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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Jorrell Ang
Posted 929 days ago 77this is also one nice logo http://www.pahku.com/ :)
John Samuel
Posted 929 days ago 76A nice collection. Lots of logos are worth mentioning. The logo “I Hate You” will really make you look twice
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BLoG kiTa
Posted 931 days ago 75Nice pic! Bookmarked ;) thanks..
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Casque
Posted 932 days ago 74All these logos are very nice. Would like to be able to do that.
Karl Foxley
Posted 932 days ago 73Brilliant round up! My favs have to be Fold It and Shocked… they really stood out in my opinion.
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Gareth Coxon - Dot Design
Posted 932 days ago 72Some great work here, most working from sound the basis of:
• Simple
• Smart
• Memorable
• Unique
Peach
Posted 933 days ago 71Wow.. These are all amazing! Love it all.
Azizuan Aziz
Posted 933 days ago 70Wonderful! Some of them are just out of my mind.
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Gabriel Scofield
Posted 936 days ago 69Wow..great collection of some pretty clever logos! Thanks for sharing!
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Stanley
Posted 939 days ago 68Nice collection! Those designers are very creative!
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Ward
Posted 940 days ago 67Those ones are awesome, well done.
Doug Langley
Posted 942 days ago 66Love good design and the negative space logos are fantastic… my fave is AVID
Tony Marks
Posted 943 days ago 65I love these, absolutely amazing!!!
very witty
bams
Posted 944 days ago 64thanks you for sharing and give explanatory about those logo…, you likes curator of logo…lol
good job guys.
Amber
Posted 944 days ago 63Thanks 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
Kervie
Posted 945 days ago 62Really cool compilation. Thanks for posting.
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Matty
Posted 945 days ago 61Really cool logos. I especially like the shocked logo that made me smile and the guild of food writers plus piano forest. Excellent post.
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josh
Posted 948 days ago 60pretty awsome logos!!!!
Shane
Posted 949 days ago 59Amazing collection. Really like the bison logo, clever typography.
Thanks.
neeta kashyap
Posted 950 days ago 58good collection, all meaningful
Chuck
Posted 951 days ago 57Gotta love negative space logos.
Yousuf
Posted 951 days ago 56Simply Awesome !!!
Chipo Mugomba
Posted 952 days ago 55Awesome logos!
Arizona bankruptcy lawyer
Posted 952 days ago 54Great collection! I love how they are simple, yet very powerful.
John Bloomfield
Posted 952 days ago 53Some 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.