Archive for the 'Design' Category

Indianapolis Colts Logo Design Contest Finalists Announced

Friday, April 25th, 2008

The Indianapolis Colts® have posted the five finalists, which the fans will whittle down to one sparkling choice next week.

Finalists: Voting will begin by early next week (around April 28th) and will be open for approximately seven days.
Here’s my take on the five finalists:

Contest: Design The Indianapolis Colts Horse Logo

Friday, March 28th, 2008

All of you fans and designers out there (many fans ARE designers) check this out. The Indianapolis Colts are putting on a design contest to come up with a horse logo for the Colts. This won’t replace the famous horseshoe, but will still get some play. According to colts.com, “The Colts will use the winning […]

Design Is Dead, According To Starck

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

French Designer Philippe Starck, well known for his housewares you buy in Target stores, assumes himself accurate while declaring that he wants to give up design in an interview with a German publication.

Redesign of indyvineyard.org

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

As a members and designers, my wife and I both have the privilege to design work for the Vineyard Community Church (on the north side of Indianapolis.) While volunteer design work is hard at times due to scheduling and general life busyness, it occasionally rewards us with the opportunity to turn out projects that we […]

Just Stop It Already

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Just stop putting leaves in your logo already.

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A Little Dose of Web Design Perspective

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Yesterday I took a tour of the local auto industry - driving around town getting estimates for a paint job.
Stepping out of my clean and organized world of validating XHTML, CSS, and good design, I entered a world where it just didn’t matter. Before stopping by several shops, I went online and hit every website […]

IMA hires out of town talent for crazy Drupal site

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

A writeup appeared today on Drupal’s website reporting that the Indianapolis Museum or Art’s new website was built using mostly unmodified Drupal 5, development by “Palantir” of Evanston, IL and “Studio Blue” of Chicago, IL.
The website is chock-full of “Web 2.0″ goodness - if you can find your way around it.

Portfolio update and freelance work news

Monday, October 29th, 2007

N-vent related news:
Tonight I finally got around to updating my design portfolio, adding 5 new web designs. I’ve been blessed with a lot of work this summer and fall, and therefore have hardly had time for my own site updates due to the workload. My freelance brethren out there can attest to this.
I’ve been very […]

Worst Logo Ever?

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

There is nothing like a splash of humor to start off one’s day… but this is real, so I’m not sure it qualifies.
Just when you think you’ve seen everything, along comes some real gem of design utopia, a pinnacle of thought and creativity that inspires me to stay in business in hopes of achieving design […]

The AIGA is Irrelevant

Friday, August 17th, 2007

I am subscribed to the AIGA blog, but like the AIGA itself, it’s not usually meaningful enough to get me to head over and actually read the thing. The latest post caught my eye however: Why Double the Number of AIGA Members? by Richard GrefĂ©, the executive director of AIGA.
In the post, Richard talks […]