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How we came up with and drew origami logos for LondonClasses
The purpose of LondonClasses social network lies in connecting people who teach certain classes with those who need such classes. The author of the startup approached us for a logo, which would reflect the idea of trainings and display all benefits of the project. The project’s name is arbitrary, since the developers planned for several sites – one for each city or state. Examples: LondonClasses.co.uk, CaliforniaClasses.us, SanFranciscoClasses.us, BirminghamClasses.co.uk.
How we drew a character for Sindbad
Not that long ago our portfolio of characters was replenished with a new character — we drew a noble purebred aviator cat for Sindbad. For 16 years Sindbad offered to its users a convenient search interface for purchasing air tickets at the most affordable prices. The service provides for the best air fare deals Russia-wide and overseas.
Heating mains hatch covers redesigned
So it happened that we decided to participate in a designers’ competition. At the first glance, there is nothing odd about it, since we are in the industry of design ourselves. The odd part about it is the object of design, which in this case was presented as an iron heating mains hatch cover. The point is that this year marks the 70th anniversary of the Kuibyshevenergo Headquarters — the owner of the heating mains. In order to commemorate this Voljskaya TGK decided to conduct a contest for the best design of hatch covers and later cast some of such anniversary covers in iron.
These could be the new LiveJournal’s icons
Long time ago three designers from Samara got acquainted with each other through LiveJournal. This led to talks and discussion over their own portfolios and works of others. And so Turbomilk was born. Clearly, when the competition for new icons for LiveJournal was unveiled, we got excited and went straight to work.
Silverlighter
Once upon a time Microsoft invented a cross-browser cross-platform technology for developing rich interactive web applications based on .NET called Silverlight. Later appeared the people who liked the technology and they created Silverlighter, a community of Silverlight supporters.
Stitcher iPhone Application
Our good friends from d.workz approached us for help in creating an interface for their Stitcher version for the iPhone. The work demanded the best.
Dribbler
Our friends from Thematic Media had an idea of creating a community of football fans with role-play elements. They came up with the name — Dribbler on their own but let us draw the logo for the project.
Autokadabra
Thematic Media thought about setting up a social network for motorists, however this was meant to be a special network with some RPG features. It was called Autokadabra.
InvisibleCRM
InvisibleCRM is a technology provider of tools engineered to increase user adoption and ROI while working with enterprise applications.
Nivaria
Nivaria Content Manager is a complete CMS solution built by Nivaria primarily to cover it’s needs of fast and cost-effective web site development…
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articles10 Mistakes in Icon Design@glyfx: Thanks for the intelligent discussion Denis. This following bookmark is an invaluable resource and a must for any serious icon designer: A MONSTER LIST of Style Guides and UI Guidelines http://www.theuxbookmark.com/2010/08/interaction-design/a-monster-list-of-ui-guidelines-style-guides
articlesHow we came up with and drew origami logos for LondonClasseskoos.tall: They are such lovely logos, they're quite detailed but easy to look at. I do wonder how long it would have taken for you to create one of them?
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articles10 Mistakes in Icon Design@JobCrowd: Great article. We just finished a related article at the Job Crowd Blog entitled "Avatar creation guide: Selling yourself and your services online". Check it out at http://blog.jobcrowd.com/avatar-creation-guide-selling-yourself-and-your-services-online/. Hope you enjoy.
articles10 Mistakes in Icon Design@liquidizer: Thanks for this. I'd like to use this list in my upcoming (self published) book "Liquid Information". I see you allow use with attribution, which is what I will do, unless you prefer me not to use this in which case I will sadly not do it. You can reach me at frode@hegland.com