If you were building a new home, would you lay the foundation yourself? Probably not. You would hire a professional who does that as a career. So why build a website for your company on your own? Hire a professional who will do it the right way and make sure that your business is shown in a professional manner. A …
Century Marketing Inc is your One Stop Shop
You just started a new business, awesome! Now you need a few things to get yourself up and running. Business cards, letterhead and stationery, a website, company polos and jackets, some promotional items like keychains and magnets, vehicle wraps for your company trucks, a logo for all of those items and a list of other things. You start thinking to …
Seminoles Update Their Logo – Minus the Controversy
Every few years the controversy of depicting Native Americans as a sports mascot is reignited. Just this past year the Washington Redskins have been the subject of public criticism for this reason. Although I can see both sides of the argument, I thought it would be unlikely for any sports logo depicting a Native American to endure much longer. Much …
Best and Worst New Sports Logos of 2013
Ok. I am about a month and a half late, but I thought it would still be useful to comment on the sportslogos.net lists of best and worst logos of the past year. As far as I know, this site contains the largest collection of sports logos on the web. Each logo is individually scored on a 1-10 scale by …
My Top 5 Comic Book Artists
If it were not for comic books, I would not be a Graphic Designer today. I am a major comic geek. Comic books sparked my imagination and interest in making awesome graphic images growing up. For a majority of my childhood my dream was to become a comic book artist. When I went to college there was not a “comic …
Football as Football Project
In Minneapolis a team of six young designers have given themselves the task of re-imagining all 32 NFL football logos as European football club badges. Soccer that is. They are going to do this 4 times to represent the German, English, Spanish, and Italian styles. I played soccer from elementary school through my senior year in high school. And I …
Two of My Favorite Things: Coffee and Design
I am a coffee fanatic. It has gotten to the point that my daily schedule revolves around the consumption of coffee. I’m not saying this is good or bad, but it is the truth. My name is Mike, and I have a problem. Likewise, as a full time Graphic Designer my day to day attention is taken to designing and …
Oregon Ducks Have a Tradition of Never Staying the Same
Whether it is a university or a National Football League franchise, tradition is a big deal. This tradition extends as far as the design of the uniforms. Take a look at our own Chiefs here in Kansas City as a prime example. The design remains almost indistinguishable from uniforms our 1967 Superbowl team donned. KC sports talk radio almost went …
What Does It Mean to Be Creative?
A couple weeks ago I went on a rant concerning what I believed to be improper criteria for defining art and artists. Today I am going to give a few thoughts on another elusive word in the art world today: creative. As I was doing a little research on the definition of “creative”, I did what most would do, I …
The Struggle and Compulsion to Get Better
Illustration and design is something that I oddly feel compelled to do. I use the word “compelled” not because I am trying to portray myself as “the artist” that is moved romantically toward his craft. Nothing that deep. I am simply saying I don’t do art and design only because it is fun. It is a struggle sometimes. And yet, …