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Incspring needed a rebranding?
If you’re a long time reader you know of my disdain for the self-misrepresenting Incspring which claims to be a “branding” website, but is in fact nothing more than a logo site that’s taken advantage of consumers and reduced the credibility & understanding of what “branding” really is.
In fact, Incspring is so oblivious to its own misunderstanding of the idea of “branding” that it changed its logo within the first month of being open and now has changed its name completely to Brandstack. Claiming to soon be adding new features and still lying with the tagline of “Worlds Biggest Brand Marketplace”, they praise themselves in a recent blog post for adjusting a common looking logo from their site and throwing on the new name.
The new logo isn’t anything special and in fact reminds me of this ending from a lot of 80s TV shows where the guy throws paper from his typewriter. Not to mention it looks like about 10 other logos on the site.
Now, I think this goes without saying, but 3 redesigns in a year, including a complete name change, sounds like something that could have been avoided had they gone through the complete branding process, where they evaluate their targets, their goals, what they want the company to become (instead of just what it is) and all the tiny nuanced details that go into branding that IncStack has demeaned into nothing more than a logo, a website and some letterheads.
I cannot say it enough: This site is garbage.
No comments. Posted by md in branding, interwebs, opinion, rant, ridiculous on 15 June 2009.
The folks over at Idée Labs present the Multicolr Search Lab, a web-based search engine that crawls through over 10 million creative-commons licensed images, based on colors you select.
We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour.
I’m pretty excited they’re only applying this technology to creative-commons images. I think this is a fantastic tool.
No comments. Posted by tanner in color, interwebs, photography on 17 March 2009.
Click bored is an experiment in fractals by Gerard Ferrandez. Words do no justice, you just have to play with the site to experience it. [Via VSL]
No comments. Posted by tanner in experimentation, interwebs on 12 March 2009.
Questionable Characters is a website by Ben Barry and Frank Chimero. Readers submit questions, design-related or not, and they each answer: Ben’s response on the left, Frank’s the right. It’s a simple idea, but I’ve had fun reading through them. (Thanks, Nevin!)
No comments. Posted by tanner in interwebs on 5 March 2009.
This site looks like it could become really exciting/interesting. I’d love to have gotten in on the alpha invites before they closed, but I’ll have to keep my eyes open. Its a combination of delicious, ffffound and digg all in one.
Dropular is a media bookmarking service loosely based on the idea of a droplet contributing to a pool, filling it ever-so slightly one by one. This amazing tool lets you discover, remember and share images, videos and links – all in one place.
Exciting! Dropular
I especially like the keyboard navigation that’s going on, up and down arrows to scroll, left and right to change pages. I think that should be more prominent on sites with lots of content like this.
p.s. Dropular, if you read this, please (please please) give me an account. post at markdudilk dot com. Thanks!
Thanks to our buddy Grant Walker for hooking a pal up with an invite.
No comments. Posted by md in books, conceptual, interwebs, website on 12 February 2009.
The League of Movable Type is a relatively new website dedicated to becoming a collection of open source type. No more bullshit. Join the revolution.
There are people who design typefaces for a living, and we want them to make money off of something that they do well. This revolution is not a movement against type foundries and type designers; it’s quite the opposite. The kind of revolution we want is a change in the way people think about doing business. We want type foundries and typographers to start thinking, “maybe there’s nothing wrong with giving things away sometimes.”
The first of their offerings is below. Meet Junction.
1 comment. Posted by tanner in interwebs, typography on 11 February 2009.
Quotes On Design will say all it needs to say in its title and its content.
No comments. Posted by md in interwebs, random on 10 February 2009.
Some clever typographic posters on the Behance Network. (Via.)
1 comment. Posted by tanner in interwebs, poster on 2 February 2009.
Coudal Partners recently announced the return of their most popular and requested project, layer tennis. For those of you unfamiliar with the game:
Layer Tennis is a series of live design events on Friday afternoons presented by Adobe® Creative Suite® 4.
Two competitors swap a file back and forth in real-time, adding to and embellishing the work. Each artist gets fifteen minutes to complete a “volley” and then we post that to the site live.
No comments. Posted by tanner in interwebs on 23 January 2009.
Vignelli is offering “The Vignelli Canon”, a 50-page book in free PDF form.
1 comment. Posted by tanner in books, interwebs on 4 January 2009.
