Nick Lovegrove - Design Context

General Findings & Idea Sparkers

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Clever Labelling System

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Absolutely Stunning Packaging Designs

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Brief 4: Adobe Creative Suite Software Packaging

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Brief 4: A few Google Icons used within the design development

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Brief 4: Google Signage

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Brief 4: Inspirational Technology

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Brief 4: Coloured Dot Designs

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Brief 4: External Designs for Google

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Brief 4: Icon Banner Layout

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Brief 4: Inspiring Technology

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Brief 4: Google Designs

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Brief 4: Some Beautiful Stationary

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Brief 4: Google 3D Type

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Brief 4: External Google Graphics

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Brief 4: Google Typography

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Brief 4: Google Products/Services

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Guidelines for Third Party Use of Google Brand Features

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Use of Google Brand Features

General Information

Although we’d like to accommodate all the requests we receive from users who want to add a touch of Google to their sites, we are passionate about protecting the reputation of our brand as an objective and fair provider of search results. That means we have to turn down many requests because sites imply that Google is endorsing them or is otherwise affiliated with them. The same applies if Google’s trademarks, logos, web pages, screen shots, or other distinctive features (“Google Brand Features” or “Brand Features”) are associated with objectionable material, as determined by Google.

These Brand Features can be used only pursuant to these Guidelines, our Terms and Conditions, and for the specific purposes for which Google has given permission. If you have a written agreement with Google that specifically addresses how you may use its Brand Features, you don’t need to go through the approval process here unless you want to do something other than what has been authorized in your existing agreement. Otherwise, the only time you can use Brand Features without advance written permission is if there is clear and express language on our website stating that you can use those Brand Features without first obtaining permission, such as is the case with our search boxes.

When you use any of our Brand Features, you must always follow the Rules for Proper Usage included in these Guidelines. In addition, Google may provide you with written requirements as to the size, typeface, colors, and other graphic characteristics of the Google Brand Features. If we provide these requirements to you at the time of our approval, you must implement them before using our Brand Features. If we provide these requirements to you after we initially gave our permission, you must implement them within a commercially reasonable timeframe.

Trademark Basics

What is a trademark?

A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device (or a combination thereof) that identifies the goods or services of a person or company and distinguishes them from the goods and services of others. A trademark assures consumers of consistent quality with respect to those goods or services and aids in their promotion.

Why is it important to use marks correctly?

Rights to a trademark can last indefinitely if the owner continues to use the mark to identify its goods and services. If trademarks are not used properly, they may be lost and one of the company’s most important assets may lose all of its value. Rights may be lost not only because of a trademark owner’s improper use of the mark, but through improper use of the trademark by the public.

Rules for Proper Usage

Things to do:

If you are using a Google trademark, distinguish the trademark from the surrounding text in some way. Capitalize the first letter, capitalize or italicize the entire mark, place the mark in quotes, use a different type style or font for the mark than for the generic name.
If you do not capitalize the entire mark, always spell and capitalize the trademark exactly as they are shown in the Google Trademarks and Suggested Accepted Generic Terms below.
Use the trademark only as an adjective, never as a noun or verb, and never in the plural or possessive form.
Use a generic term following the trademark, for example: GOOGLE search engine, Google search, GOOGLE web search.
Use only Google-approved artwork when using Google’s logos.
If you are using a Google logo on a web page, there must exist a minimum spacing of 25 pixels between each side of the logo and other graphic or textual elements on your web page.
Normally, an unregistered Google Brand Feature should be followed by the superscripted letters TM or SM to give notice that the company claims trademark rights in the term. A registered Google Brand Feature should be followed by the symbol ® to identify the term as a registered trademark. In advertising copy, notice of trademark rights may be provided in a footnote format – e.g., by placing an asterisk adjacent to the Google Brand Feature and placing an appropriate notice at the bottom of the page on which the asterisk appears. Example: *GOOGLE is a trademark of Google Inc.

