Daniel, motiva-nos!

Manuais de identidade

Podem postar aqui, como resposta, os links para manuais de identidade que encontrarem. http://www.designerstalk.com/corpid/

How Much Would it Cost to build the Death Star?

Building a massive space weapon is all very well, but you have to find the materials to build it with. It's easy to say that "sure, the Death Star would be expensive" but is there actually enough iron in the Earth to make the first Death Star? Centives decided to find out.

Sign-Writing and Glass gilding

David A Smith is a name that has become synonymous in Sign-Writing and Glass gilding circles, with high quality, hand crafted reverse glass signs and decorative silvered and gilded mirrors. In this short documentary, we reveal behind the scenes work, techniques and visions that Dave uses when carrying out his passion as a glass embosser - One of the few remaining traditional UK glass artists.

Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film

With Windows Like These Who Needs Enemies?

(Segoe) It’s a fine font, but pretty it is not. It’s a kind of middle-of-the-road sans serif without any memorable attributes and with a very peculiar “Default” aesthetic to it. It works best as a user interface ingredient but as the typography on a logo, it’s extremely underwhelming — pair it with the worst rendition yet of the Windows window and you have a real loser. I’m not saying the previous Windows icons were good, but they had enough abstraction (and gradients and shadows and highlights) to at least look techie and Microsoft-ey, but this “minimal” approach looks like, well, a window. A window in a $400-a-month studio apartment rental with beige carpeting and plastic drapes. Moving away from the more flag-like icon seems like abandoning two decades of equity — crappy equity, but equity nonetheless.

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/with_windows_like_these_who_needs_enemies.php

Vintage VW Logo Specifications Sheet

http://imjustcreative.com/recreated-vintage-vw-logo-specification-sheet/2011/08/03/
http://imjustcreative.com/vintage-vw-logo-brand-specifications/2011/08/03/

Herb Lubalin on his PBS Logo

PBS logos

That is a parade elefant.

List of emoticons

This is a list of notable and commonly used emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's mood or facial expression in the form of icons. The Western use of emoticons is quite different from Eastern usage, and Internet forums, such as 2channel, typically, show expressions in their own ways. In recent times, graphic representations, both static and animated, have taken the place of traditional emoticons in the form of icons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons

Versões digitais

Peço que enviem a versão digital (em formato PDF) da proposta 6 e respectiva memória descritiva (com o mapa mental) por email.

Notificação

Peço que enviem a versão digital (em formato PDF) da proposta 5 para o meu email.

Bom trabalho,
Pedro Cardoso.

DC Comics Logo

Yesterday, DC Comics officially unveiled its new identity, after the whole internet (including us) stole its thunder at the start of the week when we all judged its new branding effort based on a single, black-and-white rendition of their new logo. Now it’s an uphill battle to get people on board with what is actually a fairly good looking and flexible identity designed by Landor.

http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/follow-up_dc_comics.php

Open source typography

If you’ve ever gone looking for legitimately free fonts, you’ve probably found that there are a lot of really bad ones. But there’s also a lot of discussion out there about “open source fonts.”

http://magazine.redhat.com/2007/12/13/open-source-fonts/

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The league of movable type

There are people who design typefaces for a living, and we want them to make money off of something that they do well. This revolution is not a movement against type foundries and type designers; it’s quite the opposite. The kind of revolution we want is a change in the way people think about doing business.

http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/

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Open Font Library

The mission of the Open Font Library is to promote your freedoms as it relates to the use of type. All of the fonts that appear on this site come with the freedom to use, study, share and remix them.

http://openfontlibrary.org/