Audi

The four rings in the logo have nothing to do with the Olympic rings, but is the emblem of one of the oldest car manufacturers in Germany. It represents the 1932 merger of four independent motor-vehicle manufacturers: Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer. Together with the NSU Motorenwerke AG, which joined in 1969, these manufacturers are the origins of the present-day Audi AG. The company itself is over 100 years old. In September 2009, Audi released their new logo that we have come to know today which features an enhanced 3-dimensional aspect of the rings.

Apple Inc

Initially, the logo for Apple Computers depicted a small apple shape sitting under a tree with Apple Computer Co set into the frame of the picture. The first logo design was perceived to be way too complex and hard to view so the designers worked on the logo some years later and added a bite mark to represent the seduction of the customers and the marketplace in general. There are actually a lot of biblical references in the Apple logo design, for example the rainbow-colored apple is a reference to the story of Adam and Eve in which the apple signified the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. The current iconic design we have come to known today is completely consistent with their product design scheme with its silver metallic sheen.

BBC

British graphic designer Abram Games was famous for creating BBC’s first identity which was nicknamed “Bat’s Wings”. This was then replaced by the BBC tv lettering in boxes located within a circle. Later on, BBC’s famous emblem was unveiled depicting the globe. The TV station also promoted its use of color by including references to the station identity, which acted as a reminder to the audience to buy a colour television set. The late 90′s brought a new approach to BBC’s brand and its logo was made more modern-looking.

FedEx

The modern FedEx logo is one of the most recognizable logos in the world. It was created in 1994 by Lindon Leader, as Senior Design Director at Landor Associates. In the same year, it was ranked by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the 8 best logos of the past thirty-five years – ranked amongst Apple, Coca-Cola, Nike, IBM, Starbucks, McDonald’s and Playboy. FedEx is a symbolic abbreviation of the company’s full name: Federal Express. A lot of people don’t notice this because at first glance, the FedEx corporate logo appears to be plain and simple, but there is something very cool about its design. An arrow pointing to the right can be seen in the negative space between the uppercase E and the x. The arrow symbolized forward movement and thinking in line with the company’s purpose and mission.

IBM

American graphic designer, Paul Rand’s trademark for International Business Machines (1956) was derived from an uncommonly used typeface called City Medium. Later on, it was redesigned into the IBM corporate logo, a powerful and unique company identity emerged as the slab serifs and shapes in between the negative spacing provided unity and uniqueness to the design. In the 1970′s the logo was updated again to evoke scan lines on video terminals, but the typeface remained consistent.

Kentucky Fried Chicken

The “Kentucky Fried Chicken” brand changed many since its conception in the early 1950′s. The brand was changed to the abbreviation KFC from the early 1990′s so as to move away from the unhealthy negative connotation of the word “fried”. The logo itself depicts the creator of KFC – Sanders himself. Unlike many other famous logos, KFC has kept remarkably consistent with its visual identity and has maintained the defining elements of Colonel Sander’s image while adapting to the visually evolving fast food chain industry. The current logo shows the amount of effort that KFC have made over the last few years to reboot the brand with energetic and dynamic designs to compete against other major fast-food chains such as Burger King or McDonald’s.

Kodak

Kodak is a widely-known American multinational public company known for producing and supplying the consumer public with photographic equipment and materials from disposable cameras to photographic film. In 1960, the company introduced the corner curl design. Although the letter K was preferred as it seemed a strong and bold letter, it was not introduced until the 1970′s along with the box design. Over the years, the typeface of the logo has also been updated to more contemporary fonts. In the 2000′s Kodak was forced to reinvent itself and that led to an update to the corporate identity – their new logo sports a distinctively shaped “a” and rounded sans-serif typeface.

MTV

In 1981, the popular New York City based American cable television network MTV was launched by Warner AmEx. To this day, MTV broadcasts a youth and pop culture and expanded to reality tv shows aimed at young people. The logo design crew at Manhattan Design first began to play around with just the letters MTV and created the flexible and innovative design that remained consistent today. The “M’ was initially built out of polka dots, wooden strips, red bricks, zebra stripes and even the yellow-and-black of a checkered taxi cab.

Pepsi

A young pharmacist named Caleb Bradham in 1893 started experimenting with different soft drink mixtures. In those days, many pharmacists served their customers refreshing homemade drinks. In 1898, Bradham bought the trade name “Pepsi Cola” for $100 from a competitor that had gone broke. At the same time Bradham’s neighbor, designed the first Pepsi logo. The beverage’s instant popularity led Bradham to channel his efforts to developing Pepsi-Cola into a real business. Over the decades, Pepsi has remained one of the world’s most famous brands alongside its main rival Coca-Cola. Over this time, Pepsi has also gone through major logo redesigns and modifications. Now we have come to know the iconic red, white and blue Pepsi globe that leaves an everlasting impression in the minds of people across the world.

