Freelance Logo.com Blog

23. Logo Templater.com

More Logo Creation Resources

So, which website do you usually explore to get logo inspirations? Let us know your thoughts as well about the logo website lists above. If you think we miss your favorite logo website in this post, share it with us on the comment section.

Although the year of 2010 will be over in 3 more months, the revolutions in web design this year have led designers to achieve extra ordinaries web designs, while continuing to set the unlimited parameters of it. Below are the 13 main points of web design trends of 2010 which we think will keep to continue, and some more inspirations to help you set new ideas for your upcoming web design projects or perhaps redesign your own website/blog. Be creative, unleashed your concept.

1. Huge headline and images

You have probably realized that many websites today are using huge headlines and/or images. By doing this, designers are focusing the big headline and images to grab users attention and invite them in. It creates a great visual impact which will help your visitor to remember your website. Furthermore, you can use these on your web designs to communicate the site’s tone or  to create an immerse experience to the visitors.

2. Customized typography

Typography in web designs today has expanding from a boring standard fonts to beautiful customized fonts. By using Typekit (it’s a subscription-based service for linking to high-quality Open Type fonts from some of the worlds best type foundries), you can easily use real fonts on the web. Say good-bye to the standard fonts and pick a beautiful readable fonts to convey the purpose of an e-commerce website or portfolio.

3. Print design influence

Serif fonts, more graphics, grid systems, and more of other print design aspect have become the inspiration that influenced web design in this year. The point of getting influence from print design is that it has had to be high impact to grab attention and communicate clearly.

4. CSS3 & HTML5 capabilities

With CSS3 & HTML 5, web designers can take new advantages to help them load the web faster and create a better navigation. On CSS3, designers will no longer need to use images to create the effects. In fact, it will never be easier to create rounded corners, borders backgrounds, text and box shadows, and opacity property.  While HTML5 will intro­duce more seman­tic tags like “header”, “footer” and “nav” as well as the much antic­i­pated canvas ele­ment.

5. More visual effects

Pay attention on the background of most web designs these days. Designers are gradually replaced the backgrounds with patterns or subtle and textured background. Not only because it looks nicer and more modern web 3.0 feel, but it also creates a certain visual effects for the website tone and feel as might be expected on the design concept.

6. Mobile compatible design

Mobile generations in has started since the release of smart phones a few years back. This year, more and more smart phones with CSS and JavaScript supported has created the new trend for web design and directing many websites each day to go mobile as well.

7. Single page layout

Say that you don’t have much information to give out to your visitor but still need a website a short info about you and your company’s services, and having several pages is just a waste. With single page layout, designers can avoid creating the unnecessary pages and focus on the single layout which will be more effective both for the visitors and the user or designer.

8. Minimalist & creative

As a replacement for busy and complex web designs in the past years, huge white space in web designs has creating a simple and minimalist concept in this year. It’s clean, engaging, memorable, and yet creative.

9. Multi column / grid system

Although grid system is not something new anymore, designers are taking more advantages from this system, creating multi column web design layouts to make it easier to use. This also allows them to fit in more content as it will help you to save more spaces on the layout.

10. Custom illustrations & clean icons

More and more companies realized how essential it is to grab their customer’s attention. Not only they have the web designed with certain ideas to fit the company’s concept, but in recent years many companies are gradually changing the lead images from photo images to custom illustrations and icons. These unique customized illustrations and icons are obviously what the customers will capture and remember.

11. Social media is a must

There are just no end with social media. At least everyone has Facebook account. It’s another way to interact to your visitor, so put up your social media links on your footer, sidebar or wherever you think fit on your website design. As many of them prefer to connect with you through the website they check on daily.

12. Introduction

A website is the new way to get to know a person in this internet era. Having an introduction boxes or headline is now the trend in web design. With average 30 seconds time for your visitor to look over your website, this introduction is the best way to let them know a bit about who you are and what you or your company (can) do.

13. Modal boxes / Light boxes

They called it the new generation of pop-up windows. Modal boxes or also known as light boxes, is an alternative to present pictures, text, or videos. It’s clean, crisp, focuses the user on the information which are being presenting, and more user-friendly than pop-up windows.

