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Contour Design Macbook Sleeve

2011-01-19T16:10:00.001-08:00

contour design macbook sleeve is a very versatile carrying case for apple laptops. Being able to be purchased to fit any sized laptop they make great safe transportation units. The Contour cases come with a zipper pouch where the laptop charger, mouse, or any other equipment can be stored. There is also a Contour Reversible out now that can be flipped inside out to reveal a second color that the case can be.

Consisting of two layers of cushioning neoprene, the macbook sleeve wraps comfortably around the laptop on the inside while having a very convenient an easily accessible zippered pouch on the outside. the Contours outer pocket is comprised of the entire front creating a deep compartment. The pocket is perfect for keys, cell phones, wallets, or anything else that you may be carrying on you. While the laptop is in the carrying case it will be protected from scratches and cracks as well as lower the chance of the laptop cracking or breaking if it is dropped.

Allen Iverson Braid Design

2011-01-18T15:34:00.000-08:00

allen iverson braid design typically have what are called cornrows or braids but what sets his hair apart from just plain corn rows are the various patterns and braid designs that make up his personal hairstyles. The hairstyles can be considered pieces of artwork. To braid hair to look like Allen’s you must be real talented with a lot of skill. His braids are very popular due to the fact that he always changes the rows and artistic style of his hair.

Dionne Matthews is the woman who braids his hair. She even comes up with original names for the hair styles that she gives to Allen. Creating these types of hairstyles is not easy and the process of doing the corn rows takes a good deal of time. In order to achieve elaborate designs through corn rows the person must have a rather long head of hair. Though the process of achieving stylish designs through cornrows takes quite a bit of time the finished product lasts for a couple of weeks.

Scottish Thistle Tattoo Design

2011-01-17T15:39:00.001-08:00

The scottish thistle tattoo design is a distinctly Scottish emblem, it relates to the pride in being one of the people who descended from the Scots who emigrated around the world. The thistle is a symbol of pride, determination, tenacity and toughness in the face of great hardship and long odds

The plant on its own is not unlike a weed.

The plant is very defensive in the fact that it has thorns and spikes covering the leafs as well as its flower. The plant grows back stronger after being pulled if any of the root system is left in the ground. Another defensive aspect of the plant is how little water it needs. The thistle is able to survive drought better than most other plants. These defensive strengths make the plant very strong and hard to get rid of which is why it has been the symbol of the Scottish for so many years.

Design Racing Silks

2011-01-14T16:03:00.000-08:00

design racing silks are the clothing that jockeys wear as they race. The silks got their name from the fact that they were once entirely made out of silk. Thought you can still get real silk racing clothes the more common occurrence is that of nylon or lycra. The nylon and lycra breaths a little bit easier and allows for more comfort. The colors and patterns that jockeys wear have to be registered in order to participate in races. This allowed spectators to be able to tell jockeys apart as well as know who they are racing for. So when it comes time to decide your uniforms design and color scheme it would be a good idea to check to see if your design has been registered already.

When looking at high quality silks one should look to see if the shirt uses buttons or the more commonly used poppers. The poppers will not fall off a shirt as easily as a button will. It’s also a good idea to find a racing shirt that has longer shirt tails. The tails allow for easier tucking of the shirt as well as keeping the shirt from becoming untucked while racing.

Flight Design CTLS

2011-01-13T14:28:00.001-08:00

flight design ctls has been certified to international airworthiness standards in the United States, Europe, China and India. The structure of the CTLS is over 90% carbon fiber and aramid providing superior protection in the form of what is called a “Safety Cell” for the pilot and passenger. In addition to the structural safety built into the CTLS, four-point safety harnesses and wing located fuel tanks are just a few safety features of this aircraft.

Every Flight Design delivered to the United States of America comes equipped with the BRS 1350 parachute system. The airframe parachute is deployed with a handle located between the seats and provides an added measure of safety for pilot and passenger.

The large cabin of the CTLS has a width of 49″. The ergonomic arrangement of the controls and instruments, plus the CTLS terrific visibility, makes long flights and learning to fly more relaxing and fun.

Thermoforming Hinge Design

2011-01-13T11:00:00.000-08:00

Thermoforming is a term describing the process of producing plastic parts from a sheet of plastic under temperature and pressure. Thermoforming offers, tight specifications, and sharp detail. With advanced finishing techniques, high-technology thermoforming creates products that are on par with those formed by injection molding. Thermoformed plastics surround us in our daily lives. They have replaced many parts previously manufactured from wood, paper, glass, and metal.
thermoforming hinge design is efficient and cost effective for the production of plastic parts for any size, shape, or quantity. Temporary tooling offers an inexpensive short-term test for design issues and product market acceptance.

