This is the third wallpaper calendar in the Calendar 2010 series I started this year. You can find the calendars for January (Multilingual Typographic Calendar) here and for February (Retro Love) here. I was kinda bored and was looking for some fun. So, I came up with this one. Ladies & Gentlemen, allow me to introduce Mr. Chuck who err…happens to just lost his tooth. The wallpaper is available in two versions; with calendar and without calendar and is also available for iPhone.

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Brushes are great when it comes to adding lighting effects such as streaks and flares and are great for abstract digital art manipulations. In fact the possibilities are endless and you could do wonders with them. Fortunately, there are some great light and streak brushes which you can download and use in your projects. All of these brushes are free to use for your personal projects, however, I would recommend you to have a look at the licensing agreements of the original owners for commercial use.

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As a freelancer, most of us lose track of time we spend on a project; and when it comes to billing, we all know what a pain managing that is. That’s where time tracking and billing softwares come handy. Creative Repository is giving away one free license of Fanurio, a time tracking and billing software, to one of our lucky readers.

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Fanurio is a time tracking and billing software application, highly appreciated by freelancers for its intuitive interface, flexible timer and ability to produce detailed invoices.

Whether you need to round time, use multiple currencies or create invoices with your own layout, Fanurio has the right tools to help you get paid. It comes with a number of features for tracking time, invoicing, and tracking the status of those invoices. Invoice templates are available, even as part of the free trial. In addition, Fanurio includes a reporting system that will help you to analyze your use of time and how it impacts your income. For more information on the features see Fanurio’s Features Overview.

There are many options for invoicing and time tracking, and most are web-based solutions that involve a monthly fee. Fanurio is cross-platform software that comes with a one-time charge of $59 to purchase the license with no on-going monthly fees.

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Update: Winner Announced

As of now, the comments are closed and the winner has been chosen. I used a random number generator at Random.org for the selection of the winner. Here is the screenshot of the result.

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Invitation Card Designs make any occasion seem special. What more special and memorable can it get when it comes to wedding. A unique, personalized and a custom made invitation card adds to the joy of the occasion, a moment to be treasured and cherished for the years to come. Engraving was the highest quality printing technology available in the past and now has become associated with the wedding invitation tradition. Have a look at a collection of some great examples of creative and inspirational wedding invitation card designs from around the world.

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Continuing on from the start of this year, this is the second wallpaper calendar after January 2010. I have decided to explore a different media of design each month. Last month, I started with Typography and this time it is a Retro themed version, inspired by Deandesign. “Retro” can be used to simply mean “old fashioned” or old, functioning much like “timeless” or “classic”. It is is a term used to describe, denote or classify culturally outdated or aged trends, modes, or fashions, from the overall postmodern past, but have since that time become functionally or superficially the norm once again.The wallpaper is available in a number of resolutions and also available for iPhone.

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Over the years, numerous telecommunication companies have emerged specializing in various fields including network equipment, cellular, broadband and wireless communications and what not. With increasing competitors in the market, every brand needs an identity to stand out from the rest. Many brands went through a re-branding; some succeeded in the process while others had a pit-down fall. Being in the Telecom field, I was particularly interested in writing this post. A look at the logos of some of the leading Telecommunication brands and their brief overview is provided in this post.

AT&T Bell System

AT&T stands for “American Telephone & Telegraph”. The logo had numerous revisions over the years. Saul Bass designed the 6th AT&T Bell System graphic logo in 1983 which stood prominent than the past logos. However, the logo went under another change and was designed to look three-dimensional, “representing the expanding breadth and depth of services that the new AT&T family of companies provides to customers”, as the company representatives stated. AT&T Inc. is the largest provider of local, long distance telephone services in the United States, and is the second largest provider of wireless service in USA, with over 150 million total customers.

Here is an interesting PDF provided by the company’s corporate website showing the “Timeline evolution of the company’s logo”.

Vodafone

Vodafone Group is a British multinational mobile network operator and is the world’s largest mobile telecommunication network company, based on revenue. It currently operates in about 31 countries with partner networks in  further 40 countries with a subscriber count of more than 427 million. In 1997, Vodafone introduced its Speechmark logo, as it is a quotation mark in a circle; the O’s in the Vodafone logotype represent opening and closing quotation marks, suggesting conversation.