So, which points above have you applied on your designs? Or do you think we miss other point of the upcoming and on going web design trends for this year? Let us know your thoughts on the comments.

In this article, we have selected 75+ various design quotes. Some you will recognize coming from the great artist like Pablo Picasso. Others are inspiring quotes created by designers across the world based on their mindset.

Picasso Type – Quote by Picasso

Design’s fundamental role is problem solver.

- Fast Company, 2005

Design is in everything we make, but it’s also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.

- Erik Adigard

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

- Steve Jobs, 2003

Pablo Picasso

If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.

- Red Adair

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

- Thomas Edison

…designers can make life more bearable by producing stuff that touches its audience rather than fucks them in the head.

- Jon Wozencraft

Dead Serious

Good design is good business.

- Thomas J. Watson Jr.

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

- Victor Papanek

A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it.

- Brenda Laurel

Creativity

You are what you are seen to be.

- Erik Spiekermann

To say that something is designed means it has intentions that go beyond its function. Otherwise it’s just planning.

- Ayse Birsel

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Sweet In The Sour

Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form.

- David Lewis

Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

- Orson Welles

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

- Pablo Picasso

Excellence – Aristotle

Design is as much a matter of finding problems as it is solving them.

- Bryan Lawson

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.

- Judy Garland

The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

- Tom Waits

Person You Are

Good art inspires; Good design motivates.

- Otl Aicher

Color is a creative element, not a trimming.

- Piet Zwart

Sometimes you can draw more inspiration from the people who don’t believe in you, then from the ones who do.

- William Childs

You Learn Something New Everyday

Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions.

- William Allin

Design is where science and art break even.

- Robin Mathew

I’m convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.

- Carrie Philips

Typography

The definition of an expert is someone who knows what not to do.

- Charles Willson

Practice safe design: Use a concept.

- Petrula Vrontikis

Just because something looks good doesn’t mean it’s useful. And just because something is useful does not make it beautiful.

- Joshua Brewer

Never Tell Me

Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.

- Mieke Gerritzen

When you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier.

- Jared M. Spool

If you’re more susceptible to interruption, you do more out of the box thinking.

- Don Norman

Life Is…

By far the dominant reason for not releasing sooner was a reluctance to trade the dream of success for the reality of feedback.

- Kent Beck

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt… or in front of a piece of graphic design.

- Stefan Sagmeister

I don’t think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.

- Johanna Drucker

The Only Thing Worse

Design is the contrast of the core of limitations therefore there are no boundaries. It is simply an interpretation of creativity.

- Jenaiha Woods

Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

- Jeffrey Zeldman

Simplicity does not mean want or poverty. It does not mean the absence of any decor, or absolute nudity. It only means that the decor should belong intimately to the design proper, and that anything foreign to it should be taken away.

- Paul Jacques Grillo

Fight With Tools

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work & an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

- Frank Llyod Wright

Design is creativity with strategy.

- Rob Curedale

There ain’t no rules around here. We’re trying to accomplish something.

- Thomas Edison

BeAmazing

Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.

- Tate Linden

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

- Emil Ruder

Wisdom is to knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

- David Starr

Compassion Will Cure…

Designers have a dual duty; contractually to their clients and morally to the later users and recipients of their work.

- Hans Hger

Imitation may be the “sincerest form of plagiarism,” but it is also the mark of an inferior person.

- David Ogilvy

Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.

- Paul Klee

Rising Sun

Some designers create things to show you what they did. I design things to tell you what I solved.

-  Brian Yerkes

The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge.

- John Gruber

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

- Leonardo da Vinci

Quotation 6

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word: excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

- Pearl S. Buck

Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

- Chris Bangle

The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.

- Neil Gaiman

Mr.Mandela Said…

Designing a product is designing a relationship.

- Steve Rogers

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

- Milton Glaser

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

- Pablo Picasso

Reminders

I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.

- Ralph Lauren

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

- Charles Eames

Worth Having

We hope you can be inspired and motivated by the quotes in this post. Join and tell us which is your favorite one or if you have your own quotes, feel free to write it down on the comments. In the meantime here’s mine.

You can’t reach the top before you start climbing from the bottom

- Ari Suardiyanti

Some web designs use solid or gradient colors as their background, others use illustration to make it look attractive. As for textures, you can add it as the background of a web design, create a certain effect on the text, or even add it to the buttons or other web graphic elements. In this post, we will show you 5 types of texture in web design for your inspiration.

