Comments on: 10 most notable logos of 2009

By: Omer Greenwald

Omer Greenwald — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:12:37 +0000

I totally agree on the least favourite logos.
The most beautiful here are Avid and the New York Philharmonic logos.
Thanks for sharing!

By: David Airey

David Airey — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:25:09 +0000

Your opinion’s appreciated, Ian, just like everyone elses. Life back in Scotland is going very well so far, thanks a lot.

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:44:05 +0000

Is it just a coincidence that the 9/11 attacks were made on a date which is also the dialing code for an emergency in the United States?

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:31:46 +0000

Although not wanting to increase traffic on the views of the New York Philharmonic logo, I just want to follow up by saying that I’m not too fond of it. Any logo that you need to turn around to read is just too annoying to be likeable in my opinion…. but what is my opinion worth anyway! :-)

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:23:58 +0000

My first understanding of the New York Philharmonic logo was that the “New York” represented the musicians on stage in a curved arrangement as per usual….the diagonal line representing the stage which seperated the musicians from the audience…. and the “Philharmonic” representing the audience seated angled towards the stage appropriately. No? or am I in my own little world here? :)

All the best in bonnie scotland lad!

Ian.

By: Mark Ballantyne

Mark Ballantyne — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:46:22 +0000

Whilst ‘nice’ , suitably understated and effective as a logo, the 9/11 one isn’t especially ‘creative’ or ‘clever’ in my opinion. It was kinda handed to the designer on a plate…

By: gerdez

gerdez — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:13:10 +0000

The most creative in my opinion is the 9/11 logo.
I don’t understand the big thing in Avid logo, it looks like the knockoff of the Viva logo (http://www.viva.tv/). As someone said before, at first I thought it was the Viva logo with facelift. If you would live in Europe it would hit you the same. I don’t know which one is older, but Viva has this logo forever (18+ years).

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:44:57 +0000

Very nice grouping. Avid’s is very clever and creative. There was a lot of rebrands last year, and most were rushed and not very well done.

By: John

John — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:23:34 +0000

I disagree with a lot of your choices but I’m thinking it’s because my design eye isn’t as developed yet.

1) What’s so special about the NY Philharmonic logo? It seems like the type of logo that I would find on some inexperienced 14 year old kid’s graphic services website.

2) As for the Melbourne logo, I thought it was ugly the first time I saw it months ago on some design site but it might be growing on me now.

3) Pfiser – Nothing special. Don’t think it was worth a mention.

4) 9/11 isn’t so bad. I like the 11 symbolizing the towers.

5) AVID’s logo is the most creative I suppose. They were lucky to have the letters A V I D to play with. One thing that bugs me is the D at the very end. It seems to make the logo unbalanced in my eye. I feel like the logo is going to tip over any second to the right.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 19:56:09 +0000

Despite the appreciation (by some) of the New York Philharmonic logo, no one pointed out that it’s clearly meant to evoke the image of a musical note on sheet music, specifically a whole note split by the staff line. For those that don’t like this logo or don’t “get it”, does this change your opinion? See example here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/Music-wholenote.png