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Very Creative These gives me inspiration. I like the horror films logo, Very original, dark bg, and clean font.

I couldn’t figure out the heart one until I looked away and saw it out of my periphery. What a trip.

wow, some real amazing works!

Some of those are really amazing…yet others are so simple I have to wonder why they are included (maybe they are genius in their simplicity idk).

Great logos! love the Family one.

Totally agree – the Horror Films jumped off the page. The “6″ logo or whatever it is – is physically painful to look at. Which must be a brilliant marketing move – though I don’t get it. the rest are very good.

Thanks for featuring my work again, but can you please fix the credit/link from my logo? Is it a punishment for my critique on the way you’re presenting the logos here? I still think they are cramped in those tight squares :) Also, is there a particular reason why some of the logos link to sites of the authors, while some of them are linked to various logo portfolios, besides obvious reasons – ie not having the time to research :) There are several personal favorites here, two of them would be play and families. Nice collection!

When oh when will people learn that schizophrenia has nothing to do with multiple identities and is not bipolar…

Awesome logos, recent found this logo and totally love it

http://www.alanvanroemburg.com/projects/parkslide-branding/

families and playground. so aweeeeesome

the schizophrenic logo is just awesome

I may have to copy some of those straight. haha

family logo~~I like it~~:)~~~

Some of these logos are very well crafted. Horror Films, Families and More being the best. They’ll work in greyscale, are scalable, are quickly read and understood, and will work even at a small size.

There are quite a few, though, that looks uninspired – some look like a million and one other you see at the Logo mill, churned out by the dozen.

just imo.

cool

meh some are ok but half of these would never work in black and white. First rule we were told in school was that concepts for logos should always be able to work in B&W and color.

Yeah, really nice. Ignorant fools might want to read up on the history of Obama’s logo before you talk about how awesome it is.

i like time mouse design . it is so nice.

Great collection! It’s exciting to see how many of these logos are from IncSpring! Thanks for sharing!

I like that ‘Families’ one!

I find most of the logos posted too ephemeral and although they demonstrate the Zeitgeist, i’m not certain as to their test in time. My favourite logo is never shown anywhere. It’s on NeMe forum. Pity they don’t use it throughout their site.

Families and Playground are lovely.. Nice typography and a bit of imagination

very inspiring! “the creative company” looks like one those of abduzeebo’s tutorial. awesome!

Cool Inspiring Collection.. I liked Horror, Cinema Cafe and families. All rest are cool too.. :)

Supercoollll!!!!

Thanks very much for featuring some of my work.

schizophrenic is pure genius.
Thanks!

My favorites:

Families – nice and clean,
Schizophrenic is just fine, but what activity it represents – online sanatorium?

Horror films is also one of the best together with air turbines

Awesome post, many great logos.

While I agree that some of these logos are greative and great, many dont work well as logos – any designer working on corporate identity will tell you that gradients, shadows, blurs and anything of the like that works well for bitmap and web is terrible for print. This is the reason why most corporate identity logos are crafted first in black and white, and only afterwards are a few choice colors selected. The more colors you use the more it costs to print your logo.

Also, logos with minute details (Illusion Studio or The Creative Company logos, for example) may look good at their intended size, but if they are reduced to say, a 50×50px box, thsoe details are lost and the main image of the logo is unrecognizable. Think of it this way: the Nike Swish is an excellent logo because it works and is recognizable both on the massive scale of a billboard as well as on a tiny web favicon.

No, the Schizophrenic logo is not in any way genius, clever, or great. It makes me angry to think that the designer didn’t even bother to research the illness before designing it, considering that Schizophrenia has nothing to do with multiple personalities or any kind of mood disorder that could be indicated by the :): symbol (hell, even the first description on the first link that appears on Google will tell you that). This logo just perpetuates general ignorance and makes it out to be a quaint disease in which the person suffering is pleasantly loopy. It really is ignorant and just downright offensive.

Great Inspiration thanks for sharing. Really like the “families” one.

I’ve seen some of these logos before and I was under the impression that most were made for fictional brands. And while I see the benefit of designers letting loose their creative juices, I also think Jan’s comment about the practically of these as logo/identities more important.

