Branding Nine Four (Again) Sep 23. 051
I’ve been a bit slow to post it here (life is pretty busy when you’re working for yourself believe it or not) but Glen Richardson of Design Ontap also took some time to devise a logo for Nine Four.
Similar in concept to Mr Ruffles effort, but Glen opted for a more contemporary font and a play on the binary for ’9 4’. Again there’s some discussion over at Flickr about this but I thought I’d post it here for further critique and comment.
Branding Nine Four Sep 19. 052
Designing your own logo is just the worst task you could ever be charged with. Lucky for me a couple of mates stepped in and offered to take a look at this for me.
My good friend Chris Ruffles who I used to work with at Mirashade is the first back to me with something. There’s already been some discussion over at Flickr about this but I thought I’d post it here for further critique and comment.
Studio 8 Announced Aug 08. 052
Macromedia have gone public on ‘“Studio 8”:http://www.macromedia.com/software/studio/’. The final installment perhaps before we see a combined effort from the Macromedia and Adobe software development teams.
In a less than unexpected move they have seen sense and dropped the pointless ‘MX’ tag and reverted back to a simple version numbering.
Windows Vista Jul 23. 051
So I hear via foo that the next version of Windows is to be branded ‘“Vista”:http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/’ which according to the Visual Thesaurus means ‘the percept of a region’.
Not a bad name if you ask me, and a much needed departure from the whole ‘slap two letters from the alphabet together’ thing.
There is speak of Microsoft focusing less on the windows brand this time around, with ‘Vista’ taking centre stage (‘Vista Home’, ‘Vista Professional’, ‘Vista Server’ etc). As others have already stated this could be a good move and will encourage the view that this release perhaps represents a more substantial step forward from XP than critics might suggest.
