N O U N : A design blog by Oliver Oike

Well, the Vancouver 2010 logo was officially revealed in Vancouver on Saturday, much to the chagrin of Canada’s professional graphic design body, the GDC (Society of Graphic Designers of Canada). The GDC website has several articles relating directly to competitions of this nature. The rest of the professional design world stood up to support the [...]

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The good folks at Flickr recently teamed up with Yahoo! and are now able to offer an excellent price on a Pro account – $24.95USD. Just TRY to upload 2GB of images in one month! And no storage limits! And tags!These guys are to be admired. They’ve really done a great job. Read Caterina’s blog [...]

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Not sure how to react to this. Hopefully good things come out of this, although I can see a few redundancies in the product offerring now: which ones will they choose? Freehand or Illustrator (duh)? GoLive or Dreamweaver? Fireworks or Imageready? Should be interesting to see how it all pans out, given CS2 is due [...]

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Had a great time in Toronto. Met some great folks, took in some excellent presentations, and walked and walked and walked. Some folks are posting reviews here. Also, you can find presentation materials here, and attendee photos here & here.

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Welcome to Noun, a site dedicated to celebrating the unique efforts of creative people and the things they do.

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