Logo design, logo designer

 

Logo design sketch critique

Circle

Your feedback is much appreciated on this live logo design project. It’s for a company called Circle and they primarily offer web hosting. They’re undergoing a complete re-branding, branching out to offer addtional services, such as design, fax2email, servers, ADSL — a “complete solution” in their words.

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Logo design sketches that don’t work

Pencil and paper

I was talking to a friend who wanted to set up his own graphic design business here in the UK. The proposed business name is Five 54, which represents the degrees of longitude and latitude where my friend was born. He thought it’d have a nice personal meaning to the otherwise impersonal name.

Here I present some rough ideas to give you a little insight into my logo design process.

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What makes a good logo design?

I love New York logo

When it comes to seeing a logo that makes you wonder, “Why didn’t I think of that?”, what exactly is it about the design that gives you that impression?

There are four critical elements that can be seen in every great logo design, and I list them here.

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Just how good are LogoPond’s logos?

Here I present a few of the more effective logo designs from the LogoPond website. What’s your opinion? Do you use LogoPond for inspiration?

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European logo design awards

The only award scheme in the world that is endorsed by over 50 national and international design associations is now open for entries.
It’s called Eulda 2007 (European Logo Design Awards) and European designers, studios, agencies and their clients are all invited to enter.
Any logo printed, published, broadcast or visible online between 1 January 2006 [...]

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Italia logo design from Landor

Italy logo

Graphic designers are up in arms after Italy unveiled it’s new identity with the ‘it’ logo design shown above. The choice is a mystery.

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Logo of the month #4

SinkIt logo

Sinkit is a tool used to improve a golfer’s putting skills, and here’s the excellent logo design created for the product.

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How important is a logo?

Small Business Branding

Nick Rice over at Small Business Branding wrote an article today titled 9 Branding Tips For Small Businesses.

There are some excellent points listed although I find myself having to disagree with his first point, in which he states the following…

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Logo of the month #3

Robin Rutherford dentist logo

Here’s a recent logo for Robin Rutherford, a cosmetic and implant dentist who specialises in the experience his clients have.

It was developed by Senter Brands and first seen posted on LogoPond.

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Logo of the month #2

Hartford Whalers logo

The Hartford Whalers ice hockey team became no more back in 1997. Their logo still represents a simple idea, effectively executed.

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