Trends - Monday, January 23, 2012 10:58 - 0 Comments
Web Trends in 2012
Twelve Web design trends to look for in 2012
1. Responsive Design
What if online content responded to the way the user chooses to experience it (desktop, tablet, smartphone), instead of the user being forced to adapt to the way the content is rigidly presented? That’s the idea behind Responsive Design, and it’s more than just the biggest thing in web design for 2012: it’s quite simply the way forward.
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Inspiration - Nov 11, 2011 16:10 - 0 Comments
Inside the Media Revolution
Highlights from the 2011 FOLIO: Show
Times Square, NYC was a perfect backdrop for this year’s FOLIO: Show, as it is the epicenter of all things contemporary, high tech, and digitally engaging. Coincidentally, that was exactly the theme of the show.
Workshops and keynote sessions touched on print and digital strategies, mobile apps, social media strategies, digital development, creative idea execution, business growth and audience engagement.
As sponsors and speakers at the event, Bates Creative was able to hear first-hand what many of the media savvy, publishing pros in attendance were buzzing about.
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Strategy - Sep 16, 2011 12:03 - 0 Comments
Building a Better Logo
Identity design and what makes a successful logo
1. It’s a visual metaphor – Your logo (and possible tagline) is a doorway to a bigger idea. It invites the audience to learn more by telling a quick story through the mark. Nike’s famous swoosh is based on Nike, the winged goddess of victory, and the curve could be wings or the path of her flight. You see how that concept dovetails nicely into what Nike the company is all about. And remember how the Obama Campaign logo looked like a sunrise? Like Nike this logo used an illustration of a concept to introduce the big part of an overall brand – in this case, the idea of “hope”. Every logo should work this way.

2. Keep it simple - A logo is not a mission statement, a mission statement is not an ad, an ad is not a brochure, and a brochure is not a website. Oftentimes a company will try to cram its whole brand story and benefit statement into its identity – there’s a wordy tagline, lengthy name, and complex illustration. All this does is clutter up the mark and reduce its effectiveness across media. Try to keep the logo simple and clean so its “read” is immediate. Additionally, it will scale well (meaning it will work well small on a business card or large on a billboard) and it will compete better against other brand marks.
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The origin of the “fold” concept in web design is a holdover from newspaper design patterns. Originally, important news headlines or visually appealing images were relegated to the upper half of the front page of a newspaper so information was still visible even when the newspaper was folded.
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