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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!
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!!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Designed by mavleeb
Don’t need any explanation .Simple, smart and clear.
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.
Designed by 300million
Logo for guild of food writers. Spoon within a true nibbled fountain pen. There is a meaning!
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).
Designed by hemisferiod
Manipulation of the words within the clever graph representation.
Designed by AlexWende
They provide custom data driven web and application solutions and enables designers to incorporating their graphics into this solutions.
Designed by JasonCho
You can see forest and piano keys and can see them together…So clever and clear!!!
Designed by NEXQUNYX
This logo is the sort of simple excellence that can inspire. Great monogram. Smart solutions.
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…
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.
Designed by TKhoury
Can You Fold it? Do You see the integration of the F and I? Looks really slick and nice, great concept!
Designed by chungdha
Origami frog and the word derived from origami and frog. Clever!
Designed by Fogra
Powerful! Nice interpretation about socket and shock!
Designed by Houston-we
Foot with foot in the right direction. Surprisingly easy to be read!
Designed by WetDog
Logo for orthopedic surgeon specializing in feet.Nice mark – perfect and friendly for the name.
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! 
Designed by Siah Design
So simple logo but such great concept behind it. Could be a film reel, could be a mask. Fantastic!
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.
Designed by mister jones
Logo for an anti-social network site, could not fit better. Don’t need any explanation, I think!
Designed by cerise
Logo for adventure wear brand.
I get associations with army wear, but concept is pretty good!
Designed by Karl-Design
Logotype Against Nazism and Racism. It is a bit provocative and says a lot really, but the logo is awesome!
Designed by Harshak Dmitry
Keyhole within a B. Unlock a secret of business! Nice and clever!
Designed by VikkiV
Excellent concept. Barefoot awoke an emotion to run to the beach.
Designed by Sibley Peteet Design
Made for spring line clothing collection. Fresh, nice and powerful!
Designed by eziemac
In origami style. Could see KS immediately. Great conception, nice look and smart!
Designed by Jure Klaric
Clean graphics displayed in this logo.full of mean, simple illustration… Nice coloring and typography, brilliant concept.
Designed by Nima Jazireh
Very meaningful logo with great concept.
Designed by junian Round 5, letters make up an icon.
I like the way how the fingers are found within a letters. Clever solution.
Designed by Logomotive
A combination of the word Loc and Key. Smart logo.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009 03:48
Wow..great collection of some pretty clever logos! Thanks for sharing!
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 06:13
Love good design and the negative space logos are fantastic… my fave is AVID
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 16:02
I love these, absolutely amazing!!!
very witty
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 04:47
thanks you for sharing and give explanatory about those logo…, you likes curator of logo…lol
good job guys.
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 02:19
Thanks for sharing and posting this fantastic compilation that really gets the mind thinking about smart logo design! I will have to think twice before I let All Stages Marketing settle on anything less than unique!
Yours Socially,
Amber
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 17:16
Really cool logos. I especially like the shocked logo that made me smile and the guild of food writers plus piano forest. Excellent post.
Friday, October 16th, 2009 18:47
Amazing collection. Really like the bison logo, clever typography.
Thanks.
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 19:18
good collection, all meaningful
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 10:54
Simply Awesome !!!
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 06:30
Awesome logos!
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 15:18
Some of these are great but a few I think have put design and technique above communication, you shouldn’t have to look as hard as you do at some of the logos to get the initial meaning hidden meaning is great but the initial meaning should hit you in the face.
If you hadn’t told me that DJ loop was the name of the company it would have taken me too long to look at it and guess.
Monday, October 12th, 2009 23:21
One of my favorites is the logo for Grande Punto from FIAT, the Italian car producer:
http://www.cartype.com/pics/1587/full/fiat_punto_05_logo.jpg
The ‘P’ has a “punto” (which is the Italian term for ‘dot’) over it, but it also can be seen as the head of a driver sitting in front of a driving wheel with both arms in front of him.
Monday, October 12th, 2009 22:42
Love them. It is a great collection of logos that deliver strong messages through simple design.
Monday, October 12th, 2009 21:07
a logo needs to work in two colors. I agree some are interesting and work well. or at least start the design in two colors. the negative space on SOME of these are well done, however some are not and do not work. period. read some design books before posting “these logos rok yo!” terrible. the fold it is an interesting design, but it wouldn’t reproduce small well, you’d have to create a 2nd version. some are just illustrations, frogami… the haggar springs logo is probably the worst example up there… atrocious.