Vintage

Retro/Vintage look is timeless. It may look old, but somehow this texture always get our attention and appreciation. Most web designers will use this type of texture to create the warm feel, others use it for travel and tour sites with Polaroid as the images frames.

Ernest Hemingway Collection

Dog House Cards

Vintage Web

The Big Chandelier Web

Corvus Art

The Foggy Google

The Cowboy Star

North Point Springfield

Team Fannypack

fivecentstand.com

Grunge

To avoid the “Web 2.0″ style, web designers use grunge texture to gives their design a less uniform, less structured, more organic look and feel. It doesn’t necessarily stand for dirty, though it’s easily recognized by the gritty texture, uneven/torn edges, worn, faded and aged graphic elements. This texture is best to use on any extreme sport, rock band, or any web design whose target is young people.

The Third Floor

Jazz Sequence

Renovatus

Target Productions

Snickers Online Campaign

Cogitatur

Generation Church

Soma Communities

Sourcebit

Syc Fuk Fashion

Elegant

If you’re planning to create an elegant look for a web design, using a texture can be an alternative to make it more appealing. Though, you have to be selective in choosing the texture. Subtle textures work best for this type of look, although sometimes you can also use leather, wood, or even fabric texture.

Marcus James Wine

Abundant Life Christian Center

Outline to Design

Merten Snijders, Mhq Interactive 2007

Sarahlongnecker.com

Pizza Venetia

Moore Family Heritage Project

Café Rouge

East Point

Traffik

Doodle

Doodle look is another alternative for your web design. Most graphic designer and illustrator will prefer to use this look in order to blend their portfolio into the web design. Although sometimes it creates the childish look, but for the creatives like illustrator it’s smart and unique.

So Interactive

Instand Ad Legend

Allen Design Group

Yok Boyle Bir Yer

Ceynur

Odosketch

Dawghouse Design Studio

Legwork Studio

10 Words

Suiepaparude

Miscellaneous

In some case, one type of look may not be enough. There are no limit in web design. So be creative, mix several types of look by using textures for the design.

Grunge Retro

Tvrdek

NarStuff

Jay Hafling

El Original Movimiento

Allen Solly

Andrew Brown

Bar Alternativo

Love of Jesus Family Church

Reskinned Blog

Conclusion

Whatever the type of texture you choose to use on your web design project, make sure it delivers the right look and feel based on your design concept. Let us know what type of texture do you use the most for your web design project or any thoughts about the topic in our comment section.

Among thousands of logos out there, some of them may look cheesy and cheap, and some visually give us confident. In order to grab our attention and get our trust, many companies even consider to re-brand/redesign their logo. As might be expected, the company will have to take the risk and be prepared of the pros and cons of this act. They should have really consider the reasons behind the redesign of their brand.

Below is a list, in no particular order of what I think to be famous and successful logo redesign from their old logo to the latest with explanations of what has been improved.

1. Toys R Us

Toys R Us has been the second largest overall toy retailer in the United States with many branch chain which located in Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa, and Canada.

Old Logo History:

The yellow reverse “R” in quotation marks, which is similar to the Cyrillic letter Я, (ISO 9: Я), imitates a small child’s backward writing of “R”, which is short for “are”. The “R” is the most distinctive part of the retailer’s colorful kid-friendly logo. The current, modernized Toys “R” Us logo was introduced in 1969 as the first logo, then a blue star was added to the logo in late-1998/early-1999 during the Toys “R” Us “Concept 2000″ era.

New Logo – What has been improved:

On September 24, 2007 the logo was redesigned with alternating sized characters and a star in the middle of the reverse R. The letter R was changed from yellow to blue. In this new logo, the company achieve a better shape for the font character, leaving the “classic” feel behind and gives a bright and fun feel to it.

2. UPS

UPS, short for United Parcel Service, Inc. is the world’s largest package delivery company. Headquartered in Sandy Springs, Georgia, United States. UPS is well known for its brown trucks, internally known as package cars (hence the company nickname “The Big Brown Machine”).

