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.

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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.

• 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.

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Your first impressions are everything. When we go through life we are always discovering new things, people, products and services and making judgements. In  business, the first that a potential client gets to see is your logo design. Your identity gives an immediate interpretation of your business. So, designing an effective logo for your business is really important.

Several key elements are crucial when it comes to designing a unique logo for your company. First of all, you need to do some soul-searching business thinking. Do you have the resources or funds to employ the services of a professional logo designer or design agency? Whilst this person or company may be the answer to your problem, new businesses may not have the marketing funds available to go down this route. However, here are some key points to consider as you come up with your own logo design and branding.

Choosing your logotype.

You can simply choose from thousands of different fonts available to portray your business name. You can also choose to include an image to represent your business type – for example, you could include a graphic of a cake if you own a cake shop. Do not however merely base your logo on a generic stock image or symbol. This will stand out a mile away, and reflects on how others will perceive you and your business. It’ll do nothing to truly represent your business and eventually you’d need to redo it.

Getting your message across.

From the beginning you need to be very clear what your message is. Keep this message firmly in your mind when you are creating your logo and try to get it across in graphic form.

Make your logo aesthetically pleasing.

Your finished result should be iconic, clean, distinctive, and functional. Your logo should “work” when reproduced through any medium, in two colour as well as in colour.

Important ! avoid a generic look.

Don’t just use clip art, and come up with a boring, meaningless look. Be creative!

Be effective.

Don’t go over the top and create a masterpiece of design with deep colors using a rainbow spectrum. Remember that you are going to have to reproduce your logo in many different formats for print and web.

Make sure it is usable.

If you do not have a natural eye for design, talk to a design expert to get their advice. Will your logo translate into various different formats? For example, how will it look when reproduced on a shirt or on a letterhead?

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Here at Logorunner design studio we specialize in high quality, creative company logo designs, corporate branding and graphic design services. We are a design agency in Cambridge with expert designers and can help clients with all potential design and web development needs.

You will see from our portfolio that our style is clean, modern and simple. We create maximum impact from each piece of work.

Our design objective is to create unique, quality logos and graphics, stationery and imaginative websites. A custom logo design can be a great asset to your business.

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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, 48×48, 32×32 and 24×24 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.

The Vector Icons

100 vector social media icons - clean minimal grey icons

100 vector social networking icons - clean minimal white icons

100 vector social icons square colour

100 vector social icons square white on black

100 vector social icons square black on white

100 vector social icons in circles colour

100 vector social icons in circles white on black

100 vector social icons in circles black on white

Photoshop .png Icons

Example square gloss icons from the pack:

48 x 48,  32 x 32,  24 x 24

social bookmark icons-white

social bookmark icons - grey

social bookmark icons square-gloss

social media icons-square

social media icons square-white

social media icons square-grey

social bookmarking icons in circles-gloss

social bookmarking icons-circles

social bookmarking icons in cirlces-white

social bookmarking icons in cirlces-grey

Enjoy

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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.

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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, 48×48, 32×32, 24×24 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

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

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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.

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Here is a useful reference for A paper sizes in mm or A paper dimensions in inches. So you can easily find out A4 in cm, A3 in inches, A3+ in mm

Sizes include A0, A1, A2, A3, A3+, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, A10 in centimeters, inches and millimeters.

Dimensions of International ‘A Series’ Paper Sizes as defined by ISO 216

Here is a table containing the dimensions of the A series paper sizes.

Dimensions are given in the table below in millimeters, centimeters and inches.

Table of Paper Sizes From 4A0 to A10

Example: A4 in cm = 29.7cm x 21cm, A4 in inches = 11.7 x 8.3, A4 in mm = 297mm x 210mm

A popular size for printing is A3+. A3+ in mm = 483mmx329mm

The A Series paper size chart below visual explanation of how the sizes relate to each other – for example A4 is half of A3 size paper and A1 is half of A0 size paper.

