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logolounge.com - 2008 trends

logolounge.com just put up their
2008 Trends
I encourage you to check them out. Some of my favs are:

Fine Line

Consistency of line weight is one of the tenants of good logo design. It builds rhythm and ensures legibility at first glance. Forget this rule for this category. Turn your line weight down to hairline and start drawing. Most of these logos live on two levels: first glance, and then second glance, with reader glasses. Typically, a heavier image with message one serves as a background field. The more profound message two is generally encrypted over the top of or knocked out of the heavier image.

Fine strokes weights may read as no more than pattern initially, but they can also carry the dichotomy of a counter message. A variation on this is the use of linear art en masse to create enough weight to define a message as in the PULSE logo. This yin yang process tends to captivate the viewer and lends a sense of intelligence to a mark that doesn’t require a hammer to impart a subtle message.

1. Louis Fili for The Mermaid Inn    2. Hula + Hula for Cartoon Network Lainamerica    3. Unit for Artists for Peace    4. Point Blank Collection for Pulse

Amoeba

These are soft, inflated blobs without any sharp corners to fall and hurt yourself on. Their friendly shapes are generally unstructured and much like an amoeba under the lens of an electron microscope, fluid and in motion. Amoeba comes from the Greek word amoibe, meaning to change, and this trend is about flux. The elements that compose these logos are anything but static. You can imagine a relationship between the parts of a logo as if they have just divided from one another.

This process of morphing and motion give us a clue about the structure and processes of the businesses represented here. Flexibility and an agile nature allow businesses to adapt in mercurial industries. These are entities that embrace the value of evolution. If you’re evolving, chances are you’re a living organism, and there aren’t too many of those with corners.

1. Tactix Creative for DJ Eddie Amador    2. Double Brand for Poza Showroom    3. Mola for EDP    4. Yaroslav Zheleznyakov for Promotion

Stitch

Over the last several years, designers have taken refuge with a variety of appropriated patterns. Design backgrounds have become shrines for wallpaper swatches, Victorian patterns, organic flora, faux wood grains and any other rococo-retro surface that is not nailed down or otherwise copyrighted.

Houndstooth and herringbone aside, designers on more boutique projects are dipping into their grandmothers’ baskets of sundries and notions. This is often not as much about textile patterns as it is about the elements that hold a garment together. Zig zag, whip, and cross-stitch are a few of the strokes in the sewing arsenal. Bric-a-brac, fishnet, fringe, and tassels are also working their way into these solutions. This common language of mundane elements takes on a refreshing, often feminine beauty when layered together with great taste. Just remember that the difference between a tablecloth and a haute couture gown is not the material, but knowing what to do with it.

1. The Woodbine Agency for Lamp    2. tenn_do_ten for chico    3. The Pink Pear Design Company for Rummage    4. Hammerpress for Natasha’s Mulberry & Mott

Creative PAW

As some of you know, I have been doing a little work for a great organization here in Largo known as the SPCA Tampa Bay. Being an animal lover for as long as I can remember, I really do enjoy the work. So I was more than happy to discover a great little startup site called Creative PAW. I am currently forwarding this link to all of my friends and colleagues whom I think might be interested. If it weren’t for this pesky need to eat, I would be doing Pro Bono work full-time. But it is nice to help out where I can. You can too!

If you want to learn a little more about the site and its founder, check out an interview with Linda Formichelli.

faveup.com - Inspirational Design

From the makers of Eden Creative Communities, comes faveup.com, a design inspiration gallery. I encourage you to take a look at their business card, logo, flash and css designs. As a designer, one is constantly looking for the next big idea or inspiration. Other sites that I always enjoy are:

For the latest and greatest in color inspiration:
Kuler
My Color My Idea

For great web design:
CSS Zen Garden ( the old stand-by never fails )
Communication Arts WebPicks

Because I love design:
Veer - check out their ideas section
The Serif
Design is Kinky
LogoPond

Linked In

For all of those people addicted to social networking sites, LinkedIn is the answer to your prayers. Finally, you can feel justified slacking off in the office.

I had heard of LinkedIn quite a while ago and began to set up an account. I decided to go back to an old post on one of my fav blogs Freelance Switch titled 8 Things You Can Do to Get Work Through LinkedIn. The very first suggestion is to fill out your profile and make it look good! So that is my theme for today. LinkedIn You are on!

As Collis Ta’aed mentions in the post, According to Linkedin , users with complete profiles are 40 times more likely to find opportunities through the site. That makes perfect sense and it is really just a matter of doing it. Especially when there are tastier sites out there like MySpace and FaceBook. I am going to buckle down and do the right thing.

Geek Art

Slashdot has an interesting post on understanding art for geeks. There are a lot of cute designer and web developer references, for the geek in all of us.

Make My Logo Bigger!!!

This is a touch of humor in the designer variety.

Make My Logo Bigger!!!

In the Beginning…

Hello, and welcome to my very first post on Lucky Lindy!

Lucky Lindy is a multimedia design blog for my freelancing business, Lindaman Designs. Word throughout the tubes(a.k.a. internet) is that the key to generating leads in the design business these days, is having a trustworthy blog. So, without further ado, I ditched the boring flash portfolio and whipped up this swank new WordPress blog.

Enjoy!