I’ve stumbled on this image created by Guillaume Baret that show how some of the most famous logos we know have came to be just by combined other logos. The image includes logos of Google Chrome, Twitter and Wikipedia among others. Obviously that’s not true, but still a funny thing to think about. Via @MarkTallant.
I find myself constantly visiting logo design galleries for inspiration, so I decided to put this article up to help myself. I’m not listing all the logo galleries of the web, but only the ones I find to have the best type of work.
I’ve stumbled on this amazing set of vintage logos on Flickr. The pages were extracted from the World of Logotypes book, which is out of print and used copies are very rare, on Amazon this used copy is for $239.
Logorama is an short animation made by by François Alaux and Herve de Crecy — from H5 — featuring more than 2000 trademarks and corporate brands. It has won the Oscar in the short film category in 2010.
What if logos were honest about the negative effects of their products? That’s the thinking process suggested by Viktor Hertz’s honest logos series.
One decade after the tragic events of 9/11 the design studio Collins designed a permanent mark to commemorate the date.
Swiss designer Dave Spengeler got tired of the same old logo design cliches and created this rather humorous blog entitled Hipster Branding where he publish adaptations of well know logos with a hipster-inspired style.
The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art is an organisation bold enough to push the line of branding a bit forward and with the help of Luke Hayman and his team that’s what they just did by creating a fluid identity design.