35 Smart Logos With Second Thought To Make You look Twice
Dainis Graveris
One more logo showcase, but in this one you really will need to look twice! Every logo is carefully picked with second thought and I think such logos are really hard to create. Get inspired, hopefully this article will help you to look different at logo creation – it’s not always just about typography, good looking font and nice animation.
You need to really deliver message to people and you need to deliver the RIGHT message – those are logos, which will be remembered. Of course it’s hard task, but this collection should help to get better!
1. Texas association of stolen children
Designed by Sibley/Peteet design
This one is my favorites logos and it is unforgettable! White playhorse which everybody knows and can recognize with black colored outline of child on the horse and black background which makes an illusion that child had disappeared. Amazing, what designers can create just from shapes and two basic colors!!!
2. Avid Technology
Designed by The Brand Union
Avid’s logo is composed of simple geometric shapes derived from the fundamental buttons of the digital audio and video solutions: volume up, volume down, play, pause, record and forward, signaling of the companies core audio and video offerings. Company’s name is spelled out in distinctive and abstract letterforms.
3.Bison, Vancouver
Designed by Seamoose
Logo design for rock band from Vancouver B.C. This logo is very intelligent solution in my opinion.All what designer did was take all the letters of the word BISON and make them look like a bison body. I like the way how the body details are found within the letters, as tail or horn. The version linked seems like a much easier execution.
4. Eight
Designed by Stylo Design
Really original and fresh logo design with variations of an 8 to made word eight. Even the placing of TM is placed in the right place to create an angle and clarity of the design.
5. One Degree
Designed by Landor Associates
This logo was created to drive public action on climate change. If everyone could change their behavior by just one degree, we could change the future of the planet. Both – number 1 and symbol of degree represents a person and meaning of conception.
6. Lets fix this
Designed by dache
This logo was created using different colored puzzle pieces locking together in the shape of a cross and represents how many parties can come together and fix their own problems in an online resource.
7. DJ Loop
Designed by mavleeb
Don’t need any explanation .Simple, smart and clear.
8. Friedman psychology group
Designed by Mugar Mihai
Butterfly, two faces, person with wings or maybe inkpot? Freedom of mind. Fantastic and awesome representation of the field it was designed for.
9. Guild of Food Writers
Designed by 300million
Logo for guild of food writers. Spoon within a true nibbled fountain pen. There is a meaning!
10. CSCN
Designed by Jovan Rocanov
The idea of this logo, which is designed for Consumer Society and Citizen Networks, of course was to show the protection of the consumers. There is combined a well-known symbol of the market such as the bar code (which graphically looks like the rain) with an ordinary umbrella (symbol of protection).
11. Push The Bottle
Designed by hemisferiod
Manipulation of the words within the clever graph representation.
12. Invisible Agents
Designed by AlexWende
They provide custom data driven web and application solutions and enables designers to incorporating their graphics into this solutions.
13. Piano Forest
Designed by JasonCho
You can see forest and piano keys and can see them together…So clever and clear!!!
14. Wiesinger Music
Designed by NEXQUNYX
This logo is the sort of simple excellence that can inspire. Great monogram. Smart solutions.
15. Logotomy
Designed by logotomy
Logo design for personal name. It speaks by itself and the opened forehead is what draws you into the surprise of a TM…
16. Tidy Tom’s
Designed by ohTwentyone
Great, captivating and very well balanced illustration! Quick recognition, and the strong horizontal and vertical orientation representing stability, integrity and spells out companies name.
17. Fold It
Designed by TKhoury
Can You Fold it? Do You see the integration of the F and I? Looks really slick and nice, great concept!
18. Frogami
Designed by chungdha
Origami frog and the word derived from origami and frog. Clever!
19. Shocked
Designed by Fogra
Powerful! Nice interpretation about socket and shock!
20. Foot
Designed by Houston-we
Foot with foot in the right direction. Surprisingly easy to be read!
21. Stephenson, M.D. Foot
Designed by WetDog
Logo for orthopedic surgeon specializing in feet.Nice mark – perfect and friendly for the name.
22. I Hate You
Designed by Sir-SiriX
Clever and well made logo, true power of typography. Playing with words we can reach stunning results, such I Hate You! 
23. Horror Films
Designed by Siah Design
So simple logo but such great concept behind it. Could be a film reel, could be a mask. Fantastic!
