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Having accumulated our years of experience in the design industry, creating brand identities and logos, here we would like to share with you 10 tips to design a professional looking logo design.  Some may think that logos look so simple but what looks simple is actually more difficult to design. Hope that these tips will get you going on to creating beautiful logos that your clients will absolutely love.

1. Understand your Client.
First you will need to find out about the business activities, target audiences, the messages they want to send out, colours they like etc. All these will help you map out a ‘personality’ for the brand.

2. Do Your Research.
Do some research of what others in the industry have done. Most importantly not to have something similar to the Client’s competitors.

3. Keep it Simple.
You need to consider a simple logo design that looks good even when it is shrunk down to a small size, consisting of 2 – 3 colours maximum. In this way it promotes recognition.

4. Icon or Text?
Not every logo requires an logo symbol/icon, text only logos can be efficient too. Although we would say that those with only icons as logos, such as Apple or Nike have established their brands since a long time, hence are able to gain brand recognition from their logo symbols alone.

5. Be Unique. Stand out from the Crowd.
The logo being the first and foremost graphical representation of a company, it will need to leave a lasting impression and not resemble any other logo out there. Think out of the box.

6. Keep in mind the Essence of the Brand.
Remember the personality and message you want to bring out with the logo. For example, using a bright hue of red will not go well with a children not-for-profit organization, whereas it the feeling should be somewhat calming and nurturing.

7. Limit the number of Proposals.
Propose 2 – 3 mock up logo designs first, so that there is room for the Client to make recommendations on improvements and move towards the direction that they like. Giving more designs initially will only confuse the Client and not do you any good.

8. Keep your Client Involved.
This is a two-way process, and you will need to work with your Client who usually does not have the eye for aesthetics that you have been trained with. When they request for something that you may not agree with, it is good to try giving them what they want and then show improvements that you recommend and why. They ultimately will need to be happy with the final design too.

9. Timeline.
Sometimes it is difficult to estimate exactly how long the project will take to complete. Of course also taking into consideration how most Clients seem to have urgent mission-impossible datelines, and multiple revisions to go through with. Consider giving them a longer timeframe than you expect, or tell them you cannot promise that the project will finish by the timeline they give, but you will try your best, considering that they work together on the timeline too and not have too many revisions, and that it is normal for projects to stretch for long periods of time that expected. This is to protect yourself from the troubles that may occur.

10. Sell your Work.
You will need to give a reason why the logo looks good and is suitable. One strong point on each logo design proposal is good enough.

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“History of the internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.

Let’s make a difference together.

Your Twitter account may be a powerful medium to interact with your audience, but you’re missing out if your site visitors keep ignoring your Twitter icon! Make sure you’re getting all the followers you should by getting a Twitter icon that’s creative, original, and delightful. You’re spoiled for choice in this Huge Collection of Free Twitter Icons, so get your favorite and win new followers through the impact of your new icon’s design!

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The definition of Web Safe fonts means that they are generic fonts that work throughout (most) Web Browsers and are used on all operating systems (Windows, Linux and Mac). So if you design web pages on any of these sytems or use any browser then they will be displayed the exact same. Of course, nothing is as easy as saying that Comic Sans works across all, the reality is, with Safari, that Bold doesn’t display well. So we have to play it safe, we have a very small range of fonts to use, so we have to be creative with what we have.

Below are a list of the most commonly used fonts for Blogging and Web Design.

(CSS) Font-Family: “Georgia”, serif
Designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter for the Windows…read more on Wikipedia.

(CSS) Font-Family: “Arial”, Helvetica, sans-serif
The typeface was designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas…read more on Wikipedia.

(CSS) Font-Family: “Courier New”, Courier, monospace
The typeface was designed by Howard “Bud” Kettler in 1955…read more on Wikipedia.

(CSS) Font-Family: “Trebuchet MS”, Helvetica, sans-serif
Designed by Vincent Connare for the Microsoft in 1996…read more on Wikipedia.

(CSS) Font-Family: “Lucida Console”, Monaco, monospace
Designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes in 1985…read more on Wikipedia.

(CSS) Font-Family: “Verdana”, Geneva, sans-serif
Designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft…read more on Wikipedia.

(CSS) Font-Family: “Times New Roman”, Times, serif
Designed by Stanley Morison in 1931…read more on Wikipedia.

(CSS) Font-Family: “Lucida Sans Unicode”, Lucida Grande, sans-serif
It was developed by Charles Bigelow & Kris Holmes in 1993…read more on Wikipedia.

(CSS) Font-Family: “Tahoma”, Geneva, sans-serif
Designed by Matthew Carter for the Microsoft Corporation in 1994…read more on Wikipedia.

(CSS) Font-Family: “Impact”, Charcoal, sans-serif
designed by Geoffrey Lee in 1965…read more on Wikipedia.

