Indianapolis Web Design Blog

Indianapolis Colts Logo Design Contest Finalists Announced

Ian — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:36:15 +0000

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:
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Contest: Design The Indianapolis Colts Horse Logo

Ian — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:34:07 +0000

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 as a secondary logo to complement existing logos.”

What will the winner get?
According to Colts.com, “Five finalists will be chosen and their submitted logo will be posted on Colts.com for fans to vote for a grand prize winner. The grand prize includes two lower level season tickets for the inaugural season at Lucas Oil Stadium plus $1,000.”

To give you all a head start I have collected some famous horse logos from around the web. Horse logos have been done since the beginning of time- now is your chance to add to the global horse logo pile. You can use these logos as a guide, or you can use them as a guide of what not to do (my recommendation). My entry is shown above, so please, no stealing.
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Design Is Dead, According To Starck

Ian — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:43:05 +0000

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.
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Redesign of indyvineyard.org

Ian — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:08:54 +0000

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 love - projects where our “creative itch” has been thoroughly and pleasantly scratched, so to speak.
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I’m a Full-Fledged Designer

Ian — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:14:10 +0000

Design isn’t as critical life-and-death, but still… funny stuff….

Read:
Freelance Freedom #41

Just Stop It Already

Ian — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:18:32 +0000

Just stop putting leaves in your logo already.

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Xinha Conversion to “What You See is What You Mean” Editing

Ian — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:33:38 +0000

Awhile back I wrote about the problem of allowing website managers to write valid content for their content managed websites. I mentioned a wonderful editor called WYMeditor, which is great simple because it shows you the markup while you edit your document.

Being no programmer, I am personally unable to shoehorn this editor into my favorite CMS, Etomite. I do know CSS however; and that allowed me to change Xinha’s text edit area to operate in a “what you see is what you mean” mode. This makes an excellent tweak to Etomite, and I am trying to get this added into the official Etomite Xinha editor package. (more…)

See Indianapolis Sights in Google Street View

Ian — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:13:37 +0000

Monument Circle Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Conseco Fieldhouse, home of the Pacers
Lucas Oil Stadium (Under Construction)
Indianapolis War Memorial
The Indianapolis Library (Under Construction)
The Scottish Rite Cathedral
The Indianapolis Museum of Art
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
The Children’s Museum

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Hallowed Halls of Leap Day History

Ian — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:26:32 +0000

Today is leap day, and I would be silly not to blog on the one day that comes only once every four years.

Let me see if I can remember some my personal leap day history. Walk with me, if you will, through the hallowed halls of memories:
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I have Facebook Fatigue - Don’t Worry, It’s Not Contagious

Ian — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:10:07 +0000

I was reading the article “Facebook Fatigue” over at the Register, and I have to admit- I have it. I just cannot keep up with all of the social networking going on - not that you shouldn’t. You see, I’m pretty sure that my personality is at fault - I really am not a social butterfly. The chaps over at the Register have accurately have diagnosed me…

… once the novelty of MySpace wears off, most people only stop by to check out bands or watch videos.

After I found out which of my friends were on these social networks, and discovered a few people who I knew long ago, I ran out of reasons to visit. Holler at me if I’m being sacreligious here.

Speaking of which, that’s why you will never see Twittering. I personally cannot think of a greater waste of time.

Read Facebook Fatigue > (The Register)

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