Verizon

Verizon Communications Inc. is an American broadband and telecommunications company. It was formally known as Bell Atlantic. The current name is a portmanteau of veritas and horizon. Despite the company’s reputation, I think most of you would agree with me that the current Verizon logo looks terrible. The red to white gradients look so cheap on print ads and mobile phones. With so many other providers taking on the “cool side”, Verizon certainly needs a re-branding.

Orange

Orange is the brand used by France Télécom for its mobile network operator and Internet service provider subsidiaries. It is the fifth largest telecom operator in the world, with over 189 million customers as of 2009^[update]. The Orange brand was created by an internal team at Microtel headed by Chris Moss (Marketing Director) and supported by Martin Keogh, Rob Furness and Ian Pond. Wolff Olins was responsible for designing the brand values and logo and advertising agency WCRS created the Orange slogan “The Future’s bright, the Future’s Orange” along with the now famous advertising. The logo is square because it was felt that the word orange could be seen as a fruit and it needed to be strong in the business world rather like American Express and Hertz. It was also important to establish it as the colour Orange, which is seen as a strong Feng Shui colour.

Download Orange logo in Adobe Illustrator format.

France Télécom

France Télécom is the main telecommunications company in France, the third-largest in Europ e and one of the largest in the world, and has nearly 160 million customers worldwide. The France Telecom logo was designed in 1999 by Landor. The colours are blue (Pantone 280), red (Pantone 485) and orange (Pantone 021). France Telecom uses its proprietary typeface Bienvenue, designed by Jean-François Porchez at Porchez Typofonderie.

China Mobile

China Mobile provides mobile voice and multimedia servic es through its nationwide mobile telecommunications network, the largest of its kind in the world. As of 2009, it is the world’s largest mobile phone operator, with more than 508 million subscribers, the largest Chinese company listed overseas and the largest telecom carrier in Asia. China Mobile expanded overseas in 2007, with the purchase of Paktel in Pakistan, and launched the ZoNG brand there a year later. CMPak (China Mobile Pakistan re-branded Paktel to ZoNG. The current ZoNG logo comes with a special emphasis on its “o”.

Download China Mobile logo in EPS.

T-Mobile

T-Mobile is a mobile telephone provider, owned by Deutsche Telekom (the T stands for Telekom) with several GSM networks in Europe and the United States. Globally, T-Mobile has some 150 million subscribers, making it the world’s seventh largest mobile phone service provider by subscribers and the third largest multinational after the United Kingdom’s Vodafone and Spain’s Telefónica. C-Netz (”C Network”, marketed as C-Tel) was Germany’s first true mobile phone network. On July 1, 1992, the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom began to operate Germany’s first GSM network, along with the C-Netz, as its DeTeMobil subsidiary, and was known as D-Netz, and Telekom named its service D1. In 1996, as Deutsche Telekom began to brand its subsidiaries with the T- prefix, the network was renamed T-D1 and DeTeMobil became T-Mobil; the C-Netz, in the process of being wound down, was not rebranded, and was shut down in 2000.

A T-Mobile liveried Ayats Bravo coach used in World Cup promotion

Johnson Banks thinks that the T-Mobile logo needs a little bit of a re-do, “because of the odd proportions of the logo, the ‘T’ ends up miles from ‘Mobile’ “. He has suggested a re-do of the logo here, which is quite interesting.

• T-Mobile Advertising Campaigns
• Download T-Mobile logo in EPS.

Sprint Nextel

Sprint Nextel Corporation is a telecommunications company based in Overland Park, Kansas. The company owns and operates the third largest wireless telecommunications network in United States, with 48 million customers, behind Verizon Wireless and AT&T Mobility. The company was created in 2005 by the purchase of Nextel Communications by Sprint Corporation. On December 15, 2004, Sprint and NEXTEL announced they would merge to form Sprint Nextel Corporation. The former logo used by Nextel was re-branded with slight changes after the merge.

The new logo of the Sprint Nextel Corporation was one of the first attempts at seamlessly meshing the initial brands of both the Sprint Corporation and Nextel Communications. The logo is a blend of the former Sprint “pin drop” marketing image as well as the colors of Nextel’s bright yellow and black logo design with its cellular service level bars that, in past marketing, would get “typed” from a single vertical black line. The Sprint logo was designed in 2005 by Lippincott Mercer. It uses the typeface “TheSans”. Sprint logo creates a nice contrast between the bright yellow and black, and also suits well on dark cased phones.

Download Sprint logo in EPS.