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We found this interesting and nicely done motion graphics video using typography and would like to share it with you. Enjoy typography at its best

One of our web design project, HalcyonFlux has been featured at GraphicFetish.com as one of the 16 Purple Websites That Rock. Hooray and thumbs up to our creative team!

Check out the original article here.

View halcyonflux.com here

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OVO Creatives has been selected by Sandu 360 to feature our design works in the coming Asia-Pacific Design Yearbook Ⅳ.

The Almanac of Asia-Pacific Design IV), being an informative source for professional designers and amateurs alike, who have great interest in international design trends. It highlights originality, novelty and authority, aims at putting professional outstanding designs on display and providing good opportunities for excellent designers to stand out, with categories in visual identity design, packaging design, logo design, book & brochure, print advertising, poster design, illustration creative product design and website design.

The original press release (in Chinese) is available at http://www.sandu360.com/Announce.asp?ChannelID=0&ID=19

Here is the English translated version of the original press release:

“Asia-Pacific Design Yearbook of Ⅳ” published a list of selected

“Asia-Pacific Design Yearbook,” the fourth volume by three times the media and culture journal Design360 ° joint planning, the book has been published in China in the international authority of the chief design of one of the Yearbook. In the past 3 years, the success of the publication, has been well-known designers around the world spoke highly of.

After more than two months to solicit the support from all walks of life and the Asia-Pacific Design Yearbook has been published at last, and the International Association graphic design, the Korea Institute of Design Promotion, Hong Kong Designers Association, Macau Designers Association, the Shenzhen Association of graphic designers, Iran Graphic design magazine, the Taiwan Association for designers and other design professional organizations and media support, and Lu people President,Freeman Lau President, By Wang Zhi Professor Yin President, Figure Shaolong President, Cui Deming President, Li Kui President, Mr. Saed Meshki, Hideki Nakajima, Mr. Christopher Liechty, Mr. Chen Yongji, Mr. Wu Qiuquan, Han Ning Zhan President, Mr. Ulhas Moses, Mr. Matt Warburton, and so on a number of editorial consultants to express my heartfelt thanks.

“Asia-Pacific Design Yearbook,” has gone through four years, this year’s yearbook made a new plan, referred to as the title of “APD”, but also changed the upper and lower volumes in the past editor of the way, condensed into a single book, more refined works, More environment-friendly. In this unusual year, the designer’s works have a kind of change, we have recorded so that you have to be judged.

The following is a “design in the Asia-Pacific Yearbook,” the fourth volume of the selected list:

Australia

3 Deep Design

Canvas Group

Bubblefish

Oblong + Sons

Toko

Jeremyuille

Black Squid Design

CASTONDesign

Iconomy Design

Dale Harris

mdsDesign

Canada

Fishten

Guppy Graphic Design

Exhibit A: Design Group

Emdoubleyu Design

Notsosimpleton Productions

Ecuador

Latinbrand

India

Ulhas Moses Studio

Design Temple

Itu Chaudhuri Design

C-DAC

Tara

TSK Design

Codesign

Lopez Design

Ray + keshavan / the Brand Union

Rabia Gupta Designs (RGD)

Iran

Sadaf Fadaeian

Alireza Anooshfar

Parisa Tashakori

Nasim Sheikh Harandi

Fatemeh karkehabadi

Eliza Nivipoor

Naghmeh Zabihi

Onish Aminelahi

Ali Afsarpour

Israel

Oded Ezer

Open

Guy Saggee

Yotam Bezalel, Anna Geslev

Uri Ar

Gila Kaplan, Kobi Franco

Adlai & Partners Ltd

Baruch Naeh

Japan

Minato Ishikawa

Butterfly Stroke Inc.

Kokokumaru.Inc.                                  .

Shinnoske Inc.

Bang! Design.Inc

Hamada Takeshi

Junko Uchiyama – Rice Design

Office, m (Mihoko Hachiuma)

South Korea

AGI Society

Design touch

Lee Graphics

Design Casting

CDR Associates

Design Park Communications

Designblue Seoul

Malaysia

Studio MMCMM

Radio

Match box Studio

Joseph Foo

Fong Kam Wei

Imaya Wong-Grain Studio

Design Team Kuala Lumpur

Driv

Ee Venn Soh

Mexico

Dynamo

Miguel Duran

New Zealand

Origin Design

Scott Brown

Philippines

Rocilyn “Ross” Locsin Laccay

Cityprimate Designs

Russia

Yaroslau Zheleznyakov

Singapore

Ovo Creatives

Momorobo

Lee Shu Jun Joyce

DreamPlus Studio

Thailand

Ductstore design CO.Ltd

USA

Turnstyle

Topos Gaphics

Smyrski Creative

Undoboy

Chris Rubino

Sagmeister Inc

Topos Graphics

Matt W. Moore

Smyrski Creative

Pearlfisher (UK & USA)

Hong Kong

5W.1H Brand Solution Ltd

Argelsvision Integrated Communications

Cheung Yven Lam

Eric Chan Design Co., Ltd

ingDesign Consultants

J-Tech Co., Ltd

N / A

Nex Branding Design

Paul Lam Design Associates

Pauldesign Ltd

Rainfield Design Ltd

TakeEverythingEasy Design Studio

Token Workshop

Yellow Atelier

Zanif Advertising & Promotion Ltd

Cai Zhen rong

Chen Ying-Hsin

High Shaukang

Hu Jun

Liu Jin and Design (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.

