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Twitter Shakes Things Up With New Logos and Guidelines

Chris Pirillo — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:02:09 +0000

Twitter Shakes Things Up With New Logos and Guidelines

Yesterday afternoon, Twitter announced a few changes to the way things are done on and around the site. In addition to some sexy new logos, they are urging all of you to do some things differently when writing about the popular service.

Twitter has always encouraged us to use the most up-to-date logos possible. That’s a no-brainer with this excellent new one. I rather like it a whole lot more than previous iterations. The team also points out that you should never use a screenshot of someone’s Tweets without asking their permission in print ads, billboards and the like. Bloggers and journalists can continue to use screen grabs of anything on the site, as it is already public information. It’s a matter of common courtesy to obtain permission from someone prior to splashing their words all over your site though.

You’ll notice I keep using a capital T when writing out the word Tweet. I never have before. The word may not be a proper, recognized word. However, the folks in the offices behind the cute little blue birdie is hoping we will start treating it as such. When used as a noun in writing, they ask that you capitalize the word Tweet. I can handle that, can you? They haven’t managed to trademark it as of yet – but I’m sure they will succeed.

What do you think of the new logos – and of the ideas behind the way we write about the site itself?

Twitter Shakes Things Up With New Logos and Guidelines

Your Logo in LEGO

Chris Pirillo — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:22:57 +0000

Your Logo in LEGO

You want your own logo in LEGO?

http://photofun.pirillo.com/

This very same dude will do one for you, too:

Your Logo in LEGO

Do You Want to Have a Pillow Fight?

Chris Pirillo — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:18:12 +0000

Do You Want to Have a Pillow Fight?

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I had so much trouble trying to decide what to record a video about, I needed help figuring something out. Oh, wait… I can talk about my face being on a pillow!! The awesome guys at Throwboy have made a new pillow with my original Lockergnome logo/face on it!!

I drew this logo myself back when I first started Lockergnome many years ago. It’s supposed to be a caricature of my face. I think it looks a little like me, don’t you? It also makes a very cool looking pillow! The logo is also used for my Gnomedex conference, which is a cross between social media and technology. It’s a confluence of information and inspiration!

When Roberto approached me about making some Pirillows, I was so excited. How cool is that? When you order one for yourself, why not take it around town (or traveling) with you, and snap pictures of it in interesting places? You never know when I may feature it on my blog.

If you want your own Pirillow (or any of their other pillows!), just head over to Throwboy. As a community member of ours, you’ll receive 15% off your entire order!!!

Thanks again to Roberto and his entire team! You guys rock!

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Chris Pirillo vs Lockergnome Logos

Chris Pirillo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:49:40 +0000

Chris Pirillo vs Lockergnome Logos

For the longest time, I’d been using the registered Lockergnome logo for my projects. Then, someone designed a “cool” Chris Pirillo logo – and I started to use that one with more personal endeavors. Dunno. I’m having fun with both of ‘em! One’s a bit more cartoony, and the other is a bit more comicky. Dean Bailey took the time to share his thoughts regarding the use of these logos on real-world products. His email gave me a few chuckles…

In response to your query about the marketability of Chris Pirillo throw pillows, I have to confess that I wouldn’t buy one. I also wouldn’t buy a finder pillow, a Tux pillow, or any other sort of product like that. They’re unfortunately just too much geek for me despite me not only trying very hard to be the best geek I can be, but always wishing I was even better than I am in that respect.

I say this as a fellow Apple fan, however, I have to admit that if there was a slick enough Gentoo logo pillow and it didn’t involve a trip to the post office to pick it up, even though I’m not even running it on anything right now, then I would by a couple of them – if I had a place to put them and my wife let me decorate. It’s something I might even consider doing without consulting my wife or refusing to move the pillows if she didn’t like them.

My main reason for writing, other of the ramble, was to recognize that despite it being something that there may not be a big market for, that there indeed would be one I would imagine. I wouldn’t know what the profitability (or lack of it) would be for you, obviously. More importantly, I thought I should emphasize that the ‘cool Chris’ logo seems to me to be a better marketable item than the ‘fuzzy Chris’ from Lockergnome. If I were to get lost in geek products to the extent of Pirillo throw pillows, I’d want a more tightly crafted ‘Cool Chris’ pillow with a bit of stiffness to them in comparison to the Mac icon pillows, and if I wanted a fuzzy Chris pillow then I’d prefer it to be bigger and fluffy.

The size in your video made the Mac icon pillows look not really functional. As a guy, when buying a functional and comfortable pillow to mould to the shape of my back or stick between my legs while watching a movie, or lay my head on or whatever, I’d rather it not have another dude’s face on it. If the pillow was round and stiff that I could prop a little of my arm on it or stick a corner behind my back, or when I did lay my head on it I found it wasn’t incredibly comfortable, then that would feel more acceptable to fearing what people might think about my geeky affair that I may or may not have with the soft and comfy Pirillo pillows I have on my couch… or worse, on my bed, which by the way is a place they would never be.

I think you’d have to go with the cool Chris pillows that were stiff and shaped like a really short cylinder rather than a shape that just involved two pieces of round material.

