What Could Be (dot com) Archives: August 2006
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31 August 2006
logo mojo
People have emotional responses to simple designs, and nowhere is this more evident than in logo design. Certain images signify complex ideas such as reliability, wealth, intelligence, or wisdom: a rock, for example, is often used to portray reliability, while words or images coming out of a square (”thinking outside the box”) brings to mind [...]
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27 August 2006
results 1-10 of about 1,250 for design studio near Portland, OR
It’s official: we’re a downtown business. CouldBe Studios gets an office this week in the Park Washington building on SW Park Avenue. We feel so…official. Does this mean we can’t work in our pajamas anymore?
In addition to the new digs, we’re taking the wraps off our portfolio site, CouldBe Design. We went with the minimalist [...]
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16 August 2006
In which we declare the death of “Web 2.0″
You know a concept is dead when the parody is easier to recognize than the concept itself. Thus, I point you toward the Web 2.0 Logo Creator, where you can 2.0-ize your company, your website…even yourself:
(Thanks to ProBlogger for the link.)
Now can we all move on from the Web 2.0 thing? Plz and thank you.
Besides, [...]
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7 August 2006
illustration with a vengeance
Get out your pencils, kids: illustration is back. Stock photographs or slick Web 2.0 style graphics are so last year. The next generation of graphic design is all about good old-fashioned illustration with a digital twist.
Very clean, slick and slightly stiff digital illustration has been popular for a while now, as is a style that [...]
