2009 Trends These are austere times, but the logos recently loaded onto LogoLounge.com - nearly 35,000 since 2008 - certainly do not reflect it. And that is how it should continue to be. Wary homage may be paid to marketing in lean times, but not to identity design. This are two wholly different efforts with different goals. It should set a long-term course for clients, not fall into pits carved out by economic phases. The most recent uploads to the site still have a vibrancy of color and energy that bucks what in past years might have been considered proper corporate behavior. This seventh annual trend report, as always, is as much a forecast as it is a study of the past 12 months. In preparation for the fifth LogoLounge book, we studied and organized thousands upon thousands of new designs. One such direction is that the use of type and text is clearly more critical. The increased use of text in identity design takes several forms. Another clear direction is the increased chroma of color. 1. 1.
Tutoriais | PAROXISMO RECORDS Skindeep Nessa série de retoques que Julien Palast fez p/Thierry Peureux o corpo humano vira objeto de estudo, brincando com cores, texturas, formas e sombras. Tweet Tutorial – CSS3+JQuery – Relógio Digital Esta é uma tradução deste ótimo e simples tutorial desenvolvido por Alessio Atzeni. Efeito de Texto Futuristico O tutorial de hoje vou falar sobre efetios de texto, que é muito bom para criação de logos ou para letras de cartazes, além de ser um efeito simples é muito bonito e sofisticado. Efeito água 3d PhotoShop CS5 Efeito água 3d PhotoShop CS5 Olá todos os visitantes do ParoxismoRecords.com, esse é um tutorial sobre foto manipulação utilizando a ferramenta 3D do PhotoShop. Retrato tipografico usando PhotoShop Olá Leitores do Paroxismo, Ultimamente estou um pouco corrido no trabalho e não tive tempo de montar um tutorial. Trabalhando texto com layer styles. Hoje vamos Aprender um tutorial sobre efeito de texto, muito usado para criação de logos, letras para embalagens e tipografia.
2004 Trends When you've spent a month studying 17,000 logos from around the world, your mind can't help but notice certain similarities. Just ask Bill Gardner, who at this writing was putting the final touches on the second book to be released by the web site he founded, LogoLounge.com. The new book, LogoLounge Book II, will be released in January 2005 by Rockport Publishers (www.rockpub.com). It is a follow-up to LogoLounge Book I, which went into second and third printings soon after it was released in early 2003. "We are not suggesting that designers follow any of these. But it's interesting to note where design is going and why," Gardner says. Glassine Many designers have discovered Photoshop's tools that produce a glassine appearance. Like the recently revised UPS logo, many marks have been crystal-capped. These designs do stand out: They have a little extra sparkle or light that was previously seen more in packaging design, either through art effects or foiled papers. Bubbles Dialogue Boxes 1. 1.
2005 Trends The word "trend" seems to raise the little hairs on the back of some designers' necks. Everybody wants to be a you-know-what-setter; no one wants to acknowledge the aftermath. But as we march toward LogoLounge.com's fifth anniversary, we've discovered that trends have become something impossible - and maybe unwise - to ignore. With 20,000 logos now on the website, and with the ability to watch the switches and sways of creativity as it reveals itself through a real-time compendium of identities all over the world, we have learned that noting trends is not so much like reporting history as it is considering what might be next. Think of them as confirmation that designers are excellent thermometers/barometers of human thinking the world-round. 1. 2. Consider the following 15 trends. Discover new directions. Folly Stars The star has always been a foundation stone of logo design, rife with symbology that varies from jingoistic federalism to quality and celestial guidance. 1. Amalgams 1. 1.
2006 Trends You simply can't organize 42,000 logos-the approximate number of designs now on the LogoLounge.com web site-and not notice commonalities. Categories. Directions. And this year is no exception: There are trends, for better or for worse. Through the LogoLounge reports, you can look forward and backward, too. Through the LogoLounge.com web site, you can search an enormous database by keyword, designer's name, client name, industry, client category, type of logo, and dates to find a few trends of your own, as viewed from your own personal perspective. The goal of LogoLounge is not simply to amass the world's biggest pile of logos (although it is likely that already). Blankets The Aquacon logo gives every sense of the water's surface without relying on waves, ripples or other trite visuals. 1. Blenders Intense with motion and light, these logos give the appearance of a form being swallowed by a black hole. 1. Buttons 1. Dot Fuzz 1. Orbs 1. Dry Brush 1. Embellish 1. Splat 1. Glow 1. Transparent 3D 1.
2003 Trends The word "trend" has taken on a negative cast in recent years, particularly when the letter "y" is appended to it. "Trend" is actually a pretty innocuous phenomenon, though: Simply speaking, it is defined as a new line of direction. "Trendy," on the other hand, is what happens when everybody else starts stampeding in the same direction. The ability to watch as design trends are taking shape-when the really courageous experimentation is happening and before imitation inevitably begins-is one of the best aspects of LogoLounge.com, says the website's founder, Bill Gardner. "For the first time, designers have a real-time, front row seat to view what is happening in logo design," says Gardner, himself a talented designer and principal of Wichita-based Gardner Design, whose clients have included Pizza Hut, Cargill, Thermos, Nissan, Coleman, and Cox Communications, among many others. Gardner is watching, too. "This process forced us to find linkage between various logos. Droplets 1. Refinement 1.
2007 Trends At LogoLounge.com we look at A LOT of logos and see plenty of trends: Some are aesthetic, some conceptual, and some cultural. As the internet's largest database of over 50,000 logos to date, you can't help notice the evolution of design and trends. For instance, we have seen many more 3-D logos that are designed to be in motion, never still or flat. Another development: Today, for many trends there is now a countertrend and this is not only the case for logo design. It is also becoming disturbingly clear that logo design has become a public sport. The full 2007 trend report follows. Also, you will note some amount of aesthetic crossover between trends. Dos Helix Deoxyribonucleic acid really sounds like the last thing that could influence design until you knock it down to the initials DNA. Hollywood has turned DNA into the glow-in-the-dark plot twist of CSI "insert city here". 1. lwdgraphics for Chillosophy 2. Rubber Bands "The rings of innovation" designed by Enterprise IG. 1. Radiance 1.
Trends 2008 Take a look at the logo designs above. What's your first reaction? They bowl you over and leave you speechless - and somewhat confused don't they? These logos don't have beautiful shapes, shadows, mirrored reflections, warm colors, or icons that signify something; they look like the result of some kid playing around mindlessly. The explanation is simple: this type of logo design is very different and will definitely stand out by sheer reason of being totally different. The emergence of this trend can also be attributed to a mighty comeback of the 80's in fashion ,interior and industrial design. There are numerous articles that picked apart the London 2012 logo. We'll add that this trend has revolutionized logo design and fueled the process of creativity by imposing new rules and redefining what's beautiful.
2008 Trends Trend-watching, until recently, has largely been an exercise in watching connections form between direct associations. Photoshop releases a new filter, and voila - entire raft of logos take on that effect. A particular illustration style is featured in a successful advertising campaign or movie, and in what seems like minutes, the flavor of that art starts to enhance corporate identities. Periodically, something truly surprising and unexpected pops up. This year, however, it seems as though there has been a change in the nature of trends themselves. What follows are 15 trends that have indeed popped up all over the world. We saw less emphasis on sustainability or general "greenness" in logo design. And now, the trends. Supernova These examples drive a field of elements toward or away from the viewer using a variety of methods. 1. Fine Line Consistency of line weight is one of the tenets of good logo design. 1. FoldOver 1. Global Expansion What a refreshing outlook this trend presents. 1.