A look back at '09: Interviews with Jeff Fisher

This year brought about some incredible opportunities to be interviewed by design sites and various blogs:

• Braintalk with Jeff Fisher, Sharebrain (Read more here.)

• Interview Series: Jeff Fisher on Success And Freelancing, Freelance Show (Read more here.)

• Interview with Jeff Fisher LogoMotives' Jeff Fisher, PsPrint Design and Printing Blog (Read more here.)

• Jeff Fisher LogoMotives: Toot! Toot! (Two Parts), Neenah Paper: Against the Grain (Read more here.)

• Designers' Couch: Interview with Jeff Fisher (Read more here.)

• 'Make it Big' by Blogging an Interview with Jeff Fisher and Sheri L Koetting, The Creative Group e-Zine (Read more here.)

• People to Watch in 2009, Graphic Design USA - GDUSA (Read more here.)

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Sharebrain focuses on 'Braintalk with Jeff Fisher'

Jeff Fisher, the Engineer of Creative Identity for the Portland-based firm Jeff Fisher LogoMotives, is featured in the interview "Braintalk with Jeff Fisher" on the international web presence Sharebrain.

The creation of German web designer Thomas Ulbricht, Sharebrain is a design-focused online magazine with articles, resources, interviews, tutorial and much more of interest to web designers and web developers.

In the piece, Fisher - the author of the books Identity Crisis!: 50 redesigns that transformed stale identities into successful brands and The Savvy Designer's Guide to Success: Ideas and tactics for a killer career - discusses his 30-year career, the average day of a home-based independent designer, and sources of inspiration. Ulbricht also asks the designer about favorite projects, how to overcome roadblocks to creativity, his likes and dislikes about the design profession, and other topics.

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Clickety-clacks along the LogoMotives tracks

I'm taking a quick look back at the last couple months before starting out the new year. Jeff Fisher LogoMotives has been mentioned and spotted online quite a bit recently. Here's the latest from the cyber-world:

• 40 Playful Logos
Kreative Garden includes my designs for the Cat Adoption Team and the theatrical production 2 Boys in a Bed on a Cold winter's Night in this fun collection of international identities.

• Creative Advent 2008: Jeff Fisher
On his Positive Space Blog, Anthony Zinni creates his own holiday advent calendar of career advice from 24 design professionals.

• 20 amazing or original Logotypes & Logos !
In his first English language post, Mickaël Bertrand Alexandre includes the Jeff Fisher LogoMotives identity.

• The reality of logo design contests
The identity design blog Logo Design Love references my Creative Latitude article "When a “contest” is not a contest"

• Open Thread: What's Your Email Signature?
On FreelanceFolder, designer Jacob Cass takes a look at email signatures as a marketing tool.

• 100 Brands of Interest
Identity designer David Pache includes the Jeff Fisher LogoMotives logo in a collection focusing on creative firms.

• The Ultimate List of The Best Logo Design Resources
Jeff Fisher LogoMotives is mentioned multiple times in this listing from Just Creative.

• Jeff Fisher Interview Transcript
A couple of years ago Doug Farrick interviewed me - and the transcript of that discussion has now been posted on CreativePublic

• Book Review: Identity Crisis!

Teoh Yi Chie - an infographic journalist, illustrator, and cartoonist from Singapore - posts design book reviews with great photo imagery on the Design Shelf blog. I recently came across a review and video (above), with the reviewer flipping through my book Identity Crisis: 50 Redesigns That Transformed Stale Identities into Successful Brands, when posted on the Amazon.com page for the volume. I followed the provided link to the Design Shelf page for my book, which displays some great additional photo images.

• What makes a logo designer a professional logo designer?
Graham Smith, United Kingdom designer and writer of the ImJustCreative blog, asked designers on Twitter to define a professional logo designer.

• Braintalk with Calvin Lee
Cal Lee, of Mayhem Studios, has always be very gracious in mentioning Jeff Fisher LogoMotives in forum posts, blog entries and interviews - and he does so once again in a Sharebrain post. He was also a contributor to my books Savvy Designer's Guide to Success and Identity Crisis!.

• How 20 designers charge their clients
Designer David Airey, located in Northern Ireland, asked 20 international designers three questions about their financial practices. The answers provide great advice for any design professional.

• 42 Information Packed Twitter Backgrounds
The blog I Am Mike Smith presents the informative and decorative backgrounds of numerous "tweeters." My "tweets" may be found at @logomotives.

• Logo design evolution
I don't think that I can seriously be considered a "live legend of logo design," but I do appreciate the mention of my own logo design evolution on the DTP-Design site. The entry features the evolution of logos for a number of major corporations and Internet entities.

• Ten Principles of the Logo Design Masters
On the VECTORTUTS site, designer Chris Spooner of SpoonGraphics writes:

"The veterans of the logo design industry have achieved their success for a reason. Sure, it's partially due to the years of practice, blood, sweat, tears and inky fingers. But mainly, it's because they stuck to the ten solid-gold principles of world class logo design.

One of the principles is contributed by your truly.

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