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Apr062009
North Charleston Coliseum Logo Contest is Bunk!
I HATE design contests. I hate them because I am a designer and “contests” like this North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center Logo Contest hurt our profession. It hurts it because it means that they do not value the work we do as designers. They don’t even think what we do deserves compensation outside of 2 tickets and a $50 gift certificate, maybe a grand total of $150 (and that’s probably generous on my part.)
Ask yourself, would you offer a spec contest for legal advice, tax services, computer services, building repair, or any other professional service? No, you wouldn’t. Because their time has value. The same as ours. (taken directly from the NOSPEC contest protest letter.)
Below are the details of their contest. Hey, it’s 3 logos by the way, not just one. Holy cow! Does the winner also get kicked in he head too?
North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center Logo Contest
WHO: The North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center
WHAT: We need three new logos: one for the Coliseum, one for the Performing Arts Center, and a combined logo for both facilities.
WHEN: Monday, March 30th-Friday, April 17th (A winner will be announced the week of April 20th.)
WHERE: Please send all entries to logo@coliseumpac.com
WHY: We are in need of a fresh, new logo.
Here’s the link to the full page: http://www.coliseumpac.com/contest.php@BlueIon had linked up to a great letter to the North Charleston Coliseum & Performing Arts Center, you can read what they posted here. I am sending one myself, i’m going to use the NOSPEC contest protest template, I encourage anyone of you who is a designer to do the same as soon as you can.
If you are confused about speculative (SPEC) work, here’s a great explanation.
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Mar232009
Episode 9 - UMS Design Review Podcast
This week we’re focusing on one site, the excellent nclud.com. We think it’s a really great example of the kind of work more people should be doing.
We reviewed the nclud site last week on gallery.
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Feb022009
Episode 5 - unmatchedstyle video podcast
Check us out, we’re back with another podcast.
This week we talk about Phusion Passenger (modrails.com), LittleSnapper (realmacsoftware.com/littlesnapper), doejo (doejo.com), and The Resumator (theresumator.com)
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Jan142009
UMS: Site Review Podcast, Episode 4
Check us out this week. We’re back after a long Holiday break.
This week we talk about ESPN (espn.com), Shannon Moeller (shannonmoeller.com), Giant Creative, (madebygiant.com), and NewGenCoal (newgencoal.com.au). Enjoy!
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Jan122009
New favicon for Google
I am not really sure why Google has changed their favicon again. If memory serves they just created one a few months ago. I thought it was pretty horrible. This one is no different. Looks like the same lowercase g but with primary colors encircling it. This kind of thing normally isn’t a big deal, I mean favicons are favicons, but with Google any small change is big.
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Dec222008
UMS: Site Review Podcast Episode 3
We’ve got episode three of our weekly site review podcast for you to check out. Now that I think about it I didn’t post Episode two here either.
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Dec092008
UMS: Site Review Podcast, Episode 1
Okay, perhaps some of you don’t know that we run unmatchedstyle.com, it’s a design review website and gallery focusing on sites built using web-standards. We’re rolling out a weekly video podcast where we will be reviewing a few of the better websites that make their way onto the site each week. It’s only 10 minutes so hopefully that won’t take up too much time. Head on over there and see what you think.
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Dec042008
UMS Interview
New interview up on unmatchedstyle.com. This month we’re talking with Dan Rubin, a graphic designer, web developer, musician and Apple enthusiast living and working in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (US). He’s a founder and principal of Webgraph (a design and branding studio), co-founder of Sidebar Creative (a design collective) and Sinelogic (UI and usability consulting) as well as a web standards consultant, author and speaker. Dan also writes his blog SuperfluousBanter.
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Sep102008
Props to Jason Beaird
Jason Beaird author of Principals of Beautiful Web Design and fellow RefreshColumbian… has a great article on Digital Web Magazine about stock photography and choosing said stock.
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Jul242008
Obama is design savvy
I can’t say enough about the design efforts that go behind Obama’s campaign materials. Here is just the latest design nerdery that i’ve come to expect and love form his design staff.
The poster on the right is an example of famous German Bauhaus poster. Given that Obama is on a trip to Germany this week, his design staff decided to show a subtle tip of the hat to those historic German designers. Not to mention one of my favorite design periods/schools of all time.
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