Keep it simple stupid
The old K.I.S.S acronym is pretty much rule 1 for many logo designers. A simple logo is memorable, describable and instantly recognizable, everything a good logo design needs.
Convincing potential clients of this however isn’t always so easy. Why not put more detail into their future branding instead of less? Compare these complex logo designs on the left to their simple partners on the right.
If you were to now look away, could you remember what any of them looked like with clarity? Could you describe one to someone? Could you even read what they said without having to examine them?
These are the problems with overly complex logo designs. Here are the logos again at a greater size.
As you can see all are professionally rendered, artistic, creative and aesthetically pleasing, but these properties aren’t what logo design is about.
They’re far to complex to remember with any clarity, would be difficult to describe accurately, would always have to be printed at the highest resolutions and obviously don’t work at small sizes.
What do you think?
Are you convinced? Or do you still fancy the complex stuff.
You’re right about them not working at smaller sizes, it could be tough to read some of those off a business card even.
Jaydee,
To be honest I couldn’t even figure out what the Exclaim logo ( middle image ) even said before I read the name elsewhere.
Came across this on StumbleUpon, nice.