Author: Margarit Ralev
15 arrowlike logo designs In my opinion these logos got arrows inside them or are at least arrow-shaped. Some may be called chevrons or something else, but still – these are arrowlike logos. This selection is made just for fun. I actually wanted to check how many famous logos include or resemble arrows I can find. “Kinko’s” was one of the logos I added at the last moment. The truth is that the arrow symbols were well-hidden for me, despite my graphic design experience. 🙂 Another famous brand using an arrow element in the logo design is Burton. I am sure…
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Download a pdf file of 12 pages with the ericsson logo/brand guidelines . Logo guidelines are provided by the marketing or the design department. Their purpose is to mark the guides of the logo/brand usage in advertising materials and every other stuff where the logo of the company may appear. Logo guidelines are usually a few pages and are very useful when prepared for small companies. What you see here is a short version of the full logo guide. This PDF is made for partners. Usually big corporations do have one big logo-brand guide, called “Brand book”. It’s like this…
In this company logo case I’m showing the research I did before creating a logo for a finance consulting company called “Trading Finance”. The client wanted a handshake symbol for a logo design. Our creative studio offered him three separate variations in different colors: Versions 1 & 2 are clear hands icons forming an arrow going up as a symbol of growth and prosperity. Version 3 ( the chosen one) is a stylized angular shape showing in an abstract way the act of handshake. It is serious and businesslike, perfect for the company’s needs. Hands are a very used symbol…
The Before & After magazine says: “Companies of every kind sign their names with linked letters called ligatures. Ligature means to tie. Ligatures make excellent business signatures. They’re handsome, simple and compact. And they’re fun, too—we all have initials! Some letters link in one typeface but not another. Others link in lowercase but not in upper. What follows are a variety of ways to get your letter pairs beautifully together. ” in this pdf article. It will teach you how to design logos of letters. The BAmag presents different techniques how to link: Shared strokes Almost identical strokes Angled strokes…
How to vectorize a logo online? The address is vectormagic.stanford.edu 🙂 What you can do there is: upload an image, make some adjustments and download the vectorize result + share the logo with everybody. Here are some screens , following the process: Why it is good? Because it’s easy to use, free and handy. Thumbs up for the guys from Stanford. Thank you. PS: comparisons results: Here you can see more comparison between VectorMagic / Adobe Live Trace / Corel PowerTrace.
This is a fast-forward video about the 1830 competitors, who tried to won the 12.000 USD Mister Wong Competition. It’s a nice logo set, but you should press “Pause” and “Stop” all the time if you want to see details 🙂 Have fun!
OK, Xerox got a new logo. That’s right. Why? Here’s the new logo theory of businessweek : ** Making the Brand More Approachable** Designed in the 1960s by branding firm, Chermayeff & Geismar, the familiar block-capital-letter XEROX wordmark, most often seen around the world in red, did not lend itself to the three-dimensional world of Internet and mobile-phone marketing canvases. The new logo, created in FS Albert font, is accompanied by a symbol—a red sphere that is trying to convey a sense of the globe. The intersecting graphic ribbons encircling the sphere signify the worldwide connections between Xerox’s customers, employees, and other…
typeface source : Gio Fuga Studio sul completamento di un alfabeto basato sul logotipo “Canon” Studenti: Jasmin Schroder, Maria Tasca, Valentina Venza
We all know and use the most popular fonts, but sometimes it’s hard to define fonts of a specific typeface, used in a logo, logotype or clear word-mark. Here comes a tool which is pretty useful. It’s called “What The Font?!” and it works like this: 1 – You upload / write a link to the logo image 2 – Click “Search” 3 – Check the suggestions of all the similar fonts that looks like the one on your image If you are doing a research on the font of the SONY logo, for example, it will look like this: So now you…