one2love
One2love.co.za will be rebooted in the coming days. New design, new content and a cleaner approach. I have for now removed all my client and portfolio pages.
Done and dusted… the new site is up (as you can see). Still need to load a mountain of work to the porfolio section though.
I was a bit quick to decide I support Jon Engle in his battle against the Stock Art site that claimed he was using their art on some of his client logos (previous post). It is apparently not so clear as to who is in the wrong -> see this excellent post by The Logo Factor – The Jon Engle vs. Stockart.com story – an anti-spec work parable?
Moral of the story; however this playes out, it serves as another nod towards the wrongs of Spec Work and the negative effects it has on the Graphic Design industry.
Its been a couple of days since I had a look at my web traffic stats. I had a look this eve and noticed a significant bump over this last week. The source; the one2love logo made it onto Logo Faves.
Logo Faves, a logo design inspiration site. A collection of best designed logos around the web is showcased in Logo Faves. we don’t want to be like other Logo repositories,our idea is to bring you the best of best logos.
Our working methodology is open to all, ie., we filter through lots of the designer portfolios over everyday and catalog the greatest logos out there. We pride ourselves on having a huge selection of inspiring logos – perfect for getting the spark of creativity going on and on.
Thanks guys (girls?)!
Have a look here
I also noticed a danish blogger did a small write up on the logo.
HERE (Typografik)
Tilt-shift miniature faking is a process in which a photograph of a life-size location or object is manipulated so that it looks like a photograph of a miniature scale model. By distorting the focus of the photo, the artist simulates the shallow depth of field normally encountered with macro lenses making the scene seem much smaller than it actually is. Many miniature faked photographs are taken from a high angle to further simulate the effect of looking down on a miniature. Objects oriented horizontally, such as the train in the first example, make better subjects for tilt-shift miniature faking than vertically oriented objects such as in the second example, in which one can see how the bottom of the trees are in focus but the top of the trees are out of focus, despite being the same distance from the lens.
Beached from Keith Loutit.
French design blog Graphucinno put the one2love logo on their “best logo of 2008″ list. Thanks guys / girls.
Direct translation from french (using Google Translate):
The 10 best logo
In the view of many designers, the logo design is the most complicated exercise and most périeux that is a visual communication. Getting the message to mark a company, a concept, an image that can be displayed in both 16px X 16px on screen, printed in a hat, or black and white poster is often an achievement. The real logo are beautiful works that I respect enormously and I will never tire of admiring. Let today on the logo that marked the year 2008.
