The above logo was designed for Cill Brokerage, a stock brokerage firm located outside Los Angeles, California. Senior partner Alan Cill wanted a simple, strong logo which suggested the professional growth of both their company and investors portfolios.
Some sketches of alternate logo ideas as always;
What do you think?
Feedback is welcome as always.
From time you time you invariably come across logo designs which to some extent resemble others, ranging from minor similarities to blatant rip-offs.
Some similarities are of course, unavoidable. There are only so many colours, shapes and styles and when distributed across millions of logos they are bound to repeat themselves.
Depending on who and where the copy is, discovering your logo design has a duplicate might not be such a disaster. If you run a restaurant in Australia and find one in England that shares your logo, customers aren’t likely to get you confused and go to the wrong one… but what about these?
The first image shown in this post is of course the London Underground logo designed ( refined from the original 1908 mark ) in 1917 by Edward Johnston. I think you’d be struggling to call these two, Scooter Central and Frost Design, anything but copies. Continue reading...
Just a quick post today, a little collection of monogram logo design favorites starting with the Victoria & Albert Museum logo above.
SG hair salon.
Anuradha Ramams personal logo design. I think the mark itself is lost against this background unfortunately, but I like the shape and form. I think it would work much better in black on white only. Continue reading...
As we all know there are thousand and thousands of fonts out there, of the few hundred of good ones you can probably remember one or two dozen, and beyond that you’ll need some reference. This is the post for you.
Cam Wilde from Squidspot recently posted his latest work, The Periodic Table of Typfaces, as shown above. The table consists of 100 “popular, influential and notorious fonts as collected by Cam from many reputable design blogs.
It’s been a few months since I began blogging, and while I’m now getting regular quality comments, for every 1 there are 20+ spam. Most of them are either blatant adverting or jibberish, but occasionally you get a gem like these.
Kamikaze pilots have large helmets.
Wouldn’t want to bump your head as you fly a plane loaded with explosives into a battle ship.
I’m in oil!
Oh no!
Win the girl of your dreams, grow your tomatoes.
So tomatoes are the key to a womans heart, so much for chocolate and flowers.
Very insightful.
I especially like the tone.
All blogs should do this.
Great example you are setting here.
Really, I mean that sincerely.
All the best, from your friend.
Why do I get the feeling some subliminal messaging is at work here… Continue reading...