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Pixlr

This is probably the most advanced and most popular image editing application on the internet. The best part about it is, it’s a 100% free and for simple designs, you can save your money on Adobe Photoshop.

Kuler

This one is a personal favorite: An online application for generating a color theme that looks good together. Whether you are creating a website template or an application UI, Kuler allows you to efficiently experiment with different color variations as well as browse thousands of pre-existing color themes from the Kuler community.

Qvectors

Qvectors is a website that provides free high quality vector graphics for your projects. They even allow you to make money by uploading and selling your own vector designs as a registered user.

Qtextures

Like Qvectors, Qtextures is a fairly new site but it delivers high quality textures and patterns from various designers. Its catalog is updated on a weekly basis.

Qicons

Another great community resource for finding fresh and royalty-free icons for your designs

Gomockingbird

This is an online tool that makes it much easier to create, link together, preview and even share mock-ups of your website or application to your colleagues.

Gliffy

Gliffy is a online diagram software, you can easily create professional-quality flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings, and more – straight from within your browser!

Favicon

This online tool can easily create a favicon for your site – a small 16×16 image that shows in your browser’s address bar and bookmark menu when your site is called up. Definitely, this is the quickest and easiest way to make one.

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Green, commonly associated with nature and environmentalism, is actually a very neutral color. As many things in nature are green, the color can represent growth, development and opportunity. Themes of renewal and abundance are also commonly associated with this cover. However, one must be careful when choosing to design with the color green, as it can also represent envy or jealousy, hence the expression “green with envy”.

Like blue, green is a very calming color, however as mentioned above it brings forwards a sense of vibrancy and dynamic energy of yellow. This mixture of blue and yellow in the context of design can have a harmonizing effect and because it is such a neutral color, this balance brings stability and safeness in design choices.

As with other colors, greens come in many hues. Brighter greens are usually more energizing, vibrant and fun. blnk.com is an excellent example of this:

Contrastingly, more subdued greens are less vibrant but as a result, are more stable and representative of affluence. Websites such as mint.com and clearleft.com use lighter more subdued greens that are less colorful, but more professional:

Olive-toned greens express more natural feelings and representative of the natural world. Environmental-activism related sites often use this color scheme along with natural elements in the graphics to create a very down-to-earth message. An example of this is plantwithpurpose.com

However, designing for environmental groups are not only limited to olive greens. The website for Hong Kong Youth Environmental Awareness uses brighter greens to convey a more youthful message whilst maintaining ideas of conservatism and sustainability:

Another example of green in web design is emotionslive.co.uk, a personal portfolio. I particularly like this design for its widespread use of green and light/shading:

Green does not have to be the dominant color of the design. For example, you can pick out particular elements in a web design to accentuate with a vibrant green. In the header of ligonier.org, the designers used a natural bright green to emphasize its main content:

Personally, I think the color green is very appropriate for designs related to wealth, stability, renewal, and nature. Brighter greens are more energizing and vibrant, while olive greens are more representative of the natural world. Dark greens are the most stable and representative of affluence. Regardless of your choice of color scheme, it is important to remember that a slight change in hue or shade can completely change the message you are trying to deliver and that significance color theory should never be overlooked.

Volvo. We’re just as excited as you.

Hansaplast long-lasting condoms

Coco De Mer erotic shop outdoor ad

Durex. No exit.

Capriccio : ladies hairdresser, Milano, Italy

Durex: Love is Blind

Another advert for Durex

The power of Viagra

Axe Essence deodorant bodyspray

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Condomi Vienna ultra-thin condoms

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You can see how the use of erotic imagery or sex appeal is extremely pervasive across different types of media in our culture today. Whether through suggestive images or clever slogans, creative advertisers create media that has profound impacts on our daily lives. What did you think about these adverts? Leave your comment below and don’t forget to check our our previous article: Smart Advertising – 30+ Bizarre and Creative Ads

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Designed by Nadir Balcikli designed for CFO Cycling Team

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Ant shaped logo designed by Alberto William

Horror Films Logo

Design created for Horror Films by Siah Design.

