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- FPO (For Print Only) / Celebrating the reality that print is not dead by showcasing the most compelling printed projects.
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- Graphic Design, Referenced: A Visual Guide to the Language, Applications, and History of Graphic Design / 2009, Rockport.
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A B-Side BY Armin
SEAT
About: (Est. 1950) “A member of the Volkswagen Group, SEAT has its headquarters in Martorell (Barcelona), exporting approximately 75% of its production to 72 countries. SEAT is market leader in Spain, and in 2010 reached a turnover amounting to 4.7 billion euros, with total sales of 339,500 vehicles.SEAT Group employs 13,000 professionals at its three production centres in Barcelona — Zona Franca, El Prat de Llobregat and Martorell, where it manufactures the highly successful Ibiza and Leon, amongst other models.”
Design by: N/A
Ed.’s Notes: It’s not the funnest game of spot the differences, but there are some between the old and new.
Relevant links: Press Release (extensive!). More images and a timeline of the logos.
Thanks to Pierre des Courtis for the tip.
DATE: Oct.04.2012
POSTED BY: ArminCATEGORY: Automobile The B-Side COMMENTS:
TAGS: bevel, chrome, gradient, Sans Serif,
Opinion BY Armin
Chrome Loses Volume
First released for Windows XP in December of 2008, Google Chrome is a browser developed by, yes, Google. Versions for Mac OS X and Linux followed a few months later and since then Chrome has become one of the most popular browsers — 19.26% of you are reading Brand New on Chrome, in third “place” behind Safari and Firefox. Chrome’s most current stable release is version 10.0.648.134 (but you knew that, right?) and currently in development is dev version 11.0.696.12 which is not released to the public yet but for those that are taking it for an early spin they have gotten a glimpse at the new logo for Chrome. The new logo for Chrome surfaced after a new logo for Chromium — the open source version of Chrome — made its debut earlier this year.
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DATE: Mar.17.2011POSTED BY: ArminCATEGORY: Technology COMMENTS:
Books about logo design, the designers that create them and the meaning of branding.