Most importantly, as for ‘Cool Chris’ vs ‘Comfy Lockergnome Chris’, I think you’re really short changing yourself by believing that cool Chris is too much. We are geeks, we know we are cool, you have made a thus far successful business of just being yourself as it looks from outside appearance and while there might be women out there that would think a soft squishy Pirillo pillow is cute, funny, lovable, and even sexy, there’s a lot more guys out there who know that despite you appearing to be a physically skinny guy, that like every other red blooded male in the world (and especially geeks) you are a master in Jedi mind tricks, Bruce Lee-style kung fu, and Samurai-sword fighting because every geek out there is naturally skilled at these things through visual osmosis – and has many hours of real life practice with all of these things, and The Force, through all the time we spend working at developing our skills while we dream at night even if we don’t even remember those dreams in which we train to be true masters.

To many people out there, you are a god among dorks. Sorry to word it like that, but I can’t really qualify you as a god among geeks without qualifying myself as a real wanker – since no one is a god, but the point is that there’s a lot of people that look up to you and a lot of them would presumably, by the nature of being a fan, have at least some part of their self image invested in you as the centerpiece of your web based community.

I can’t tie all this crap together. I’ll just say short and simple that you know full well that the cool Chris pillows are just as justifiable in design of persona and furthermore if you can without your head getting too big then its probably good for others. It seems like there’s indeed a place for both presentations of yourself but that “Fluffy Cute Chris” might not be the best thing for a Chris Pirillo fanatic to be looking forward to in the mail, maybe a cool Chris though, if you are actually going to do it.

Now that I’ve typed this, it seems all of a sudden incredibly irrelevant, its still my opinion though, and you asked.

So, the question remains: should we put my caricature’d face on pillows?

Chris Pirillo vs Lockergnome Logos

Google Hates Apple

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:08:18 +0000

Google Hates Apple

For some reason, Google isn’t indexing the  logo. Granted, you have to be using Mac OS X to see  in the first place. Try the search for yourself. If that link doesn’t include the Apple logo, try this search instead – which may not work properly if (again) you’re not using Mac OS X. This doesn’t really mean anything in the grand scheme of things, but I thought it was interesting enough to point out.

Google Hates Apple

Want Your Face on a Color-Changing Mug or T-Shirt?

Chris Pirillo — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:11:05 +0000

Want Your Face on a Color-Changing Mug or T-Shirt?

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If you want a sticker like my Chris head on your laptop, you can get one easily. I’ll be replacing mine soon actually. I also have a cool coffee mug that changes colors! And… who doesn’t need more t-shirts? I have to thank Kissa for helping to create the Geeks Gear site so that all of us can have some really fun products to show off! We’re using the Zazzle service, so I know we’ll be able to easily add new cool things.

Infinite and Instant, Zazzle is the only on-demand retail platform for consumers and major brands, offering billions of retail quality, one-of-a-kind products shipped within 24 hours. Offering the largest library of customizable digital images from world-class brands, Zazzle enables content owners to unlock their entire libraries of content, making it available for purchase and customization by consumers. Through Zazzle’s innovative on-demand retail and technology platform, users can instantly create, customize to fit their personal style, purchase and sell a near infinite array of products online.

The coolest part is that many of the items allow you to customize the text on our gear… and on that of other stores. You can browse the widget on the home page of Geeks and check out everything we have at this point in time.

You can even start up your own Zazzle store if you want. Make some money for your creativity, in just a few easy steps. Your only limit is your imagination.

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Where Can You Download a Company Brand or Business Logo?

Chris Pirillo — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:57:54 +0000

Where Can You Download a Company Brand or Business Logo?

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What happens when you need to find a graphic… let’s say a logo for a company? You might go online and do an image search. The problem with that is that you’re not finding the high-quality logos that you most likely need. Now what do you do?

In this case, you’ll want to turn to a website that I found out about years ago. Scott emailed me the link to BrandsOfTheWorld, which has vector and high-res logos for many big name companies. I found out about this site several years ago, when I was putting together the second Gnomedex convention. Microsoft is one of our annual sponsors, and we were having trouble downloading a graphic they were sending us to use. We found the perfect high-quality version we needed over on Brands of the World. Since we already had permission from Microsoft to be using it, we simply saved it from there. It made our job much easier in that instance.

You’ll never find a better repository for this type of image. Pretty much everything you can think of, you’ll find. You can download the images with relative ease, for free. If I’m looking for a company logo, this is the website I head off to. If you’re in any kind of print work, you’ll want to bookmark this website.

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My Caricature

Chris Pirillo — Tue, 23 May 2006 05:02:45 +0000

My Caricature

The caricature you see on my personal blog was drawn by someone else a few years ago, although I’ve since lost touch with him (and wouldn’t know how to get ahold of him for other projects). I did start a conversation with another fantastic graphic artist, and we’ll be working on an independent project together as soon as we can find a sponsor. I also had myself cartoonized when I was the host on TechTV’s Call for Help – although that has been my least favorite caricature. A few weeks ago, I received an email from the husband of Jaguar Woman. She wanted to 3D-ify my likeness! The results have been pretty amazing, as I’ve been transformed into a digital dude – who can assume a variety of poses in a variety of situations with a variety of costumes. That’s my question for you today: what should my 3D character do? Jaguar Woman can make him do whatever, wherever – so we’re only limited by our imaginations. Again, if you could see my caracature doing anything, anywhere – what would that be? C’mon, let’s get crazy with this three dimensional Gnome. Email me your ideas. I linked to my older caracatures in tonight’s report, Caricature Crazy.

My Caricature