Posts tagged logos
If Stone Phillips had been a talk show host in the 1970s, not a newsmagazine anchor from the 1990s.
Typeface: Washington (modified)
Home + Away, an ambigram logo for a construction company by Dave Foster
New identity for St. Bart’s Church by The Original Champions of Design caught my eye. Type design by Jesse Ragan.
“Architectural style drove the visual strategy so much that the typography was lifted directly from the building facade.” Legendary designer Massimo Vignelli once said in an interview with Type Radio that his dream project would be to redesign the corporate identity of The Vatican. “I would tell them to keep the symbol. That’s good, but everything else needs to go.”
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The Winnipeg Jets just unveiled their new logo(s) yesterday, and the result was neither the throwback to their former glory days I was hoping for or particularly good. So, I decided I’d have a little fun and see what I could come up with.
Creepy characters from Trade Marks, 1910-1913
A dragon already is the traditional image of the l’Hospitalet de Llobregat Spring Festival. This was our version for the 2010: a dragon-ribbon of many colors that fits on various formats.
“ If this company were to split up I would give you the property, plant and equipment and I would take the brands and the trademarks and I would fare better than you.”
Fonts In Use – Comedy Central
Two new typefaces perfectly complement the successful rebrand of a more mature, but still funny, cable network.
Great podcast. Great logo (by Steve Wolfhard). Thanks, Jared.
The Redesign of the Twitter Bird - design:related
It’s a cute illustration, but I gotta say, I prefer Biz Stone’s original. Sure, the eyes are empty and a little ghostlike, but, like any good logo, more is left to the imagination. It’s a more flexible representation of the endless diversity of voices in the Twittersphere, not just the playful and cartoonish.
This is what happens when an untrained graphic designer tries to draw type. He struggled to combine elements of Chalet and ITC Bauhaus, then got tired (and quite possibly drunk) at the end and said “f#*k it, I’ll just yank this baby until it wraps around the ‘d’ — yeah, that’s the ticket!”
Or, more likely, the thing was designed by committee as usual.
In short, drawing letters takes skill and practice, the kind that isn’t commonly taught in design school. The mangling of that ‘y’ is typical of an Illustrator user pulling vector outlines without paying mind to stroke width and joins.
Les Étoffes, Clothing Label
A logo by FEED
Makes me think of Mahlau, a relatively unknown deco face from the ’20s with some crazy ligatures and alternates adorned with double diagonal lines.