Things You Can’t Do

One of the conditions for all uses is that you can’t mess around with our marks. Only we get to do that. Don’t remove, distort or alter any element of a Google Brand Feature. That includes modifying a Google trademark, for example, through hyphenation, combination or abbreviation, such as: Googliscious, Googlyoogly, GaGooglemania. Do not shorten, abbreviate, or create acronyms out of Google trademarks.
Don’t display a Google Brand Feature as the most prominent element on your web page.
Don’t display a Google Brand Feature in any manner that implies a relationship or affiliation with, sponsorship, or endorsement by Google, or that can be reasonably interpreted to suggest editorial content has been authored by, or represents the views or opinions of Google or Google personnel.
Don’t display a Google Brand Feature on any web site that contains or displays adult content, promotes gambling, involves the sale of tobacco or alcohol to persons under twenty-one years of age, or otherwise violates applicable law.
Don’t display a Google Brand Feature in a manner that is in Google’s sole opinion misleading, unfair, defamatory, infringing, libelous, disparaging, obscene or otherwise objectionable to Google.
Don’t display a Google Brand Feature on a site that violates any law or regulation.
Don’t frame or mirror any Google page (including the page that appears in response to a click on the Google logo or Google search box).
Don’t incorporate Google Brand Features into your own product name, service names, trademarks, logos, or company names.
Don’t copy or imitate Google’s trade dress, including the look and feel of Google web design properties or Google brand packaging, distinctive color combinations, typography, graphic designs, product icons, or imagery associated with Google
Don’t adopt marks, logos, slogans, or designs that are confusingly similar to our Brand Features.
Don’t register Google trademarks as second-level domain names.
Don’t use Google trademarks in a way that suggests a common, descriptive, or generic meaning.
Trademark rights vary from country to country. Some countries have severe criminal and civil penalties for improper use of the registration symbol. Therefore, don’t use the registration symbol (®) in countries where the mark has not been registered.

If there is any question about usage, requests for clarification or permission may be submitted through the process outlined at:http://www.google.com/permissions/.

Google Trademarks and Suggested Accepted Generic Terms

The following are some of the trademarks owned by Google Inc. and the suggested generic terms for those trademarks.

