Ace Jet 170 is a blog by Richard Weston, an English graphic designer working in Belfast (a city close to my heart). Richard is married with two “very young, active, funny and very brilliant” boys. At work he mainly develops and implements brands and corporate IDs, works very hard and eats cake.
Your feedback is much appreciated on this live logo design project for a client of mine.
The company is called Circle and they primarily offer web hosting. However, they’re undergoing a complete re-branding and are branching out to offer addtional services, such as design, fax2email, servers, ADSL, credit cards – a “complete solution” in their words.
They [...]
I’d like to give you credit for implementing what I believe is an excellent design element into your website or blog. It can be a great logo, footer, use of imagery, or something unique that I haven’t seen somewhere else. That’s why I’m launching the Creative Design Awards.
I’m going to choose five people today that [...]
Here’s an idea I put on the back-burner some time ago. I was talking to a friend who wanted to set up his own graphic design business here in the UK. We thought of possible names and one he liked was Five 54.
Five 54 represents the degrees of longitude and latitude where he was born, [...]
When it comes to seeing a logo that makes you wonder, “Why didn’t I think of that?”, what exactly is it about the design that gives you that impression?
There are four critical elements that can be seen in every great logo design, and I list them here.
UPDATE: August 22nd, 2007
Since writing this post I’ve changed the layout of my blog, and have removed the random quote generator Plugin. By all means, please leave your creative quotes in the comments. They’ll no longer be featured, but I’d still love you to share them.
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What are your favourite creative quotes? Words that inspire you [...]
Are you a smoker? Would this cigarette packaging (above) put you off smoking? I bet Marlboro are loving this government addition to their cigarette packets. Pitcure the facial expression of your date, when you calmly light up a cigarette before flipping the packet onto the table where she sits opposite. I think it’d be a [...]
Just how different is graphic design in the United States when compared with that of the rest of the world?
From the above image I think you’ll agree the difference is quite striking.
Forget Apple. Forget Adobe.
The top 3 most important design tools known to man and woman are (in reverse order of importance):
A nutritious breakfast
A sketch pad (pencil included)
Your brain
Budding designers take note, a computer does not make my top 3.
What’s up there in your top 3?