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A Great New Relationship – West Kent College

At the end of last year we kicked off our new relationship with West Kent College by designing and printing their strategy document for 2010. The end result is a clean, flowing document with some great design touches. We’re already looking forward to the next project, so keep your eyes peeled because there will be plenty more to come…

Below is a sneaky peak from the strategy document… we obviously can’t give it all away…

West Kent College - Strategy Diagram

West Kent College - Strategy Diagram

The 50 Dollar Logo Experiment

Found this on the interweb :) most amusing… by Jim Walls on the www.160over90.com/blog

A couple of weeks back, Forbes ran a little article deeming graphic design as snooty business, before profiling a site called CrowdSpring where clients go to throw spec logo projects to a pool of 13,000 Photoshop jockeys. The winning design gets about $200 or so, the rest go back to their day jobs. For some, apparently, the day job unfortunately involves designing more free logos for other contest sites – a career that likely ranks second in salary behind Hopelessly Addicted Scratch-Off Lottery Ticket Enthusiast.

Of course, the design community went apoplectic in response to the article. Ethics! some lamented in the comments. Iam sure a few of them even dashed off another design manifesto or two or fifty.

Here’s the truth, though, and why all the good designers need to relax: the vast majority of the self-described designers on sites like CrowdSpring aren’t really designers. Sure, they may have a (likely pirated) version of Adobe CS4 and spent an hour or so on a few online tutorials. But owning a copy of Pet Sounds doesn’t make you Brian Freaking Wilson. And from the looks of things, most submitters are doing nothing more than manipulating a few drop-down menus to add type over top of some clip art and calling it a logo…

Read the rest here… it is worth it for the giggles >>