On #FreeStyleTalkTuesday I drop bars like would rappers, every Tuesday on Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. The theme of every short line is logos. I’d like you to expect them to be delivered as punchlines. I will endeavor to make sure not a single line is blunt, so you can always look forward to another Tuesday.…
The following is based on a true story, at about a time when logos where known as seals. A successful business man heard news that his daughter-in-law is guilty of prostitution, and as a result is now pregnant. Bring her out and have her burned to death – this was his command. As she was…
There’s already much talk about the planned acquisition of America’s entertainment and content gem Time Warner by America’s 2nd largest telco AT&T. Analysts, congressmen, news media and the American public have mixed views about it. But none has said anything about the logo assets in the sale. ADREES LATIF/REUTERS The deal will be scrutinized…
WHEN BRUCE BLACKBURN designed a logo to commemorate the nation’s 200th birthday, the nation was embroiled. The Vietnam War was winding down, Watergate had shaken people’s confidence in government, and President Nixon would soon resign. Yet Blackburn’s design, chosen by the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, conveyed an idealistic, if not entirely accurate, image of national unity.…
The 2016 G20 Hangzhou summit was the first ever G20 summit to be hosted in China and the second in an Asian country. It was held on 4–5 September 2016. The people and city of Hangzhou are known for entrepreneurial and dated economic activity. Hangzhou, also known as the silk city has been manufacturing silk, transported to the…
This popular quotation will suffice to attempt to explain this idea, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” – Albert Einstein. We have underestimated and totally disregarded the reason and purpose of making good logos in Nigeria. As a matter of fact, the Greek meaning of logos…
Understand this simple fact first-off, a professional designer will never do anything without a reason, without meaning, without purpose or without the backing of a strong idea that further promotes a fact. As far back as WW2 engineers used the binary system to label individual power buttons, toggles and rotary switches. 1meant “on” and 0…
You’re about to know what can happen when two Dayo’s meet especially when each is a powerhouse in their respective calling. Both guys were formally introduced to each other by Mr. Gbenga Totoyi. Gbenga Totoyi was first impressed at learning that Dayo Abiola is one man who has made a staunch niche for himself as…
Some years back, I walked into a copy shop, only to notice that a middle aged woman had just contracted the replication of her company’s letterhead design – (of course this included duplicating the logo) – to the shops graphics guy. I took a quick glance at the logo and mumbled to myself, “only if…