The steps to successful thermoforming starts with heating a thermoplastic sheet to a temperature that softens it for molding purposes. Sheets come in a wide range of thicknesses depending on the desired product. Then you must stretch the sheet to conform to a custom mold. Then it is cooled until it becomes rigid and maintains the desired shape. You then trim the plastic parts to eliminate edges. The next step is the fabrication to configure it in to its final shape.

Jockey Silks Design

2011-01-11T14:49:00.000-08:00

In early horse racing jockeys would wear the colors of the person that they were racing for. The colors would be displayed on their uniforms which are called silks. Called silks because the early variations were, in fact, silk, today most are actually nylon or lycra. The colors and patterns that jockeys wear have to be registered in order to participate in races. This allowed spectators to be able to tell jockeys apart as well as know who they are racing for, this was before jockeys wore numbers. While in their earliest iterations silks were merely different colors, today the designs can be quite intricate, ranging from geometric patterns to pictures and symbols.

Over 28,000 sets of silks are registered with The Jockey Club. Each of the 28,000 silks that are registered are unique. Nobody is allowed to race in that color/pattern other then the person that has registered it. Anyone that races in a registered color races for the owner of that color. http://www.nzracingwear.co.nz/colour_design.htm is a great site available to look at different color schemes and jockey silks design.

Ctts Milestone User Interface Design Solution

2011-01-10T15:02:00.000-08:00

The goal of ctts milestone user interface design solution is to make the user's interaction as simple and efficient as possible. The inputs and outputs of the system are the system. Important decisions can be made depending on the outputs. The ease and accessibility to putting in the inputs can make the process harder or easier. Good design means that a system can be used efficiently and effectively.

The system uses interface design dialog that will combine the inputs and outputs. Some of the different outputs that can be used are transaction (external/turnaround), detail report (internal), summary report (internal), and exception report (internal). Some of the inputs that may be used are source document, client/server screens (e.g., Windows), and web screens. To make the process simple and smooth requires a simple interface that is not too complex to understand but not so simplistic that it is unable to accomplish what needs to be done.

Anastasia Congdon Rhode Island School Of Design

2011-01-07T12:49:00.001-08:00

Founded in 1877, Rhode Island School of Design is one of the oldest and best-known colleges of art and design. The college offers degrees in architecture, design, fine arts and art education. The college is located in Providence, Rhode Island, between Boston and New York. Neighboring anastasia congdon rhode island school of design is Brown university. While attending RISD students are able to take classes at both campuses working towards their degree.

At RISD students are encouraged to take on work with their peers as well as faculty to complete projects and class assignments. Teachers and students work together to think outside the box and come up with solutions and ideas to better the things around them. The art and sculptures that students create often get accepted into art galleries where their hard work can be admired by all.

Lions Club International Logo

2011-01-06T14:04:00.001-08:00

The lions club is an organization that is focused on helping out the communities around them. It’s a nonprofit organization that is held up by the members themselves who believe that the world cannot survive without people helping each other.

The lions club international logo uses large bold seraph style font for its letters. The focal point in the center of the logo is a large yellow L contrasted against a dark blue circle behind it. To the left and right of the ( L ) are two lion’s heads facing opposite each other. Their mouths are drawn open with the incisors being prominent. At the top of the logo LIONS is spelled and on the bottom INTERNATIONAL; both adorned with the same blue color of the center circle.

Metacrawler Logo

2011-01-05T12:43:00.000-08:00

metacrawler is a search engine of search engines. It combines Bing, Google, Yahoo!, Ask.com and a few other search engines to create one big search. metacrawler searches through this websites and finds the best answers to the query that are available. metacrawler will then omit duplicate returns so that the search is as effective as possible. Metacrawler also allows the search of videos, news, images and even the white and yellow pages.

The metacrawler logo has a bold ‘meta’ in black print with the crawler being a faded out grey. The second line has a small red arrow that points to the words search the search engines!. The color of the arrow appears throughout the webpage. Underneath it says “including Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask. In the logo it gives the name of the company, the overall generality of what the search engine does, and then who specifically it searches with.

HRBlock Logo

2011-01-04T13:22:00.000-08:00

The creators of H&R Block are Henry and Richard Bloch. They wished to put their name on the business but were worried that people would pronounce their names Blocht, so it became Block. The hrblock logo is very simplistic in design. It consists of a large green square standing to the left with the words H&R Block in bold black font to the right. The normal design of the logo reads left to right making the green block the first thing seen. The logo is also more recognizable from a distance because of the green block.

An interesting fact about the logo is that it cannot be copyrighted; the symbol and letters are so simple that they do not meet copyrighting requirements. Though not copyrighted, the logo still stands alone as a trademarked symbol of the company. The green color of the block is meant to symbolize health or a healthy environment.

long island ducks logo

2011-01-03T13:41:00.001-08:00

The Long Island Ducks are a professional baseball team based in New York. They play out of the baseball park that has recently been renamed Bethpage Ballpark having been changed from EAB Park. This team does not play in the MLB.

