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Smashing Pumpkins and Halloween Redesigns
November 1st, 2007 in Design Showcase | 32 Comments
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.
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.
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Guido (November 1st, 2007, 12:42 am)
Good choice for the logo, but still I was expecting something more original than just a pumpkin though.
Hector (November 1st, 2007, 12:48 am)
Very nice Marian!
Nice and clean, and it keeps the style of the site.
ZanyPixel (November 1st, 2007, 12:51 am)
Love the redesigns! Especially Yahoo, Google, and Ask…
CrazyJ (November 1st, 2007, 1:30 am)
Love the spooky smashing magazine logo! Spotted this halloween theme in my inbox yesterday. Link [www.evesham.com]
Max (November 1st, 2007, 1:34 am)
Nice redesigns!
BTW; I found this: Link [www.pixel2life.com] maybe worth adding?
Jason A. (November 1st, 2007, 1:50 am)
The Digital Bits does a yearly Halloween makeover as well.
Link [www.thedigitalbits.com]
Ravi Vora (November 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!
Design Creme (November 1st, 2007, 3:24 am)
I like the new smashing logo.. Ask.com is also nice.
adriana (November 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
Tanner Christensen (November 1st, 2007, 4:52 am)
Love the new Smashing pumpkin (?!) logo, great work.
You can view my custom Halloween logo Link [internethunger.blogspot.com]. Usually the logo is just a cursor on a plate.
Ben (November 1st, 2007, 5:24 am)
Twitter changed their logo for Halloween, they made it orange.
Marian Buhnici (November 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.
Vitor Almeida (November 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
Gary R. Hess (November 1st, 2007, 2:21 pm)
You missed reddit.com’s awesome alien Halloween logo :\ Link [s3.amazonaws.com]
Paul (November 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..
::m (November 1st, 2007, 8:03 pm)
Congratulations Marian! :o)
Nytryk (November 1st, 2007, 10:26 pm)
Another Pumpkin!
Kostas Mavropalias (November 2nd, 2007, 2:54 pm)
Grats Marian :)
Blue Buffalo (November 3rd, 2007, 12:20 am)
Nice redesigns - very creative! Thanks for the collection.
The Icon Factory went all out!
Casitecenter (November 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
China Slate (January 4th, 2008, 2:20 am)
every nice…….,i like it