Category Archives: Design

Punctuation in graphic design

By question | Published: July 1, 2010
Great Flickr set from print magazine featuring punctuation use in graphic design. ?! on Flickr
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World Cup boffins predict tournament winners

By question | Published: May 13, 2010
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 other [...]
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Logo roundup

By question | Published: March 15, 2010
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 the [...]
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London bank rebranding

By question | Published: March 3, 2010
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

By question | Published: November 24, 2009
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 it’s [...]
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Numerical and punctuation logos

By question | Published: October 23, 2009
Great post from a graphic design blog highlighting some logos with creative use of punctuation. I like the panda logo a lot, even though it doesn’t have numbers or punctuation.  It’s the only logo without a title or a link though, I’d like to know who created it or where it came from. Post your feedback in [...]
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