Finding Popular Company Logos For Design Use

By Randy Jensen | Mar 4, 2009

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I was looking for a logo the other day and all my Google Image searches returned results of some crappy gif that had been resized and pixelated all to hell. After some searching I came across AllFreeLogo.com.

You can find logos for a ton of high profile companies like Sony, HP, YouTube, Apple, BMW and Adidas, all in vector format. The only thing that sucks is you have to sign up for an account if you want to download anything. Small price to pay, however, if you want to use a logo that’s actually recognizable after you get done with it.

I know there are a ton of other logo resources out there. What do you use?

The Cobbler’s Kid Finally Gets New Shoes

By Randy Jensen | Jan 28, 2009

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I’ve finally gotten around to redesigning Randy Jensen Online. The last time I redesigned it was probably around 4 years ago and it was a rush job for a job interview. I feel much better about this design. Leave a comment and let me know what you think!

The only ‘major’ issue currently is with rendering of the typeface.js I’m using to render the text in Opera. For some reason Opera doesn’t display it at all. Luckily, such a small percentage of my traffic uses Opera that I decided to just launch and get it fixed as soon as I can.

The blog redesign is next on the list, but one big project at a time

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What Do You Consider Good Design?

By Randy Jensen | Jan 7, 2009

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I just finished reading The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman. An excellent book about what makes good design good, and more importantly, bad design bad. It has many different examples but keeps coming back to a couple of everyday objects that we use everyday. The car and the door.

Norman keeps coming back to how complex a car’s interior controls are and yet for the most part, they are fairly easy to use. Without much thought, you can steer the car, make it move, park it, turn the radio on, find a station, adjust the seats, etc. A basic model car does hundreds of tasks, yet you are able to use it fairly easily.

The Design Of Everyday Things Review

By Randy Jensen | Jan 5, 2009

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I just finished reading The Design Of Everyday Things by Donald Norman. Although this book is really focused on design of physical objects, as a web designer, I always love reading about design theory in general. While I can’t use most of the examples as is, there are tons of concepts, design standards and theories that could potentially give websites an enormous edge in terms of usability.

I just wanted to put a few of my favorite quotes/saying from the book here to give you an idea of what it’s all about. Mind you this is a thousandth of the information from this book. It really is an exceptional book to read if you are at all curious about the theory of design and really knowing how much work goes into designing something as simple as a pen.