A Series Paper Sizes Chart – A0, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8

4A0 & 2A0 – The DIN 476 Oversize Formats

The paper sizes bigger than A0, 4A0 & 2A0, aren’t formerly defined by ISO 216 but are commonly used for oversized paper. The origin of these formats is in the German DIN 476 standard, that was the original base document from which ISO 216 was derived.
A Series Paper Size Tolerances

ISO 216 specifies tolerances for the production of A series paper sizes as follows:

±1.5 mm (0.06 in) for dimensions up to 150 mm (5.9 in)
±2 mm (0.08 in) for lengths in the range 150 to 600 mm (5.9 to 23.6 in)
±3 mm (0.12 in) for any dimension above 600 mm (23.6 in)

A Series Paper Sizes Defined

The A series paper sizes is calculated by the following format:

The length divided by the width is 1.4142
The A0 size has an area of 1 square metre.
Each subsequent size A(n) is defined as A(n-1) cut in half parallel to its shorter sides.
The standard length and width of each size is rounded to the nearest millimetre.
International Usage

The A series paper sizes are now in common use throughout the world apart from in the US, Canada and parts of Mexico. The A4 size has become the standard business letter size in English speaking countries such as Australia, New Zealand and the UK, that used to use British Imperial sizes. In Europe the A paper sizes were adopted as the formal standard in the mid 20th century.

So now you can easily find A4 size in mm, A4 in cm, A3 size in cm, A4 in inches or A3 in inches, A3+ in mm with this useful A paper size reference guide.

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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

(1.403 MB)

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Reasons why we like WordPress.

WordPress can be a great all round solution for nearly any type of website on the internet. Whether your goal is a simple blog or a complex content management system, WordPress is accessible to all.

Licensed under the GPL, WordPress is free and open source. Beginners, or people looking for a free option can be writing on the internet in no time at all. Designers and developers can download, install and start adapting WordPress very easily. Many hosting companies now have a one button press strategy to install and have WordPress working on your desired domain.

WordPress as a C.M.S. (Content Management System)

WordPress is a powerhouse blogging and development platform, but can it be used as a serious CMS? Forget using wordpress as a blog and think about it as a regular website and how you would engineer a site. By learning the basic principles of the code or by utilising existing plugins you can adapt WordPress into something amazing. You can even hide the fact that it is WordPress by changing the appearance of the ‘back-end’ and login system.  In WordPress you have the ability to categorize, tag and add detailed custom fields, it makes indexing data and searching really easy. The logorunner website is a great example of how to adapt WordPress.

So here are the reasons why we think WordPress is great to develop with:

It’s Simple

WordPress is a really straight forward system to setup and use. Adding content with a WYSIWYG editor is straight forward and familiar. The only task is producing interesting content. We also recommend adding a few well written plugins to enhance the basic install. A plugin to manage photos and pictures easily and a good flash / video player.

It’s Flexible

You can change the look and feel of your site in a matter of minutes. WordPress supports themes or templates that are built to give it a unique look and feel. Themes are completely decoupled from your content allowing you to custom change CSS parameters without fear of loosing your information. There are a number of sites dedicated to providing WordPress themes.We usually find a theme that we like to use as a base and then modify it so that it is just what we want.

It’s Powerful

It uses AJAX, is dynamic, social, interactive, and interacts with just about any other web 2.0 / social media site out there.
WordPress is built on a three part architecture that keeps people honest. The first is the WordPress engine. It is an OpenSource project created by a diverse group of developers with a simple mission of creating great software.WordPress is search engines friendly right out of the box. With the addition of a few plugins like All-In-One-SEO, and Google XML Sitemap Generators, your installation of WordPress will become Google’s best friend. The WordPress community give it all the love and support it could ever need.

Plug and Play

The WordPress architecture supports the addition of custom functionality through plugins. Plugins are individual software programs adding specialized features and functions to WordPress. Plugins are desiged by developers around the world. Whether you are interested in making your installation of WordPress more accessible to search engines or publishing your audio files to iTunes, there is a plugin for everyone. WordPress plugins are literally plug and play (both to install and maintain)

It’s popular

WordPress is a widely used platform. The popularity of WordPress is no coincidence and the points mentioned above are a big reason why WordPress is such a popular blogging and CMS platform. As far as support is concerned WordPress has one of the best support communities. If you have a question head on over to the support forum.

WordPress is the first choice for many personal blogs all over the world. You can make it look and feel just how you like, for free. With a little more knowledge of CSS and WordPress PHP basics you can turn it into a powerhouse website, content managed and search engine friendly.

There have now been enough versions to have proved that it’s a stable solution. Once setup, your site just works. Allowing you to create content rather than troubleshoot errors. To conclude, WordPress is great for writers, software designers/developers, and the internet overall.

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