Category: Inspiration

35 Clever Logo and Branding Typography Concepts

35 Clever Logo and Branding Typography Concepts
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You know how some people engrave their company’s name into live cattle? Although this may not be your idea of branding it seems to denote the same ideology. A company’s brand should be easily recognizable and help to label a product or service. Yet to create something so recognizable would require a lot of study and practice. It might be helpful if you deconstruct existing brands to study what works and what doesn’t.

Great typography can often represent a logo all by itself – think about how easy it is to recognize the Coca-Cola letters. But pairing up some text with a catchy and relatable logo is the best way to draw attention and leave a searing impression that will last a lifetime(without the nauseating smell of burnt hide). In this post I’ve organized a handful of beautiful logos with unique typographic styles for individual & company branding.

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iOS7 Tab Bar Designs for iPhone App UI Inspiration

iOS7 Tab Bar Designs for iPhone App UI Inspiration
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To help app designers with their own tab bars I’ve collected a panoply of examples ranging the full gamut of interfaces.Since the iPhone’s original inception there have been plenty of apps using tab bars with some very unique icon designs. The release of iOS 7 ushered into a new era where all graphics have been changed over to flat colors with thin line icons. It seems to be Apple’s newest UI style pending the release of OS X Yosemite following by iOS 8.

To help app designers with their own tab bars I’ve collected a panoply of examples ranging the full gamut of interfaces. There’s icons and tab designs in here for every type of iOS application. Whether you’re just getting started or need some fresh ideas for your next iOS app – this post will surely have a little something for everybody.

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36 Examples of Hand-Drawn Lettering and Logo Calligraphy

36 Examples of Hand-Drawn Lettering and Logo Calligraphy
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Learning to develop pretty handwriting can be compared very closely with learning to draw. Both skills require time and patience, and I also believe that anybody can learn these skills with enough practice. Handwriting is something we all need to use and sloppy handwriting can turn into hieroglyphics when trying to decipher notes from a few months or years in the past.

To improve your own handwriting all it takes is practice and somewhere to start. This gallery includes 36 brilliant samples of hand-drawn lettering, logos, and typefaces. See if anything catches your interest and have some fun redrawing these letters. Most creative people like to structure their own unique style of handwriting – and we all tend to develop this style based off different lettering written by others.

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