graphics standards manual?!

i'm having a really hard time finding standards manuals for the things i'm interested in...but i did stumble across this article, which was pretty entertaining. his argument isn't all that strong (because "it's ugly" can only be used a certain number of times before i start to doubt his evidence), but it is a pretty controversial thing they made. ...comments?

it seems that the only graphics manuals i can find online are those of universities; therefore, i picked NYU. here you go.

logo, phase...4?

while working on my logo in its last rendition, i attempted to incorporate elements of the text into the symbol of the lark. but something about that wing was bothering me! it just looked forced and it irritated me. so i worked on the logo a bit more (even though i wasn't really supposed to...) and came up with this:




now that i'm looking at it again, i think i might resize the speech bubble and logo to be equal in size to the bird, but overall, i like the effect of the point on the bubble that echos the birds beak and tail, and the negative space created between the two parts.

and now it's back to working on my communication system.