the habberjams

Not to steal a topic, but I recently saw a poster for the TTC’s new ad campaign, Put The Garbage Where It Belongs, and it made me laugh out loud. On the subway platform. When I was by myself. Garbage goblins! I love it! It was so damn cheesey, it really did hit me. Spacing‘s [...]

An interesting article on Ontario’s new trillium logo appeared in the Toronto Star today. Critics dislike that the Liberal party spent $219,000 on redesigning the logo (devaluation of design, anybody?). The opposition is outright accusing the Liberals of having had it redesigned to look like the trillium in their party’s logo. I think they’re just [...]

DesignObserver has an excellent article on how logos build meaning over time. I recommend this not just for other designers, but for people who hire designers also. I particularly like this extract: “We decided to recommend a straightforward sans serif font. Predictably, this recommendation was greeted by complaints: it was too generic, too mechanical, too [...]