logiqdesign

I have been a member of deviantART for over 5 years now, on a career spanning three accounts. Will somebody get a me a damn senior status? If I get any more senior I'll be decaying in my tomb here...All jokes aside, in the next few journals, I'm posting some reflections on DA, and thoughts I've had over the course of my time using the site.First and foremost, please understand that I think deviantART is a great site. If this wasn't the case, I wouldn't have stuck around for all these years. I think they have done an immensely good job, and I'm sure the team is made up of some incredible people. I've had the pleasure of corresponding with s...

This post is about the Groups platform here on DA, and how incredibly well I believe they have executed the idea.It really hit home for me yesterday, and I think many of us fail to appreciate the amount of planning and time involved in creating such a fluid system.My last journal post was about Branding & Identity on deviantART, which I wrote while discouraged after finding many improperly categorized deviations destroying mine in exposure. However since that time, some things have happened to make me really appreciate the Groups platform.After my experience with my Thinktank logo, and after submitting it to a group and being accepted, I c...

This isn't a rant, more of a biased observation if you will.I regularly browse the logo/logotype galleries here on DA. This week I submitted a piece that I believe to be some of my best logo/identity work to date. It is for the Visual Thinktank, a project I'm currently working on.Now I'm normally a very modest artist. I recognize that I'm not the best, and not the worst, and that there is much I can learn from other branding strategies and designers.I say all this so you will realize where I am coming from when I say the following:Many great pieces of identity work go unnoticed here on DA, while lesser and more amateurish pieces take the s...