The long island ducks logo is a word mark; meaning that the stylized graphic is specifically created for and solely owned by the Long Island Ducks. The logo itself consists of the colors black, green and orange and has a cartoon styled duck’s head which creates the shape of the D. The letters following are filled in orange with a black shadow hanging down and to the right. The letters are linked together in a cursive style with the ‘s’ looping through itself. The logo that is placed on the hats is the same duck faced d that starts off the logo but is used as a stand alone symbol.

PSA Airlines logo

2010-12-31T15:52:00.000-08:00

PSA Airlines is run out of Vandalia, Ohio and is owned by the US Airways Group. They were founded in 1980 and currently have a fleet size of 49 with up to 55 destinations.

Airline logos tend to all stick to a similar format which the PSA Airlines logo seems to also do the same. Since they fly under the US Airways Express banner that is the prominent thing featured on their jets. But their logo is also well seen in other areas such as their official website. The logo is in a serif type of font but is drawn to look sleek and modern. The text is also in a drop embossed effect, with white on the top part of the text and dark blue on the edges. Underneath the text in the logo are two colors with the white in the background to serve as the 3^rd. These colors are dark blue and red.

Frosted Flakes Logo

2010-12-30T15:55:00.000-08:00

Frosted Flakes is a cereal owned by the Kellogg’s company. The cereal is made up of corn flakes that are frosted with sugar. Unfortunately the name of the cereal “Frosted Flakes” cannot be trademarked so when marketing this product they always remember to say or put down “Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes”. Since their name is not trademarked Kellogg’s relies heavily on the logo design and cereal mascot.

The Frosted Flakes logo is featured on all their cereal boxes and hasn’t changed too drastically over the years. The most recognizable thing about this cereal is the cartoon tiger. The tiger is mostly seen pointing his right arm into the air with his index finger extended. Next to the tiger is the famous quote “They’re GR-R-Reat!” he always says in TV commercials. Above the tiger is the Frosted Flakes text in a embossed blue and white design. This text also has a white outer glow to it.

Twin Pines Dairy Logo

2010-12-29T15:42:00.001-08:00

The Twin Pines Dairy logo is very classic and perfect for its time period. This logo could be seen on ice cream trucks from twin pines farm dairy back in the 1940’s. In present day this logo can still be seen on restored classic ice cream trucks and miniature model replicas. The logo always is on the back part of the ice cream van where in present day would be a window in place of that on mini vans.

It features two pine trees one standing slightly taller than the other one since the trees were drawn on a sloping hill. Also it reads Twin Pines on the left side of the two trees and on the right side it reads Farm Dairy. This text is also inside of a horizontal banner drawing that is not filled with any color. Since the ice cream truck they are driving is in a manila color the background of this banner and the rest of this logo is also in manila.

Griffey Swingman Logo

2010-12-28T15:27:00.000-08:00

The Nike Air Griffey swingman logo goes perfectly with their other product they manufacture which is incredibly popular known as “Air Jordan”. The logo is designed to look basically like a baseball version of the Air Jordan symbol. I am able to tell the by the silhouette player along with a trademark stance that Ken Griffey, Jr. made popular.

The Air Griffey symbol has been placed various pieces of merchandise due to its simplistic design. Since the symbol is in a followed through swing of the bat there is a diagonal line around the Griffey symbol to show that Ken Griffey Jr. is a great hitter and what he is most known for. Perhaps this makes his admirers want to purchase his product thinking they’ll somehow be able to hit the baseball more effectively. Or maybe just to look as cool as Ken Griffey Jr. since his baseball cap is also backwards in the logo.

Global Unity Logo

2010-12-27T15:15:00.000-08:00

GPU or Global Peace and Unity event is a two day conference held in London put together by the Islam channel. It’s the largest Muslim conference of its type in Europe. It brought in fifty five thousand people from five different continents in the 2006 GPU conference. The Global Unity logo they used to market this event also seems to have helped with the success of this conference.

The logo is in a white text that is very simple but yet official looking in this format. The focal point of this logo is the letters G, P, and U followed by the year of the conference it is advertising. The words Global Peace & Unity Event are listed above the focal point of this logo to clarify what the three letters stand for. Then below the focal point and center of the logo is the date of the conference appropriately listing the day before the month since this event takes place in Europe.

Angostura Bitters logo

2010-12-23T14:40:00.000-08:00

Angostura Bitters is usually referred to as angostura and has a very famous way of branding their product. Their logo is featured on a bottle with an oversized label. At the top of this label hanging loosely is the Angostura Bitters logo. It is a very old brand that was started in the early 1800s so of course the logo has a vintage look to it.

