Some time ago, we published a post about creative album cover artwork. Since there are so many great album covers which haven’t been featured so far, and due to some reader requests, we decided to publish a sequel. Enjoy!
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The capabilities of the Internet have gone further than we could have ever imagined; people practically live on their computers, relying on them for everything from communication to shopping to entertainment. Because it is a popular forum for exchanging ideas and information it is ever changing, and keeping ahead of the trends is hard to do. The more easy solution is to go with the old standards, such as the use of black and white in website design.
This is a style of layout that uses a basic two-tone scheme to give a more poignant, attractive look to a site. Though it is often a popular choice, it seems to be trending heavily this year, especially with sites related to creative endeavors. Bands, artists, web designers and writers have been opting for a black and white look for their personal sites.
Every regular Internet user has probably noticed that, in the last years, the presence of social media has become a banality, remaining however an important way of improving the author-reader interactivity. For someone with experience in the field of the World Wide Web, the chances of not having a profile on websites such as Facebook, MySpace or Twitter are closing in on zero. You need to understand that social media is not only represented by some applications that do not make any sense, reflecting that it is possible that, in the near future, for the search engine algorithms to analyze how many times a website is distributed according to the most relevant social application. Surely, if this fact turns into reality, then we could be talking about a new digital revolution.
In my own experience, it is quite an annoying situation when I try to finish reading a post and I am assaulted by a great collection of logos of various social websites.
We have always heard the idiom “actions speak louder than words” and this is precisely what makes online screen capture services so important in the context of web designing. With the popularity of YouTube, video instructions and marketing are capturing the imagination of the public like nothing. People creating websites and software are now using online screen capturing tools to both educate the public about how to use them as well as for marketing purposes.
Online screen capture videos help web developers in multiple ways. The most important use, as mentioned above, is to take screenshots or videos of what you are working on. This helps you in multiple ways. You can document the working of your website and prepare images and videos for making presentations.
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The purpose of a company logo is to represent the company’s products, services, and business philosophy in a single image. Quite often a company’s logo is the first aspect of the company a consumer encounters, and therefore creates a lasting impression in the consumer’s mind. For this reason, it is imperative that a company’s logo provides an accurate representation of the services and products it offers. It is also important for the logo to be physically appealing to the company’s target consumer base.
For example, consider the Gerber baby logo:
While the color of the logo has changed over time, the essential design—featuring an appealing portrait-style picture in a circular frame—has remained the same, and continues to be effective. The reason for the success of this particular logo has to do with its visual appeal to the current or expecting mothers that make up Gerber’s target consumer base. A logo with sharp lines and a crying baby would hardly be as effective as the featured circular portrait of a happy baby.
Now consider the evolution of the Firefox search engine logo, as shown below:
While the original Firebird logo was somewhat cartoonish and even a bit threatening, the original Firebox logo—which emerged at the same time the search engine changed its name—draws the viewer in and resembles the circular motion signally the loading of a web page. Nonetheless, the coloring of this original Firefox logo is somewhat dark and potentially foreboding, whereas the current Firefox logo is lighter and brighter, and suggestive of optimism. This evolving shift from dark to light is one of the more prominent logo trends of 2010.
While we all know the importance of the content of any webpage, what we often ignore is the first impression that the visitor forms when visiting any webpage. It is of paramount importance to know that the first thing that any visitor looks at is the look of the page. If the look is appealing enough only then does the reader move on to read the content. Graphic designers today are laying a huge importance on typography to make a webpage look attractive. When creating items like E-Books, brochures and pamphlets, it is important that the design and layout of the font is managed well so as to make any webpage look attractive.
At earlier times, typesetters used manual modes to perform this action but with the advancement in technology, it is now possible to design fonts on the computer. There are some fantastic typography tools that are available for use now that enable the webpage creator to create some fantastic font styles to attract the readers.
Nowadays the means of obtaining a good publicity campaign are numerous and someone who needs this is kindly advised to ask for the services of an expert. The birth of the Internet simply increased in an exponential manner all what depends on marketing and publicity. I can’t imagine someone who wants to promote, but didn’t use Internet for that.
An item that is very important in establishing a good visual identity is the business card. Most people consider it being only a small piece of paper, but in fact a business card could give you more pieces of information than only the possibility of contacting the owner. A good first impression is given by a well designed business card; in some regions of the world the importance of it considerable: in China it is a severe mistake to write on a business card or to put it in a wallet! It is true that we are living in a digital era, but it is wrong to totally neglect the power of paper or of the “conventional” modalities of promoting (conventional means here all besides the Internet).