24. Mill
Designed by North Design
The Mill is a post-production and visual effects company in the UK.! If the logo was seen only on its own it would not have the strength. Mill logo is hard to forget because of connection to The Mill – so strong and simple it is.
25. Antisocial network
Designed by mister jones
Logo for an anti-social network site, could not fit better. Don’t need any explanation, I think!
26. Summit
Designed by cerise
Logo for adventure wear brand.
I get associations with army wear, but concept is pretty good!
27. Uck
Designed by Karl-Design
Logotype Against Nazism and Racism. It is a bit provocative and says a lot really, but the logo is awesome!
28. Business-secret
Designed by Harshak Dmitry
Keyhole within a B. Unlock a secret of business! Nice and clever!
29. Shoeless
Designed by VikkiV
Excellent concept. Barefoot awoke an emotion to run to the beach.
30. Haggar Spring logo
Designed by Sibley Peteet Design
Made for spring line clothing collection. Fresh, nice and powerful!
31. Kite String Studio
Designed by eziemac
In origami style. Could see KS immediately. Great conception, nice look and smart!
32. Cafe Melody
Designed by Jure Klaric
Clean graphics displayed in this logo.full of mean, simple illustration… Nice coloring and typography, brilliant concept.
33. Sleep Records
Designed by Nima Jazireh
Very meaningful logo with great concept.
34. Round 5
Designed by junian Round 5, letters make up an icon.
I like the way how the fingers are found within a letters. Clever solution.
35. LocKey
Designed by Logomotive
A combination of the word Loc and Key. Smart logo.
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Sam
Posted 102 days ago 97Awesome Creative logo.
Talia
Posted 215 days ago 95I love all these designs but the one that I really like is the DJ Loop one. It looks impressive.
Truck Magnets St Pete
Posted 228 days ago 94yes… very inspiring ones, you have given me some good idea about logo design, Thanks for sharing!
clare
Posted 249 days ago 93So beautiful! So simple. The Sound logo is organic and fun and strong. Love the simplicity. If your interested in logo’s like this you can see a heap at a site call
Well worth the time if you get a chance! Such a great article. Love this Blog!
Hichame merhari
Posted 276 days ago 92VErry creative Logos !
HAsan
Posted 158 days ago 96i guess you’re interested in logo design just like me, i’m not a pro but i like ideas related to this kind of business, if you’re into this field would you please show me some samples !! (you’re Moroccan i assume , right ?) …Yallah, wish ya all the best, dude !!
Paul - Paul Allen Design
Posted 337 days ago 91Great ideas. Working on a logo myself but will go much simpler.
Abhimanyu
Posted 361 days ago 90Awesome compile!!! Though I had seen ones like Piano Forest before, I liked “Push the Bottle” and “DJ loop”
Cheers!
Vanessa
Posted 370 days ago 89Love it! Simple and cute :)
Atul Vhale
Posted 413 days ago 88Really these are stunning logos. Actually no shares such confidential logos but you shared such eye catching logos, it’s really good work. Keep sharing.
David Magallon
Posted 597 days ago 87Not sure if anyone’s said anything about the loop one, but it’s stolen from G4.
Divyesh Ardeshana
Posted 600 days ago 86really good collection :)
Thanks
Adam
Posted 681 days ago 85What a great feeling when a logo design really comes to together, that it just makes sense. Thanks for sharing!
amit
Posted 684 days ago 84Some really smart logos. I espically like those which communicate so much with such simple yet smart graphics like mill, horror films and piano forests.
Kudos to the designers!!
Technology Design
Posted 704 days ago 83Looks amazing . All are beautiful especially fold one.
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Vicki - VictoriaAnn Design
Posted 720 days ago 82Oh I love posts like this. There are so many great ones in here that I can’t even point out my favourite in this comment! I do love the simplicity and effectiveness of the Horror Films one though – that’s just genius!
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PelFusion
Posted 743 days ago 81amazing collection…keep the good work up
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contrastblack
Posted 789 days ago 80Hi! nice roundup of interesting logos. I don’t know if anyone mentioned this, but since I see you didn’t operate any correction, my guess is nobody noticed it : the name of the creator of number 8 is MUGUR not MUGAR… as seen even in his weblink. I would be grateful if you would operate that correction. Thanks.
wudn
Posted 794 days ago 79Very good！
Cathy
Posted 808 days ago 78Love the I hate you, and Antisocial…
just incredible
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