Aardvark™ question and answer service
AdMob™ mobile advertising service
AdSense for Content™ program
AdSense for Domains™ program
AdSense for Search™ program
AdSense™ advertising service
AdWords Authorized Resellers™ program
AdWords Editor™ campaign management application
AdWords™ advertising service
Android™ mobile technology platform
Blogger™ web publishing service
Boomerang™ advertising service
Broadcast Yourself™ service
Chromium™ operating system
CitizenTube™ channel
Claim Your Content™ content monitoring tool
Closure™ tools
Connectcommerce™ affiliate network
Dalvik™ virtual machine
DART™ advertising service
DFA™ advertising service
DFP™ advertising service
DoubleClick Ad Exchange™ program
DoubleClick Rich Media Dynamic Ads™ advertisements
DoubleClick Rich Media™ advertisements
DoubleClick Studio™ tool
DoubleClick™ advertising service
Episodic™ online video platform
Feedburner™ services
Feedflare™ service
Flix Cloud™ video transcoding service
Flix Engine™ video-encoding SDK
Gizmo5™ software
Gmail™ webmail service
Goog 411™ service
Google Ad Manager For Advertisers™ advertising service
Google Ad Network™ advertiser network
Google AdSense™ advertising service
Google Advertising Professionals™ program
Google AdWords™ advertising service
Google Agency Land™ portal
Google Alerts™ email update service
Google Analytics™ web analytics service
Google Answers™ research service
Google App Engine™ platform
Google Apps Connector™ software
Google Apps Directory Sync™ provisioning tool
Google Apps Labs™ program
Google Apps™ service
Google Audio Ads™ advertisements
Google Base™ online database
Google Blogs™ blog search
Google Blog™ weblog
Google Books™ book search service
Google Building Maker™ software
Google Buzz™ service
Google Calendar™ calendaring application
Google Checkout™ payment and billing service
Google Chrome Experiments™ website
Google Chrome Extensions™ plug-ins
Google Chrome Frame™ plug-in
Google Chrome™ browser
Google Cloud Print™ web printing service
Google Co-Op™ platform
Google Code Search™ search engine
Google Code™ open source developer site
Google Commerce Search™ service
Google Compute™ feature
Google Content Network™ service
Google Conversion University™ program
Google Custom Search™ service
Google Dashboard widgets™ software
Google Dashboard™ interface
Google Data API™ protocol
Google Desktop Search™ search tool
Google Desktop™ searching software
Google Diary™ product
Google Dictionary™ service
Google Directory™ web directory
Google Discover Music™ search
Google Docs™ program
Google Earth™ mapping service
Google Enterprise™ products
Google Extensions™ for Firefox software
Google Fast Flip™ service
Google Fiber for Communities™ broadband network
Google Fiber™ broadband service
Google Finance™ financial information service
Google Foundation™ non-profit organization
Google Friend(s) ™ newsletter
Google Fusion Tables™ service
Google Gadget Ads™ advertising format
Google Gadget Center™ web page
Google Gadgets™ software
Google Gears™ software
Google Goggles™ software
Google Grants™ program
Google Groups™ discussion forums
Google Health™ program
Google Image Swirl™ image search service
Google Images™ search service
Google Labs™ research division
Google Latitude™ location service
Google Listen™ software
Google Local Listing Ads™ advertisements
Google Location Alert™ service
Google Location History™ service
Google Location Service™ infrastructure
Google Mail™ webmail service
Google Maps™ mapping service
Google Mars™ mapping service
Google Merchant Center™ console
Google Message Discovery™ email product
Google Message Encryption™ email product
Google Message Filtering™ email product
Google Message Security™ email product
Google Mini™ hardware
Google Mobile Ads™ service
Google Mobile Updater™ application
Google Mobile™ wireless service
Google Moderator™ program
Google News Alerts™ service
Google News Timeline™ service
Google News™ news service
Google Notebook™ tool
Google Ocean™ mapping service
Google Optimiseur d’Espace Publicitaire™ service
Google Over IPv6™ service
Google Pack™ software download service
Google Page Creator™ tool
Google Patent Search™ service
Google Personalized Search™ service
Google Places™ business listings
Google Print Ads™ advertising program
Google Product Search™ price comparison service
Google Profiles™ service
Google Public DNS™ DNS resolution service
Google Reader™ feed reader
Google Ride Finder™ taxi service
Google Safe Browsing™ API
Google Safesearch™ filtering service
Google Scholar™ scholarly texts search
Google Search Appliance™ hardware
Google Sets™ set prediction service
Google Shopping™ price comparison service
Google Short Links™ shortcut service
Google Sidebar™ software
Google Sidewiki™ software
Google Site Search™ service
Google Sitemaps™ service
Google Sites™ program
Google Sky Map™ mapping service
Google Sky™ program
Google SMS™ mobile messaging service
Google Social Search™ service
Google Squared™ search
Google Store™ online store
Google Suggest™ suggestion service
Google Sync™ syncing service
Google Talk™ instant messaging service
Google Tasks™ program
Google Technology User Group™/GTUGS™ user groups
Google Toolbar™ search bar
Google Trader™ service
Google Transit™ trip planning service
Google Translate™ translation service
Google Translator Toolkit™ tools
Google Trends™ tool
Google TV Ads™ advertising program
Google TV™ platform
Google Updater™ software
Google US Government Search™ service
Google Videos™ video search
Google Voice™ communications service
Google Wave™ program
Google Web Accelerator™ software
Google Web Alerts™ service
Google Web Elements™ gadgets
Google Web Search™ features
Google Web Security™ for Enterprise product
Google Web Toolkit™ open source Java software development framework
Google Webmaster Central™ help site
Google Website Optimizer™ tool
Google Zeitgeist™ report
Google Zümm™ service
Google صد™ service
Google अक्षांश ™ location service
Google 노트™ product
Google 크롬™ browser
Google ノートブック™ product
Google バズ™ service
Google 定位™ location service
Google 日本語入力™ input system
Google 瀏覽器™ browser
Google 热榜™ service
Google 笔记本™ product
Google 网站导航™ product
Google 问答™ feature
Google.Org™ program
Google™ search or search engine
Googleモバイル検索メール™ product
Grandcentral™ communications service
Hantro™ file format
Hlášky Google™ service
I’m Feeling Lucky™ search service
iGoogle™ personalized homepage
Jaiku™ service
Joga™ online community
Keyhole™ mapping service
Knol Collections™ service
Knol™ project
Liquid Galaxy™ demo booth
Listen In™ feature
Mediavisor™ advertising service
Motif™ add-on
Nexus One™ mobile telephone
O3D™ API
On2™ video compression products
One Number…For Life™ service
Open Handset Alliance™ business alliance
Orkut™ online community
Pagerank™ algorithm
Panoramio™ photo-sharing community
Picasa Web Albums™ program
Picasa™ photo organizing software
Picnik™ online photo editing service
Postini™ email solutions
RechargeIT™ Google.org car program
reMail™ mobile application
Ringshare™ feature
Sketchup™ sketching software
SPDY™ protocol
Tattertools™ software
Textcube™ service
Universal Search™ vision
Urchin™ web analytics service
Vark™ question and answer service
Vocito™ desktop user interface
VP6™ video codec
VP8™ video codec
Wenwendada™ service
Wonder Wheel™ search feature
Współrzędne Google™ location service
YouTube Direct™ service
YouTube Screening Room™ program
YouTube XL™ service
YouTube™ video community
Zingku™ service
Живая лента Google™ service
出口易™ product
来吧™ product
生活搜索™ product
谷歌字典™ service
谷歌搜索联盟™ feature
谷歌来吧™ product
谷歌浏览器™ browser
谷歌热榜™ service
谷歌生活搜索™ product
谷歌短信提醒™ service

