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Before you skim through this guide, I feel like it’s necessary to explain the reason for writing it. (Side note: I said “skim” because we both know you’re not going to study this guide, in fact that wasn’t the intention). When we first built Upstack, I spent a lot of time talking to experts [...]

Recently, Wikipedia updated their logo design and interface. You can find a detailed description of the changes here.

And here’s a better look at the new design in question:

Wiki wiki wow wow

This is noteworthy here on Upstack, however, because it is yet another attempt in recent memory to affect the paradigm of logo design. Wikipedia’s new [...]

Upstack is constantly gathering feedback from its users on both sides of the designer/client relationship. Even better, Upstack listens to your feedback, which is something some companies forget to do. Silly, companies. One thing we came to realize through your feedback is our previous pricing model sucked. You said you want to name your own [...]

We’ve put our feelings toward spec work into motion comic form! What’s a motion comic? It’s a comic that moves!
Now, we pre-screened this for a few people before posting it here and they advised us against sharing it with you guys. They said it wasn’t professional and the production value wasn’t very good. They said [...]

Recently, marketing guru, successful author, and generally liked guy Chris Brogan launched a project to design a “peppy logo” with a well-known contest site. Designers responded to him with a little backlash, as seen on his blog. In Mr. Brogan’s defense, as a well-meaning outsider to the industry, he was just not aware of the [...]

Using negative space in logos isn’t something you can exactly teach. It’s something you can explain and show examples of, but it requires vision and creativity which is just something you either have or you don’t. That’s no reason to get upset, though. If you are dead-set on crafting a negative space logo, here are [...]

Do you remember that scene in the movie Fame where Coco is asked to remove her top in a film audition and the casting director essentially tells her “Don’t be a baby, this will be good for your career.” If you don’t know what Fame is, that’s OK. It just means you’re not cool like [...]

Upstack has an affiliate program you can take advantage of to make extra money.
HOW DO I SIGN UP?
You already are signed up if you have an Upstack account. If you don’t have one, you can go to our affiliate program page and sign up from there.
HOW MUCH CAN I MAKE?
For every project referral you get [...]

We’re constantly hard at work to improve on our site and our service for you guys. So from time to time we’ll drop in with a quick line about a new feature or something we’ve improved. It’s partly to inform you and partly to make us feel awesome about ourselves.
Today, we’d like to point out [...]

Ok, maybe the title of this post isn’t completely accurate. We know you’re not dummies. Ok, now that that’s cleared up, let’s talk about this website (we’ve grown to love) where this blog is housed. Upstack is a platform to connect clients with professional freelance designers.
By nature, there are quite a few moving parts [...]