Escalada Livre is an initiative by some sport climbers to gather information about the sport and publicize what have been done regarding environmental, security and administration issues of climbing sites. It’s a website with information about the local climbers and news such as championships and videos from world class climbers.

The logo was designed on the subject of climbing, obviously, but also thinking that it would need to fit well in a small sized horizontally oriented header. The spider or the lizard are the first simbols all climbers use to indicate the sport, since they are natural climbers, but I chose the Ant cuase it’s also a natural climber, awesomely strong and one of the most hardworking animals in nature. The image of the ant in the logo ressambles the position of a human climbing, and this was decisive factor for choosing this image.

Check the Escalada Livre website here

Escalada Livre is an initiative by some sport climbers to gather information about the sport and publicize what have been done regarding environmental, security and administration issues of climbing sites. It’s a website with information about the local climbers and news such as championships and videos from world class climbers.

The logo was designed on the subject of climbing, obviously, but also thinking that it would need to fit well in a small sized horizontally oriented header. The spider or the lizard are the first simbols all climbers use to indicate the sport, since they are natural climbers, but I chose the Ant cuase it’s also a natural climber, awesomely strong and one of the most hardworking animals in nature. The image of the ant in the logo ressambles the position of a human climbing, and this was decisive factor for choosing this image.

Check the Escalada Livre website here

ILUVUXDESIGN from lyle on Vimeo.

A nice little video about UX design.

http://www.davidairey.com/
David is a Great Designer from Ireland, this is his personal website, with his work and thoughts about design and logo design. I also learned a lot about blogging with him, analyzing his blog, and posts. He is a great guy, very attentions overtime I contacted him.

http://www.logodesignlove.com/
This used to be David’s second blog, now he just runs the blog, with guest posts, but the quality of the articles remains unchaged, with interesting thing about logo and branding.

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/
This is my favorite all things webdesign blog. With quality stuff on a daily basis.

http://www.swiss-miss.com/
Tina Roth, a swiss designer in NY. She has a great blog, with tons of interesting things about design and lifestyle. Great blog.

http://lovelypackage.com/
A huge, higly updated blog about package design, with a lot of student work, and high quality pack design. Worth seeing every now and then.

http://www.blogday.org

This just caught my eye at Webdesigner Depot. In my opinion, the Jack of all trades will always be a great professional, since he can see things from different perspectives. A designer that can code a little, will design things thinking if the coding if possible. He doesn’t need to be an Ace in 4 different languages of webcode. He just needs to know his way around some HTML/CSS and PHP, for example, and his layouts will be more solid than from a designer that knows nothing about code.The other way is also true. A master coder, with a little knowledge of design and layout will pay attention to the details of the layout, and not make the mistakes usually seen when a designer sends a layout (PSD ) for the coder, and when the site comes back, it is a bit different, with things not precisely aligned, different font sizes and so on.

A lot of things can be improved with a a little knowledge. I’m ultimately driven by knowledge, and that’s first thing a Jack needs to have. Do you consider yourself a Jack?

David, from Dache.ch have written the 3rd edition of the 100 Brands of Interest, where he lists 100 great brands from designers around the web. He has done a nice work on his blog.

My studio’s logo is featured in this selection. Thank you for that David.

I hope you like his post.

100 Brands of Interest – 3rd edition

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