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Thursday Top 5

By Mark Bult | Published: February 11, 2010

Art inspired by the series Lost http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9329292&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 LogoramaNominated for an Oscar. With good reason. [via Jason] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpbAe2HyzqA] ’80s Synth MedleyThree guys, six keyboards, 15 hits of the 1980s. See how many you recognize. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRYQEmwPJjQ] Dr. Who (How To Remake TV Theme)How the BBC audio guys recreated and refreshed the Dr. Who theme in the 1980s. […]

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Hitchin’ branding featured on Broke-Ass Bride

By Mark Bult | Published: October 6, 2009

Our Hitchin’ site has been mentioned lots of places, from design and CSS web dev galleries to blogs about planning that not-exactly-traditional wedding. Here’s a new one from a site with a name that made me grin: The Broke-Ass Bride mentions our M&V; logo in the post “Princess Lasertron, on Branding your Wedding on the […]

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Thursday Top 5

By Mark Bult | Published: April 16, 2009

Making of a logoDesigner Brian Potstra walks us through the making of a logo in this Flickr set. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMLnDuzgkjo] “Black Betty” by Ram JamAhh, the ’70s. The good ol’ days when you could make a legitimate song out of a dozen or so otherwise totally unrelated riffs. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3876226&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 DiggBarDigg introduced a new feature two weeks […]

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Logos designed by Mark Bult, 1986–2008

By Mark Bult | Published: August 9, 2008

I think this logo for the Palo Alto Golf Course might have been the first logo I ever designed. At least, it’s the first one that I actually still like enough that I keep it in my portfolio. I still consider it one of my best. I made it around 1986 or so. I was […]

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Possible new logo

By Mark Bult | Published: August 4, 2008

I’m thinking of using this new logo I came up with yesterday. I’ve been sketching logos and symbols for over a year, trying to come up with a logo that I could use for personal use as well as my design company. I was playing around with the concept of a coat-of-arms sort of design, […]

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LogoMaid steals logo from SimpleBits

By Mark Bult | Published: March 22, 2007

LogoMaid.com is a chop shop for cheap, non-original logos. Most buyers wouldn’t know that, of course. There are lots of these kinds of sites out there, offering readymade websites, Flash sites, templates, blog templates, logos, etc. They hire contract designers who work from home on the cheap, form all over the world, and these contractors […]

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Gettin’ hitched, part 1: branding your wedding

By Mark Bult | Published: November 4, 2006

After Velma and I decided to get hitched, I started thinking about some of the cool things we’d get to make as part of the process, like invitations. I also harkened back to a post I’d seen a year ago on a blog by a designer whose work I admire, Jason Santa Maria, who had […]

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Google’s perplexing fractal “holiday” logo

By Mark Bult | Published: February 5, 2004

I finally tracked down the explanation for the fractal logo design on Google on February 3. UPDATE 02-24-2010: CNN has published a brief story on Google’s often-changing logos: “For Google, doodles are oodles of surprise”

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