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2008 logotype design trends

`manicho:iconmanicho: reports, September 29
A great article for Graphic Designers, found at LogoLounge.

Periodically, something truly surprising and unexpected pops up. Finding those little treasures are one of the great perks of categorizing 27,000 logos, as LogoLounge and a talented panel of judges just did in preparation for our fourth book. But there's always that natural undercurrent of influence that touches this design and that, a drift of scent, a faint change in air temperature. It's there, but almost not.

This year, however, it seems as though there has been a change in the nature of trends themselves. Instead of a hub-to-spoke relationship in which trends fan out from a central source, prevailing tendencies in logo design now seem to send out long underground runners that poke through the dirt in unrelated, unexpected places, anywhere in the world. It's harder and harder to trace the rhizomatous spread of ideas anymore - which truly is a good thing.

How to write a professional Creative/Communication

`Nico1:iconNico1: reports, September 1
As a professional Graphic Artist, I thought to share some of my professional experience with people interested in Professional Design procedures and guidelines, here in deviantART, through a little workshop. I will be posting news articles in different topics, like “Colors” (hopefully assisted by the feedback from other deviants).

Hidden Talent Vol. 1 - Surrealism

~Sangiev:iconSangiev: reports, July 26
Showing many artist with a lot of potential work

Logotype Collection "Best of best"

~owsian:iconowsian: reports, July 21
Discuss our whole life, what´s the "BEST" logotype ...

Web Design Montage - Version 2

~Calabur:iconCalabur: reports, July 14
A collection of fantastic web designs, most of which have been recently submitted and unseen to the majority of Deviants.

Webdesign Collection "Best of best"

~owsian:iconowsian: reports, July 8
Webdesign Collection "Best of best" ...

55 Free High Quality Icon Sets

¢mindfuckx:iconmindfuckx: reports, July 3
"In the overview below we present 55 more excellent, free and professional icons for desktop and web design."

- by smashingmagazine.com

And as always you'll find quite a few artworks made by fellow deviants.

Web Interfaces Features Vol.1

=FredericoFelix:iconFredericoFelix: reports, June 28
Web Interfaces Features Vol.1

Beautiful Brochures and Booklets

¢mindfuckx:iconmindfuckx: reports, June 16
"This post showcases beautiful examples of brochure and booklet design. We have tried to include creative, visually appealing and interesting design solutions; the booklets presented below are nice to have in the hand and take with you. Hopefully, everybody will find something interesting and unusual for herself or himself."

- smashingmagazine.com

Designs & Interfaces News This Week

Best CarDesigners On DA---Cars Maniac

~L-AhDesign:iconL-AhDesign: reports, 2d 19h ago
I will post here the best car designers ever on DA...
They are must-watch galleries for cars-maniacs..
Warning:you must be really a car-maniac to read all this..

Designs & Interfaces DD's - September 2008

*princepal:iconprincepal: reports, October 3
This is the monthly article featuring the Daily deviations given out in the previous month for the Designs & Interfaces category by :iconlemontea:

New Contest - 3 month subscription to win !!

=haq:iconhaq: reports, October 1
New Contest - 3 month subscription to win !!
great chance to win a subscription!!
for more details go in
If you're not intrested pass it to your friends

D-SIGNCOUP

~sa-m:iconsa-m: reports, 13h 8m ago
Take a look at D-SIGNCOUP. The new community and free platform for designer. Get connected.

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Designs & Interfaces


Sacred Dreams Website Design Contest!

=Healersmoon:iconHealersmoon: reports, July 9
Want to earn a year subscription to DA? Here's your chance!

I’m hosting a web design contest for my beadwork site. I’ve been searching for over a year for the perfect design but although I come close - nothing ever fits exactly! So I’d love to give all of you here on DA the chance to get creative! You do NOT have to know how to code – just how to create a beautiful design!

First, you’ll need to visit the site so you can get a feel for what it is all about. It is an ecommerce site for beadwork. Please at least read the about us page and the dedication – as those are two very important pages for the ‘feel’ of the site.

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The beadwork site was started by my goddaughter, Katie, and I in 1999 as a way to showcase our designs and to sell our products. Sadly, Katie passed away 2 years ago from a tragic car accident. I have changed the site so many times but nothing ever feels quite right and I want to incorporate a couple of different elements into the final design – dreaming & dragonflies.

Here are a couple ideas:

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Contest Specifics:

This contest is not for the CSS or coding. I can do that myself. What I need is the overall design and specific web elements. Therefore, these mediums will be accepted:

•Digital art
;Painting & Airbrushing
•Traditional art
•Drawing & Illustration
;Photomanipulations
•Vexel/vector
;Photography

Contest will begin on July 10th and end on August 31st. Submit the thumb of your overall webpage design image to me via note with the title “Sacred Dreams Contest Entry”. You must include in your deviation notes that your work has been created for the Sacred Dreams Website Design Contest with a link back to this article.

Winning artist must be willing to sign a written agreement that the design will be used solely by Sacred Dreams Custom Beadwork, a.k.a. Debra Mills, but artist will retain the full copyright of the design and will be given credit on the site for the design as well as a link back to his/her site or gallery

Judges: :iconhealersmoon: :icontiranth:

Design Requirements (necessary):

1. Overall design page (which will be what you submit as your deviation)
2. Specific elements needed (will be emailed to me once the winner has been chosen):
• Masthead/logo
• Background/ Home Page
• Main Nav bar buttons & Subnav bar buttons (blank or with the ability to edit the text)
• Banner (for promotions on other website)
• Product page (for displaying products – this can be the same as using a background/masthead or it can be a separate page that is slightly different)

The way I envision is to have on unique home page look, then to have the rest of the pages look similar. You can kind of see through browsing the site what is needed. The site used to be very image heavy but I’m going to have to get around that, as I can no longer afford to pay for extra storage and bandwidth.

Design must contain these elements in any fashion you choose:
• Dragonflies
• Dreaming or dreamlike quality (could be night sky, could be abstract, something to tie in with Sacred Dreams)
• Colors preferred in any combination (but not mandatory): blue/green, gold, black, white, purple

Since this is a beadwork site, a Native American theme (i.e. beads, dreamcatchers, dancers, etc) would be great, but totally not necessary. Tribal designs are always good, too!

**Please remember to credit all stockers and images used for reference, or designs will be disqualified.

Prizes:

At this time, there will be only one winner. Winner will receive a 1 year subscription to DA. (More prizes coming!) The winning website chosen will be used as my final website design.

Disclaimer: Since this IS for my website, I do reserve the right NOT to choose a winner if none of the designs entered seem to fit what I envision and need. In this case, I WILL choose the top three designs and each one will win a 3-month sub.

**Please send me a note if you can donate any prizes to this contest! I would love to be able to offer a 2nd and 3rd place prize!

Have Fun! :hug: :heart:

Thanks for your consideration and for helping me with this project!

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`imaginedmoments:iconimaginedmoments: Jul 9, 2008, 7:38:22 PM
So sorry about your goddaughter :hug: A wonderful idea for a contest. I might attempt something myself when I have time (probably August after summer school is out). I love designing but have not done any for some time (except my own site that I am currently working on) ..... the fantasy art sort of got in the wya of my web design plans ;) Any who, I hope you get many wonderful entries and end up totally spoiled for choice :heart:

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~Gummi-Worms:iconGummi-Worms: Jul 17, 2008, 11:56:38 AM
its a good contest, but i know a few good template websites.

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*Cheezen:iconCheezen: Sep 7, 2008, 10:06:01 AM
Are you going to present the winners in the post or is it secret?

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