Jul 1, 2009
This is a case study for logo designs, identity, branding and signage I produced for a local Church Organisation, St Luke’s. It is one of my older projects, but I didn’t author a blog when I produced the designs, so now is a great time to talk on the brief and design processes.
I was asked by Pastor Martyn Sullivan at St Luke’s Church, South Elmsall UK, to design a fair few logo design concepts for them—and the additional organisations that were affiliated with St Luke’s. These were The Family Centre, The Hope Centre, The Rainbow Nursery (and Rainbow Preschool), LifeTime Ltd, LiveLink and The LiveLink Shop. [...] Continue Reading…
Jun 14, 2009
Lately, I’ve have a few projects going on all at once—and I’m having some difficulty trying to write articles for two blogs due to my workload. One thing I’m learning at the moment is to not start article series (like How I customized my Wordpress Blog & What are Color Gamuts? ) until I can fully commit to them. I do intend to carry on the article series that I start, but I can’t guarantee I will get around to writing them soon. Articles like that simply take more time to write. [...] Continue Reading…
Jun 8, 2009
A few weeks ago, I noticed that my most popular article The Profesional Designer’s Guide to using Black had a Google Pagerank of 3. All well-and-good, however the Pagerank of my AndrewKelsall.com homepage had a PR of just 2. Huh? I thought. How could this be?
I took a look at the code on all the links within the sidebars of my homepage—and discovered that none of them were “no follow” links. Now, I know some basic SEO, like all blogger’s do, so I had the theory based on previous article I had read that I was sharing my homepage PR to such an extent, that it lobbed-off an entire level of pagerank. [...] Continue Reading…
Jun 3, 2009
Recently, Antonea Nabors, author of VelvetAnt.net asked me if I wanted to contribute to a new article named Ghosts of design work past.
The whole purpose of this article was for designer’s to, er, “showcase” a piece of design-work from their past, whereby the quality of the work wasn’t up-to-scratch, to say the least. The article starts: [...] Continue Reading…