BT Group

BT Group, abbreviated to British Telecom is the privatised former state telecommunications operator in the United Kingdom. It is the dominant fixed line telecommunications and broadband Internet provider in the UK, and also operates in more than 170 countries around the world. For more than a decade British Telecom used a red and blue man blowing his trumpet as their corporate identity. A re-design was made by Wolff Ollins in 2003. The colorful combination depicting the “connected world” globe has been used to date as the logo for BT Openworld, the Internet operations of BT.

BT Logo on a van in 1980s

See some more photos here.

Etisalat

Etisalat is a UAE-based telecommunications services provider, currently operating in 17 countries across Asia, the Middle East and Africa. As of November 2009, Etisalat is the 13th largest mobile network operator in the world, with a total customer base of 94 million. The current identity reflects Etisalat’s values of transparency, optimism, openness, simplicity and reliability. The green colour in the logo signifies life, growth and renewal. Green is the national colour of the UAE, and Etisalat has a long and close association with its home nation- the UAE.

An important milestone was Etisalat’s commencement of international operations in January 2001, when under the brand name of Ufone it started operating out of Islamabad, Pakistan. Another international investment was made in Mobily, Saudi Arabia. Mobily, Etihad Etisalat offers Saudi Arabia subscribers conventional and 3.5G mobile telephony services, and has floated shares on the Saudi stock market.

Download Etisalat logo in EPS.

NTT docomo

NTT docomo Inc. is the predominant mobile phone operator in Japan. The name is officially an abbreviation of the phrase, “do communications over the mobile network“, and is also from a compound word dokomo, meaning “everywhere” in Japanese. It is a subsidiary of Japan’s incumbent telephone operator NTT.According to the company, “The new logo’s color is red, which symbolizes the company’s energy and dynamism.” The new logo is a well balanced and refreshingly restrained version as compared to the previous logo which was too noisy and lacked the “grown-up” look. However, critics regard the new logo as too simple and “un-inspirational”.

Tata Group, a famous corporate brand partnered with NTT Docomo to introduce a new cellular service in India, named as Tata Docomo. The identity design for the service was executed by Wolff Olins and has a chuncky geometric look. The logo has been used in a number of different color combinations.

Docomo has been organizing a number of contests lately including animation, music contests etc. The response has been great and numerous creative entries were received. Head over to create.tatadocomo.com to check out the entries and latest contests.

Telenor

Telenor is the incumbent telecommunications company in Norway, with headquarters located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. It is currently^[update] ranked as the sixth largest mobile phone operator in the world, with more than 172 million subscribers.

Telenor Pakistan Head Office

Djuice (short of digital juice) is a youth based mobile phone plan from Telenor, available in about seven countries. Djuice was re-branded by Wolff Olins who also played a role in the re-branding of its parent company, Telenor. The new logo has an ‘explosion’ effect and has been used in a variation of colors.

Multimedia Gallery (All Telenor Logos)

Swisscom

Swisscom is Switzerland’s largest Telecom company, delivering solutions and products for mobile, voice and data communications. It is a successor company to the former state-owned PTT. Swisscom announced its new visual identity on 14 December 2007. Part of the new identity included a redesigned logo with a moving picture element and has a 3D feel to it. The new brand was developed by Moving Brands with assistance from Dalton Maag, well known for their typographic work with BMW and UBS. Moving Brands revealed that whilst working on the project, they set up an internal blogsite that documented the whole creative process and allowed all those working on it to exchange ideas in real time. This helped in much more contribution from the team and served as a platform for discussion and feedback. Check out some exciting pics over at Moving Brands website.

Here is a complete time line on the History of the brand.

Batelco

Batelco (Bahrain Telecommunications Company) is the principal telecommunications company of Bahrain and is headquartered in Bahrain. The original logo was designed by Landor in 2003. The identity was re-designed by Futurebrand. Although the previous logo was generic, but had a bit of dull look. Batelco needed to upgrade its identity with the introduction of new competitors in the market. The new logo has a remarkable strong feel to it. The “B” icon is well executed in the sense that it represents the English “B” as well as the Arabic syllable. (The dot below the shape is for the Arabic “B” part).

Telecom New Zealand

Telecom New Zealand is a Wellington, New Zealand-based telephone company, and is now New Zealand’s second largest mobile operator. The new identity for the brand was launched in October 2008. The new logo has been designed by Auckland based Designworks, who also designed the identity for Telecom’s XT Network. The new logo has an asterisk shaped scribbled look, although it has been termed as a spark by the company. Agreed that the logo has a modern look but I still don’t get the gradients and soft glow part in it.

