Street Photography Competition 2013
Logorunner Design is proud to sponsor Urban Picnic Street Photography.
The street photography website is now launched, which includes the Urban Picnic Street Photography competition, with a grand prize of £1,000!
Feel free to start uploading your work for discussion and inspiration over at http://www.photographic-competition.com/ and, when you’re ready, upload your three best works of street photography to the competition (there is a separate entry form for the competition).
The Urban Picnic Street Photography website is a hub to share your street photography, be inspired, discuss photos and upload your three best shots to the Urban Picnic Street Photography Competition 2013. Whilst here you are invited to participate in discussion on anyone’s uploaded images.
Entrants will be in with a chance to win the top prize of £1,000 and have their work printed, framed and exhibited with the us at Urban Picnic Gallery.
Judging the competition will be Matt Stuart and Eric Kim, two of the most prolific and contemporary street photographers today.
Please use this resource as a place to find inspiration, develop ideas and create unique photographs.
Brand Power: The Key to Small Business Recognition and Longevity
Most small businesses today cannot afford to pay for expensive advertising campaigns. That doesn't, however, need to be a serious problem. Businesses can become profitable when they learn to take advantage of social media and mobile marketing. A business that can connect with their potential customers and work to maintain those connections through social media succeed in building the kind of brand loyalty that isn't possible with the traditional methods of advertising.
In an article in the June 2012 Small Business section of the New York Times, Austin Texas independent advertising agency founder MP Mueller tells the story of how Tito Beveridge successfully turned his one-man distillery operation into a vodka company that won the double gold medal at the 2001 World Spirits Competition, beating out 72 other vodkas by garnering the votes of 28 judges. At that time, Tito had no budget for advertising, and social media didn't exist as it does today.
Your Product is the Brand
Tito understood that without the money to spend on advertising, the only way anyone would find out about his product was by taking it to the people. He did so by going to non-profit events and gallery openings and taking his vodka, setting up a station where he poured, and serving drinks himself. He convinced bar owners to conduct blind taste tests, using his vodka and other brands for comparison. He even handed out vodka samples at liquor stores on weekends. His vision of what his brand should be was simple: produce a great tasting vodka that was reasonably priced. That vision hasn't changed, despite his success.
Tito's Handmade Vodka is now a very successful, thanks to exposure from the New York Times, CNN Money, Martha Stewart, the Wall Street Journal, and Buy American Challenge. He still uses his original, but simple logo design, which he prints on recycled paper.
Engage With Potential Customers
Engaging in conversations on social media sites with followers can turn them into potential customers. That kind of personal interaction is what customers want. They want to do business with companies or people who are willing to go the extra mile, to talk to them and to figure out what they need or want. To do that, you have to earn their trust, and then listen to what they say. Businesses that focus on customers, provide outstanding customer service and address customer needs can take advantage of this kind of concern and customer service and make that part of the overall design and vision of the brand.
- Take Advantage of Social Media Networking
Angela Hausman, a professor of Marketing at Howard University, and the owner of Hausman and Associates, a marketing firm, stresses the importance of using social media to build a brand. She has five simple strategies that anyone can use to build and strengthen their brand. First, a business owner needs to identify their target market. Once they've done that, they can engage with that target market.
- Find and Track Potential Influencers
Influencers are people who will spread the word about your product or business. Consider them fans or loyal customers because they can help you build your brand simply by mentioning it. Make a point of looking for people who mention you and/or your business, the frequency with which they mention it and what they say about it. Once you've created interest in your product through social media, then you have to make sure that the people who express interest are truly sincere in their interest. If you have a product that you sell to retailers, or sell online, offer these interested people a free sample.
You need to keep them interested and to do that you've got to offer incentives. Consider asking them to test new products, or offer regular coupons so that they will continue to engage with you and offer feedback. Another incentive might be to offer something free to social media followers and fans for inviting friends and family members to follow your company or participate in activities you create through social media. Make sure that they know that you value their opinion.
