Archive for the 'Logos' Category

Copyrighting Colours?

In a follow up to my previous post regarding the limit on creativity, I came across a great post about colour in the design world.
Can colour be owned?
In one word, yes. If you have ever taken a look at a colour swatch book you will know there are seemingly endless amounts of options, but those [...]

Is Brandstack a Good Design Tool?

Browse. Buy. Download.
That is Brandstack’s idea of a perfect logo design process. People can go to this popular site to browse logos that are for sale by designers. Many people use this site as a place to put up logos that they have completed for fun or on a whim when an idea came into [...]

Top 25 Inspiring Square Logos

Good logos are simple and nothing is more simple than a geometric shape.
Below are 25 of the most famous and most inspiring logos that make use of a square. Some of these logos use a stylized square as a graphical element, some use it as a simple square to enforce dominance.
The simplicity of these logos [...]

Incredible Pro Sports Logo Concepts

Maybe I just watch too much Sports Center, but I’m slowly getting tired of the logos of some major sports teams. The Cleveland Browns, for example, don’t even have a logo.
I have collected the following logos that have been done in honor of some major professional sports teams – these logos are not in use, [...]

5 Logo Design Feedback Resources

There are a lot of design-related community websites out there that offer feedback for your logo designs, but who has the time to go looking for all of them? Here is a quick list of 5 sites to find logo design feedback.

#1 LogoPond
LogoPond is probably my favorite place when looking for constructive criticism. You can [...]

When Logos are Too Similar

As I mentioned in my last post, The Worst Client and Innovative Thinking, creativity may have it’s limits. Either way, logos can look very similar. Some of this may happen by accident and some on purpose, but how similar is too similar?
Apple has taken legal actions to try and prevent Australian retailer Woolworths from using [...]

The Worst Client and Innovative Thinking

There are endless posts out there about how to deal with tough, cheap, ignorant or just plain bad clients, but are they really the hardest people to please? Try and remember the design process of your last personal project and you’ll probably understand what I mean.
Alex Gould (of Rhyme With Orange Creative) wrote a note [...]

The New Pepsi Logo

OK. You have all seen it, the new Pepsi logo. I’m sure a number of you have also heard about the leaked PDF presentation that has been of much controversy (available for download here).

It seems to be a consensus that the new Pepsi logo is awful. Is it because change is bad, and people liked [...]