Some pictures from the launching event.

Pakistan Telecommunication Company

Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL) is the largest telecommunication company in Pakistan. This company provides telephony services to the nation and still holds the status of backbone for country’s telecommunication infrastructure despite arrival of a dozen other telcos including telecom giants like Telenor and China Mobile. A part of the shares and control has been sold to Etisalat. The logo went under a change in 2007 as a part of the privatization process.

A OneStopShop in Islamabad

Bharti Airtel

Bharti Airtel is the largest cellular service provider in India, with more than 110 million subscribers as of 2009^[update], and is now the world’s third-largest, single-country mobile operator and sixth-largest integrated telecom operator. The idea behind the logo was to give it a younger feel symbolizing innovation, energy and friendliness.

It must be pure coincidental but the logo designs of Airtel and Youtube hold a striking resemblance!

Saudi Telecom Company

Saudi Telecom Company is a Saudi Arabia-based telecommunications company that offers landline, mobile and Internet services. Relatively a large-scale operator, STC has more than 18 million subscribers in Saudi Arabia, and in addition, they operate in Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, Kuwait and South Africa. It revealed its new logo in 2008 (which I honestly speaking, can’t make anything out of it). It looks more of a blurred smudge or something. In fact I liked their previous version. During the launching campaign of the new logo, STC modified the front page of most of the newspapers with the colors of their new ‘colorful’ logo, which was very annoying. Turquoisebranding was responsible for the re-design. Here is what they have to say.

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An illustration is a visualization that stresses subject more than form. Fashion Illustration is the communication of fashion that originates with illustration, drawing and painting. It is usually commissioned for reproduction in fashion magazines as one part of an editorial feature or for the purpose of advertising and promoting fashion makers, fashion boutiques and department stores. With computer technologies like Illustrator & Photoshop, illustrators are pushing the boundaries of conceptual and expressive artwork in the fashion industry. Take a moment to get inspired by these creative and impressive illustrations.

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Roberto Gamito, Faro, Portugal

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Stefanos Michaelides, Thessaloniki, Greece

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The use of hand-drawn images, icons and fonts are popular in website designs specially blogs for personalizing and giving a unique and artistic touch to designs. Here, I have collected some of the best hand drawn fonts from over around the web. Almost all of them are free to download and use in your projects, but I would recommend you to have a look at the details before using them for commercial purposes.

Sketch Block

Handvetica

WC RoughTrad Bta Font

FFF Tusj

Karabine

Take Out the Garbage

3Dumb & 2Dumb

ElliotSix

Peixe Frito

Tiza

The Quiet Scream

Nymph’s Handwriting

Fail

Jellyka

Scrubble

Waste Of Time

Against Myself

Rock Show Whiplash

GoodDog

UglyQua

Jonny Quest Classic

Love Ya Like a Sister

McCoy-Hello Lori

My Turtle

Jamaistevie

Pappo’s Blues Band

Note This!

Luna Bar

Journal

Hand of Sean

Daniel

Dali

Christopher Hand

Clementine Sketch

Mia’s Scribblings

Grutch Shaded

Positiv A

Mellyboo

Sketchy Font

Roughage

Octember Script

Joyful Juliana

Harrison

Richard Murray

Ellianarelle’s Path

Les oeufs de Cassowary

Czaristite, Regular

Tucker

Jump Start

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A pictogram is basically an image that represents an object due to its resemblance. It doesn’t depend on a specific idiom, because it’s a visual language, recognizable by anyone. It’s commonly used nowadays in signs, instructions, or statistics. Also, the Chinese language is based on pictograms. To many spectators, pictograms are a familiar form of Olympic imagery. First introduced at the 1948 Games in London, they became an integral facet of Olympic Games design at the Tokyo Games of 1964, serving an invaluable function as elegant and simple way-finding devices. Below are the pictograms for the Olympic games for 1964-2012.

Tokyo 1964

The first systematically designed set of pictograms for both sports and services was created for the Games in Tokyo in 1964 by Masasa Katzumie as artistic director and Yoshiro Yamashita as graphic designer.

The Tokyo project included the design of 20 pictograms for the different sports and a further 39 general information pictograms.

