via Mary’s Rosaries

I came across this bit of news on t3n.de: Tailor Brands is out there. There’s 2 ways to deal with it: ignore it or deal with it. Well, I gave it a try to see whether logo machines like 99 designs, fiverr and tailorbrands pose a threat to our (financial) existence as professional designers.

Here’s a sequence of what my input steps were in order to get an uninspired logo that didn’t appeal to me and reassured me: I will live on as a designer!

It wasn’t until now, when my old 2007 MB was sitting next to my 2013 MB Pro, that I paid attention to the massive difference in detail between the old “low” res and new retina res screens. Wowser!

The number on the calculator icon apparently refers to the year 1975 when the first Apple computer was produced. More OS X icon easter eggs are listed here.

Finally I have a bit more space to breathe and work with in Illustrator (Top: Eizo 27″, bottom: 13″ MB Pro). Means less much scrolling per square inch!

Lufthansa passengers on tour
Unfortunately they don’t give away the illustrator names. Please ping me if you recognise them! 

Köthke, Brennabor, Trainingsrad Piet Dickentmann 1926
source: http://www.zeit.de/sport/tour-de-france.html#chapter-01 

as seen here

Exhibition in the Kemistry Gallery starts on 9 May!

via Vimeo

FF Dingbats 2.0

Design: Edward Johnston (1919)

Design: Benno Wissing & Hartmut Kowalke, Total Design (1971–75)
*note sure if this was designed exclusively for the T-B G annual report 1971

Design: Original design in-house, under the guidance of Gary McCavitt, Director of Brand Identity, Cisco Systems (1990); Re-design by Joe Finocchiaro and Jerry Kuyper (2006)

Design: The Partners (2008)

Design: Landor (2009)

Design: Katie Morgan and Natalie Bennett (2005, at 300million)

Design: Lance Wyman (1966)

Design: Carolyn Davidson (1971)

Design: Milton Glaser (1975)