I have been working on the design of my technical blog – Technify.me – for the past few days and decided to create a logo for the site. Technify.me and Iconify.it are meant to be stylistically similar but not identical. I wanted a design that is clean and simple, yet consistent with the design of Iconify.it as well as my icon style. More »
Monochrome Vision is a free HTML web template based on the Plastique Icon set by Iconfy.it, LLC. The design is intended to be clean, well-structured and highly customizable. The template uses the 960 Grid System and can be easily modified to fit a variety of needs ranging from corporate sites to personal portfolios. More »
I am surprised that I actually got a response from LogoGarden(dot)com, but the email fails to satisfy. The email, supposedly from John Williams himself, passes the buck to the designers they employ but fails to state whether or not my logos will be removed from their site. The email is below. More »
In case you haven’t heard, the logo design community is in an uproar over the latest DIY logo design site. As professional, highly skilled creative and strategic thinkers, logo designers traditionally hate these type of sites because they degrade the public’s perception of what we do. The community’s outrage over LogoGarden(dot)com, however, is completely different and many times more passionate. LogoGarden is not only selling logos at ridiculously low prices, but they are selling OUR logos at ridiculously low prices. Yes, that’s right, LogoGarden has outright stolen logos designed by other designers including Prejean Creative, Jeff Fisher of LogoMotives, Rodney Davidson of Dogstar Design, Von Glitschka, Bill Gardener, me, and countless othe More »
In addition to this blog, I also maintain a technical blog called Technify.me on which I publish articles about programming along with free downloads of code for jQuery, CSS and PHP. I have posted a simple jQuery plugin that allows you to easily set a default value for a field that when focused, clears the value and restores it when the field blurs. One sees this behavior a lot with search fields that have the default “Search…” text. Read the article or download jQuery.Defaultify on Technify.me.
A few months ago, in a post title Sincerest form or Thievery, I wrote about one of my logos being stolen by a lighting company in the United Kingdom. This morning, it was brought to my attention that several of my other logo designs, as well as hundreds of others by well-known designers including Prejean Creative, Jeff Fisher of Logo Motives and Rodney Davidson of DogStar Design were stolen by a Do-It-Yourself logo site called LogoGarden(dot)com. More »
Plastique Social is a set of 102 popular social media icons in vector format to accompany the Plastique Icon Set. Plastique Social is based on the JustVector Social set by Alex Peattie. Both sets are released under the Free Art license. All logos in this set are copyright of their respective owners. More »
The U. S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has angered a lot of professional logo designers by recently posting a logo design project on a popular crowd sourcing web site. The top prize in the contest is $1,000 and second and third prizes are $250 each. More »
About a month ago I stumbled across the first logo I ever designed for pay. My friend Noah Scalin and I were talking about it and I commented, “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool to do an article showing the first and favorite logos of a bunch of designers?”. Noah responded that he would definitely participate in an article like that. So, here we are, a month later and that article conceptualized in a passing “what if” comment has become a reality. I and the designers who have submitted their work are happy to share with you the first and favorite logos that each of them designed. More »
Plastique Icons Sprite is a set of 535 (and growing) web icons in CSS/PNG sprite format. View the demo below and download the source code to learn how to implement the icons in your web site. The sample code below uses an unordered list but the CSS classes can be applied to any block-level element.
The set is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. If you are using the icons for commercial use, please donate.
