Having spent the last few months redesigning my website, I have been more aware than ever at web styles around the world. One of my favorite and most frequently visited haunts is over at minimalsites.com.

Unlike your average CSS Gallery site where the onus seems to be on who can collect the most submissions, minimalsites.com has a strict acceptance policy and you need to be invited before you can join in on the various discussions they have on their site.

So if your a fan of minimalist design, or your simply bored of the hectic & colorful sites on other galleries I strongly suggest checking them out.

What makes a good logo is a popular question, and an even more popular topic for bloggers!

There are many ingredients that go into designing a good logo – most logo designers agree that a good logo will be flexible, timeless, memorable, and easy to reproduce. So if you can achieve each of these things you’ve got yourself a good logo!

I could break these up into a nice little list and go through each step, however over the years I have found that by keeping everything simple, you can achieve pretty much everything I have written above. Logo design doesn’t have to involve a complicated check-list of requirements – if you keep it simple, everything else should fall into place.

Let’s look at the facts:

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I recently received this years Industry Insights, which is published each year by the Design Council. It’s a supplement that details all kinds of interesting facts and figures about the design industry in general, and it often contains some interesting (and surprising) fact & figures about Freelance Designers.

I recommend every designer grabs a copy, which can be downloaded freely form their website.

To give you a taster, I have listed a few interesting results below.

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