Brief 4: Rounded Inspiration

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Packaging Design

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Brief 3: Gift Card Dimensions

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Brief 3: Gallo Logo

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General Inspiration

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Brief 3: Types of Wine

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Publication Layout

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Print Finishes

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General Packaging Design

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Brief 3: Container Form

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Brief 3: Vintage Identity & Packaging

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Brief 3: Wine Identity

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Brief 3: Vinabe Brand

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Brief 3: Wine Related Products

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Brief 2: Point of Sale & Inspiration

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Brief 3: Wine Identity

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Brief 3: Bottle Packaging & Wine Box/Triangle

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Brief 3: Wooden Wine Barrel and Name

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Brief 3: Fun Packaging Ideas

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Innovative Packaging

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Brief 3: Beverage Packaging

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Brief 3: Presentation Boxes

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Brief 3: Luxury Designs

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Brief 3: Mixed Media Inspiration

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Brief 3: Wine Bottles

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Brief 3: Wine Graphics

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Brief 1: Duc Logo Design

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Brief 3: River Identity

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Brief 3: Wine Identity & Packaging

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Brief 3: Innovative Wine Rack

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Brief 3: Wine Labels & Display Box Design

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Brief 3: Wooden Puzzles

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Brief 3: Wine Thermometers

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Brief 3: Colourful Wine Glass Markers

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Brief 3: Wine Glass Markers

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Brief 2: Venus Point of Sale

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Stock Sample Book - Oh So Useful!

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Brief 3: Wine Display Box

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Brief 3: Wine Designs

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Brief 3: Wine Packaging

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Brief 3: Trump Identity

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Brief 3: Layout & Presentation

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Brief 3: Type Usage

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Brief 3: Packaging Nets

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Colourful Triangles

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Golf Stock Images

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Wood Grain

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Battery Information

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Logo Colour Combination

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Solar Rooms Logo

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Design Proposal Presentation

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Stock Imagery

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Wine Packaging

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Tessellating Patterns

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Looking at Battery Presentation for the Boards

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Geometric Inspiration

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Types of Promotional Display

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Wine Identity

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Golfing Images

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Corporate Identity Presentation

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Brief 3: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - The meaning of Life is 42

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As calculated by the supercomputer in “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” over a 7.5 million year period, the answer to life, the universe and everything is “42″.

Look at all the proof…

42 is the name of three bands and two songs… that’s a full house!
Fox Mulder of the X-Files lived in apartment 42
42 is the actual length of a one-hour TV show
It’s the name of Buzz Lightyear’s ship
In binary, 42 is displayed as 101010… coinsidence?
It’s Jackie Robinson’s jersey number which just happens to be the only jersey retired from every major league team
It’s the angle in degrees of which a rainbow appears
and most of all, in the simple magic cube, it is the sum of each row using the number 1-27

Ok, so you’re probably not convinced. How can the meaning of life be summed up in a number? That would be too simple, but though it sounds improbable, the meaning of life is actually quite simple. The answer though is different depending on your starting point.

Brief 3: 42 Apparently? I cant see it!! Yay!

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