Monday, October 12th, 2009 19:52
that’s a great collection of logos. It can be tough to create a good, meaningful design, but creativity is always a great way to go. I love when hidden messages are integrated. it makes it much more interesting.
Monday, October 12th, 2009 19:46
you’re kidding! you’ve got it backwards! tidy tom’ sucked and the i hate/love you logo worked great on so many psychological levels.
Monday, October 12th, 2009 19:07
Really nice collection of logos (and I appreciate the fact that you linked to your sources). I will be revisiting for inspiration in the future.
However, your writing could use a lot of improvement, Dainis. Having a friend proofread the article before you publish would be a good first step. I think if you could express yourself as powerfully as your content, this would be a great blog!
Monday, October 12th, 2009 08:59
The best one among all these logos is “Texas association of stolen children”….it is amazingly creative and intelligent use of negative space. Rest of the logos did not amaze me much as I have been using them on ‘n’ off on my blog but have lately I stumbled across amazing negative space logos
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Buckly
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 06:14
I always thought the Big Ten logo was kind of clever.
Greg
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 21:00
I was going to comment the exact same thing. The logo change when they went to 11 teams is one of that best I have ever seen.
Isabelle
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 06:58
Beautiful logos, wonderful artwork, self-explanatory — no need for explanations, especially when such explanations are laden with errors.
Cody
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 00:17
lol….wow some of these are really creative. I love the ones that you can instantly tell exactly what the business does.
Steve
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 19:45
One of my all-time favorite logos is the first one that I noticed had this creative melding of ideas: The original logo for The Milwaukee Brewers. The baseball glove is made up of the letters M and B, with the baseball in the middle of the mitt where the hole in the B should be. I’d lived in Milwaukee when I was a kid and never noticed it until I was in my 20s and it just blew me away that someone had been that creative!
Andrea
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 20:09
Very nice. I like the Piano Forest the best.
Gene
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 19:05
Antisocial is my favorite. I wish I came up with it. :)
Ricky Salsberry
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 02:59
Some of these are great, yes, but some of these aren’t great picks. I think this list should have only been about 20 logos long. Avid, DJ Loop, and more should probably have been left out.
Daniel Duke
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 20:09
This collection is nice but your insights on the logos are terribly written, uninformative and in some cases, just wrong. I’m assuming English isn’t your first language so obviously allowances can be made for this. It still doesnt excuse the lack of actual critique though. It is a good collection though and very inspiring so good job.
Gopal Raju
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 18:52
Nice concepts…especially wiesinger music…
David Pache
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 17:54
Thanks very much for the mention :^)
Ali Suarez
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 21:42
Those are really awesome!!!
Tobbi
Saturday, October 10th, 2009 15:19
Great collection, my favorites are #3 & #17
Yousuf
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 10:54
Simply Awesome !!!
Chuck
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 12:30
Gotta love negative space logos.
Divyesh Ardeshana
Sunday, June 13th, 2010 20:09
really good collection :)
Thanks
David Magallon
Thursday, June 17th, 2010 07:28
Not sure if anyone’s said anything about the loop one, but it’s stolen from G4.
Adam
Thursday, March 25th, 2010 13:10
What a great feeling when a logo design really comes to together, that it just makes sense. Thanks for sharing!
amit
Monday, March 22nd, 2010 09:25
Some 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!!
PelFusion
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 11:05
amazing collection…keep the good work up
Vicki - VictoriaAnn Design
Sunday, February 14th, 2010 02:01
Oh 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!
Technology Design
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 17:44
Looks amazing . All are beautiful especially fold one.
Atul Vhale
Saturday, December 18th, 2010 09:02
Really these are stunning logos. Actually no shares such confidential logos but you shared such eye catching logos, it’s really good work. Keep sharing.
Vanessa
Sunday, January 30th, 2011 08:21
Love it! Simple and cute :)
Talia
Monday, July 4th, 2011 04:56
I love all these designs but the one that I really like is the DJ Loop one. It looks impressive.
Raj
Friday, April 27th, 2012 10:31
very creative logos.. Friedman psychology group, Uck, I Hate You are the best in the list…