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11/10/09--02:07: How I Design a Logo (chan 1695462)

There is no such thing as a How To or DIY guide when it comes to logo design Having been in the field now for a while, I've read a lot of opinions and guides on logo design. Do this, don't do this, you need to have this. For the most part, it is all rubbish. As disappointing as it is to hear or say, some people just do not have it. Read the rest


11/12/09--22:02: American Cancer Society – Client Testimonial (chan 1695462)

"I could ramble on about how talented Jared Lunde is at programming and design, but like any other artist or dedicated professional, I believe it is best to let his work speak for itself. After engaging with Jared and similar vendors on countless large projects, however, I can honestly say there is one thing that truly ...absolutely...unequivocally set him apart from the rest: the process. In a business environment in which your success is becoming more and more interdependent with the success of outside vendors, I wholeheartedly felt Jared took the time to understand my needs and my goals which he then translated into the final product. He gave me a powerful level of confidence in his abilities that eventually developed into an incredibly trusting customer-client relationship." Frank O'Driscoll E-Revenue Project Manager American Cancer Society Eastern Division, Inc.


11/14/09--18:32: Minima Logo Design – Explained (chan 1695462)

Minima is my under construction Logo Design Portfolio where I will showcase the design elements of my job in a more in depth and creative way than is possible on this site.


11/16/09--00:36: Brand Name Generator (chan 1695462)

We are all well aware of how hard a lot of Brandstackers work when coming up with their clever, witty and absolutely original ideas. Well life just got a little easier for them and all of us! I present unto you the Brandstack Brand Name Generator


11/19/09--21:56: Web Designer Depot – Part 1 (chan 1695462)

This is part one of a mini-series of blog posts that I will be referring to as "The Flaws and Delusions of Web Designer Depot" I don't get particular enjoyment out of pointing out the flaws in others, but in this case it is so worth it. For over a year, WebDesignerDepot (Web Designer Depot) has been handing out terrible advice and ripped off posts to its users. Their articles lack attention to detail, sense, and quality of any kind.


11/23/09--16:13: Smart Layouts with PHP and HTML in Web Design (chan 1695462)

Anyone with knowledge of HTML can do this and trust me it will save you loads of time in the long run. The main idea behind this structure is that anything that is going to be on more than one page in your website is going to be called through a php include. The reasoning behind it is that if you ever plan on updating the design or structure of your site, you'll be able to do so much quicker through this method because instead of updating each page individually, you'll only have to update one file. It is also a wonderful solution because of how clean your markup will look.


11/23/09--21:30: Humbling Displays of Typography (chan 1695462)

One of the hardest things to do in design is to create custom typography. There are a lot of pieces that need to come into consideration and it takes a lot of talent to do it right. Having recently started to develop my own typographic skills, I was starting to get a little cocky. In those prolific moments when I find that I am starting to lose my humility I usually find that browsing Behance is a nice cure. It was there that I stumbled across most of these brilliant examples of typography and I figured I'd share them with you in case you hadn't seen them.


11/27/09--14:10: Logo Design Love Interview with Tom Geismar (chan 1695462)

I read this Tom Geismar interview on Logo Design Love today and I suggest anyone interested in logo design read it, too. Tom is truly one of the great logo designers of our time and his firm Chermayeff & Geismar, inc. is responsible for some of the most icon logos of all time including Chase, Mobil, the Rockefeller Center and my personal favorite NBC. The firm's logos are a testament to the fact that a good logo does not and should not require the use of photoshop or illustrator filters in order to be unique.


11/27/09--15:35: Le Gossip – Celebrity Gossip Revisited (chan 1695462)

One major problem a user experiences when trying to stay on top of celebrity gossip on the Internet is that most celebrity news sites have a lack of direction and clear organization. Le Gossip aims to change all of that by striving to deliver better information on a more organized platform.


09/03/10--19:52: DISQY – the web’s most viral videos (chan 1695462)

Recently I had the pleasure of working on a project called DISQY. DISQY is a video aggregator that searches the Internet for the most mentioned videos each day. It then applies an algorithm to what it finds and decides which videos are the most influential and which are spreading the fastest. The most viral videos are then ordered and placed on the homepage with the most viral video that day getting embedded right at the top. Videos can also be sorted by the most viral each day, week and month. There is also an "upcoming" page which displays videos that aren't viral yet but are spreading more quickly than the other videos on the site and may soon make the jump to being viral.