The text that reads “Angostura” is a curved text bending upwards from the middle. The text is also in a wavy Serif font type look, and is squeezed together to basically fit within the two vertical lines on the bottle. Above this text is a seal that looks like a back of a coin. This symbol is very simple by featuring 3 people without faces and only lightly shaded. In other advertisements and products the text of this logo is in a red font.

Doctors Without Borders Logo

2010-12-22T15:38:00.000-08:00

Médecins Sans Frontières is known as doctors without borders in the United States, but it is known over the rest of the world as its French name under the initials “MSF”. This organization kept this in mind when creating their logo to look like the same logo but alternate text.

The doctors without borders logo is in three colors: red, black, and white. The main and only symbol in this logo is a red and white stick figure that was drawn in with 4 individual red lines, a dot for the head, and the legs were erased from red to white. These lines look as if they were made by a red marker. The head is simply a circular oval red dot; the arms are just a single red line going horizontally. The text that reads Médecins Sans Frontières or Doctors with Borders is in a italicized bold Arial font.

IBM WebSphere logo

2010-12-21T16:13:00.000-08:00

IBM has created several products and marketing campaigns over the years. So it comes as no surprise to know when creating a logo that will be one of their featured products it should be neat, recognizable, and marketable.

This IBM WebSphere logo can be seen on a number of IBM’s software products. The brand name “WebSphere” is in white text in a light purple rectangle. Next to that is the text free standing by itself not inside any shape in black text that reads “Software”. This logo is almost always underneath or right next to the IBM logo. This is something that will benefit their company in the long haul. By doing this IBM will have another brand to market, or sell to another company at a valuable price.

The IBM Company has built a reputation of being a professional technological corporation. Therefore the WebSphere logo compliments this IBM’s theme quite nicely.

Air Force Information Assurance Logo

2010-12-20T15:28:00.000-08:00

When designing logos for the government I could only imagine how difficult it must be to decide on a logo. Also what it is that they’re trying to accomplish with their logo. The Air Force Information Assurance logo leaves us asking these questions.

This logo is a circular emblem with two main colors: blue and gold. At the top reads Information Assurance. Then in the middle of the logo is a knight with a sword and a helmet with a very subtle looking silver crown on his head. The helmet completely covers the knight’s head and looks to be from the crusades time period. Another thing in the logo next to the knight is planet earth slightly levitating. The earth is completely covered in connecting dots that portray that this organization protects information on earth or is connected across the globe. Underneath this picture is the text “Defenders of the Domain” which does help a little bit in explaining this unusual looking logo.

Fidelity Investments Logo

2010-12-17T15:43:00.000-08:00

A company such as Fidelity Investments understands that a successful image is crucial in the financial services industry. So the Fidelity Investments logo is a perfect fit for serving as a symbol of the type of excellence they promise to all their investors and clients.

The signature element to their logo that is used everywhere from their TV commercials to their twitter account is the pyramid in a circle. This pyramid’s tip is levitating slightly upward along with a sun floating in the background. The pyramid has three dimensions to it. This is accomplished by the shading of the far left side of the pyramid. Also the symbol is in gold and white with the pyramid and sun being in white, and the background being gold. The text that reads Fidelity Investments takes a more conservative approach. It is bolded in Arial and around 5 degrees slanting to the right in a forest green color.

MMWR logo

2010-12-16T15:22:00.000-08:00

When designing a logo for publications about serious subjects like disease control & prevention it is important to keep an appropriate & professional look. The MMWR logo is a good representation of this, but perhaps might have created a logo too simplistic. So simplistic that CDC (the organization that publishes this report) does not even bother to use their same logo for MMWR on different mediums. The main MMWR logo that is seen on pdfs and other websites is big bold arial text in light blue that reads MMWR. Sometimes this logo is italicized and slanted to the right, but it is hard to tell if this was an older logo format they went with or one CDC simply alternates with.

Either way it’s a little confusing to figure out if they are both affiliated with the CDC. Fortunately the organization CDC chooses to use one constant logo. This helps make up for their publications lack of one.

Comfort Suites Logo

2010-12-15T16:01:00.000-08:00

The Comfort Suites logo was made to look elegant and classic. The main symbol in their logo is the letter C and the letter S. These letters were also designed to look cursive but are in fact still in normal print. Still these gold colored letters connect through the bottom of each end with the letter C being slightly more elevated than the letter S creating a loop. Next this recognizable symbol is put on a blue circle background. The main background is red and features a gold sharp cornered square border around two pixels in from the outside of the logo. This gives a hint of a traditional hotel look.

The Comfort Suites sans-serif text at the bottom of the symbol is probably their most identifiable part of this logo. Since their symbol has changed over the years from different circle shapes but they left that part the same.