Archive for December, 2009

Book Review: “Marks of Excellence” by Per Mollerup

Today, I have picked Per Mollerup’s “Marks of Excellence” for review.
If you are a creative designer or a brand marketer, this book definitely deserves to be on your coffee table. With a deep insight into trademarks and its meanings, it has covered each and every aspect that deals with trademark’s history, its evolution and its [...]


Logo Design Review: Wikipedia

Everybody is quite familiar with Wikipedia, the world’s largest online resource for content about everything. On January 15, 2001 when it was officially launched, the founder Jimmy Wales used the American flag “Old Glory” as its logo; but it turned out to be a bad idea and attracted widespread criticism.
People called it “Ethno centric” biased [...]


Origins of Twitter Logo

We are sorry to announce that the bird we all love and recognize is not Twitter’s official logo. Yet, still we see the bird everywhere representing twitter. Just to clarify things, this is twitter’s official logo:

So where did the bird come from?
The story of Twitter bird begins when someone at Twitter spotted an illustration of [...]