Old Logo History:

The iconic package and shield originally designed in 1961 by Paul Rand. It became their original logo and first saw use in 1916 when the company was American Messenger Company. In 1935, the logo was redesigned to reflect the company’s new name United Parcel Service.

New Logo – What has been improved:

UPS decided to re-brand themselves in 2003, the new logo was designed by New York-based FutureBrand and it represents a strategic decision to emphasize UPS’s expanded business operations. All four designs for the logo shared the shield theme, but the new design clearly feels much more modern and and clean. Although the logo obviously doesn’t direct us to the shipping company, it gives the safe feel with the shield on the logo, knowing that our package will be protected.

3. Skittles

Skittles is a brand of fruit-flavored candies which were first made commercially in 1974 by a British company.

Old Logo History:

Candy brands are some of the most enduring brands in the market. Skittles have the excellent & long standing tag line ‘Taste the Rainbow”, with this tag line the company only focus on the rainbow color for additional effect behind their “Skittles” text which in this case become their logo.

New Logo – What has been improved:

Miles Newlyn admitted that concept & design for the new Skittles logo is not his but that of Dragon Rouge. Nevertheless, The colorful ‘tongue’ he retouched has been blogged around the internet. This multi-colored tongue concept is a literal though stylized translation of the brand’s slogan, “Taste the rainbow.”

4. MTV

Easily recognized since it’s first launched on August 1, 1981 is an American cable television network based in New York City. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs. Today, MTV doesn’t play music videos, and primarily broadcasts a variety of popular culture and reality television shows targeted at adolescents and young adults.

Old Logo History:

Throughout MTV’s early days, the channel’s main logo was a large yellow “M” with red letters “TV,” but unlike most networks’ logos, the MTV logo constantly morphed and adapted with different colors, patterns, and images filling in the large block letter. The very first moments of MTV after the “moon landing,” as well as the top of every hour until at least the mid-1980s, featured a rapidly changing station ID logo that changed its appearance several times per second. The only constant aspects of MTV’s logo at the time were its general shape and proportions; everything else was dynamic.

New Logo – What has been improved:

MTV’s logo has been instantly recognizable for the last three decades. Up to this point, MTV revised their original 1981 logo by excluding the “Music Television” caption under the big “M” letter, and the trailing letter “V” that branched off to the side of the original logo. Their long-running tag line “Music Television” at this time has been officially dropped since they are not primarily broadcast music videos anymore.

5. Delta Air Lines

As it emerged from bankruptcy, Delta Air Lines wanted to signal to both customers and employees that the airline was “coming back new and better”. In preparation for the momentous occasion, Delta engaged Lippincott to reposition the airline with a revitalized image and redesigned customer experience that would force reconsideration of the airline.

Old Logo History:

Delta’s identity has been short-lived for the last decade or so. Throughout its history with a whopping 19 logos in 78 years — with two major identity changes. See Delta Logo Timeline.

New Logo – What has been improved:

Some people think of Delta’s redesigned logo is more to a realign than a redesign. In spite of that,  Delta’s new logo now looks sharp. The colors in are more subdued and the choice of a all caps sans serif typeface gives the modern look and feel as well. This 3-dimensional red widget logo successfully reflects Delta’s transformation into a highly-differentiated, customer-focused airline.

6. Starbucks

With the largest coffeehouse company in the world, we can hardly ignore this green logo from Starbucks.

Old Logo History:

The original Starbucks logo sported a wood cut type illustration of a siren from Greek mythology. The logo has been significantly streamlined over the years. In the first version, which was based on a 17th-century the Starbucks siren was topless and had a fully visible double fish tail. In the second version, which was used from 1987 – 1992, her breasts were covered by her flowing hair, but her navel was still visible, and the fish tail was cropped slightly.

New Logo – What has been improved:

Starbucks’ current logo is used since 1992, her navel and breasts are not visible at all, and only vestiges remain of the fish tails. Today the current incarnation of the logo is much more streamlined and and memorable. It is a significant and unique logo for coffeehouse furthermore giving the impression of ‘one of a kind’.

7. Sprint

Sprint is a global Internet carrier and makes up a portion of the Internet backbone. In the United States, the company is the third largest long distance provider and also owns a majority of Clearwire, which operates the largest wireless broadband network.

