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Coffee Logos

This month I will focus on a few of the popular coffee company logos such as Starbucks, Caribou Coffee, Lavazza among others. I am hoping to see if I can find some common themes across these logos. 

Starbucks Logo
Caribou Coffee Logo
Starbucks Logo Parody
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Google Tips

The first and most important thing you will have to do is determine the keywords you are tuning your website for. The trick here is to determine what your potential users are likely to search for. Also remember, do not try and tune for generic keywords because there will be a ton of other sites who have already tuned for it. Lets take an example. Lets say you have an Indian Restaurant called Banjara Palace in Bangalore. The first instinct may be to tune for "Banjara Palace" or "Indian Restaurant". Anyone who already knows your name is not your target audience, although its important to tune for your name as well.  Even if you get in the top list for Indian Restaurant, whats the point, someone in Japan who searches finds you will probably never come to Malleshwaram for lunch.

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Featured Desi Joke

You know your parents are desi when.......
  1. When your mom makes a Mexican meal and tells you to count the number of Taco Bell sauce packets in her purse.
  2. They peel the stamps off letters that the postal service missed to mark up.
  3. They buy 2-ply toilet paper and they tell you to use only 1 ply at a time to make it last.
  4. When your mom comes home with napkins stuffed in her purse of the restaraunt she last ate at.
  5. When you become part of that viscious clan who recycles wedding gifts-
  6. Take Indian snacks anywhere it says "No food allowed"
  7. Make kichdi on the beach wearing saris
  8. Wear shorts with dress socks and tennis shoes
  9. Try to use coupons that expired 5 months ago and argue when the store doesn't accept them, or simply tear off the expiration date
  10. Eat half of a pizza at a restaurant and then complaining that it wasn't made right (I want refund!)

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Free Website Listing

Do you own a website, blog, business related to India, then you can get a free listing in the Dinesh.com Indian web directory. This directory has over 5000 listings at this point and a lot of the sections show up in the rankings on Google.

To submit your site, navigate to the proper category and add your listing. The listing will be approved or rejected in about a week. If you site is not related to India or does not meet my standards, it will be rejected. If you find that your site needs a new category, please add it in the description and I will consider it.

Do not submit any "Work At Home" or "Money Making Related Sites"

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Announcing the Birth of our son, Nikhil

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Baby Nikhil
Baby Nikhil
Anu and I would like to announce the birth of our son, Nikhil. He was born on the 15th of February. He weighed 8 pounds and has 21 inches tall.  He has been doing well so far. Who ever came up with the phrase "Sleeping like a baby", not a parent for sure.
 

Pepsi Logo - Design and History

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Pepsi Logo
Pepsi Logo
Pepsi is one of the world's most famous brands much like its rival Coca Cola. Pepsi Cola was originally called Brad's Drink after its creator, Caleb Bradham, a pharmacist from North Carolina. Pepsi was a carbonated soft drink he created to serve his drugstore's customers. The new name, Pepsi-Cola, was first used on August 28. The Pepsi logo is a simple globe with the Pepsi colors in the background and the word Pepsi in the foreground. Pepsi has changed its logo and its slogans a number of times since its introduction in 1898. The Pepsi slogans through the years are listed below


 

UPS Logo - Design and History

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UPS Logo
UPS Logo

The UPS logo is one of the most recognized logos in the world. The company along with Fedex has revolutionalized the way in which packages are delivered around the world. UPS has changed its login 4 times in the 96 years of the company's existence.

  • The first logo was created in 1919 and showed an eagle carrying a package in its talons.
  • Eighteen years later, in 1937, the logo was once again changed to incorporate a shield with the letters `UPS' within.
  • The logo incorporating the beribboned parcel was designed in 1961 by well-known brand designer Paul Rand who was also responsible for designing the logos of IBM, Westinghouse and Yale University among others.  

