Long, Lost Logo Lookalikes
As more and more companies are becoming popular, more logos are being designed in the process. This has lead to some strangely-similar logo designs. Similar looking logos have been spotted from the book “The Alphabet in Design: Trademarks and Symbols of the World” (published in the late 1980s) and gained popularity through social media such as Reddit and Twitter. Beats / Stadt Brühl Also found in the book of world logos, this Stadt Brühl logo that looks like the twin of a popular music brand. This Stadt Brühl logo was created in...
45 Free fonts for graphic designers
This is another round-up of some of our current favourite free fonts. We present you with a nice and varied selection of free fonts. Including scripts, serifs, and a range of ligatures. These fonts will give you greater flexibility in your mockups, and add to your toolbox of typography. If you use them in a commercial project and it is approved by your clients please consider donating to the designers or show them support in some other way. Free fonts for commercial use Some of these also have premium versions with alternative glyphs,...
What’s it like to work within a web design team
Webdezign is more than just a company that makes fancy web design pages or complex systems. They are a web design team of people that work together to create elegant websites that can capture a user’s mind and allow them to envision the whole company behind the website that they are visiting. Creating websites is more than just a quick task, it’s a long term project that requires a dedicated team to generate ideas and designs to be able to turn a dream into an opportunity to achieve even more success. The...
Websites with Free Stock Photos
Looking for Free Stock Photos? Look no further Using imagery to evoke emotions in your customers has always been a big part of web design. Unfortunately the bane of the 90’s [enter picture of people in suits shaking hands here] have outstayed their welcome for far too long. These photos are not only lame and tacky a lot of them actually cost money! I remember when we paid Getty Images £350 for a picture of a baby on a blanket. £350! Let that sink in for a second… Luckily, with cameras now...
Using the new Google plus badges
Since the changes of Googles brand I found it quite hard to find out what was what with the new guidelines and after spending far too much time on the google+ platform scouring spec sheets and reading about how to get my app on Andriod, iOS and Web integrated with the API… *yawn* I just wanted to download the Google plus badges and update the graphic on my site, not become a developer or learn how to connect my facebook login with the google+ hangout… I finally managed to crop...
New responsive website launched… finally!
Responsive web design After many months of work on our very own responsive website we were very proud to announce the launch to all our customers last week. It took a long time as we tried to fit this in-between client work, which thankfully does not dry up much these days. Building your own responsive website when you are a web design company is like the mechanic who drives about in an old and battered car that is for ever being scheduled to be fixed up, but never does. Finally, the end...