the design ducky » ramblings http://www.thedesignducky.com loves to share good design Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:37:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 the design ducky tweets… http://www.thedesignducky.com/ramblings/the-design-ducky-tweets/2009/03/05/ http://www.thedesignducky.com/ramblings/the-design-ducky-tweets/2009/03/05/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:12:11 +0000 design ducky http://www.thedesignducky.com/?p=19 Okay thedesignducky.com is finally running on the latest version of WordPress, I’ve also installed a couple of plugins to run in the backend whilst at it. Not much updates at this point whilst the setup and updates continue, but the design ducky is now on Twitter! Follow my tweets at http://twitter.com/designducky! =)

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]]> http://www.thedesignducky.com/ramblings/the-design-ducky-tweets/2009/03/05/feed/ 0 *beep… beep… beep* the heart beats again… http://www.thedesignducky.com/ramblings/beep-beep-beep-the-heart-beats-again/2009/02/25/ http://www.thedesignducky.com/ramblings/beep-beep-beep-the-heart-beats-again/2009/02/25/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:48:53 +0000 design ducky http://www.thedesignducky.com/2009/02/25/beep-beep-beep-the-heart-beats-again/ in probably the longest hiatus from a blog ever known to man (or maybe not…) the design ducky is back… yes the heart beats again and unlike how it was two years back… there is a sense of purpose to this =)… in the meantime there will be a bit of a re-construction for this blog whilst things get sorted out and updated around here… (the design ducky is still running on WP 2.2?!)

follow the path with the heart and have the courage to follow it…

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]]> http://www.thedesignducky.com/ramblings/beep-beep-beep-the-heart-beats-again/2009/02/25/feed/ 0 qantas gets a new look! http://www.thedesignducky.com/ramblings/qantas-gets-a-new-look/2007/07/25/ http://www.thedesignducky.com/ramblings/qantas-gets-a-new-look/2007/07/25/#comments Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:03:40 +0000 design ducky http://www.thedesignducky.com/2007/07/25/qantas-gets-a-new-look/ qantas has just revamped the all-familar jumping kangaroo logo and font… the previous logo was designed almost 20 years ago so apparently it was time for an update.

frankly speaking, my initial thoughts when i saw the logo was ‘why that font! why italicize it more!?’. i think it just makes the logo look like it was back in the 80s instead. it just doesn’t really fit very well with the stylized kangaroo design – which looked like the jumping roo has gained a bit of weight or something.  this logo was designed to suit the newer range of aircraft like the (humongous) A380 so i guess that justify fattening up every bit of the logo… but why italicize so much?? (my friend said it looked like a typhoon came and blew the words one way… which i thought was quite funny)

according to the news, when they decided to revamp the logo, australians were very concerned that the jumping roo would somehow be replaced so much so that the airline had to release some form of an official word to let people know that ‘no we’re not changing the kangaroo!’. i would be VERY concerned if they did take out the kangaroo… you can refer to the history of the jumping roo here.

of course it is still too early to tell whether this new look would work, and what other improvements did qantas make to their brand to bring it to the next 20 years(?). just earlier this year, another of australia’s iconic symbols got a spiffy look but in the case of the opera house, i like the interpretation and the design of the “tagline”… it makes the SOH more lively than your typical staid opera house and very much more ‘aussie’.

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]]> http://www.thedesignducky.com/ramblings/qantas-gets-a-new-look/2007/07/25/feed/ 0 thanks for popping by… http://www.thedesignducky.com/ramblings/thanks-for-popping-by/2007/07/16/ http://www.thedesignducky.com/ramblings/thanks-for-popping-by/2007/07/16/#comments Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:05:37 +0000 design ducky being the first post of this blog… i must say i’m suffering from writer’s block which is not a very good thing… i mean the first post is suppose to set the tone of the entire blog no? it is supposed to provide potential readers of this blog who ‘thedesignducky’ really is…

in any case… after sitting on the link for a good two months (and after much nagging) i’ve decided to stop procrastinating (which i am getting a little bit too good at it) and start writing… no more excuses (‘oh i don’t have time…’ ‘gotta think about it abit more’) but i’ll just hop in and look forward to the journey ahead…

now maybe the second post would be easier….

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