Old Logo History:

The original Sprint logo was used from 1989 to 2005 with 4th variant used from 1995–2005.

New Logo – What has been improved:

When Sprint merged with Nextel a few years back they underwent massive re-branding campaign. Nextel’s attention getting black and yellow color scheme was merged with The Sprint name. The new symbol is based on sprints signature ‘pin drop’. The switch to a nice sans serif typeface also does wonders for making the logo look modern. This logo really shines when the symbol is set in motion.

8. KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken)

Old Logo History:

By the late 1990s, the stylized likeness of Colonel Sanders as the KFC logo had been modified and only used until November 2006.

New Logo – What has been improved:

With the colonel putting on his apron to replace his suit coat, this new KFC logo giving us the friendly and inviting feel. The new angled backdrop to the logo also adds a nice dynamic feel and implies quickness.

9. CBS Broadcasting Inc.

CBS Broadcasting Inc. (CBS) is a major American television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network’s former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the “Eye Network” in reference to the shape of the company’s logo.

Old Logo History:

CBS unveiled its Eye Device logo on October 17, 1951. Before that, from the 1940s through 1951, CBS Television used an oval spotlight on the block letters C-B-S.[16] The Eye device was conceived by William Golden based on aPennsylvania Dutch hex sign as well as a Shaker drawing and made its broadcasting debut on October 20, 1951. Since then the company insisted on keeping the Eye device and using it as much as possible.

New Logo – What has been improved:

Today the logo which is alternately known as theEyemark, has been slightly changed on the typography to get the modern and futuristic feel, keeping their classic long lasting Eye device logo (vaguely bigger) in the front of “CBS” characters.

10. Apple Inc.

Old Logo History:

Apple’s first logo, designed by Jobs and Wayne, depicts Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. Almost immediately, though, this was replaced by Rob Janoff’s “rainbow Apple”, the now-familiar rainbow-colored silhouette of an apple with a bite taken out of it. Janoff presented Jobs with several different monochromatic themes for the “bitten” logo. In 1998, with the roll-out of the new iMac, Apple discontinued the rainbow theme and began to use monochromatic themes, nearly identical in shape to its previous rainbow incarnation.

New Logo – What has been improved:

Entering the digital era, in 2007 Apple started to redesign their apple logo to give their customer a simple, minimal, yet modern look with the touch of chrome shade.

11. FedEx

Old Logo History:

The original Federal Express logo was designed by Richard Runyan in 1973.

New Logo – What has been improved:

The Fed is always purple and the Ex is in a different color for each division and grey for the overall corporation use. The original “FedEx” logo had the Ex in orange; it is now used as the FedEx Express wordmark. The FedEx wordmark is notable for containing a hidden right-pointing arrow in the negative space between the “E” and the “X”, which was achieved by designing a proprietary font, based on Univers and Futura, to emphasize the arrow shape. Other than giving the new and modern look, this new logo with the hidden arrow was a genius idea behind their new logo,  made it looks like it’s presenting the moving forward company as well.

12. City of Melbourne

The City of Melbourne is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia, located in the central city area of Melbourne.

Old Logo History:

City of Melbourne first logo M and leaf symbol was introduced in the early 1990s.

New Logo – What has been improved:

The new logo received many critiques for the cost of the big “M” research and design. Despite that, this dimensional colored “M” is different compared to the other city logos on earth. Unique and sophisticated.

13. Discovery Channel

Old Logo History:

The Discovery Channel’s very first logo was a television screen picturing a map of the World. In the mid-90s, the word “The” was dropped from the channel’s name. A globe became a permanent part of the logo and a strap was added to the bottom of the logo.

New Logo – What has been improved:

Discovery Channel started using a new logo on 2008. With new graphics and the new tagline “The World is Just Awesome”. The new logo has been designed by Viewpoint Creative in Boston and replaced Aurora Bold Condensed with Gotham. The globe has been merged with the “D” in “Discovery”. Their new logo now looks more simplified and less crowded.

14. MailChimp

MailChimp is a free and paid email marketing service started in the 2001.

Old Logo History:

Their first logo was the iconic monkey head used in the year of 2001 until 2005. In 2006, they decided to change the monkey-icon logo with using only typography “MailChimp”.

