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…In design school, identity design is all about the form of the logo. A student will be given the problem: ?design a logo for such and such organization,? and then the student may spend the better part of the next six months refining the form of a mark (or a wordmark), and then they sometimes transfer that word mark to a piece of stationery, or a shopping bag, or some other item (often a truck, and regardless of what school they attend, they all seem to magically use the same generic truck drawing.) And after six months of criticism and refinement, a good student will usually produce a formalistically beautiful logo. There may be some discussion in class about the appropriateness of the logo for the business. But the main goal will be to make the logo recognizable, with strong aesthetic attributes that will enable the logo to ?stand alone…

very interesting article by paula scher

some sticky type/motion experiments from sean dekkers

new york, amongst other places: from american photographer joel meyerowitz, see more images here and here

an interesting mix of work from british designer toby tinsley

lots of unusual identity projects and amongst others the identity for virgin galactic’s first ever commercial spaceship, which harks back to the painted signs on old fighter planes during the second world war…

(spotted via grafik)

one of the most uninteresting features on ‘linkedin’ has always been the ‘recommendations’ section, where people endorse you, obviously what happens is that everybody gets their friends to say nice things about you, well…they would wouldn’t they? so it is pretty meaningless on the whole, this one i just got from an old friend ‘nick strong’ however is great, and (except for the last line) completely true:

"I have no reason to reccomend Martin at all – He is impatient, has extremely bad taste and above all no sense of humour! Whatever he does turns pear shaped – I personally feel that using Martin as a TOP designer is equivalent to committing professional suicide the result will probably lose you your client and the complete contents of your company bank account and ultimately lead to a nervous breakdown apart from that he is rather handy with a logo as long as its bigger than the photo itself. Now on a more serious note Martin is probably the best designer i know and he is British need i say more…"

thanks mate, so come on people what are you waiting for?!