How to Design a Logo

How to Design

We have read it before. It’s all over the web, but still people mess up with design of logos for their organization. So, one last time on my blog we’ll just go through some of the most important pointers that must be kept in mind when you take part in any graphic design challenge or rather go about designing a logo yourself. Go through and assimilate the following steps:

• Purpose – Learn and find as much as you can about the purpose that an organization wants it logo to serve via the use of shape, fonts, color, images etc.

• Follow the Rules – There are 5 rules that are followed even by some of the best logo designers.

• Logos must be SIMPLE
• Company logos design must be MEMORABLE
• It must be TIMELESS Pay attention to TYPOGRAPHY & COLORS
• Logo must be FOCUSSED on the brand

• Establish a Design Process - Follow a set procedure but before that make sure the process you’d planning to follow suits your style of working.

• Software - As graphic design designers, one must be master of not less than one professional logos design software. It’s always advised to use vector-based software’s such as CorelDRAW, or Adobe Illustrator.

Three Ways to Have a Productive Day

Work O'Clock

..and it was five in the morning again today. The moment alarm made that irritating wake up noise; I started to hate my life as a freelancer working on design of logos project. It was already “Work O’Clock”; only I wanted to sleep a little longer. But won’t the sleep induced laziness reduce my day’s productivity!?! Yes, it surely will and as our parents used to say, “It’s important to have a proper morning routine that will maximize & rev up your creativity and over all productivity”.
I looked around the web and spoke to few freelancers, like myself, and made a list of things to follow that could enrich & enliven my day.  This is what I found.

• “Early to bed and early to rise keep a man healthy, wealthy and wise”. This Benjamin Franklin quote is applicable to everyone and not just freelancer having a tough time being productive. Time management is the key to having a fruitful day.

• Write down your days “to-do” list. Planning is essential so mull over your work for today and every day, then work according to your plan.

• Change your routine. If a certain plan isn’t working out for you, don’t be afraid to switch over to a new one. Every person has a different style of working. So do what you think can best enhance your productivity.

CrowdSourcing really is a Part of YOU!

CrowdSourcing

I’ve often heard that I write less about crowd sourcing and more about everything else. It’s not that I’m avoiding it, but I’m also here to tell you how the problems related to “everything else” can be solved using crowdsourcing, and how crowdsourcing has made world a better place. There is some or the other form of crowdsourcing in every facet of our lives. It’s been around for centuries; so to say that someone back in 2006 thought of the concept is wrong. It’s nothing more than a group effort to come up with the best possible solution to a problem; be it about design of logos or web page ecommerce. This technique of problem resolution has been used from time immemorial. It’s just out in the open now and getting the full respect and attention it deserves. The thing is, whatever you say or feel about crowdsourcing, you cannot deny the fact that it’s a part of human nature and leads you to work socially for the greater human good.

Crowd: We Are Alive & Kickin

Crowd Sourcing

Few days back,  I read an article on user-generated revolution, which predicted (not again!) the death of the practice of Crowd Sourcing and went on to add that it’s passé since users are not interested in it anymore, and cites falling numbers of editors for Wikipedia’s content as an example!

So, does it mean an end to crowdsourced services like freelance translation services among several others? Well, more and more web based services these days are vying for user attention, but using Wikipedia’s so-called decline as a premise to presume the demise of crowdsourcing is downright irrational & stupid. Firstly, unlike Wikipedia, crowdsourcing companies do reward the people who take part in online challenges, so people get paid for their hard work but I must also add that for most of the participants, money is not the prime reason they participate. It’s more about the passion, which eventually makes them want to excel in whatever they do. Finally, sharing and helping each other is human nature and crowdsourcing isn’t dying till we continue to work for the greater good.

Qwiki – The New Multimedia Information Experience

Freelance Services

Future of search & information is here: “Qwiki”. A disruptive new technology platform and still in alpha phase, Qwiki is destined to change the way people search for information on the web. It blends in the text, audio, video & images in a logical and ordered manner and gives out the visual results, almost like a dynamic movie of whatever you search for. For a lay man Qwiki is going to be like a search engine+Wikipedia+An intelligent computer that makes videos for you on the run and gives out insightful commentary about the searched terms. Whether you are planning for a movie in your city or looking for info on freelance translation services, Qwiki will make your search experience more human. Designed & developed by Louis Monier, the founder of Alta Vista and Doug Imbruce, Qwiki recently won the “Startup Battlefield” Award at TechCrunch Disrupt Conference in San Francisco. So, prepare yourself for a new game changing technology that will make your web more human for information uptake.