New Logo – What has been improved:

Since 2008, MailChimp with their third generation logo has become one of the best email marketing services. The new monkey logo gives us a warm, friendly feel and overall pleasant.

15. Target

Target Corporation, usually known simply as Target, is an American retailing company that was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1902 as the Dayton Dry Goods Company.

Old Logo History:

In 1968, Target changed its bullseye logo to a more modern look. Target script used from 1980 until 2004. Changes from the original logo are that its brandmark is a single red ring with a red dot in the middle, and its wordmark uses the Helvetica font.

New Logo – What has been improved:

Target’s latest logo are in red block letters using Helvetica font that the word “Target” uses in favor of a more streamlined red “Target Brand” look.  Over the survey, ninety-seven percent of American consumers recognize the Target Bullseye logo. Perhaps their logo redesign isn’t essential, but by making their Bullseye bigger that the “TARGET” characters, it obviously focusing more on their recognizable brand.

What are your thoughts about these logo redesigns? Feel free to share them with us.

Learning typography seems to be easy at a glance, in order to achieve a great impact from typography for graphic and web designs isn’t so easy. Many designers found it as a complicated design aspects to practice. Below are the 25+ sites and resources we have selected to help you understanding typography basics in print or web designs, choosing the right fonts for your project, and guide you to create a good typography which aesthetically pleasing.

1. Learning About Type

There are quite a few terms thrown around with regards to typography. Hopefully this article will help you understand more about the world of typography. If this is your first true introduction to typography you probably underestimate the effect it has on the world.

2. Five Simple Steps to Better Typography

This is a series articles, each part explains deep knowledge of typography and help you to understand it more. The kind of typography in these articles is not your typ ical “What font should I use” typography but rather your “knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash” typography.

3. Type Is Sexy

This is more like an online book, but presented in interactive way. You will find basic understanding of typography from this site, from Anatomy 101 to The Rules of Good Typography.

4. Know Your Type – Starting Points For Typographic Inspiration

Not every typeface is the right choice for every job, this articles will help and guide you to understand and picking the right choice for different type of job or concept theme.

5. The Type Studio / The Written Word

This page offers links to a number of articles on typography, including PDF versions of archived. These cover individual typography topics in detail, for both online and offline applications (including pull-quotes, visual alignment, bullets, and emphasis, among more than 30 others).

6. Typographic Marks Unknown

There are many typographic marks which are familiar to most, but understood by few. Most of these glyphs have interesting histories and evolutions as they survived the beatings given to them through rushed handwriting of scribes and misuses through history. They now mostly live on our keyboards and in our software, and a few are used often, so it seems only fitting to know where they come from and how to correctly use them.

7. Periodic Table Of Typefaces

A reference table for most popular typefaces and their classifications.

8. Typedia

Typedia is a resource to classify, categorize, and connect typefaces. It is a community website to classify typefaces and educate people about them, very much like a mix between IMDb and Wikipedia, but just for type. Anyone can join, add, and edit pages for typefaces or for the people behind the type.

9. Typographic Design Patterns and Best Practices

This article from Smashing Magazine gives you a broad knowledge of popular typefaces used in web design, also included with some case studies and inspirations.

10. The Right Font for the Job

In this article you will find four main ways fonts can differ, even if most of their letters look the same. Save, bookmark, or print this newsletter and ask yourself these questions the next time you’re choosing type.

11. How to Choose A Font

Have you ever had the problem of not knowing what typeface to use? Well of course you have, everyone has. This is a guide on how to choose a font.

12. 11 Essential Tips for Good Print Typography

You can’t just throw text on a page, it has to be laid out and organized in a clean way that adds to the information being presented. This article will give you  11 typography tips to help you convey information in print the right way.

13. A 20 Minute Intro to Typography Basics

This is an introduction for you who are still new in the design field. Its aim here is to introduce some of the basics and the most common areas of typography that will be important in your design work.

14. Fundamentals: Combining Type With Helvetica

In this article the Indra (the author) shares her favorite Helvetica companions with the following guidelines in mind: “Focusing on contrast makes combining fonts easier. Better not pair Helvetica (or other Neo-Grotesques) with another sans serif (like a Humanist Sans). Instead, choose a serif or a slab. Transitional and Modern (bracketed)serifs work quite well with Helvetica. So do most Garaldes like Garamond — it all depends on what kind of atmosphere you’re aiming for. Browse the list of ideas below, or look for faces with broad proportions, a large x-height, or similar characteristics, like an uppercase ‘R’ with a vertical tail.”

