Here is an interesting story about city branding. Belfast introduced its new city brand only to discover that the cities of Blackburn and Barrow have practically the exact same look and feel in their brandmarks. The side ways heart form that also creates the letter B was used in each of these cities campaigns but [...]

One of the things I discovered while participating in the World’s First Internet Balloon Race last month was the existence of ambigrams. By definition these are “graphical figures that spell out a word not only in its form as presented, but also in another direction or orientation”. So what does that mean? Well it kinda [...]

They also make some pretty cool commercials:
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…and blow some stuff up, damnit!
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The point of information graphics is to present ideas or patterns in a way that provides a viewer insight in a new context. These are very important in the web age as people scan web pages and rarely stop to read large chunks of text. It is easier to present ideas in visual forms.
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Straight from the creative mind of Spencer Branham.

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Back when I was a kid digital artists didn’t have an infinite number of pixels to work with when creating graphics for computers and video games. This created a style of pixelated people and objects that today seems laughable when compared to games like Halo and Madden. Like most trends of the past this one [...]

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Just a quick introduction to the basics of typography.

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When it came that time of year to sum up the financial success of it’ s business The Hague didn’t want an “ordinary” annual report. They asked toko (a Sydney design group) for a “more arty” look. The designers took the challenge literally.
We turned the graphs into works of art. Every page displays a visual [...]

I know KU’s switch to Trajan for their typeface is an old issue but I just ran across this website devoted to protesting the typographic change (and make some money on the side).
I have a solid belief that no identity shift will ever be accepted on initial release. You can just look at any modern [...]