In 1970, design student made design and music history by designing a logo for The Rolling Stones, for just $250. Today, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, purchased the original artwork for $92,500. The iconic tongue and lips logo, first used on the band’s “Sticky Fingers” album, is one of the world’s [...]

In honor of Labor Day it seems fitting to examine some “labor” related logos. Unfortunately, Google did not grace us with one of their many creative holiday designs, but luckily other designers didn’t all take the day off. Labor unions are known for a lot of things, but not necessarily their design expertise. While unions [...]

Football, Fútbol, Soccer. Regardless of your native tongue, the “world’s game” is a source of history, competition, and champions. It is also a source of some of the more interesting styles of sports branding. Unlike many American sports clubs, European football teams take a more classic route when designing their logo. Lacking colorful mascots, many [...]

Everyone in the design community knows Paul Rand. Everyone in almost any community knows Paul Rand. If you have seen the logos for Abc, Enron, Westinghouse, IBM, or UPS, you know his work. In his passing, logo designers lost one of their most innovative and dedicated leaders. Along with the loss of a great artist, [...]

Hello Everyone. As Jessica so eloquently alluded to, I am Kevin Scott, the new voice of LogoBlog.org. I couldn’t be more excited to develop a relationship with you, the readers. As a self proclaimed logo fanatic, it’s hard to find topics that I enjoy more than logo design. Looking at logos, critiquing logos, talking [...]

Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave William Shakespeare Merchant of Venice Hello out there my logo friends. Unfortunately this post won’t be one of the most favorite I have ever written. I would even be willing to admit that it may be my least favorite. I regret to inform you that [...]

With the 2008 Olympic Games here, it is hard not to catch the spirit of international competition. With 302 events in 28 sports, the games offer a vast field of athletes the opportunity to represent their country on a global stage. While often overlooked, selecting the stage itself however is very much like a competition. [...]

Most companies looking for a branding solution will toss and turn losing sleep over the most minute details of their company logo. What many of them are looking for is the “perfect” logo that will be universally recognized. What they don’t realize is that while a logo does help you get noticed, it is the [...]

Examining and evaluating logo design is often done through the lens of graphic design principles and visual communication standards. Although such evaluation is purely subjective, shapes, typography, and color, stand as obvious visual cues to the design of the logo. But what about the not so obvious? The mathematics, psychology, and semosis, behind the creation of [...]

The new logo design of Belfast, the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, is spearheaded by a heart-shaped B logo and accompanied by messages including the word ‘be’ — such as ‘be welcome’, ‘be part of it’, and ‘be vibrant’. This logo has been specifically designed to promote the city to international market [...]