15. Four Techniques for Combining Fonts

This article gives you four tips for navigating the typographic ocean, all built around H&FJ’s Highly Scientific First Principle of Combining Fonts: keep one thing consistent, and let one thing vary.

16. How Do I Choose Paring Fonts?

This is an open typography forum regarding paring fonts. Get the suggestion or advice from the designers who have been professionally experienced in typography in this forum.

17. Beginners Guide to OpenTtype

OpenType (OT) is a cross-platform type format that includes expert layout features to pro­vide richer linguistic support and advanced typo graphic control. This beginners guide will help to illustrate some of the more common features found in OT fonts and when they should be used.

18. Making Geometric Type Work

For graphic designers beginning to experiment in type design, a geometric or modular typeface is a natural starting point. Illustrator and other programs offer a simple collection of elements such as circles, squares, and triangles which can be combined to create a passable alphabet. This is not an argument against all geometric or modular typefaces, but simply some guidance on how to make them more readable, work effectively and be visually consistent.

19. Font or Typeface?

An article which discusses both font and typeface because these terms evolved over a considerable period of time and saw several transitions in technology, they can sometimes be interpreted in varying ways. This resulted in a terminology that is often perceived as at best esoteric, at worst plain confusing.

20. On Web Typography

A List Apart gives you more knowledge for typography on websites, explore choosing and pairing fonts on the web, particularly in relation to the expanded options @font-face provides from this article.

21. Choosing Type Alignment For The Web

This is another article that will help you understand type alignment for the web. It explains each on Justified, Right-Aligned, and Left-Aligned and giving the reason of which is best to use on the web depends on your need.

22. Principles For Readable Web Typography

There are many factors that play into the readability of text. There are also a number of terms, all very important. This article explains a few of the more common Web typography terms and an explanation of how each term affects readability.

23. Setting Type on the Web to A Baseline Grid

And how about setting type to a baseline grid? Learn more and practice it after you read this article, it will guide you with the easy to follow examples and codes.

24. Clagnut’s Typography

Clagnut’s typography category archive is filled with great information on typography spanning the past eight years or so. Articles talking about theory, news, and technique are all included.

25. Type-Inspired Interfaces

Picking the right typeface gets you farther than you might think. Here are a few tips on taking cues from type to design interfaces and interface elements.

26. Inside The 3D Typography

This article will guide you to understand how to develop digital work in 3d typography, also included with 3D typography book and 3D typography inspirations.

27. Typography Books To Help You Learn Typography

The article gives you 15 typography books (with links to purchase) which are personally recommend by the writer to helped you learn, understand, appreciate and absolutely love typography and type layout.

28. Findings

Typography samples and inspiration.

Did you find that your favorite typography-related article is not on the list? Let us know in the comment section.

In this post, not only are we giving you samples of website footers for your inspiration, but also guiding you 5 important steps to remember whenever you are designing the footer.

1. Decide On Repeated Content

Be very selective in choosing the content you want to place in the footer. It depends on your need, what your website is about, or what content you want people to re-read in your footer. If you have a blog website, magazine type of website or similar it could be your recent posts, featured posts (in lines with no image thumbnail), recent comments, or social media links. For artists, designers or companies it could be their services, portfolios (in small thumbnails), testimonials, contact form or recent tweets.

2. Add Logo(s) If Necessary

People nowadays are really concerned about feeling safe and secure when they visit websites and want to make sure that they are browsing the right sites. For e-commerce websites, it will be a great idea to place some logos such as Verified Merchant, Verisign Secure, McAfee Secure, or others. And if you have partnership, sponsors or even awards recognition, why not placing their logos on your footer as well? This will help you get respect from your website visitors.

3. Add The Interesting Point(s)

Say good bye to the old boring website footer. You have done a great job with the header and content (body) of your web design, now it’s time to spice up the footer. A few interesting things you could add can be icons, illustrations or just about anything fun. Though, remember to match them with the website layout or the website concept and try not to add many icons.

