If you are this website is here to help www.ComicSansCriminal.com .
“Helping people like you to learn to use Comic Sans appropriately.”
A tongue in cheek look at how the typeface has been used and abused over the years and then offering ‘the Comic Sans Pledge’.
Make sure you sign yours… (more…)
Parrot Hosting is a UK based hosting company with friendly, personal support for Small Businesses and Start-Up’s that need a helping hand to get their website on the internet.
Amongst its services it offers Joomla hosting, Email hosting as well as UK and US hosting.
They provide ongoing assistance in setting up your domain, organising your emails and getting your website up and running.
Before commencing work on this identity design project Dot Design firstly supplied Parrot Hosting with a questionnaire to find out more about the business and what it wanted to communicate to its audience and potential customers.
Using this as a basis we presented 6 initial concepts for Parrot Hosting’s logo design, below we take you quickly through each concept… (more…)
1. How long have you been an graphic designer?
I have always been interested in computers and graphics, but I originally moved to London from Norway to become a fashion designer. I did a foundation in Womens-Wear at London College of Fashion and realized it wasn’t for me.. So I did a bachelor degree in Textile Design Print at Central St Martins where I graduated in 2007. This is where I realized how much I loved creating imagery designs for different purposes, and I found my love for digital printing. When I graduated I realized I didn’t particularly wanted to become a textile designer either so I moved onto just doing my own projects of graphic designs where I can mix all my favorite medias. I managed to make a couple of contacts within the music and fashion industry and started doing work for them on a freelance basis. (more…)
Like many designers and design companies I quite often receive CV’s and samples of work from design students. As much as I’d love to employ these designers I’m currently not in the position to do so, so rather than keeping hold of their work until the chance arises I thought I’d give some of it abit of a airing on here in a series of design student spotlights.
This will hopefully help raise their profiles or maybe another design company (more…)