Creative links: 15 July 2007
Posted 15 July 2007, by Aaron
Designing a logo you can love
Logo design is something all breeds of creative come into contact with over time. Personally, even though my interests stretch far across the multimedia horizon, there’s nothing I love to work on more than a logo design.
Creative Guy James Dempsey, has clearly had a lot of experience with designing logos and the inevitable balancing act of “separating personal taste from good communication and branding”. Something I’m sure all designers can empathise with.
James lists nine rules for creating a logo you can live with and still get paid. It’s solid advice from James with one or two of his own unique ideas thrown in, such as presenting conceptual logos to the client in black and white only.
Creating a print style sheet
Creating a print style sheet for a WordPress theme is not particularly difficult, but very few themes include one. Try printing an article from your own site: does it print well or does the navigation take up half the page and the last few words of each line bleed of the edge?
If the latter, head over to Theme Playground and have a read of Ryan’s excellent step by step instructions for creating a print style sheet for WordPress.
The print stylesheet tells the page how to render during a print job, the same way the screen stylesheet tells the page how to render for viewing on a screen… By using a print stylesheet for our WordPress themes we can make the printout more attractive as well as more useful to the person printing a page of your site.
Tips for a creative resume
There is a wealth of written advice on how to create the best resume or curriculum vitae. Most of the time however, this advice is centred around selling yourself to the corporate employer.
Karl Neath from Warpspire offers some sound tips for creating a resume geared towards the creative industry.
I end up reading a lot of resumes, and I happen to have a pretty different view on what a resume should be. Remember, the creative industry (that’s us) isn’t bound by the chains of industry: dare to be original.
So what do you think at my first stab at speed-linking?
I was spurred on to experiment after reading David’s article on how speed-linking can help. I personally have mixed feelings: speed-linking is good for the blogger but not always great for the reader. That’s why I haven’t bombarded you with links - I’ve offered just a few select articles which I really think are worth checking out.
I intend to make a regular feature of this, so I’d love to hear what you think of these links?
Many thanks for the recent comments: 1ndigo, Paul, Justin and Alex.
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Tags:Branding, Creative Industry, Logos, Printing, WordPress
Randa Clay
15 July 2007, 10:13 pm