Comments on: Let’s talk logos

By: David Airey

David Airey — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:39:23 +0000

Hi Laura, I do hope you pick up some valuable lessons from your professor, and I’m glad you chose to disregard the comments about the “eight” logo.

By: Laura Harthcock

Laura Harthcock — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:20:39 +0000

I’m a senior graphic design student and I found it amusing that one of my classmates brought in the ‘Eight’ logo for our “Good vs. Bad Logo” meeting (this one being the good one) and my professor exclaimed that indeed it was NOT a good logo and we should never do anything like that. Yet here it is- and I think it’s brilliant.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:18:59 +0000

I like all, but here are my top three:

sinkit
eight
hartford whalers

By: Eduardo Ascencio

Eduardo Ascencio — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:54:52 +0000

Excelente blog David. Saludos desde Puerto Montt, Chile.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:13:18 +0000

Amanda,

I’m not sure if the Egg n Spoon logo was actually brought into use, but you’ll find some nice contextual images of the Sinkit logo on the smashLAB website. Oh, actually, I just followed my old link there to find that the page no longer exists, and I can’t find it in the portfolio. Hmmm. Glad I captured a few on my original post.

By: Amanda Vlahakis

Amanda Vlahakis — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:27:01 +0000

Egg N Spoon – I haven’t seen that before, I really like it, it reminds me the same sort of idea as the Guild of Food Writers logo, which I also like a lot.

I also like Sink It .. I haven’t seen that one before either.

I wish we could see more of the great logos you show ‘in context’, for instance I just tried to find the Egg N Spoon website and couldn’t find it. It would be nice to see that concept ‘in use’.

Unfortunately sometimes designers create wonderful logos and then they placed on dreadful websites. For instance Guild of Food Writers website is pretty horrible despite having been provided with a solid logo.

By: David Airey

David Airey — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:43:32 +0000

Mark, the discussion was healthy, no doubt.

Tracey, no more puns? That’s a shame. As for showing the first and last as the strongest, I definitely favour the Sinkit logo (which is first), but think I’d place the ‘eight’ and ‘food writers’ before the ‘human’ one.

Regan, I hope you had a great summer that Tuesday. I was quite lucky last year — summer in Scotland was on a Thursday, then in Northern Ireland one Sunday after I’d moved across.

Amelia, I also like the puzzle aspect. Amanda made a good point about legibility, and how the marketing collateral shows actual text alongside the symbol.

Abbas, it’s a wonder the website hasn’t been changed already, but perhaps the organisation isn’t very active.

Cheers everybody.

By: Lara

Lara — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:25:35 +0000

David, I salute you, and thank you for a very inspiring and interesting blogs.. designers are getting to interact with one another in a very civilized & professional manner;

apart from that, every logo posted in this blog has its own unique charm | creativity is sparkling in here.. sinkit, eight & humans are my favorites, mind-blowing work

cheers

By: The Floating Frog

The Floating Frog — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:42:20 +0000

The Eight logo to me defines the standard of the creative thought we all need to harness. ‘Simple’, ‘inspirational’, ‘professional’, ‘fresh’, ‘unique’. It’s a graphic designers masterpiece, which we all wish we’d done lol

By: Dape

Dape — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:08:52 +0000

I was trying to think of something to say that is good about about these logo’s as a non- designer I look for something that stands out and makes me take notice. There is one that did appeal to me and that is the Human logo with the flame coming out of the ‘a’. It reminds me of the concrete poets work of the 80′.