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Every so often in design the stars align, a brand and idea come together to create a fantastic logo. But what if things had been different?
The Apple logo is undoubtedly one of the most ubiquitous symbols of our time, what if Steve Jobs had launched his empire as… Continue reading...
It’s not unheard of when two companies merge that one identity simply consumes the other, which seems like a shame, or alternatively the two are mashed together into something that doesn’t particularly represent either.
The combination of the Iwasaki family and tosa clans to form Mitsubishi resulted in neither of these, the three layer crest of the Iwasaki family and three oak leafs of the Tosa clan joined to form what became an excellent logo. Continue reading...
I was interested today to read about Harvey Ball, the graphic artist credited with designing the smiley face logo in 1963. No disrespect to Harvey but I couldn’t help think that some 5 year old girl a millennium ago was more likely to have created the first smiley.
Credit to Harvey though, he put his name to it first. Continue reading...
Logomark for Martin Newcombe Property Maintenance.
I’d love to pretend we had sheets and sheets of sketches and refinement, but in all honesty a 5 minute chat with my Creative Partner Mark Girvan confirmed that we needed to sum up Property and Maintenance in a single simple mark, and then I sketched the solution on the back of an envelope.Half an hour later, we’d drawn it up.
I believe this is by Buddy Creative, there’s not much on the site but you can read more on the logo design process here. Continue reading...
Also C is for Cookie, just in case you missed your spelling lessons with my friend Cookie Monster here. But, I digress…
2009 is quickly drawing to a close, as always Google have put a little spark into most of our days with a decorative logo commemorating achievements, anniversaries and events worldwide. In no particular order, here are 50 of Googles 2009 celebratory logo designs. Continue reading...