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Smashing Pumpkins and Halloween Redesigns
Right, it’s the 31st of October. In spirit of the coming Halloween parties we’d like to spark some design flavour by showcasing Halloween redesigns we’ve stumbled upon over the last few days. Pumpkins, skeletons, dark colors and spiders can be found almost in every Halloween design. In some cases designers replace some of the logo elements by visual elements (images or Flash-movies); other designers tend to add dark background colors and an according Halloween theme to the web-site’s header. And sometimes the whole design is completely replaced with a Halloween theme.
[Offtopic: By the way, did you know that Smashing Magazine has a mobile version? Try it out if you have an iPhone, Blackberry or another capable device.]
Smashing Halloween Logo Redesigns
Last week we’ve presented some beautiful wallpapers and tutorials in our Halloween Roundup: Wallpapers And Tutorials and asked our readers to send us their redesigns of our Smashing Magazine logo. As a result we’ve got a number of Smashing Pumpkings which we’d like to present in this post as well. And we’ve also replaced our logo with the Halloween logo designed by Marian Buhnici (first logo in the list below).
Thanks to all designers for participation!
Marian Buhnici
Giovanni Dema
M.Cooper
Vitor Almeida
Kostas Mavropalias
Lauren Burdette
Cole Henley
Halloween Logo Redesigns
In the brief overview below we’ve listed some Halloween logo redesign we’ve found over the last few days. We’ve definitely missed some designs. You can find more Halloween logos in Philipp Lenssen’s recent post. Stumbled upon some more attractive designs? Please let us know in the comments! Thank you. And smashing Halloween, folks!
Animated Flash-Logo
Animated Flash-Logo
Ask.com offers a Halloweenish background image.
Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
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November 1st, 2007 12:48 amVery nice Marian!
Nice and clean, and it keeps the style of the site.
- 3November 1st, 2007 12:51 am
Love the redesigns! Especially Yahoo, Google, and Ask…
- 4November 1st, 2007 1:30 am
Love the spooky smashing magazine logo! Spotted this halloween theme in my inbox yesterday. spooky evesham
- 5November 1st, 2007 1:34 am
Nice redesigns!
BTW; I found this: http://www.pixel2life.com/... maybe worth adding? - 6November 1st, 2007 1:50 am
The Digital Bits does a yearly Halloween makeover as well.
- 7November 1st, 2007 2:40 am
Very cool, glad to see everyone in the spirit. I redesigned my blog too… just not too Halloweeny, unless you count my face!
- 8November 1st, 2007 3:24 am
I like the new smashing logo.. Ask.com is also nice.
- 9November 1st, 2007 3:28 am
i like the redesign for this site, its very clean… and I like the one for Yahoo… I was really disappointed by the Google logo though
- 10November 1st, 2007 4:52 am
Love the new Smashing pumpkin (?!) logo, great work.
You can view my custom Halloween logo here. Usually the logo is just a cursor on a plate. - 11November 1st, 2007 5:24 am
Twitter changed their logo for Halloween, they made it orange.
- 12November 1st, 2007 8:57 am
Wow! I am so happy to see that my logo idea went through!! :)
Congratulations to all the guys that sent their ideas, every logo looks great. - 13November 1st, 2007 10:23 am
Congratulations to the champion…
But the most scaring logo was from C. Henley!
Very cool contest. I hope more contests here!
Sorry for may bad “portuguese” english
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- 15November 1st, 2007 6:20 pm
Hi Vitaly Friedman and Sven Lennartz, do consider linkin to the developer’s website or email, some of them are really good. And we love to touch base with them. It’s in the internet. Lol..
- 16November 1st, 2007 8:03 pm
Congratulations Marian! :o)
- 17November 1st, 2007 10:26 pm
Another Pumpkin!
- 18November 2nd, 2007 2:54 pm
Grats Marian :)
- 19November 3rd, 2007 12:20 am
Nice redesigns – very creative! Thanks for the collection.
The Icon Factory went all out!
- 20November 5th, 2007 2:28 pm
i really hate the google’s logo it’s not clear and nice
even yahoo’s in not very smart idea too :D
thanks - 21January 4th, 2008 2:20 am
every nice…….,i like it
- 22November 1st, 2008 5:11 am
For this year I’ve collected all designs and logos . There is also voting poll – so please vote for your favorite one!
- 23February 10th, 2009 6:37 pm
Does anyone here enjoy viewing the AOL animated logo’s on the internet? You know the ones that celebrate a special event such as a Holiday like the ones above! What happens to them after the Holidays are over? AOL and Yahoo have some very creative logos. I would like to know if anyone knows about any links to any AOL animated logos? I have many Yahoo animated logos to share if anyone is interested? I was interested in viewing the Christmas logo from AOL with a Jack in the box, also Thanksgiving, and Halloween logos of last year and year before. If anyone knows of any links to these logos could you post them here, or e mail me? I listed a link below to show you what I am talking about! Thanks! Bill
- 24February 26th, 2009 3:50 pm
I am pleased to announce I have found AOL’s Halloween animated logo’s of 2007 & 2008. Also found Christmas 2008, and Election day 2008. Still looking for Thanksgiving, Valentines Day, St Patrick’s Day, and 4th of July of 2008! I will eventually find them to add to my collection. I enjoy collecting these logo’s!
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Good choice for the logo, but still I was expecting something more original than just a pumpkin though.