Inspire Yourself: 58 Creative Logos
Logotypes stand for Corporate Identity. The better a logo is designed, the greater is the probability that your potential clients will remember your CI and get back to you once your service is needed. Consequence: designers have to be creative and put many efforts in designing beautiful, unique and catchy logos. And the results they come out with are sometimes stunning and spectacular. Both in graphic design and web design.
This isn’t just another collection of logotypes. These are 58 creative logos you can inspire yourself from. Nevermind how different the logos are – they show the current trend in modern logo design. The logos we’ve selected below have been created and optimized for Web. Links checked: August/19 2008 – meanwhile some sites are dead, their logos are not linked.
Prabhath
September 4th, 2008 9:03 pmI think all the logos are very creative and eye catching.
Nice work mate.
Cheers!
Prabhath
scott
September 10th, 2008 9:21 pmI love how everyone jumped on the “omgz worst ever” bandwagon. Yes some are bad, but others are good FOR THEIR PURPOSE. They are simple logos, not corporate identities.
And as for people saying “it doesn’t express what the company is”.. well the identity logos for fedex, mcdonalds, walmart, coca cola, nike, yahoo, google, microsoft, etc etc etc do not have anything to with what they are representing yet they are the some of the most well known in the world (because of the marketing team, not the design team)..
Some of the biggest companies in america have crappy logos… I always found it hilarious that someone actually got paid for “designing” the fedex logo. If you guys want to attack poor designing, call up fedex and bitch lol
BTW, for those of you throwing a fit, how about posting some examples of the work youve done, or at least some logos you do find creative. Theres not a whole lot out there that goes beyond simple font polishing/customizing.
555
September 11th, 2008 7:31 amI have to agree with the masses on this one, this is a pretty weak selection, there are maybe 5-10 worth showcasing.
Demetris
September 24th, 2008 2:17 amVery Nice to see 2 Greek companies logos here.
Andre
December 11th, 2008 5:08 amThanks, great article :)
Dan
December 27th, 2008 4:21 pmScott, you’ve missed something on the Fed Ex logo
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Lynn
January 14th, 2009 2:03 pmI like the logo from Pacific Timesheet. It reflect the company’s name perfectly with the sun over the rippling ocean. On the mean time the sun above the ocean has the hands in them, and it feels like clock. So it ties back to what they do: online timesheet. Just some silly thoughts.
Lynn
isaak
February 11th, 2009 11:55 amcool i like the net
jojo
February 13th, 2009 12:32 pmWow so most of you are just butt hurt designers grinding an axe, Lets see your logos. Bunch of babies.
tim
February 17th, 2009 10:42 pmhorrible article. most of these logos are horrendous.
jojo
February 18th, 2009 6:56 pmTim,
Does your butt hurt? lets see your logos.
vijay
March 30th, 2009 4:06 pmHi,
i like that logos color combination,
Thanks
vijaypal
Anton
March 31st, 2009 2:16 pmLets face it, some of these logos are pretty good and fit in with their respective websites very well, at least in most cases. What is it with this world? People love to get on a bandwagon. It reminds me a little bit about the brainwashed teenage girls who follow celebrities and try to copy what they do. When the first couple of people criticised these slections here, everyone started doing the same without offering an example of their own that they is better. Please offer a counterselection that is better so at least you can show that you know something and not just simply following the herd.
In any case, I think everyone will agree you can have the greatest logo, but if your content or service or whatever the site provides is not good, it won’t matter much.
Jodi
February 18th, 2010 7:50 pmHow about instead of saying “following the herd”, they are calling it how they see it. Come on now, this is Smashing and they have put out WAY more “inspiring” sets than this. Creative is not the word for this set. The thing is, they are boring and boring doesn’t catch your eye or make you rememorable or “inspire” a viewer. Granted some companies don’t need that edge, but when I search “inspiring” or “creative” logos…this does not qualify. These are simple, minimalistic, etc. To critique the comments of others stating they didn’t say why they didn’t like it…where is your comment on the subject at hand, the not so inspiring logos?
Side Note: : an observation or remark expressing an opinion or attitude (one of many definitions for comment…i.e. Leave a Comment section)
Sanjay
April 19th, 2009 11:13 pmThank you for these good references of web 2 logos.
vaibhav
April 28th, 2009 3:32 amwots beta???
cn n plz xplain???
nt a taunt…serious query…
Jason
May 28th, 2009 8:50 amThese logos all look like they’ve been created by the same designer… not inspiring at all… kinda boring to say the least.
Armaan Ahluwalia
July 28th, 2009 2:51 pmUmmm …
a) How
b) Why??
Smashing magazine standards just dropped.
ajith
August 4th, 2009 9:55 pmhai it’s very good and creatively i learn lot off ideas
joyoge
August 31st, 2009 4:16 pmnice web 2.0 logos, I like “CrashPlan logo” you can also see my logos too http://www.joyoge.com
http://www.joyolog.com
http://www.ciobox.com
http://www.arwox.com
http://www.joyogi.com
thanks..
International Property Listing
January 16th, 2010 3:15 amGreat logos. I wonder who made those.
This is company also a great logo. Globalmultiplelisting.com
Mamat
January 26th, 2010 9:01 pmHatur nuhun infona… Insyaallah manpaat…
Jodi
February 18th, 2010 7:33 pmWow Smashing…these are not so jazzy. Still love ya though :-)
PA
April 9th, 2010 3:05 amHonestly I was expecting something better…They’re nice, but they’re all the same type
muggulu
May 22nd, 2010 3:42 amHi this is muggulu..Lets face it, some of these logos are pretty good and fit in with their respective websites very well, at least in most cases.> http//:www.kolamdesigns.com
Weer
June 20th, 2010 10:15 amhere is my logo version if you guys would like a sneak
logohero.co.uk/
Outsource
August 4th, 2010 2:28 amThe finest collection of web 2.0 logos I found so far, smashingly helpful!
Reedd
September 2nd, 2010 1:23 pmAverage looking logos. Worst list by smashing
Leona
December 14th, 2010 8:19 amI’m a art school’s student, i wanna what’s a real good logo design? i have seen many in enternet, i haven’t find the real good logo design, well except those has well known. and also these i think that’s ok, at least is better than me…….(╯﹏╰)…………
Corona Starr
December 14th, 2010 3:58 pm¶ They look like one artist style. And Just missing►ZING◄ “Finnal Touch of FX” █
Bobby Green
March 23rd, 2011 3:48 pmThese are ALL great, well thats what I think, good effort guys (y)
Turner
June 14th, 2011 1:52 pmThese look like icons and they are too similar — not a good selection.
garra rufa
August 25th, 2011 5:41 amLogos are great i love this one of pathfinder i think the idea is genius!
Fionasdesigns
July 26th, 2012 6:49 amThe logos are good. Those who are deriding them should post some examples of the logos they think are great and inspirational. That will be a great input. :)
James Harris
April 22nd, 2013 1:48 pmWell your list is really full of catchy logos. I do like to share that I have found Maxwells Green (maxwellsgreen.com) logo also good.
What do you think guys and gals?