"When a business can give consumers something they may not know they need or aren't sure they want, and do so in a way that convinces a customer that they really do want it, the business has succeeded in doing something that makes it stand out above other businesses."
Create a website that becomes a visible representation of your brand or product. Many companies offer webhosting, but take the time to compare them on sites like webhostingchoice.com before deciding which one will serve your needs. A visible presence on the Internet, coupled with active engagement on social media networks is an excellent way to reach potential customers, engage with them regularly, get honest feedback and take advantage of the benefits of modern technology without the need to use print, radio or television advertising. At some point, once you've established your brand, you may want to consider converting your website into a mobile-optimized one and engaging with actual, loyal, and potential customers through text messaging.
- Be Different
Successful branding requires that a business be different. The ability to create something unique, a special message, logo or service, or an offer that other businesses can't compete with are all things that will make a business standout. When a business can give consumers something they may not know they need or aren't sure they want, and do so in a way that convinces a customer that they really do want it, the business has succeeded in doing something that makes it stand out above other businesses.
Premium Social Bookmark Web Icons
Social Bookmark Icons
At Logorunner Design we have produced a series of social bookmark icons for some of the favourite social networks.
As a promotion we thought it is a great way of sharing the social networking icons work produced. We have also included some useful web icons.
The icon sets have 100 social bookmarking services and some useful web icons. They have been produced in both vector format and .png format. The .png icons come in 3 different sizes, 48x48, 32x32 and 24x24 pixels.
There are a variety of style to choose from including glossy circles, two colour square icons, minimal and stylish grey/white icons sets. Feel free to use the icons for your private projects.
Premium Social Bookmark Web Icons
These sets have been put together with great attention to detail, relevance, design and style. They are high quality and with so many varied uses for these sets we have made them a premium download.
Social Bookmarking Icons to link to your favourite social media sites.
They grab your visitors attention and the logos / icons are immediately recognizable. Social bookmarking Icons help to promote your website by making it easy for your visitors to promote and share your page via social media services.
Social bookmarking icons and web icons available in the premium download:
AIM, AMAZON, APP STORE, APPLE, BEEBO, BEHANCE, BING, BLINKLIST, BLIP, BLOGGER, BRIGHTKITE, DELICIOUS, DESIGN BUMP, DESIGN FLOAT, DEVIANT ART, DIGG #1, DIGG #2, DRIBBBLE, DRUPAL, DZONE, EBAY, EMBER, EVERNOTE, FACEBOOK, FACEBOOK PLACES, FAVES, FEEDBURNER, FLICKR, FOLKD, FORMSPRING, FORRST, FRIENDFEED, FRIENDSTER, GDGT, GITHUB, GOOGLE +1, GOOGLE BUZZ, GOOGLE TALK, GOWALLA, GROOVESHARK, ICLOUD, ICQ, LAST.FM, LINKEDIN, METACAFE, MIXX, MR WONG, MYSPACE, NETLOG, NETVIBES SHARE, NEWSVINE, NOWPUBLIC, OPENID, ORKUT, PAYPAL, PHOTOBUCKET, PICASSA, PLAYSTATION, PLURK, PODCASTING, POSTEROUS, QIK, RDIO, REDDIT, RETWEET, RSS, SHARETHIS, SKYPE, SLASHDOT, STUMBLEUPON, TAGZA, TECHNORATI, TIPD, TUMBLR, TWITTER #1, TWITTER #2, TWITTER #3, VIDDLER, VIRB, VIMEO, WIKIPEDIA, WINDOWS, WORDPRESS, XING, YAHOO,YELP, YOUTUBE, ZERPLY, email, like, search, zoom out, zoom in, bookmark, favourites, home, telephone, shopping cart, locked, settings
Pay via Paypal and receive a download link by email.
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The Vector Icons
Photoshop .png Icons
Example square gloss icons from the pack:
48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24
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Free Social Bookmarking Icons
Promote yourself with great looking social bookmarking icons
A major feature for web sites and blogs today is the ability to easily bookmark or share content on popular social media platforms. Your website visitors should be able to easily share with their favourite social bookmarking services.
