Most people these days don’t go very far in terms of designing a logo with meaning. Most logos you see are just fancy fonts (like ours!). There are some designers out there though that dig deep and work hard to make a logo mean something, or give it a hidden meaning. Below we’ve gathered 23 logos with hidden meanings and hidden images; logos that, when observed properly, are more than just text on a page.
Buddy Media recently published a report titled Strategies for Effective Tweeting: A Statistical Review. The report is based on the data compiled from their analysis of user engagement from over 320 Twitter profiles managed by various brands. Based on their data they make several recommendations for how best to maximize the use of Twitter as a business. The main results, including day, time and how to increase engagement and retweets, can be easily seen in an infographic put together by Fusework Studios.
While the fate of BlackBerry remains at the forefront of debates amongst gadget circles, the cellphone company is trying new things, doing what it can to remain in the ‘black,’ so to speak. On Tuesday, Bloomberg reports, BlackBerry is working on a wireless money-transferring service through their BlackBerry messenger application.
The ‘Money Messenger’ service is beginning a pilot project with Indonesian bank, PT Bank Permata (BNLI,) currently part-owned by Standard Chestered PLC (STAN.) BB is the leading smartphone brand in Indonesia, making it a good place to test out the service.
A day after Samsung and Visa penned a deal to begin working on wireless payment system payWave, the Canadian smartphone company hopes to quickly roll their service out to their 60 million worldwide BBM customers. With an estimate of 79 million BB users, the mobile money exchange program will hope to influence the one-third or so customers who don’t use BBM service to make the switch.
Clearly, we can see the future of monetary exchange probably lies in the abilities of our smartphones. Makes sense, right? Let’s see how it plays out.
<Source: Bloomberg>
While the fate of BlackBerry remains at the forefront of debates amongst gadget circles, the cellphone company is trying new things, doing what it can to remain in the ‘black,’ so to speak. On Tuesday, Bloomberg reports, BlackBerry is working on a wireless money-transferring service through their BlackBerry messenger application.
The ‘Money Messenger’ service is beginning a pilot project with Indonesian bank, PT Bank Permata (BNLI,) currently part-owned by Standard Chestered PLC (STAN.) BB is the leading smartphone brand in Indonesia, making it a good place to test out the service.
Gmail is great those who work extensively with email, and is a relatively secure email service. While there are other ways to help tighten your Gmail security, when it comes to sending emails securely from your Gmail Inbox, you might still need help from third party apps, such as SafeGmail.
Unlike emails which are stored on the cloud, SMS’s are saved on your phone and if anything were to happen to your phone, you’ll never see your precious SMS’s ever again. Because the iOS is such a closed system, you won’t be able to find an app that can backup and restore deleted SMS’s for you.
We all use one form of instant messaging from GTalk to Skype or even good old AIM, we are always looking for ways to talk to others quickly and avoid having our inbox fill up with emails.
There is a platform that will connect your instant messaging services and allow you to add them easily to which you then can create groups with people you want to specifically talk to from your now collaborated contacts list.
Logos are designed to do three primary things: to represent a company’s brand; to be iconic and recognisable; and to engage the audience to create an emotional response. This last one is arguably the trickiest to get right.
One way that clever designers have engaged their audience is to create logos with hidden or layered meanings, subtly or not-so-subtly building a dynamic logo with which people can connect.
Here’s a look at some examples of hidden meanings in logos, to see how it can be done and how it can produce such successful logos.
Remarkable examples of big typography design created by some hard-working and dedicated designers with great messages.
Here you can find 75 remarkable big typography design for your inspiration, I found these design really inspiring, hope you will be inspired.
There are millions of web design which are using creative web typography. One of the most important aspect of modern web design these days is typography.
Few things in life are more frustrating than the generic message of: “Your call is very important to us. An operator will be with you shortly.” When I have a problem or question, I don’t want to talk to a machine or go through a dozen troubleshooting-pages to get my answer - I want to speak to a human being.
No less wearisome is being forced to communicate with individuals who don’t actually know the answers to your questions, but are using an owner’s manual (which you most likely already own and have consulted) to walk to through your problem.
For those of you who wish to save yourselves time and frustration, I have developed a useful guide that I wish to share with you on “Bot Dodging: How to Avoid Automated Messages”.
Press “0”, “#” or Just Wait:
When you call a large company, you will most likely get a series of automated messages that lead you through a maze of options.
Pressing the “0” key is the most-used option by companies to speak directly to an operator. Other companies have a system which uses the pound key “#” as a shortcut to skip past the available options.
If the “0” and “#” tricks don’t work, try waiting on the line without pressing any options. The automated message may keep prompting you to press a key, but be patient. After waiting for a minute or two, the call will be either be disconnected, or more likely – transferred to an operator.
