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The Crossed Cow is The Partners blog. A collection of views, opinions and inspirations gathered from the team behind the UK's most highly awarded brand consultancy.
Category Archives: Logos
Fancy sharing?
If you like FFFFound.com (let’s face it, most of us do), or have played about with dropular – then add this one to your bookmarks and start adding photos, illustrations, graphics and just general *cool stuff*. It is called Fancy … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Design, Illustration, Information Graphics, Interiors, Just for Fun, Logos, Media, Packaging
Tagged Fancy, image bookmarking
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McLaren launch the new MP4-26
After what seems like weeks of secrecy, we finally got a chance to take a look at the this year’s Vodafone McLaren F1 car: the MP4-26, at a special launch event held in Berlin last friday.
Starbullocks
Starbucks’ decision to modify their logo has provoked much debate. We shouldn’t be surprised by this because it has become the norm for many a high-profile re-brand to be extensively interrogated in published and social media, with the fundamental question … Continue reading
50 penny for your thoughts
The reverse side of the UK’s new 50p piece, to commemorate the coming of the 2012 Olympics to London, features a crudely drawn high-jumper in mid-flight. By the standards to which we are generally accustomed, it’s a terrible piece of … Continue reading
Posted in Brand Strategy, Branding, Brands, Business, Design, Logos, Marketing, Strategy
Tagged 2009, 50 pence, 50p, Art, Bad, brand, Brands, Business, Coins, Conversation, Design, Designers, experience, Free, Fun, Google, haecceity, History, hypokeimenon, logo, Logos, London, Marketing, News, Olympic 50p piece, Olympics 2012, Paint, People, quiddity, ted, the National Gallery, Work
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Fast Backwards?
I hate it when people moan about ‘copycat/rip-off design’… Usually, that is, because I believe that fundamentally all designers want to be original. I try and give the ‘benefit of the doubt’ or ‘assume ignorance’ whenever it’s possible to do … Continue reading
Posted in Brands, Design, Digital, Graphic Design, Logos, Marketing, Media, Motion Graphics, Technology, The Partners, Typography, Uncategorized, Video
Tagged Design, Designers, Fun, Identity, logo, People, play
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New Generation or Next Generation?
Scour across the interweb and you’ll read lots of comments on blogs about the new design for massive super-global brand Pepsi: people love it, people hate it, but what ever you think, they’ve probably spent long and hard coming up … Continue reading →