Maybe they could be separated into in-use logo design vs. imagination logo design. Because it also makes it “easier” to design a logo, if the designer has 100% control over everything–color, tone, company name, company’s business etc.

I’d like to be inspired by the great works of people who worked within constraints that most projects have.

i just love those logotype showoffs they’re way better than all this freebie stuff. Thanks SM!

I love these kind of posts, logos are so important and it can be hard to find good inspiration. Thanks alot!

Great collection. Logos can be one of the more challenging design jobs. When my design tank is in “e” I will come here for some inspiration. Thanks SM…cheers.

Day one, page fold, office strategies, nice!

-W3bDev

The Page Fold logo is the exact same idea as the very first logo in the first roundup: Fold It. Wonder which came first….

Also, the Horrorfilms one is genius. And the Families logo is classic…check out the rest of Herb Lubalin’s stuff to see what I’m talking about!

That Sidewinder logo is so sweet :D Took a while to figure out the snake thing :P

awesome share thank u :). do u have any art site related logos too ? Blasting Art

Yea I have to say the horror films logo is brilliant. So simple, so effective.

these logos were all horrible… disgrace

I don’t see the relevance of spreading these type of works. The fictional company names and brands are completely inoccuous on their own, and only serve as crutches. “Horror Films”? Really? You shouldn’t confuse the subject for would-be designers by presenting it as “the current trends in logo design” when it isn’t even logo design. It’s pure design masturbation.

these r wonderful i think

thnx its nice

nice

a lot a great designs here. i think a few might have trouble being converted to b/w and scaled down to 1″ x 1″. good work all around though.

I agree with #59 above. What are these icons going to look like when they’re shrunk down to favicons?

I completley agree with 85. “Made-up’ logos are not examples of good design, it’s just pure ego massaging.

Very creative and beautiful collection.. LOVELY!

I specially like – Horror Films, Families and Page Fold Logos. A real thought behind them.

Great Work. Cheerss!!

Grate logos.
http://www.insidefeeders.com

what a great collection! Tnx guys

Great logos, what about making a selection of the most boring ones? My vote for facebook, twitter, skype…

Very nice. But I just downloaded a package with 2000 free label logos ready to be used as they are.
Saves me the effort! Optimize your time, prioritize your tasks.
First priority is making money not building a logo so you can build a site so you can drive traffic so you can test affiliates so you can make money.
It might take a while to get into the right optic, I know.

to #106 (pete) do you get each item of your clothing handmade? Why would you buy clothes from the store…must be for people who don’t know how to sew.

Some of us don’t have time to design a site.

The content of a site always, always, always dictates the traffic it receives.

@109
Mark, no I don’t make my own clothes; I’m not in the business of making and selling clothes. I wouldn’t walk into a shop, buy a T-shirt and call myself a Tailor either.

If you ‘don’t have time to design a site’, don’t call yourself a ‘Designer’. My point was: Why would a ‘Designer’ want a free Wordpress theme? That would just make them a reseller of free products, a rip-off merchant. It gives a bad name to the rest of us.

I think my logo had to be included in the list after all I already beat the Obama logo in March month .

Really nice collection,thanks for sharing

These are a great help for my work when i need some extra inspiration! Well done, keep them coming!

@richtaur : “Really? You think shleep is creative? Looks really lazy to me.”

Glad you said that. The logo is suppose to look “lazy”. After all, the name is shleep…a combination of the word sheep and sleep. :-D

Nice collection and impressive too.
Chk the logos that creatively used animals and birds in the design.

Neha

I couldn’t figure out the heart one until I right clicked and looked at the image properties. What a trip.

there is an awesome logo contest located here if anyone cares to check it out – I used this page as inspiration – http://logotournament.com/contests/vapexhale

Hey thanks for putting our logo on here!

I see two chaps – Allen and Joey have had a pop at it – Oh well…You can’t please everyone!

In our defence we rarely showcase our brand without the word Alight underneath it, we (almost) always use the logotype with the typography – in fact if you click on the logo above you do see the whole thing!

Either way we are very happy to see our brand turn up on this prestigious site

Ta!
Peter