When are you a successful designer?

So, when do you consider you are a successful designer?

Any graphic design project needs a detailed design brief. There are two main reasons:

Are these some of the world’s best logo designers? There are many other iconic logo designers, but these are names associated with some of the best logos around. Leave your thoughts, objections or suggestions by typing a comment.
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.

I’d like to give you credit for implementing what I believe is an excellent design element into your website or blog. Be it a great logo, footer, use of imagery, or something unique that I’ve not seen anywhere else. Hence my humble Creative Design Awards.

When it comes to seeing a logo that makes you wonder, “Why didn’t I think of that?”, what is it about the design that gives that impression?
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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 [...]
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How different is graphic design in the United States from the rest of the world?
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Forget Apple. Forget Adobe. The three 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 enter the top three. What’s up there in your top tools?