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		<title>Why designers can be their own worst enemy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Douglas</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Couple of events reverberating around the design world over the past couple of days that are sort of indicative of where the profession is heading. The first was evangelical pastor Rick Warren, his publisher Zondervan, and their collective decision to hold a $5,000 (upped from the original $3K) book cover design contest on 99designs. The [...]


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		<title>iStockphoto to sell stock logos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Douglas</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In an announcement that took some in the design industry by surprise, iStockphoto today announced that they were planning to roll out some sort of stock logo service, presumably after the New Year. Shortly after the news hit Twitter (and after receiving an e-mail from David Airey about the plan) I received this e-mail from [...]


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		<title>Why you shouldn’t use a photograph in your logo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Douglas</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Designers often talk, a great lengths, why a logo design has to be simple, some going as far to say it&#8217;s a &#8220;carved in stone&#8221; kinda rule. While I agree in principle with that basic premise, it&#8217;s a rule that we&#8217;ve been guilty of breaking, on numerous occasions (in our defense, we always make sure [...]


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		<title>Podcast redux. Help us pick our new podcast topic!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Douglas</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As part of our brand and site retooling, we&#8217;re planning to release a regular series of podcasts through iTunes and our site. Gearing up for a weekly release, though that might be a tad optimistic if earlier efforts are any indication.
Previous Podcast fail
We started recording podcasts last year, but our &#8216;weekly&#8217; series fell quickly to [...]


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		<title>Bitmap to Vector conversion. Online Vector Tracing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Douglas</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Any logo designer worth their salt knows that vector formats are the only way to go when it comes to logo design. The vector-capability boundaries between Illustrator and Photoshop have blurred a little over the years (yes, you can create vector based in images, but it&#8217;s still a little hinky). Years ago, when it came [...]


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		<title>Defending crowdsourcing &amp; design contests. The platitudes of spec work.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Douglas</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been following the design and advertising industry news over the past month or so, you&#8217;ve probably bumped into someone sqwaking about the CP+B (Crispin, Porter &#38; Bogusky) crowdsourced project for the Brammo company, creator of the Enteria electric &#8216;power bike&#8217;. If not, let&#8217;s recap quickly. CP+B, a big thing among trendy ad agencies, [...]


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		<title>The Politics of a Spec Design Pitch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Douglas</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Update: Ruh-oh. According to AdFreak it looks like the ad was approved by WWF Brazil and DID run (just once) in a Brazilian newspaper.
&#8220;WWF Brasil and DDB Brasil would like to jointly express their regret for the unfortunate incident involving the &#8216;Tsunami&#8217; ad for World Wildlife Fund Brasil. The ad does not convey either the [...]


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		<title>Kelowna logo design dust-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Douglas</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Little bit of a dustup going up Kelowna way in British Columbia, thanks to the city&#8217;s newly unveiled logo. The design, part of an $80,000 rebranding project, was warmly received by city council members until it was suggested that the supposedly pine-cone inspired logo looked awfully similar to a logo designed a few years back [...]


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		<title>Pardon our mess</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Douglas</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Things on our blog are going to be a little hinky over the next few days. Regular readers will probably have noticed that we&#8217;ve begun to integrate our new logo, and our new web design layout (see here for that plan) into these pages. Figured that would be a good way to begin our new [...]


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		<title>How-to business advice for the freelance designer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Douglas</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[One of the cooler features on being on Twitter (follow us here) is that you&#8217;ll bump into like-minded people that you otherwise might not have had the opportunity. Such was the case with my running into Jeremy Tuber (follow him here), an Arizona-based graphic designer who runs the very-appropriately named website, Being a Starving Artist [...]


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