Category Archives: Design

Punctuation in graphic design

Great Flickr set from print magazine featuring punctuation use in graphic design. ?! on Flickr

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World Cup boffins predict tournament winners

Here’s a great infographic featured in this month’s Wired UK.  The infographic was created by Section Design from data by journalist Simon Kuper and economist Stefan Szymanski. If you haven’t read it, I recommend Kuper and Szymanski’s Soccernomics.  In the book they outline the basic theory used in this infographic, along with a bunch of [...]

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Logo roundup

As a follow up to the previous post here about the London Sperm Bank logo, here are two more articles about logos. First up is a link to 12 unfortunate logos.  Whereas the London Sperm Bank designers were clearly designing their logo with tongue planted firmly in cheek (bad choice of words maybe), it seems [...]

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London bank rebranding

Err, sperm bank rebranding.  This is more about typography than punctuation, but this was too entertaining not to post.  Good to see them not taking themselves too seriously. London Sperm Bank brand designed by Silk Pearce

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New AOL logos

Yesterday AOL released images of its new logo.  We’re going to spend some time looking at this “rebranding” effort to understand what the goals were, and whether they were successful. I have to say I’m a little confused.  I thought AOL stood for America Online, and it turns out this used to be true, but [...]

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