Logo Design Mistakes

Logo Design Mistakes

Designing a logo isn’t easy and should not be taken lightly.  In designing a logo, there are several logo design mistakes that you should avoid making.  Branding isn’t just for big companies that have millions of dollars, many small companies can take advantage of a great logo but you’ll want to avoid these mistakes to insure a great logo.

First, make sure to have a professional designer create the logo for you.  There are many companies that do logo design that can help you design a logo.  By avoiding the use of an amateur, you’ll get a nice clean logo design that will last a long time.  The adage that you get what you pay for is very true in logo design.  You can see the difference that a professional designer can do for a logo.  They have a better understanding of using shapes and color.  You’ll want to hire a designer because you’ll end up with a professional looking logo that you’ll be happy with.  A great logo shouldn’t have to be redone.  It should last a lifetime.

One thing that you should never do in designing a logo is to use clip art.  Pretty much everybody can spot clip art.  Clip art does not provide any uniqueness to a logo.  Somebody could have the same picture in another logo.  Also, designing a logo with clip prevents you from customizing your logo.  The logo will appear to be look unprofessional and most people can tell when clip art is being used in a logo because most people have seen what clip art looks like.

Typography is a big factor in designing a logo.  Choosing the right font to go along with the other design elements is just as important is the design elements themselves.  Avoid using the wrong word, a long sentence, a mission statement or anything unnecessary.  You should also avoid certain words or phrases that could potentially be offensive.  It is also important that you choose typography that you can read.  It really doesn’t make sense to design a logo who’s company name is illegible.

Lastly, you should make sure to design your logo for all media types.  There are lots of different advertising medium and you’ll want to design a logo that looks great in all forms of media.  It would be a big mistake to design a logo for one media type and the logo look terrible on another type of media.  You have to make sure that your logo copies well onto all media types.  Keep in mind that you’ll be advertising in a lot of different places so you’ll want to make sure your logo looks great wherever you put your logo.

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7 People Killed In Bridge Collapse In Kunming, Said Project Workers Cut Corners

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Kunming bridge collapse killed seven people, said construction workers cut corners

At 2:20 p.m. on the 3rd Xu, from Yunnan Construction Engineering Services company supporting the construction of the Kunming airport approach bridge collapse took place, leaving a total of seven people were killed and eight were seriously injured and 26 slightly injured.

Yesterday, Kunming, the Yunnan provincial government deployed the new airport under construction, collapsed four rehabilitation approach spans, which require comprehensive organizational Kunming new airport safety inspections, accident Approach works full suspension, all tenders one by one investigation, identify the cause of the accident, after rectification and improve safety measures in order to resume construction.

Currently, all new airport construction project under construction has now been suspended, and one by one to carry out safety inspections. Cause of the accident by the safety administration in Kunming Organization survey, from the design, construction, geological conditions, and find the cause of the accident fully.

Lucky: on trips to the bathroom have dodged a bullet

Zhangfa Song and his wife Jang Mi-Ran may be the most fortunate of the fortunate. Work is the bridge, he went in a bathroom accident, escaped the collapse of the bridge the robbery, but his wife fell from the bridge, only the hands and legs were injured.

Zhangfa Song recalls that he and his wife work with the bridge, he suddenly felt stomach problems, you walk to the toilet for about 5 minutes away easily. Time of the accident, is the toilet, he heard a loud bang collapse.

“At that time I heard ‘H’ a crash, from the window that approach part of the dust kicked up.” Zhangfa Song said he regain consciousness immediately, and together with other workers to be able to back, can help The injured, transferred to a safe location as soon as possible.

Investigation: to find out the reasons for today’s fastest

After the accident, the Yunnan provincial government and timely deployment of the four follow-up work, one of the best of medical conditions carefully treat the injured, a speedy recovery to the wounded; Second, leniency, favorable treatment and timely payment of pensions, good reception, to appease the families of the victims; Third rapidly identify causes of accidents and shall be held responsible for the accident; 4 is a comprehensive organization of Kunming new airport safety inspections, accident Approach works full suspension, all tenders one by one investigation to identify the cause of the accident, rectification and improve safety measures before they can resume construction.

Present, to persons injured in accidents with stable vital signs, all out of danger.

Yunnan Construction Engineering Services Inc., according to a responsible person said that the reasons for the accident investigation results will be the fastest today.

Workers: jerry-built steel structures Kunming new airport workers, several of anonymity told reporters in the construction of approach bridge collapse, the main reason is the structure of the steel is not strong, you can use one word to describe: cut corners.

According to reports, according to a general rule, when under construction, steel bridge structures, except for vertical steel can have a certain density and height, horizontal steel reinforcement is very strict, so must be reinforced before and after every 1 meter, must be reinforced with a butterfly buckle, but also the upper and lower cross-reinforcement, to form a whole, if a steel is not strong or loose will cause the entire steel frame collapsed.

These workers, the new airport under construction in the build process Approach, there were some women and not trained workers to participate in the phenomenon of steel structures. They believe that a project through the layers of subcontracting, the final price layers also decreased, to labor contractor hands, it is already the lowest, for profit, labor contractor to do is cut corners, installation of steel by reducing the number of to “improve efficiency.”

