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David Airey
Personal blog · davidairey.comdesignbusiness
David Airey's personal blog at davidairey.com covers design and business. Since 2010, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for logo and identity design writing, especially posts on the design process, branding concepts and naming methods.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Designer of enduring logos and visual identities that make brands unmistakably themselves. Author of Logo Design Love and Identity Designed.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-12-15
What Hacker News says?
I found it rather peculiar that someone started spray-painting over one of his freshly painted works and was wrestled to the ground because of it. [1] If Banksy's work is meant to raise the question of who in our society gets to determine what images invade everybody's retinas in public spaces [2], those bystanders provided an answer: whoever is hip enough to get people to defend their images. At that point the artw…
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on “Banksy Dismaland Show Revealed at Weston's Tropicana”Submitted You don't need a designer as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIf I were you, I would be inspired from http://www.cgsociety.org/ http://abduzeedo.com/ http://blog.drawn.ca/ http://www.logodesignlove.com/ http://www.davidairey.com/ http://www.helveticbrands.ch/blog/ and will try to create my ideas first on paper with pencil and then digitize them with proper technology, searching for tutorials like the ones on tuts network http://tutsplus.com/ CG Society is a great place to imme…
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on “Ask HN: How can a programmer learn graphic design from the ground up?”Submitted How to package elastic bands as a story · 5 points
HN discussionOn a side note if you'd like some legitimate logo design advice, read here: http://www.davidairey.com/ He blogs about the process, the concepts of branding, what to expect etc. In general David has been a good source of logo design info for the past several years.
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on “Startup logo design”Submitted Be brilliant at the basics (of Business) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm guessing the same way you break it in humans. Like this: http://www.davidairey.com/anamorphosis-and-the-art-of-chalk-...
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on “Show HN: Chui – The World's Most Intelligent Doorbell”Submitted A Short Lesson in Perspective as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis method of creating the name is widely used by professional logo/identity designers. David Airey has a good illustration - http://www.davidairey.com/berthier-logo-design-process The main problem with it that it is still unpredictable. It may lead to a good name or it may not.
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on “How Bvckup got its name”Submitted What convicts can teach us about branding as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted “The Coca-Cola Conspiracy” and ethical design | David Airey, graphic designer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How context can help sell the design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You don't have to be as good as everyone else as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Aesop on Hiring a Professional as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Advice for design students as a story · 1 points
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