Just received an email from the webmaster of a site called Logo From Dreams, to let me know that one of my logo designs has been selected as their Logo of the Day. Thank you Logo from Dreams and all the best with your website, looks like it’s becoming a nice resource for logo inspiration.
Following on from my SleeveFace post last week, I had my very own MagFace moment last week, completely accidentally too, whilst catching up on my weekly dose of celebrity gossip I was captured on film below!
I love having a nose at other people’s old junk at car boot sales although very rarely buy anything. They’re great if you need something in particular, like a exercise bike or a Vauxhall Haynes manual, if for some reason you want a Soda stream you could easily pick up quite a collection of them for about £3.50. I’ve not been to a car boot sale for a while, but this Sunday morning, folk across the country will be rushing down for a new reason - to rake through the boxes of dusty old LP’s!
Why? Well you can forget Bebo and Facebook, a new online craze has hit the nation - Sleeveface!
For most people the New Year revelries are well and truly over and by mid January it’s back to business as usual. But here in Inverness we’re doing things a bit differently this year. Unlike across the other cities in Scotland, our Hogmanay went without much of a bang and instead, last night became the night to remember with a torchlit parade and fireworks display to celebrate the Old New Year.
There has been a great deal of controversy over the cost of the event which was to mark the end of a year of events to celebrate Highland Culture. But despite the moans and groans, most of the city gathered for the event, the highlight of which was the fireworks display from the Kessock Bridge which could be seen for miles around.
The bitterly cold evening helped make the display even more spectacular with the reflections on the calm water below. Unfortunately, my camera decided it didn’t like the cold much and the photo above is all I managed as a memory of the evening but thankfully there are some real photographers around here who captured the event a bit better! From browsing a few blogs this evening I’ve seen some spectacular photos including the one below from www.meejahor.com
Shopping Bags have long been used as a marketing tool by high street retailers and supermarkets. What better way to remind other shoppers to check out your store than creating crowds of shoppers unwittingly acting as walking billboards?
Retailers recognise the value of providing carry bags emblazened with their name and logo to their customers, indeed we’d find it a bit odd now if Next or Marks & Spencer’s provided our purchases in a plain, unprinted bag.
For some, the design of their carrier bags is becoming almost as important as the collections they stock. I read recently that the Saks store in New York spent nine months deliberating over the design of their carrier bag, envisioning it as “a piece of modern art”.
More recently, manufacturers have caught onto the idea of buying advertising space on shopping bags, and using the space to promote their specific product. This has led to some clever marketing campaigns and created some carrier bags that provide a memorable experience. The photo opposite is a great example of an effective, eye-catching advertising campaign for a product to help people stop biting their nails.