A great visual way is to use social bookmark icons when linking to social media sites. They grab your visitors attention and the logos / icons are immediately recognizable.
Many social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags. A great way to promote your website or blog.
100 Free Social Bookmark Icons
Recently working on a website we produced a series of social bookmark icons for some of the favourite social networks.
As a promotion we thought it is a great way of sharing the social networking icons work produced. We have also included some useful web icons, such as email, telephone, zoom tools, shopping cart etc.
Download the free zip file below to get your free social bookmarking icon graphics.
The pack contains 100 bookmarking service icons in various sizes. Graphics format is PNG. Sizes include:
48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24
Social bookmark media icons and various web icons available in the free download:
AIM, AMAZON, APP STORE, APPLE, BEEBO, BEHANCE, BING, BLINKLIST, BLIP, BLOGGER, BRIGHTKITE, DELICIOUS, DESIGN BUMP, DESIGN FLOAT, DEVIANT ART, DIGG #1, DIGG #2, DRIBBBLE, DRUPAL, DZONE, EBAY, EMBER, EVERNOTE, FACEBOOK, FACEBOOK PLACES, FAVES, FEEDBURNER, FLICKR, FOLKD, FORMSPRING, FORRST, FRIENDFEED, FRIENDSTER, GDGT, GITHUB, GOOGLE +1, GOOGLE BUZZ, GOOGLE TALK, GOWALLA, GROOVESHARK, ICLOUD, ICQ, LAST.FM, LINKEDIN, METACAFE, MIXX, MR WONG, MYSPACE, NETLOG, NETVIBES SHARE, NEWSVINE, NOWPUBLIC, OPENID, ORKUT, PAYPAL, PHOTOBUCKET, PICASSA, PLAYSTATION, PLURK, PODCASTING, POSTEROUS, QIK, RDIO, REDDIT, RETWEET, RSS, SHARETHIS, SKYPE, SLASHDOT, STUMBLEUPON, TAGZA, TECHNORATI, TIPD, TUMBLR, TWITTER #1, TWITTER #2, TWITTER #3, VIDDLER, VIRB, VIMEO, WIKIPEDIA, WINDOWS, WORDPRESS, XING, YAHOO,YELP, YOUTUBE, ZERPLY, email, like, search, zoom out, zoom in, bookmark, favourites, home, telephone, shopping cart, locked, settings
Download the zip file here:
Download Free Social Bookmarking Icons
[1.1 MB]
Premium Version
For only £5 you get many variations including vector versions, two colour, square or round. See premium pack details here.
Download the premium version with 10 variations of style, vector art and .png versions included.
100 Free Vector Social Media Icons
100 Social Networking icons in vector format.
At Logorunner Design we work on numerous websites. A feature for most web sites and blogs today is the ability to easily share content on popular social media networks. Your visitors should be able to easily share with their favourite social bookmarking services.
Our design philosophy is to produce clean, minimal and quality design for everything we do. We've produced a set of social icons in vector format to help designers who are looking for a simple and effective design solutions for social buttons. The icons are one colour (black) and can easily be inverted. The style has been kept simple and iconic so it can be adapted to many uses. The premium version also has a colour set. As a promotion we think it is a great way of sharing the work produced.
Free Version
The free .zip file contains 100 free vector based social bookmarking and useful web icons in Adobe Illustrator .ai, .eps and .pdf formats. The icons are black on white, and have no background. You may download this file and use the social and web icons for your personal use.
Free Download for 100 Vector Social Media Bookmarking Icons
(0.8 MB)
Premium Version
Included in the premium version are the social network icons within buttons, social network icons within squares and there are colour sets for both. The premium version contains Adobe Illustrator .ai, .eps and .pdf formats.
The pack also contains Photoshop .png files, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24 pixels.
You may download this file to use the social and web icons for your personal use.
Premium Version
Photoshop .png Icons
Example square gloss icons from the pack:
48 x 48, 32 x 32, 24 x 24
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Pay via Paypal and receive a download link by email.
Why vectors?
