portland graphic design

Archive for August, 2009

Charlie Allen’s Blog

Stumbled across this blog by illustrator Charlie Allen. He’s 87, and he’s scanning his back catalog and commenting on it. He has work on there from the 30′s through the 70′s, from what I’ve seen. Reading the creative briefs is a trip through the economic history of the USA.

SEO: Trading Links May Not Be To Your Advantage

Trading links with another site may not help you or the other site. Google wants to know if your site’s content is trustworthy and valuable to their users. It uses the PageRank scoring system to describe your site’s popularity. One large factor of your site’s score is the quality and trustworthiness of the sites that [...]

How Not to Iconify: The Trouble with People (in Logos)

I saw this recent post by arch-designer Michael Bierut and wanted to add my own comment. Like us here at Quoin Design, Bierut has had enough of the legion of faceless, genderless, ageless, raceless representations of people in logos. They’re sort of beefed-up, slickified stick figures that are meant to stand in for you, me, [...]