As its still early in the year we thought we’d turbo-charge your creativity by featuring a collection of 50 mighty logo designs gathered from well known online logo galleries. All are designs that show a display of power and might and vary in tone from serious to humorous and masculine to feminine in execution. This [...]

When it comes to logo trends, transparency seems to be having something of a moment. It’s a brilliant way to bring branding to life. A well executed transparent logo can add the next level of colour variation and depth. It’s an elegant technique that designers also use to introduce a sense of perspective to a [...]

The tablet app development platform Oomph has launched Oomph Marketplace, an app marketplace for self-service customizable app templates. Like Themeforest is to Wordpress templates, designers can create and sell their templates in the Oomph store. Oomph will be launching new functionality in the coming weeks so Designers can sell templates they have created in store. Leading [...]

In May we mentioned that a client of DesignCrowd launched one of the biggest online logo design contest prizes to have ever been posted. The TimesSquare.com $10,000 logo design contest. The contest closed in August after receiving 5, 845 designs from 1,300 designers from around the world. On 12-12-12, TimesSquare.com announced the top 5 winners on its site. [...]

The iPhone App Store hit the internet back in 2008 and in just four years apps have been well and truly accepted into the mainstream. From getting on top of your finances to managing your personal fitness, there’s an app for it. But the most fun aspect of apps is the possibilities they present for [...]

Yesterday Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia and Minister of Parliament announced the winner of a t-shirt design contest he launched in October. The winner is Studio71, a graphic design studio started by Shane Marchewka who discovered the contest on crowdsourcing site DesignCrowd and submitted six designs to the website’s $1,000 t-shirt design contest. “I registered [...]

In this guest op-ed Alec Lynch, the founder and CEO of DesignCrowd, a design crowdsourcing website, argues that political groups like Greenpeace are increasingly relying on the creative power of  online ‘crowds’ to drive activity and create media awareness around their agenda. Crowdsourcing design is a proven way to generate creative ideas – from logo design to [...]

The first impression is always very important and quite often crucial when dealing with customers. Displaying your company or personal identity in a properly and creative fashion might be the difference between potential and real clients. Below I have gathered a small collection of 33 Business Cards that captured my attention with their style, colors [...]

The need for unique visual identities has pushed both designers and ventures in capturing inspiration from unusual and common origins. Today, we showcase 50 logos with a slightly common source: logos inspired by animals that human beings have managed to domesticate during thousands of years. Symbolism plays a significant part in logo design and extracting inspiration [...]

The Kiev based Ukrainian illustrator and graphic designer Yuri Galitsyn passed away unexpectedly earlier this month. According to Galitsyn’s LinkedIn profile, he studied book drawing in the early 1980s at the Higher Polygraphic Institute in Kiev (known as the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute) during the twilight years of Soviet ruled Ukraine. Galitsyn’s body of work was extensive  with a [...]

The holiday season is fast approaching and around the globe, marketing machines are whirring into action. Your clients are probably no different and you’re under the crunch to get some Christmas-themed design work signed, sealed and delivered. Here are 30 awesome cutting edge designs from others in your predicament to jumpstart the creative process. Season’s Greetings It’s [...]

Illustrator’s Live Trace option came about with the release of Adobe’s Creative Suite 2, so it has been around for a while. Live Trace was designed as an easy way to convert raster-based graphics into vector graphics, be it either .gif versions of graphics or symbols or .jpg versions of photographs. Anything that involves pixels [...]

Benjamin de Cock is a freelance designer who works out of his home office in Belgium. His focuses are interface and icon design, and he’s 28 years old. Benjamin spends most of his time designing Stripe and Kickoff. We caught up with Ben to talk to him about his design practices and approach. What software/hardware do [...]

Halloween is drawing to a close in some parts of the world where the holiday has become popular, such as Australia, and it’s about to begin in its homeland — the United States. Given that it’s one of the biggest holiday events of the year, beating out the popularity even of Easter in many locations, we’ve [...]

It’s Halloween and we’ve had our fun — but we all know what this holiday is really about: scaring the hell out of people! Check out these 30 awesomely illustrated designs containing skeletons, zombies, walking pumpkins and other frightening fiends. Party Skelly Pumpkin Skull Candy Zombie Dude Tricky Princess Skull-n-Rattles Pumpkin 2 Pumpkin 3 Little Pumpkin The Thing Bride of Frankenstein Rahmstein Sugar Mouse Wicked Jack Boo! Witch History Lesson? The Ghost