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Does anybody know any people who do corporate or product logos and graphic designs?

*raises hand*
Yo Wong! Right here!
What you need?

My appartment mate is a Graphic Designer and does stuff like that.

I've got a friend who does that down in AU, but I think he's too busy for any commission work. If you had a question about the process, though, he might be able to answer.

A certain RThermont happens to run a buisness that does this kinda thing.

(He calls it buisness re-identifcation or something)

Yeah, RThurmont does this stuff for a living. Though I don't think he's the actual guy at the drawing board making the pretty pictures.

No, Rthurmont is the CEO, but from what I understand, he used to do it, or atleast knows how its done.

He's one of the business types, exclusively marketing I'd say since I've never seen him discuss artwork or graphics and that his work is 'beyond human comprehension.'


I only do graphic design as a minor hobby, although I'm certified with Photoshop and can do the essentials of skewing and beveling logos.

Darth Wong wrote:Does anybody know any people who do corporate or product logos and graphic designs?

The graphic designer for my boss's spin off company is pretty good. His site, if you're interested, can be found here.

The girlfriend is actually a Graphics Design major.

I'm chief executive officer of Integral Identity, a brand experience consultancy. Corporate and brand identity design is a major part of what we do, in fact, earlier this week we just put the finishing touches on a new brand identity for an Austin-based IT client (to which I will link you as soon as we complete their website, or alternately, interested viewers can PM me with an e-mail address to see final artwork, the client willing).

Two great resources on our field: Brandchannel and Identityworks.

In addition to CI work, my firm has also done brand strategy and brand experience consulting projects for clients such as Unilever.

Also, for the record, not only do I do a substantial portion of my firm's creative work myself, but I'm also a professional member of the AIGA and an award winning artist. I'm also a VP of Communications for the Southern California American Marketing Association, and a member of the Design Management Institute.

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edit: added link to website

RThurmont wrote:I'm chief executive officer of Integral Identity, a brand experience consultancy. Corporate and brand identity design is a major part of what we do, in fact, earlier this week we just put the finishing touches on a new brand identity for an Austin-based IT client (to which I will link you as soon as we complete their website, or alternately, interested viewers can PM me with an e-mail address to see final artwork, the client willing).

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You should get someone to redesign your website. It looks more like a popup window than a legitimate page.

RThurmont wrote:a brand experience consultancy

So does your business actually do anything in plain English?

Sign me up too. What exactly do you need?

My father has been doing design work for about 50 years now, teaching it as a university professor for 30. What exactly are you looking for?

I can only presume he's looking for something a little more special for the website than:

Utsanomiko wrote:I can only presume he's looking for something a little more special for the website than:

if we go for that, I dare suggest that the whole site would use a redesign.

I do some design stuff.

Comosicus wrote:if we go for that, I dare suggest that the whole site would use a redesign.

Assuming that isn't a terrible forced joke, have you looked at the current logo recently?

You know, collaborating on some graphic tweaks to the website could be rather enjoyable. Assuming you guys have software that can integrate with my workflow. Otherwise, it would be somewhat along the lines of "NOOOO!!! WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THAT CLIPPING MASK???"

Would Photoshop work in that case, Mister Man, or do we need some kind of $2500 commercially-licensed software?

Photoshop is professional grade software, and it is professionally licensed, dummy

However, you'd probably also want a vector graphics program such as Illustrator or CorelDraw, both of which cost roughly the same as PhotoShop. In the case of a hobbyist who wants to do advanced graphics, and who already has PhotoShop, the best bet is to just buy another vector program, rather than getting CS2, as its highly unlikely you'd need to use the advanced typographic controls of InDesign, nor export DRM'ed PDFs.

Of course, some designers, such as Stefan Sagmeister, frequently eschew the digital route all together, in favor of creepier approaches to design, such has having their assistants manually cut letterforms into their skin (NSFW).

Utsanomiko wrote:I can only presume he's looking for something a little more special for the website than:

Hell, I made a version of that logo using the Star Wars font years ago...

I can do 3d work

RThurmont wrote:Photoshop is professional grade software, and it is professionally licensed, dummy

However, you'd probably also want a vector graphics program such as Illustrator or CorelDraw,

AAARGH, he said it, he said it. HE USED THE C WORD!!!