Posts Tagged ‘British Airways’

02.02.11

Top 10 Inspirational Typography Design Blogs

Top 10 Typography Design Blogs
Recently in a blog I published ‘Top 10 Inspirational Brand Design Blogs’, I mentioned a huge issue faced by brand designers like myself, the difficulty of finding great brand design blogs for inspiration and knowledge of current trends. In the wake of that article I have had numerous requests and queries on which are my favorite typography design blogs going round. So since I am a man of the people, I have put together a list of my top 10 inspirational typography design blogs and websites in no particular order, enjoy!

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07.29.10

The Truly Deeply 2010 Trend Report – The Visual Language of Brands

The Most Comprehensive Trend Report on the Visual Language of Brand Identity
Trends in the visual language of brand identity are driven by many factors from the ‘me-too-ism’ of designers and their clients mimicking the visual language of market leaders, to new and emerging trends such as ‘sustainability’ that draw a similar and en-mass visual response from designers all over the world. Over the past 12 months we have collected more than five thousand different brand expressions spanning almost every major industry and category of the western world.

Our 2010 Trend Report has been picked-up and re-published in blogs and marketing publications around the world – so by request we’re providing the report as one, complete pdf download (even if it is a whopping 6.8mb in size).

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04.12.10

Trend Report – Visual Language of Brands (Chapters 4&5)

The Fourth and Fifth Chapters in our Comprehensive Trend Report
Over the last three Mondays we’ve published the first three sections of our research report into trends in visual language. This Monday and next Monday we’ll publish the final chapters of the report. In this week’s chapters we’re exploring trends in brand visual language of ‘Shape Shifting’, ‘QR Codes’ as well as a number of typographic trends we’ve spotted.

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03.03.10

The Power of Colour in Brand Design

Today it’s more critical than ever for businesses to differentiate themselves from their competitors and make memorable connections with their audience by creating unique, recognisable brands.

Colour in Brand Design
Every touch point of a brand plays a vital role in brand recall, but the brand mark is the heart and soul of a brand’s image. Whilst it’s the interplay between colour, typeface, and symbol that creates a brand mark, colour is registered by the brain before either images or typography. A University of Loyola, Maryland study recently found the correct use of colour could increase brand recognition by up to 80%.

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