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A blast from the past: the EA logo

A blast from the past: the EA logo

By Bruce van der Kooij on September 28, 2010

The Electronic Arts logo has undergone few changes in the company’s history. EA’s classic Square/Circle/Triangle corporate logo, adopted shortly after its founding and phased out in 1999, was devised by Barry Deutsch of Steinhilber Deutsch and Gard  design firm. The three shapes were meant to stand for the “basic alphabet of graphic design.” The shapes [...]

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Typography disaster: AiGameDev.com’s report on the games industry

Typography disaster: AiGameDev.com’s report on the games industry

By Bruce van der Kooij on September 25, 2010

Being subscribed to their mailing list from time to time I get an e-mail from AiGameDev.com letting me know what’s been going on with them. I just noticed another mail from them in my inbox and it included a PDF report on AI programming in the games industry. Something that immediately caught my eye was [...]

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What’s the deal with custom backgrounds?

By Bruce van der Kooij on June 10, 2009

I’m quite content with using Identi.ca, a microblogging service that runs on top of the open source microblogging engine Laconica, where thankfully custom backgrounds are just not done (no patches please). On that other microblogging site however, you know the anti-freedom one, that’s most definitely not the case. Some folks have even build an entire [...]

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