This is mainly useful for designers and artists who are looking for vector versions of social icons so they can scale to any size without loss of details. Designers can then adapt and create their own versions without loss of detail.
Social Media Icons & Useful Web Icons
A great visual way is to use icons when linking to social media sites. They grab your visitors attention and the logos / icons are immediately recognizable.
What is social media? Many social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags. This is a great way to promote your blog or website. So if you didn't know what is Myspace? or what is Twitter? Now you can find just how many there are.
Social Media Network Icons available in Downloads:
AIM, AMAZON, APP STORE, APPLE, BEEBO, BEHANCE, BING, BLINKLIST, BLIP, BLOGGER, BRIGHTKITE, DELICIOUS, DESIGN BUMP, DESIGN FLOAT, DEVIANT ART, DIGG #1, DIGG #2, DRIBBBLE, DRUPAL, DZONE, EBAY, EMBER, EVERNOTE, FACEBOOK, FACEBOOK PLACES, FAVES, FEEDBURNER, FLICKR, FOLKD, FORMSPRING, FORRST, FRIENDFEED, FRIENDSTER, GDGT, GITHUB, GOOGLE +1, GOOGLE BUZZ, GOOGLE TALK, GOWALLA, GROOVESHARK, ICLOUD, ICQ, LAST.FM. LINKEDIN, METACAFE, MIXX, MR WONG, MYSPACE, NETLOG, NETVIBES SHARE, NEWSVINE, NOWPUBLIC, OPENID, ORKUT, PAYPAL, PHOTOBUCKET, PICASSA, PLAYSTATION, PLURK, PODCASTING, POSTEROUS, QIK, RDIO, REDDIT, RETWEET, RSS, SHARETHIS, SKYPE, SLASHDOT, STUMBLEUPON, TAGZA, TECHNORATI, TIPD, TUMBLR, TWITTER #1, TWITTER #2, TWITTER #3, VIDDLER, VIRB, VIMEO, WIKIPEDIA, WINDOWS, WORDPRESS, XING, YAHOO, YELP, YOUTUBE, ZERPLY
Note: The icons may not be resold, sub licensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. The icons may not be offered for free downloading from websites other than www.thelogorunner.com
Measurement Converter - cm to inches or inches to cm calculator
Measurement Converter Calculator
cm to inches, inches in mm, feet to cm, m to feet
Note: 1 inch = 2.54 cm, 1 foot = 30.48 cm, 1 metres = 39.37 inches
Here is a useful measurement calculator to help you convert various different measurements like cm to inches.
Example: cm to feet and inches, or feet to metres
Just type in a value you want to convert in one of the boxes and click 'calculate'. The measurement will automatically be converted to the other formats, ie. cm - inches or inches to mm.
Hopefully you'll find this online measurement conversion calculator a really useful tool to convert from one unit to another.Centimetres, millimetres, inches, feet and metres.
Bookmark this page and refer back every time you want to convert centimeters to meters or inches to centimeters. Easily work out metres to feet or metres to inches.
Convert from imperial to metric
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Quality Portfolio Wordpress Themes
Premium WordPress themes for photographers, designers or portfolio websites.
10 Social Media Trends for 2011
By Starr Hall at Entrepreneur.com
Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:01pm EST
1. Location-Based Marketing
2. Video Platforms
3. Text Campaigns
4. For Cause Tweet-a-thons
5. The Move to Higher Bandwidth (4G): Say goodbye to 3G
6. Wordpress-Based Websites
7. Plug-ins
8. Review Sites
9. Monitoring Conversations
10. Presentation Platforms
[note_box]Just when you thought you had Twitter down, a basic understanding of LinkedIn and you finally know how to upload a video to YouTube, I present my take on social trends that are on the horizon next year. From plug-ins to location-based marketing initiatives to the move to higher bandwidth, there's change afoot in the world of social media.
Read rest of article here: 10 Social Media Trends for 2011
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Free vector social bookmarking icons
Social networking icons in vector format.
Recently working on a website we produced a series of social bookmark icons for some of the favourite social networks.
