So, Adobe is going all out to establish CS4 as the new standard for design. They have put together dozens of tutorials that really get you stoked about the new features (see Illustrator gradients and multiple artboards). I was planning on waiting 6-9 months or longer to upgrade, but now I might jump in much sooner.
I bought some cider this weekend and the box had a bit too clear labeling of the print specs, PMS included. I know you can usually find the registration and color bars on a hidden part of the package, but maybe they are proud of their color choices.
Taking the arch idea, I developed a few new perspectives that I think are more understated and fitting the client. With Stan's insight, I gave them further tweaks. I am just playing with color and trying to see if I have any other brave, new concepts hiding under my creative couch.
Here's a different concept for the Miracle House logo. It is modeled off of the Triumphal Arch. It represents Welcome and Victory, which I thought had correlation to the welcoming spirit of MH and their work adding to the medical fights that they are supporting and helping to win. The colors need work and the icon needs refinement, but the idea is there.
Here's a new identity design I did for a high school student organization (remix). I designed a new logo, website, collateral print materials, a wall wrap and animations.
Here's the thing about designing an identity for Miracle House. How do you give an identity to "Miracle." The thing about a miracle is that it's indescribable. It can't be explained. It cannot be quantified, conveyed or converted into anything that is grasped or known or recognized by any human, because we don't know what a miracle looks like. We only know what the effects of a miracle look like. The miracle of this project would be developing a logo/identity that related the supernatural work of MH without trying to explain it.
There are now 3,000 or so applications available through iTunes and others through jailbroken sources. More than 100,000,000 apps have been downloaded so far. Many are spin offs of existing companies, but many are brand new products and services. To that regard, new identities and websites are springing up every day for these new software entities. Sadly, I think too many of the software developers are taking the identity design of their new products in their own hands and the logos and identities reflect a less than stellar design. How do we get developers to look at enlisting real designers to help them out?
Okay, so this company is undermining the logo design process and making Corporate Identity design a drive-thru business. How sad. Anyone want to test their skills and give them $300 for a fake logo?
BlackBooks is a vendor for custom stencils or business cards or promo pieces. It could add an inexpensive, yet striking element to the ID project (style guide).
