Just how good are LogoPond’s logos?

This Hilton Construction logo is by Bart O’Dell aka. Senter. Bart is based in Texas, USA and has been designing for 13 years now. I’ve actually featured one of Bart’s other logos as my logo of the month #3. At the time of writing Bart has uploaded 34 logos to the LogoPond website and you can view all 34 logos here.

“Three bananas, three pieces of movie tape”. That’s the description given for this Bananas Films logo from Javier Ramirez. If Javier has a website it’s not listed on LogoPond. The two other logos he has uploaded don’t merit a link so I’ll not waste your time.

The TECHWORKS logo is for a networking technology company. It was uploaded to LogoPond by Mike Erickson, author of the Logo Motive website (not to be confused with Jeff Fisher’s bLog-oMotives. There’s a hefty total of 77 logos in Mike’s LogoPond showcase.

My final offering of the day from the LogoPond archives is this one for Pak Photography. The designer is Marco Echevarria of Burn Creative. Marco designs out of Pennsylvania, USA and has uploaded a total of 10 logos to the Burn Creative LogoPond showcase.
What’s your opinion of LogoPond’s logos?
I’ve uploaded a few of my designs to the website, and you can view my LogoPond showcase here.
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I know nothing about design but I love seeing good logos.
I hadn’t heard of LogoPond previously but the work of those designers was great. It’s incredible that someone can be looking at a blank screen and then just .. create.. like that.
David once again man thanks!!! I am humbled.
They all look nice to me. I have been wanting to explore creating logos but just haven’t jumped into it yet. This gives me a push.
Bart, you’re very welcome. Keep those logos coming. :)
Beth Ellen, if you’d ever like some feedback on your designs I’d be more than happy to offer it.
I actually sketch a lot of my logos out before hand as David has mentioned. But however I do most of the sketches in the computer with my WACOM.
I think with any design arena, good is subjective. Meaning what I think is good and what you think is good can vary.
Just with any other design gallery, there are hits and misses and I personally think logo design is the hardest item to design and get right. Seems more often than designers get it wrong.
In the words of Bob Gill, “There’s no such thing as ‘good design’ or ‘bad design’. The design is good if it does what you want it to do. It’s bad if it doesn’t.”
The thousands of logos that don’t work aren’t helped by the ever-increasing number of websites allowing anyone to ‘design your own logo’ by simply dragging and dropping a few chosen elements here and there.
If you don’t know about design, and if you truly care about your company, you should be hiring a designer.
Dave, Thanks so much for the recognition, it is greatly appreciated. When I began the Techworks project I asked the client to give me 3 important parts to his business, he responded with “computers,technology,networking”. I began sketching and sketching and sketching ideas out relating to these words.This was the final result.
Along with the Hilton Construction logo and the Pak Photography logo, the Techworks logo works great because the equals (T/W) working together produce a whole message using the negative space. I guess the same would go for the bananasfilms, equal parts creating a whole.
Nice picks Dave.
I can’t get enough of the bananas films logo! I would like to see how it looks reversed, and in gray scale. Even though, it will probably be most used in color on black in films, you always need to have some black and white stuff.
Good read, David!
Thank you for including me into the group of logos featured on your site.
To any beginning designers out there, as mentioned before, go to paper first. The concept stage is crucial to working out a solid design and pencil or pen and paper is the way to go. Also, obtaining as much information as you can get about the company or product the logo is for, their target market, competitors…
“Hi Mat, all good designers will begin the design process with pen / pencil and paper”
Ok cool, that’s quite interesting. Thanks David
Yes, LogoPond.com worth to be mentioned, such many from its pages. If you want to comment on more logos, you are welcome to my site: http://www.ReLogoDesign.com
I love the bananas films logo, very nice, made me smile.
Good website Dave.
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The BananasFilms logo is cool! Very unique and catchy! :)
I love all these logos and logopond is great resource for inspiration. You should check out the logos by Nido, in my opinion one of the great logo designing minds out there.
Thanks again.
I find that logopond is a great place to look to for inspiration. Not every logo is amazing, but there are a lot of innovative and original ideas and many of them with great execution.
On a side note, I thought the techworks logo looked very similar to the Tiger Woods logo. Both great logos still.
-Ian
I’ve recently discovered nido on LogoPond. The level of communication is nice to see.
Ian,
I agree, not every logo is great, but that’s to be expected when any member can upload a design. Thanks for dropping in.
I don’t particularly like those four (the bananafilms one would be great except for the way the strips of film overlap at the top) but some of the other stuff on that site is incredibly fantastic.