As a promotion we think it is a great way of sharing the work produced.
The zip file contains 24 free vector based social bookmarking icons in an Adobe Illustrator .ai format. It has been kept basic so designers can take the basic shapes to create variations for their own projects.
Also included in the free download is the original flash .fla file. These are the glassy effect icons and could be useful for Flash projects.
Why vectors?
This is mainly useful for designers and artists who are looking for a vector version of icons so they can scale to any size without loss of details. Artists could then adapt and create their own versions.
Social Networks
A major feature for web sites and blogs today is the ability to easily bookmark or share content on popular social media platforms. Your website visitors should be able to easily share with their favoured social bookmarking services.
A great visual way is to use icons when linking to social media sites. They grab your visitors attention and the logos / icons are immediately recognizable.
Many social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags. A great way to promote your WordPress blog.
24 Free Vector Social Bookark icons
Download the free zip file below to get your free vector graphics for the social network icons.
The pack contains 24 bookmarking service icons within one .ai file.
Flash Social Bookmarking Graphics
Also included in the zip file is the original Flash .fla file. This file has all the icons along with the glossy layers. I've added this as it is useful for any Flash development.
The free social media icon vector graphics were created originally in Flash, and then exported to Illustrator (without the glassy effect layers).
Social Bookmarks and various networking icons available in free download:
Blinklist, Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, Designfloat, Devmarks, Digg, Diigo, Email, Facebook, Google bookmarks, Izeby, Linkedin, MisterWong, Mixx, MySpace, Newsvine, Reddit, rss, Script and Style, Stumbleupon, Technorati, Tipd, Tumblr, Twitter
Premium Version - Updated 2012
Download Free vector social bookmarking icons
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Start up business design
What are your company’s philosophies, goals and objectives?
Launching a company can be a very personal act. If your start-up business is successful, it will succeed because it is a reflection of your personality. What you are willing to try will have more bearing on your success than what you know. What lengths are you willing to go to in order to make your business and brand succeed.
The design of your business and the future brand you build is equally as important as the effort you put into a new venture. Your business has to reflect the strengths of your personality and abilities. Conveying a solid brand and identity is very important. It should stay in the memory of your target audience, inspire customer confidence and truly represent your business professionally.
Your new business identity
One of the first steps when considering your new logo design is how you plan to use it. You have to know how where and how it will be used. For example, a logo created for a website or full colour stationery printing may also need to work for two colour printing such and letterheads and faxing.
No doubt your new logo needs to be adaptable and be more useful than for just a single application. Most modern print processes and applications can easily handle full colour logos with intricate gradients, transparencies and special effect filters. The process is only harder for the designer to try and make these effects vector based so it can be blown up to large scale applications such as banners and billboards.
Your logo identity should represent your company. How it appears tells the potential customers what kind of business you have. This doesn't have to be taken literally but just having stylish fonts or simplistic design can speak volumes about quality. Colours play a very important part of how you appear. Colour has meaning. How colour is used in your logo is important.
A detailed brief can help answer some important early questions, and will give your designer a solid base to work from. What are your company’s philosophies, goals and objectives? These will also have an impact on your final design. Include small quirky ideas, something to spark imagination. These can then be adapted and you never know may play a small but significant part of the final concept.
Stand out from the crowd
When it comes to branding your business you should really know what it is that makes your company different. Ask yourself what makes you unique and what designs would clearly help depict this. The ultimate purpose is for people to recognize your logo and associate it with your business and build up trust. Here at the Logorunner we like to keep things simple. Designs should be clean, unique, iconic. Your business logo should stand out from the competition.
We believe your design should try to be timeless. Something that will not date. Following trends is fine, but tailor into that quality design and it should remain fresh for a long time. If you keep re-branding and changing your identity because of poor design then how can you expect to build up trust. Most of the best known brands have simple and iconic identities.
The Logorunner can help facilitate in creating a bespoke, unique, timeless, and quality logo and identity. It will speak volumes about your company and put you on the right road to a successful brand and help you build an exciting future.