Mexico City 1968

Artistic directors: Manuel Villazon,   Mathias Goerlitz
Graphic designers: Lance Wyman,   Eduardo Terrazas

Munich 1972 & Montreal 1976

The pictograms used in Munich, created by the Director of the Higher Institute of Graphic Arts in Ulm, Otl Aicher.

Moscow 1980

On the OCOG-80`s request, graduates from several art colleges took up the design of the pictographs of the insignia as the theme of their dissertations. With the help of the resachr institute of industrial aesthetics, the Organizing Committee chose the work submitted by Nikolai Belkow, Mukhina Art School graduate from Leningrad.

The State Committee for Inventions and Discoveries under the USSR Council of Ministers recognised the new design as a production pattern.
Though highly stylised, the new signs are easily comprehensible. They are smoother in outline because they are constructed at an angle of 30 `- 60 `(previously the angle was  45` – 90`).

Los Angeles 1984

Designers: Keith Bright and Associates.

Six criteria were isolated as essential to a successful pictogram:

• Clear communication; pictograms, by themselves, should be recognizable by people of other nations.
• Consistency; the pictograms should be identifiable as a set, through uniform treatment of scale, style and subject.
• Legibility and practicality; they should be highly visible, easy to reproduce in any scale and in positive or negative form.
• Flexibility; the pictograms should not be dependent upon a border and should work equally well in a positive or negative form.
• Design distinction; the pictograms should avoid stylistic fads or a commercial appearance and should imply to a worldwide audience that Los Angeles has a sophisticated, creative culture.
• Compatibility; they should be attractive when used with their Los Angeles Olympic design elements and typestyles.

Seoul 1988

The sports pictograms used for 1988 Seoul Olympics were distinguishable from the past Games by the division of the composition into trunk, arms, legs and head. The connecting parts for arms and legs were treated in a simple and clear fashion but resembling as close to the composition of human frame as possible. Sports pictograms were also utilized as elements of expression in various public relations and printed materials, including decoration, admission tickets for each sport and posters.

Barcelona 1992

The person in overall charge of the visual style of those Games was the great designer Otl Aicher, under whose direction a series of sports and services pictograms were created from a basic geometric formula. In Barcelona, though the Munich shapes were still used as a starting point, the break in style was more audacious, as the geometric formula was abandoned in favour of the characteristic line of the emblem created by Josep. M. Trias and its representational simplification of the human body in three parts (head, arms and legs) was also adopted.

Atlanta 1996

For the Atlanta Games, 84 pictograms were used—31 sports and 53 service pictograms—as well as 7 zone code and 5 transportation code symbols.

Sydney 2000

The pictograms specially designed for the Sydney Olympic Games were used as a directional aid to spectators, athletes and officials during the days of competition in 2000.

Here is an interesting case study “Look and image” on The branding of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

Athens 2004

The ATHENS 2004 Sport pictograms were inspired by three elements of ancient Greek civilization. The simplicity of the human form is inspired by the Cycladic figurines. The Artistic expression of the Pictogram derives from the black-figure vases, where solid black shapes represent the human body and a single line defines the detailing of the form.

Beijing 2008

For the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the creative team designed simple but aesthetic patterns, based on Jingwen, the script found on 2,000-year-old bronze carvings to represent 35 different Olympic sports and 20 Paralympic sports displayed in “pictograms”. Here is a fantastic interview with Min Wang, design director for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

London 2012

Designed by Someone, the London Olympic Pictograms will be used on merchandise, way-finding signs, tickets, and other official print material for the 2012 games. Someone has provide two versions, a simple black and white and a more colorful option inspired by the London Underground map.

P.S.: Olympic pictograms are copyrights of the respective Olympic Organizing Committees.

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Hello! So, here they are…Ok, Okay, I know they are just another set of social media icons. No big deal! I was just experimenting with Adobe Illustrator and thought of making these. Included in the set are 24 social media icons including Facebook, Delicious, Twitter, RSS, Google, Digg, Feedburner, Flickr, Friendfeed, Friendster, Gmail, LinkedIn, Netvibes, Myspace, Picasa, Reddit, Twitter Bird, Skype, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Wordpress, Yahoo, Yelp and Youtube. All of these are in PNG format with a size of 512 x 512 px. I made them in Illustrator, so I still have the .ai vector files. If anybody needs them, just shoot me a message. Let me know what you guys think. Feel free to use and abuse them. Attribution is not necessary! However, if done, will be appreciated.

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