4. Space Things Out

Now that you have everything you need for the website footer, let’s add some space between the sections. Although it might not have as much content as you have in the body content, it is always better to have them spread out rather than looking so packed in.

5. Do Not Forget Your Copyright Line

Don’t let all the content in the footer fool you. It doesn’t matter how much stuff you put as content or how many logos/portfolios you have on your website footer, you still have to put your copyright line somewhere. Be creative, it doesn’t have to be at the bottom all the time.

Now let’s take a look at some other website footer designs for your inspiration.

1. Komrade

2. Adobe User Group Nederland

3. Louden Tax & Bookeeping

4. Quoterobot

5. DJ Eric

6. Bring It To Fruition

7. Forrst

8. LogicBombMedia

9. Swiths

10. Cog’Aoke

11. Pieoneers

12. Logo Designs Studio

13. Real Deal Promotions

14. Make Your Mark

15. Randoman

16. Go My Pages

17. Ready Made Designs

18. Agencia de Publicidade

19. Pixlogic

20. MV Designs

]]> http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/inspiration/website-footer-tips/feed/ 19 http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/inspiration/warm-cool-color-website-designs/ http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/inspiration/warm-cool-color-website-designs/#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:00:26 +0000 Ari Suardiyanti http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/?p=17182 A website resembles the identity of a company, a certain community, or even a person. Thousands of websites live out there on the internet these days, and their number increase every single second. Many of us realize how important a website can be, therefore the design for every website has to be unique, and more importantly has to have the right feel to it.

As a designer, we know how to play around with illustrations, typeface, and colors. I’m not going to get in too deep with illustrations or typeface, in this post but color. Some people classify websites from dark to bright website designs. Others classify them into minimalist and content heavy designs. But now let’s see website designs in the new perspective, in warm and cool colors.

Warm Color Website Designs

Hues from red through yellow, browns and tans are categorized as warm color. Other than keeping the same color of an identity on the website scheme, this warm color gives a few associations like energy, cheerful, fun, fresh, active, playful and happiness. This color scheme fits very well on sport related website, a website with kids or the youth as their audience, alcohol drinks website, or other website which wants to welcome their readers with warm feelings.

1. Some Web by Fedrick

2. Zuzanka Kindergarten by Neilan

3. Yabazz Website by Ee Venn Soh

4.Airport Taxi

5. Termobravo by Pawel Linard

6. Canvas Card Website by Ryan Barlin

7. A RemStroy by IndieStudio

8. Balparmak by Gdnz

9. Fanta by Diogo Parrinha

10. Canderel by Cenk Yilmaz

11. Telecine by Letícia Motta

12. Johnnie Wallker Red Label by Sasha Nilov

13. Imago by JK89

14. Fat Duo Brasil by Baia Studio

15. Bubbaloo Tuboo Connect by Carolina Janovik

16. Kizlar Cognac

17. Vigonne Producoes – Site (2008) by Diogo Montes

Cool Color Website Designs

The cool color are hues from blue green through blue violet, and most grays. The feel of which you will achieve by using this color are relaxing, calm, and focus. Though in certain cases like blue and green could also give you the fresh feel as it is associated with water, sky, and the green grass. In most cases, companies often use this color scheme and applied it on their website design, others applied it to create calm atmosphere for their visitor.

18. WordPress – IcePress Theme by Detrans

19. Sense-design ver 1 by Webdesigner1921

20. Eye for Art by ECP-Pro

21. Personal Portfolio 2.0 by Jonaska

22. Yakovae by Osec

23. EPSON: Exceed Your Vision by Warbiee

24. Ave by MehrD64

25. 2NdFriend

26. Skype

27. Pocari Sweat by Foxstep

28. Twitter Alerts

29. Sanimix by Marcel Pirosca

30. C&C by Igor Barazzetti

31. Carlsberg

32. Our Green Trail by Chad Portas

33. Citrus Marketing Website by Elshafto

34. Tree Nursery by OakmE

35. Intrace Portfolio by MrZielko

36. Beauty Sallon

37. Wonderland Photography by Zee7

Let us know which one get your attention and what feel does it give you when you’re looking at it. And if you have other warm or cool color website designs which you would like to share with us, tell us in the comment section.