So good after the steel frame structures, exterior looks compliance, but the existence of the middle of the steel frame is loose in the case, when hundreds of tons of concrete poured to the bridge, vibration, vibration machine has kept , unstable solid steel frame will not move the location, then the entire steel frame will be like dominoes, as meltdown.

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None. The way that tower went down was fantastic engineering. It was designed so that if something like that happened it would collapse inwards instead of toppling thus limiting casualties. Imagine what it would have been like if the tower fell on its side. It would crush thousands more. All modern skyscrapers are designed the same way.

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Examples of engineering failures such as the Hindenburg?

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but there are hundreds of others. Check the link, there are 100 bridge disasters alone.

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Design Flaws to Avoid

Design Flaws to Avoid

A good web designer knows there are certain things that you just shouldn’t ever do to a website. Some of them have to do with loading times and others are just faux pas and will turn visitors away from your website. The problem is that many websites out there are outdated and thus display many of these qualities. Also, many websites have been designed by the owner of the company using a free design tool or by an inexperienced amateur who, while they may know some things, isn’t a seasoned web designer with a team of designers behind him or her. Does your website have these basic flaws?

Slow loading graphics or videos. The Internet is where people go to see what they want and when they want. If you are holding them back by posting a high-resolution video of your latest product on your homepage or having intricate logos and banners on every page, visitors will respond by not staying very long. This a web design flaw seen in websites from the previous “web generation.”

Browser Compatibility. Firefox reads different than Internet Explorer reads different than Safari reads different than Google Chrome reads different than Opera reads different than… well you get the point. There are tons of browsers out there and you don’t want to chance leaving some of your viewers out! Do plenty of testing with the biggest browsers and you should be covered if all looks the same with each browser.

Grammar or Spelling Mistakes. It seems simple this is actually something that turns me away from a website almost immediately.

Too Many Colors or Fonts. It’s definitely ok to integrate visual appeal into your web design and pretty fonts and colors are a great way to do it. I’m writing about the website that uses eight fonts on one page, all of them a different color. In my opinion, once you get more than three fonts or colors, you are out of the design theme and that’s when the clashing begins.

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Aircraft Emergency Engine Failure

Aircraft Emergency Engine Failure

We were flying in a twin engine Islander aircraft hoping to skydive from 12,000ft, at about 4,500ft we noticed that we were no longer climbing although we were still heading away from the drop zone; I looked back in the direction of the drop zone and could see some huge black clouds rapidly building. It was not looking that good and we thought we might get a call for a low climb out.

I checked my altimeter and the aircraft was now down to 4,000 ft I spoke to my friend Dave and said I can’t see what the problem is, almost immediately the left hand engine shut down and the pilot shouted get out. This was a real aircraft emergency so you don’t hang around you just get out of the aircraft as quickly as possible.

The door was opened in a couple of seconds followed by people leaving the aircraft in a real hurry as Dave and I went for the door one of the jumpers was blocking the isle calling to the pilot “what’s wrong” the pilot did not answer he just glared angrily and shook his finger pointing to the lame engine.

We almost had to push this guy out of the aircraft; I just could not believe that someone would question an experienced pilots command to leave the aircraft.Dave and I exited last we took a 2 way straight out of the door, with all the excitement of a real aircraft emergency we had no time to look where we were in relation to the drop zone.

When we deployed our parachutes we could see that we had no chance of making it back to the drop zone. I had a quick look around and could see one of the jumpers flying in the opposite direction, I began to question myself as there are two airfields and they both look very similar. I soon realised that he was flying in the wrong direction.

I still could not see any wind socks because of the distance we were away from the drop zone. Suddenly my mind seemed to be playing tricks with me and I began to question the direction for landing, I had checked it earlier in the day but with no wind sock I began to doubt myself.

I tried spitting but it did not give me a clue so I looked around for any signs of smoke, no fires no chimney smoke.I was pretty sure I was heading into wind and I had time and enough altitude to make one final check I went into fairly deep brakes and made some gentle turns, the ground speed went up straight away which confirmed that my original heading was correct.

We all made a safe landing in some fields, and the pilot managed to fly the aircraft safely back to the drop zone. One of the other jumpers came up to me and said I was following you because I could not see which direction to land in, I laughed and told him that I doubted my own judgement as well.

With the use of GPS we have become used to getting a good spot over the drop zone, sometimes we perhaps become a bit complacent in expecting to be over the right spot every time.There are always lessons to be learned to ensure the best chances of reducing injury or worse, so what could we have done to have made this incident safer?

We could not predict this engine failure however we could have made thing safer by just following some simple rules.On this occasion we should have paid more attention to the weather conditions in particular to the wind direction. When you can see a wind sock it is easy to judge the direction for landing however with no reference to wind direction things can become more difficult.

Also when a pilot gives you an order you need to take immediate action, however you should still try to be aware of your surroundings and the buildings and hazards that exist around the drop zone. If you are not familiar with the drop zone always ask for a briefing and look at the photograph of the drop zone so that you are familiar with the area and hazards.

I have a little check that I make on sunny days, I check the position of the sun against the wind direction and providing the sun is not directly overhead you can use it in most situations to get an into wind landing even with a bad spot. http://www.incomepool.com

 

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