designbyizo

I love Open Source software; I love the idea behind it, the transparency, the pace of development that occurs, the community spirit it endeavours.

About 6 months to a year ago, the pedestrian traffic light system in and around Preston city centre received a fairly substantial revamp. And ever since I’ve hated the bloody things. They grate on my design and human interaction nerves. Let me paint you a picture.

As a logo and brand identity designer, it still never ceases to amaze me how many people think that logo design is a 10 minute job, usually involving “putting some text up in a nice font with a little graphic”.

Further to the glorious news that one of the  Ubuntu ‘Light’ themes—Ambiance—received an update for the forthcoming Ubuntu Maverick release, Andreas Cimitan, developer of the Murrine GTK engine and the man responsible for updating the Light themes, has announced the imminent update to the second Light theme: Radiance.

With the release of ambient doom post-metal band Stitchthread‘s new EP “We’re Already Here” imminent, I was tasked with developing not only the EP artwork but also the poster campaign.

We’ve all been there, haven’t we? You sit there at your desk with a blank piece of paper, or perhaps a new document on the monitor, in front of you—perhaps you’re about to begin on a new brand identity project—and you stare at it and… nothing… happens…

Str!pped are a new musical Burlesque group who take popular music tracks and rework them into something more extravagant.

No doubt some of you may have already read about this but as a devoted Ubuntu user I nevertheless feel duty-bound to inform you folk of the good news.

In case you haven’t seen this, I highly recommend visiting FontShop, in particular their education section.

Brand Identity and Logo Design for Jonathon Wort Productions

Jonathon Wort is a talented sound engineer and music producer who was looking to establish a strong online presence with a unique visual brand. I was approached with the task of developing and designing a complete brand identity.