I can’t think of one promising finger painter or notepad doodler in their earliest design years who has expressed interest in becoming a “Communicator!” when he or she grows up. In freshman naivete, I presumed that my future as a collegiate remained a mystery behind one of only two doors to the university art department: [...]
Category Archives: Graphic Design
Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar & Restaurant – Email Branding
June 18, 2010 – 10:24 am
Lucy’s Retired Surfer Bar & Restaurant is a great place to go for a drink and a bite to eat, but how do you know what is today’s special? As part of their branding and communication pieces, Design the Planet developed a weekly email for the restaurant’s two locations to update their customers about what’s [...]
Greene Serene – Logo Design
June 18, 2010 – 10:20 am
Green Serene is a new eco-friendly retail store on the infamous Magazine Street. At the shop, you can find innovative and stylish designs made of 100% organic cotton and bamboo clothing, repurposed and recycled beauty products, and hand-made jewelry. Our goal was to develop an identity that represented the company’s mission and purpose with a [...]
Rotary International Convention 2011
June 18, 2010 – 10:13 am
Design the Planet has worked with the West Bank Rotary Club for over 8 years and their international convention is coming to New Orleans in 2011. The website is the main communication tool for the organizers because of the shear number of Rotarians needing the information from around the world. Our team has also added [...]
Great Design Blog Resource
June 9, 2010 – 10:34 am
Abduzeedo: There are a lot of great design blogs out there, but if you have not heard of this blog, you should check it out and then subscribe. They post every day, often many times a day, and it always seems to be something unique. They have all sorts of articles for inspiration, they have [...]
NASA Does Design
May 26, 2010 – 1:01 pm
I happened upon this link this morning. It was actually pretty interesting. I know that each NASA mission takes pictures before they launch, but I had no idea they had been making “movie posters” for a few years now. I will be the first to admit that some of these posters are pretty terrible. I [...]
How Not to Help People Read a Sign
October 8, 2009 – 1:32 pm
To the right is a picture from this month’s Gretna Heritage Festival which had numerous local restaurants, non-profits, and craftsmen selling delicious food and one-of-a-kind crafts. Here is a sign that could use some help. When trying to get the text to fit, you need to do more than condense the font and make it [...]
A New Jack in the Box
March 10, 2009 – 3:42 pm
Jack in the Box, a national burger restaurant rarely found here in Louisiana, recently introduced their new logo by Duffy & Partners. (Old & new logos shown on the right). The new logo is definitely an update from the old balloon letters of yesteryear to the slick almost Web 2.0. A recent article on BNET [...]
Client Input
February 27, 2009 – 9:22 am
I recently received an odd question from a client, “If you are the professional, why don’t you just give me a completed logo & website and tell me you’re done?” At first, I didn’t sense the sarcasm in his voice, but it brought up a great question. Our clients know their business and we know [...]
I told you it is red!
March 12, 2008 – 9:02 pm
Just the other night, my wife was watching the recap of The Oscars? and the hosts were commenting on Katherine Hiegel’s fire engine red dress. The next day, the newspaper spotlighted Katherine Hiegel’s candy apple red dress. What! Which is it, fire engine red or candy apple red? Well, it’s both. How is this atrocity [...]
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