DESIGN CHATTER
Logoipsum: Because That Empty Corner Deserves Better
Aug 27, 2025
Every designer knows that awkward moment: you’re mocking up a layout, and there’s that blank corner in the top left where the logo should be. You try a square, maybe even slap an “X” in it, but it still feels…lacking. Enter LogoIpsum! Just like Lorem Ipsum can fill in for text, LogoIpsum fills in for logos! Whether you need a vertical mark, a horizontal lockup, or just something to take up space until the real logo is ready,
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See What the World Celebrated on Your Birthday
Aug 22, 2025
Forget the generic birthday posts, Google has a quirkier way to celebrate your big day! With its “Find Your Doodle” feature, you can look up which special Google Doodles were live on past birthdays. What started back in 1998 with a Burning Man doodle has since grown into a global tradition of animated logos, games, and interactive surprises. Just search your birth date at doodles.google.com, and you might discover your birthday shares the spotlight with history-making events,
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The Evolution of Five Adobe Classic Icons
Aug 20, 2025
Icons may be teeny tiny, but they carry huge weight in how we experience design: think of the floppy disk that still universally means “save” (even to people who’ve never seen one). Adobe is known as the de facto design software, and to no surprise, it’s filled with iconography that has become iconic. Over the years, Adobe’s icons have adapted to keep pace with changing resolutions, new devices, and even the rise of AI, but they’ve always managed to stay instantly recognizable.
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Pop Culture, But Make It Kandinsky
Aug 15, 2025
French artist 8th Project has a knack for taking the most familiar pop culture icons (think heavy-hitters like Mario, Mickey Mouse, and Pikachu) and reimagining them as if Kandinsky painted them. The result is beautiful abstracted paintings of beloved characters created by arrangements of circles, lines, and curves that are *just* recognizable enough to spark excitement when you recognize the subject.
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Swoosh Overload!
Aug 13, 2025
If you think you’re a logo expert, there’s a quiz on Reddit right now that may very well humble you. The challenge: to identify 16 nearly identical swoosh logos. Added difficulty: none of them are Nike, and all of them are frustratingly generic. The “swoosh” trend has been overused to the point where when you see them stripped of text, these logos are almost impossible to tell apart! The Reddit user who created the quiz has collected more than 200 swoosh-style logo designs,
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From Solitaire to Social Feeds
Aug 08, 2025
Cards aren’t just for games, they’re everywhere in our increasingly-digital world: think social media feeds, e-commerce sites, and project management tools. These graphic widgets have deep roots, tracing back (way, way back!) to intricate playing cards, tarot decks, and even Microsoft Solitaire (yes, the ultimate ‘90s time-killer). Cards aren’t a particularly sexy design element, but their clean structure and bite-sized info containers make them a great fit for storytelling with design. No matter how you use them,
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