Designing a city logo can be a difficult but rewarding process: when doing this one should keep in mind that, unlike company logos, a city logo involves a huge cultural background and will be representing the image of the city on many levels - from the political to the social and economical one. Therefore, a careful consideration of what the image chosen for the logo will symbolize and entail is absolutely necessary.

First of all, this sort of logos originate from the old city heraldics, and they still have a strong resemblance to them: when designing a city logo one should be aware that, much like in the old heraldics, each visual element is expected to be a symbol for something related to the city, and that this logo will become the image of the city and it should be very effective in essentializing its main features or its general cultural representation.

It is absolutely necessary to study the city’s past and present landmarks, its history, its main economical activities, its cultural symbols and to look at the old heraldic emblems of the city as well. That is why, managing to create a modern, functional image of the city can be a very difficult and elaborate process.

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Mascots are a great way of giving a personality and a natural touch to you site! You can either use them as a logo in themselves, or next with your site logo, but in any case, they are a simple and effective way of suggesting what your site is about and giving it a specific character, connecting it to an image that makes it memorable, in a word, giving it an identity that people can relate to!

Compared to the way in which this kind of mascot could be used in print (where there are certain color and complexity restrictions), when you create a mascot that is meant just for the web you have much more creative freedom: you can use as many colors or effects as you wish if you feel that this would be in line with what your site is about, for instance. Of course, you can still use a very simple drawing style as well. It all depends on what you are trying to express through your mascot, what your target audience is and, of course, on keeping in mind that you have to make your mascot blend in with the rest of the site. There are certain tips that you should look at in this respect (and you can find a good tutorial about that on vector.tutsplus.com, for instance).

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It doesn’t matter whether you are a beginner or expert logo designer, all of us need fresh inspiration all the time. I regularly visit some websites that collecting popular logo designs worldwide. Which websites that you are visiting regularly for logo inspiration?

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This Post is next edition of dzineblog’s logo inspiration series

• 36 Clever and Creative logos
• 54 Kick Ass Creative Logos Hand-Picked from Logofaves
• 54 Creative Logos Hand-picked From Logopond

The better a logo greater the probability that your clients will remember you and get back to you. For that: designers have to be creative and have to work their ass off in designing beautiful, unique logos. And the results they come out with their hard work are stunning and spectacular.

Here take a look at 45 Creative and beautiful logos and be inspired, hope you like this collection

1.) Spartan golf club by Richard Fonteneau

2.) Lochness by Navy Blue Design

3.) Cofee by Jan Zabransky

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Forms are such a common element on the Internet we tend to blunder through them without too much thought. However, if the web site has added a few nice touches that make the process easier, it tends to speed up the process and reduce any frustration, hence i’ve collected these 18 Impressive Web Form Validation Scripts that will help you to enhance the user experience in your site

1.) Valid8 - An input field validation plugin for Jquery

2.) Easy Form Validation Requires No Javascript Library

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When you are creating a new website you may be inspired by seeing other sites that are beautifully designed, as a designer it’s a must to know the current trend, particularly in web designs there’s always new trends emerging quite often, we have seen a lots of trends passed us in couple of years like web2.0 style to grunge, hand drawn, big fonts, illustration designs etc

Here I’ve collected 50 Beautiful Website Designs vary from and-drawn, grunge, big backgrounds, clean, corporate etc.., hope you get inspired from this list, pls mention your favorite designs in comments

1). Feed Stitch

2). Tolingo

3). Snoop Media

4). Nine Lion Design

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The better a logo greater the probability that your clients will remember you and get back to you. For that: designers have to be creative and have to work their ass off in designing beautiful, unique logos. And the results they come out with their hard work are stunning and spectacular.

Here take a look at 36 Clever and creative logos and be inspired, hope you like this collection

1. Food Writers

2. Pencil

3. Moo Sleep

4. ED’s Electric

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