King Kwong-shing

Lee Kennedy

LEE Wing-chuen fistula Design Co., Ltd.

Liang Wei-wu

Yang Jun

Tom, Dick and Harry (Shun-Xing, Guo)

Zhang Weide

Taiwan

Bai Hui Design Co., Ltd.

North Yin Agency Ltd.

Per second hot interactive design

Ling-Ling Guo

Lee Keun-in

Wu Tong

Macau

Lin Zhijian

Zhang Guowei

Mainland China

0607 Brand Design Agencies

M&D Mengyan Design

Elk House Brand Design

Beijing Dongfangshang Planning Design Ltd.

Beijing QianNuo ChengXi Advertising Ltd.

Beijing ZeDong Design Advisor

Changzhou IHOW Graphic Design Office

Chengdu Target Design Ltd.

Chengdu Taste Design Ltd.

Chengdu Wumu Brand Design Advisor Agency

Dingdian Brand Design Advisor Agency

Changchun Good Graphic Design

Guangzhou Zhimei Hall Brand Strategy Consultant

Harbin Liu Ming Design Studio

Hoi-yue Cultural Development Co., Ltd.

Han Qingtang Design

Hangzhou Jack Organization

Black White and Grey Design Co., Ltd.

Fire Wolf Design

Jingren Studio

Liu Xiaowei Design Office

Nanjing Intent Advertising Co., Ltd.

Ping YI Tang Advertising Ltd.

3L Branding Consultants and Designers

Shanghai UP Creative Design & Advertising Co.,Ltd

Addictive Studio Vision Art

Shenzhen Bai Xinglong Printing Package Design Company

Shenzhen Also Advertising Co., Ltd

Shenzhen Liu Yongqing Design Studio

Shijiazhuang Honour Brand Design Agency

Suzhou Bositang Investment Consulting

Xiamen Net Design

Document-View Design Agency

Yumou Brand Design Consultant

Zhishang Branding Studio

Chongqin Tumei Brand Advisor Agency

Zitype Workshop

Bu Yi

Cai Meng

Cao Guangsheng

Chen Chao

Chen Tao

Chen Huarong

Chen Yu + Shen Weiwei

Joseph Chan

Chen Yunfei

Da Zhixiang

Yenken Tang

Fan Jun

Feng Song

Gao Yanfeng

Gong Chen

Gu Jia

Hu Wenyi

Hu Yiwei

Hua Wei

Huang Yonggang

Kou Kangning

Li Chuang

Li Mingliang

Li Xiaohai

Lin Xiaotiao

Lin Xupan

Liu Juntao

Lu Junyi

Ma Ning

Peng Feng

Peng Zhen

Pang Shen

Sun Jiguo

Tong Qiang

Wu Yibo

Xu Xianhong

Xue Dawei

Xue DongQuan

Yan g Yong

Zhang Hao

Zhang Yi

Zhang Zhengtian

Zhang Zhipeng

Yang Zhongli

Zhao Gang

Zhou Jingxiong

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The tcc Golden Hunt is now on. OVO Creatives has been commissioned by tcc to conceptualize and design the edm marketing email for its new tcc Golden Hunt promotion, together with an animated flash banner for the tcc website.

That’s all for now, we’re off for some Gold Hunting fun at tcc.

View flash animation header:
http://www.thecoffeeconnoisseur.com/

View email marketing promo:

http://www.thecoffeeconnoisseur.com/emailer_tccgoldenhunt/index.html

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We are happy to announce that one of our website project for a holistic healing website based in Singapore, http://www.halcyonflux.com has just been awarded the 2008-2009 Design Firms Award in April.

Scoring 84 out of a possible 99 points, the judging criteria include:

- Creativity & Design
- Programming & Compatibility
- Ease of Use & Effectiveness

The 2nd award was given by MyDesignAward. Here are their comments “Our design community and MyDesignAward giving you an Design Award! Thank You for you AWESOME Job! We love your site – it’s AMAZING and will be added now in to the awarded design category.”

OVO Creatives as been involved in the logo design, branding identity concept and design, naming, copywriting, website design and search engine optimization for HalcyonFlux.

Visit http://www.halcyonflux.com to view our work.

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