Concurso de ideas para la creación del Logomarca y Nombre del Centro para la Innovación de la Formación Profesional de Aragón (CIFPA )

Participantes: Estudiantes de Aragón de FP Artes Gráficas, Escuela Superior de Diseño y Escuela de Artes
Premio 600 euros
Plazo: Hasta 30 de enero de 2015

CONVOCATORIA Y BASES: http://fp.educaragon.org/files/concurso%20logomarca.pdf

Web del Centro http://moodle.cifpa.aragon.es/joomla1/

If you've ever wondered how logos get made, who makes them, and where the people making them draw their inspiration—here's a great little glimpse into that world. 

Aaron Draplin, a freelance designer in Portland, Ore., accepted a logo design challenge from Lynda.com to create a mark for slab concrete company and made this short tutorial. Draplin, a bearded, burly 40-year-old veteran design dude with a canon of really diverse work, makes it look easy. But his ease and demeanor are the result of years of experience.

In the video below, we get a rare glimpse into the process of the artist—from concept to execution, through sketching to prototyping and every iteration in between. It's truly fascinating to watch him sketch out his ideas in his Field Notes notepad all while calmly but emphatically waxing philosophical about design and his career. 

A note to clients who see this and think they'll get a new logo in 15 minutes: In a word, no.

Back in 2012, now-former Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats tweeted a series of pearls of narrative wisdom she had picked up from working at the studio over the years. Pixar is responsible for some of the most compelling and engaging stories to hit theaters in the past several years, from Toy Story to Finding Nemo to Wall-E.

This week, Imgur user DrClaww reimagined Coats' 22 rules for perfect storytelling accompanied with signature characters from Pixar's portfolio of powerful animated features. If you're a writer or filmmaker, print these out and stick them on your desk

Presentation: LINK

Videos:

Similar to its previous apps, you can use Notegraphy on Android to browse and apply a variety of different templates, referred to as Styles. They’re all radically different and offer three color variations for you to deliberate over. Similar to Instagram, the app shows them in a horizontal carousel and lets you preview the design before finalizing your eye-catching note.

Some of the styles are better than others, but the app offers at least least eight or nine that are worth checking out. When you’re finished, the note is published to Notegraphy’s self-contained community, and can also be shared to other social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

So if you’ve overheard an inspirational quote or stumbled across a memorable line in a new novel, this is the app to help your share it online with a little extra style. Notegraphy also says its new Android app is 10 times faster than the iOS version – hopefully it can offer those same performance enhancements to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch owners in the near future.

This article deals with the exercise of mapping out what aspects you need to tell about your product, company, service, etc.

Instead of trying to map colors back to cultural associations (which are not fixed across all cultures, but change with every micro-culture), it’s better to assign meaning to each color and stick with it.

The author thinks that we could do better than just talking about the feel of colors, and could instead assign functional meaning.

Read more:
https://medium.com/design-story/how-to-create-a-color-story-aa75a62bf953

Forget the elevator pitch. You only get four words. 

This exercise is also very useful to analyze your brand before designing its logo.

If you want to start a business or launch a new project, you need to be able to describe your effort in four words.  Why four?

Read more: https://medium.com/design-story/tell-a-four-word-story-23845834503b

Detail is often the difference between good & great design; with that in mind, it's always interesting to read articles like this one. Dan Cederholm, co-founder of Dribbble, wrote a great post that gives some background on the original Dribbble logo, and the changes that were recently made in the logo's evolution. 

Here you can see the whole process

http://blog.dribbble.com/2014/10/30/tales-from-the-script.html

Master pinstriper Glen Weisgerber demonstrates the roundhand lettering technique. Weisgerber teaches pinstriping and lettering at the Airbrush Getaway Workshops. It's impressive to watch a true craftsman work with their hands; this video does exactly that, and gives us all a bit of insight into how a skilled letterer works.

http://www.airbrushaction.com/airbrush-getaway-workshops/

'The Hipster Alphabet' is a colorful responsive one pager that depicts the modern day "Hipster" through a series of alphabetical illustrations.

Comment from the Author:

The site got 100,000 views in its first week and was tweeted and talked about by some of my favorite blogs. Big thanks to everyone that reached out and helped with the errors in my code. Take a look and tell me what you think. 

See the Alphabet