Killed Productions Logo

Designed by Sean Heisler for Killed Productions

Mister Cutts Barber Shop Logo

Designed by Tabitha Kristen for Mr.Cutts barber shop

Goodduck Logo

Design created by Badovsky Design for Goodduck

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Design created by Jason Sanzone

Catch 5 Logo

Designed by Mike Erickson for Catch 5

Wine House Logo

Minimal, memorable and elegant logo concept for wine company

LOOK Logo

Logo designed by Zain Zayan from India

Foot Logo

Logo design by Dalius Stuoka

Swing Studios Logo

Designed by struve for Swing Studios

Pause Logo

Logo designed by volkan

Spartan Golf Club Logo

Logo by Richard Fonteneau designed for Spartan golf club

Twins Logo

Creative logo with “2? instead of “N” designed by Action Designer

Sushi Logo

Sushi restaurant logo by Alen Pavlovi

B Logo

Creative bee inspired logo designed by William Patino

The WHY 58×38 is a concept yacht solely dedicated to bringing a luxury living lifestyle out to the sea by offering incredible durability, space and cutting-edge technologies at every single turn.

The boat, which is built on three decks, also features a 25 meter swimming pool on the bow that hugs the contours of the helipad. Inside ‘adaptable living spaces’ are organised around a salon that includes a library, music room, dining room, and even a cinema that opens on to the sea.

The yacht is able to cruise at 12 knots with a maximum speed of 14 knots. It is also impressive that according to the makers,  it can make four Atlantic crossings without any major maintenance.

The creators are not only focused on the luxury aspect of the ship, but also greatly emphasize its sustainability. Any eco-conscious buyer can be reassured that the ship has been designed with three large sky lights and 300 square metres of windows to give a maximum amount of natural light. It will also be fitted with an ultra-low consumption LED lighting system.

The solar panels covering the roof and sides of the vessel will help save at least 200 tons of diesel fuel a year. The yacht also comes equipped with waste management systems designed to handle both organic and inorganic waste products.

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Shape/Form by Lukas Peet

Canadian designer Lukas Peet has created a set of cutlery comprising a silver fork and spoon and a ceramic knife

Ribbon Cutlery by Makoto Yamaguchi

The pieces are meant to relfect ribbon as it is held between the fingers. We don’t know how easy it would be to eat with these, but we could look at them all day long.

Exhausted Cutlery by Kathryn Hinton

Her pieces include lettering on the prongs of forks that correspond with words imprinted in bowls and the Exhausted range (below), where cutlery follows the shape of objects it appears to collapse onto.

Gone Fishin’ Cutlery by Yamazaki

Each piece in this stainless steel collection is whimsically fish-shaped, right down to tail, fins, and eyes, and the pointed tips of the spoon bowls even create little mouths.

Appetize Table Cutlery by Nedda El-Asmar

Inspired by the oval shape of Japanese tea plant leaf, Belgian designer Nedda El-Asmar came up with this beautiful table cutlery design.

Dexter Cutlery

Each piece of cutlery is hand crafted into its own unique character.

Wrenchware

Wrenchware is 18/10 polished “drop forged” stainless steel, and comes in its own individual blow-molded heavy duty ABS plastic box. |Measures 4.5″ wide by 8.75″ long by 1.25″ high.

Flat Cutlery by Josef Hoffman

Josef Hoffman (1870 – 1956), five pieces from the ‘Flat Model’ flatware service

Bite Silverware by Mark A. Reigelman II

Mark A. Reigelman II has designed this Bite silverware in an effort to help raise awareness of worldwide epidemics such as starvation and obesity.

Natural Cutlery by Clara Del Portillo and Alejandro Selma

Beautiful cutlery set merges traditional silver cutlery with the elegance of wood.

This is his midterm project for his second semester at College for Creative Studies

Renders / Graphics: Adobe Photoshop

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Here are Andrew’s raw sketches from the project:

Via Andrew Kim

A selection of the most commonly used typefaces were compared for how economical they are with the amount of ink which they use at the same point size. Large scale renditions of the typefaces were drawn out with ballpoint pens, allowing the remaining ink levels to display the ink efficiency of each typeface.

The experiment was simple: a white wall and several ball points pens, hand drawing each one on a blank white wall. The contestants are: Garamond, Courier, Brush Script, Times New Roman, Helvetica, Comic Sans, Cooper Black and Impact.

And the results are shown below with the pens arranged in a simple bar chart:

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! After hand-drawing these typefaces on the wall, the pen used for Garamond had the most ink left. To sum up: save ink and the environment by using Garamond!

Via Matt Robinson