Book Art

Graphic Design in the age of Macs and Photoshop created a lot of excitement in the early 80's. Imagine not having to use spray glue or an x'acto knife to set your type. Then there was Illustrator and Freehand to add to your layout and drawing tools. Good bye to your drawing skills...we have scanners!! Then we all got lazy...hey! just use Kai!, add fire, a glow, make it look like a video game image...and not to forget your 1000+ font collection.

After seeing a lot of Graphic renderings dating back to my early years at JWT to creating poster images, a silkscreen artist, printmaker, blogger, webdever, painter, comedian....forget the trends, forget what other designers say...you just know when graphic images just stands out.

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Logo Talk

From "A Wrap-up in Logo Trends" by Nora Reed.

With the arrival of every new year, trends are released for every field and logo design is no exceptional. Being a part of logo designing industry, involuntarily we become addicted to the design trends and eagerly await the long lists of design predictions for the upcoming year. Although I do not believe much in following specific rules and regulations for logo designing but I would confess that these trends can get you excellent inspiration sparks.

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