Keep an Updated Address Book:
There are times when I speak to half a dozen company employees before I find someone who can help me. When you are able to speak to someone useful, ask them for their work number, extension number, work email, and name. Most large companies allow their employees to give out this information, just incase the call gets disconnected. Not only will this help you avoid going through an automated system again, it will help you speak to a competent individual quickly.
Use Online Tools:
Due to this epidemic of machine operators, companies have arisen to help you the consumer find your way to a person. Websites like www.gethuman.com give you a step-by-step guide on how to reach a customer service representative for thousands of corporations throughout America and the world – free of charge.
Use Blogs and Forums to Find your Answers:
Most problems that you encounter, someone else has also. Before you take the time to call or write a company to find a solution to your problem, try going online and searching for a solution.
Include information such as the make, model, product, year, and the problem or question you are faced with, so you end up with a search along the lines of: “2009 MacBook pro audio doesn’t work”. You’ll be amazed at how much information you can find this way. You may have to play around with the wording a bit, but the answers to most of your problems can be found in forums, blogs, or online guides.
Email-pattern trick:
As an added bonus, I’ll include a trick that has served me well over the years.
I have had the privilege to work with many managers, entrepreneurs, and CEOs in my time, each of whom have company emails. They are careful to guard their emails to ensure that customers go through the “proper channels” to get in contact with the company.
However, the mistake they often make is that their emails follow the company pattern. This means that if you know that company’s email account system, you can contact certain person or position directly. For example: if you email an administrative assistant whose email is “MichaelS@companyname.org”, it is safe to assume that the general manager (we’ll name him John Doe) has the email address of: “JohnD@companyname.org”.
It is worth the time to try this trick with a drafted email. If it doesn’t work, simply go through the same channels you would otherwise have used.
Apply these tips to your calls and emails, and they will undoubtedly save you time and stress.
Jordan Driediger
DM2 Studios
Logos are intended to represent the company, to express their philosophy or ideals and plant an image in the customer’s mind. These ten cool logos use negative space to create an image or convey a message to their customers. Can you spot the hidden messages in these companies’ logos?
Nowadays, as a graphic designer, it's hard to come up with great and meaningful concept for a logo and satisfy the customer needs. As more and more trends pass over the internet, many creatives got trapped in this vortex and focus their logo designs for short term periods and not long ones.
Have you ever stopped to appreciate the hidden details in a logo? Today we have collected many famous logos that contain hidden messages. Some might be well known, but we hope you will learn about new ones as well!
Wall stickers are the easiest and coolest way to redecorate a room because it is fast, clean and you can always remove it.You can transform a boring space into something extremely great only by using these type of stickers. In this article you can see a collection of some cool wall sticker which you can order from any online sticker printing company.
Somewhere around 200 thousand text messages are sent every second, so it’s no wonder that studies are being done to see how people’s communication with each other is being affected. According to researchers, people tell the truth more over text messages than while talking on the phone.
Industrial psychologists and others can give you statistics on verbal and non-verbal communication, but I have been led to believe that as much as 60% of communication is body language. That seems a little high but I can tell you from experience it's pretty close to the mark.
In my experience body language can shift a conversation much more quickly than the spoken word. Here are some examples and how they might be used.
Backing up your text messages from your Android phone to your Gmail account is so simple there’s no reason to not back them up and make them search-friendly in the process. Read on to see how you can turn your Gmail account into an SMS vault.
Sexting on your iPhone or plotting out an illicit relationship via SMS is pretty convenient except for one thing: if someone sees your phone, you're screwed, embarrassed and exposed. Black SMS is an app that'll encrypt your messages so you never have to worry about getting caught.
Let's take a healthy sodium-dose here, but London's Sunday Times is alleging that Facebook has admitted to reading users' text messages. People at Facebook supposedly read the private SMS messages of users who downloaded the Facebook app on their smartphones.
Ahead of Mobile World Congress and an appearance by Facebook to explain its next moves in mobile, the social networking giant is coming under increasing strain over its use of users’ personal information. Mobile startups and operators are both fretting over the issue this week, as smartphones and the apps that come with them increasingly eclipse the feature phones of old. We’ve already seen how Path ignited the debate around privacy by uploading iPhone address books to its servers without explicit permission, just as many other apps have done without anyone realizing for some time. Path was by no means the only offender.
We all know how frustrating junk emails can get. They clog up our email inbox and make us waste precious time cleaning them up. To make matter worse, these spam sometimes come with viruses or worms that make your system gohaywire. But all these meant little for the conned victims who actually believed in the fraudulent content and lost their money paying for ‘ransoms’ or ‘charity causes’.
Apple is currently giving OS X Lion users a sneak peek at what's to come in Mountain Lion with the Message Beta app. We took a close look at the new app to see how well it performed and give you our thoughts.