The new logo was designed by international brand consultancy Future Brand, which has worked with clients such as Walt Disney, GlaxoSmithKline, MSN and British Airways. The logo retains the famous `UPS brown' but replaces the package with a golden arc on top of the shield. The intention is to convey an impression of "freshness and excitement" that reflects the company's new vision of `synchronised commerce'. The new logo draws from the company's history, leverages its brand equity and uses its traditional colours to suggest a company that is thinking ahead and is leading the way in package delivery and other businesses. "The arc at the top and the use of light suggest energy and forward-thinking qualities on a global scale. The redeveloped logo is, in fact, just the cornerstone of the company's reinvigorated visual system.

 

Portland Trailblazers Logo - Design and History

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The Portland Trailblzers logo is 10 red and silver lines on a black background between script

Harry Glickman’s cousin, Frank Glickman, of Boston, Massachusetts, designed the original logo, consisting of a straight up and down pinwheel with black on the top and red on the bottom.  It’s meaning is simple: a modern graphic interpretation of the game of basketball, five players from one side playing against five players from another.

In 1992, the Blazers changed from the lowercase typography to a bold, uppercase typeface, adding a dimension to the word mark and tilting the pinwheel, an affectionate name that evolved with fans and media, forty-five degrees to signify motion of the game.

 

Rolls Royce Logo - Design and History

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The Rolls Royce logo consisting of the two Rs  or the double R clearly stands for the Rolls and Royce, the two founders of this car manufacturing company.  There is nothing special about the design of the logo, but the brand name is so strong, the logo looks special.  In 1998, BMW the option on the trademarks, licensing the name and "RR" logo for £40m.

In 1884 Frederick Henry Royce started an electrical and mechanical business. He made his first car, a "Royce", in his Manchester factory in 1904. He was introduced to Charles Stewart Rolls in a Manchester hotel on the May 4 that year, and the pair agreed a deal where Royce would manufacture cars, to be sold exclusively by Rolls. A clause was added to the contract, stipulating the cars would be called "Rolls-Royce".


 

History of Logos

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I recently made some changes to my site which has caused the hyperlinks to be renamed. If you are here from a search engine like Google, you may be looking for one of the following.

Car Logos

IT Logos - Sun, Apple, Cisco etc

All Other logos - Nike, McDonalds etc

Visit the History of Logos section to see all.  I hope you will find the information you were looking for here.

 

Grauman's Chinese Theatre Forecourt

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 The forecourt of the Grauman's is famous for the hand and foot prints of Hollywood's greatest. The forecourt attracts more than two million visitors every year.  Depending on what generation you grew up in, you will find a name familiar to you whether it be Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas or Bruce Willis. There are over 200 stars listed here (see bottom of page for complete list of Dec 2005)

 

 

BMW Logo - Design and History

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BMW stands for Bayerische Motoren Werke or Bavarian Motor Company. The company was established in 1913 and based in Munich, Germany. It started out as an aero engine manufacturer, hence the company logo. The logo comprised of four quadrants of alternating white and blue color. It is a stylized representation of an airplane propeller spinning against the clear blue sky. The logo represents a white propeller blade against a blue sky. It reflects the origins of BMW as a maker of military aircraft engines during WWI. Also, white and blue are the traditional colors of Bavaria.


 

Sardar Jokes, Bollywood Jokes and India Jokes Update

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 I have added some new jokes to the following sections of the website

These three sections are one of the most popular sections of this website.

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Design and History of Car Logos

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I have added a new category to the Logo section of the website. This new category will cover the design and history of car logos such as the Ferrari logo etc. Over the next few weeks, I will add new car logos to this website on a regular basis, starting with the Ferrari logo.

 

Grauman's Chinese Theatre

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 Image The Grauman's Chinese Theater
Grauman's Chinese Theatre opened over 70 years ago, with the 1927 debut of the original silent version of "King of Kings," produced by Cecil B. DeMille. Since then, the Chinese Theatre has been the site of more gala Hollywood movie premieres than any other theatre. (In 1939, for instance, over 10,000 spectators showed up for the world premiere of "The Wizard of Oz.)
 


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