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c/graphic-design-inspoalice457alice45728d agoProlific Poster

Found a forgotten design book in a used shop and it fixed my creative block

I was stuck on a logo project for a coffee shop for like three days, just hitting a wall. Then on Friday, I ducked into a used bookstore downtown to get out of the rain and found this old graphic design annual from 1992. The thing is full of hand-drawn type and weird collage work, stuff you never see now. I spent two hours just flipping through it at my desk, and it totally shook something loose. I ended up scrapping my first ten digital drafts and just drawing with a pen for an hour. The final logo is way more raw and has way more character. Has anyone else gotten a big idea from a totally old or random source like that?
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dereks11
dereks1128d ago
Guess the 90s are back to save us from boring logos lol
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brooke_taylor
My buddy's startup just switched to a wavy neon logo.
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henry_murray
Derek's right, my first logo was way worse than neon!
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