Beautiful And Creative Logo Designs For Your Inspiration

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Last week we already presented our first selection of beautiful, clever and creative logo designs. This post presents the second part of our selection, featuring even more beautiful and creative logos that will hopefully inspire you or at least give you the idea of what the current logo design trends look like.

Just as last time, we focused on logos that use creative methods to represent the brand through color, shapes, and typography. Every design presented below tells you something about the company that it is supposed to represent. Also note the brilliant color palletes and unique patterns used in many of these. Finally, pay attention to the typography, especially font selection and coloring.

Below you’ll find a collection of 40 more beautiful and creative logo designs to inspire you. Browsing through the showcase, you will notice many trends. Some of these include the usage of simple shapes to create something complex, origami shapes, coloring and transparency trends, and many more. You may want to take a look at the post Logo Design Trends 2009 for further reference.

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Matt Cronin is an avid graphic designer, web designer/developer, Cocoa programmer, photographer, digital artist, and the like. He also enjoys writing, and does quite a bit of writing for Smashing Magazine. He is currently working on a startup called VAEOU, which will have new services coming soon.

  1. 101

    Giedrius

    April 14th, 2009 2:31 am
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  2. 102

    Quakeulf >:3

    April 14th, 2009 3:06 am

    The “Horrorfilms” logo does everything right, except for the typography, which could have benefitted from using a bolder version of the typeface.

    A logo is not supposed to include everything including your mum, it is supposed to be simple, clean, easily reproducable, recognisable and adaptible to any size/background/setting-variations you can get. I would call many of these emblems rather than logos due to their level of detail.

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  3. 103

    Gjore

    April 14th, 2009 5:52 am

    what a great collection! Tnx guys

    +1
  4. 104

    Aravind

    April 15th, 2009 12:44 am

    nice collection.

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  5. 105

    cca1

    April 15th, 2009 1:34 am

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

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  6. 106

    Pete

    April 15th, 2009 2:59 am

    @verli Why would a designer want a free WordPress theme? Surely those are for people who can’t design.

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  7. 107

    john

    April 15th, 2009 5:38 am

    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.

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  8. 108

    etoxin

    April 15th, 2009 5:42 am

    Very Good. Modern, i like that

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  9. 109

    mark

    April 15th, 2009 1:39 pm

    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.

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  10. 110

    Joey

    April 15th, 2009 2:17 pm

    Most of these logos look like the $35 crap you get these days.

    A couple really stand out like the cleverness of the horror film logo and the colours of subatomic, but the others are certainly not worth mentioning. The ‘a’ logo for Alight is just painful on the eye – how that got past quality control I have no idea – terrible mix of colours and contrasts.

    -1
  11. 111

    Pete

    April 16th, 2009 1:16 am

    @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.

    -1
  12. 112

    Samuli

    April 21st, 2009 6:11 am

    Check the MOOR logo that won Best of Nation Award in Eulda ’07.

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  13. 113

    RebelDesigner

    April 22nd, 2009 5:02 am

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

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  14. 114

    Francie

    April 22nd, 2009 2:46 pm

    i agree these are nice logo designs, on the other hand there are amaizing organic logo designs conceived by a large experience
    Logo Corner

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  15. 115

    Impulse Design

    April 23rd, 2009 3:11 am

    Really nice collection,thanks for sharing

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  16. 116

    Manasa

    April 24th, 2009 4:20 am

    Amazed at each one of them! Highly inspiring! Thanks so much!

    +1
  17. 117

    PepperPrint

    April 27th, 2009 2:44 pm

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

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  18. 118

    Fabian

    April 30th, 2009 6:45 am

    Great to see some of my personal favorites in this collection.

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  19. 119

    Kevin Burr

    April 30th, 2009 6:53 am

    @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

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  20. 120

    Redington Rockers

    May 4th, 2009 4:14 am

    hi

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  21. 121

    Neha

    June 18th, 2009 9:58 am

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

    Neha

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  22. 122

    Mike

    July 24th, 2009 12:38 am

    Very nice collection! It amazes me how creative some people are. Found some more good ones on Logo Gallery

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  23. 123

    bogbrush

    September 1st, 2009 10:29 am

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

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  24. 124

    Dai Nam

    September 1st, 2009 5:22 pm

    Great.
    Nice logo, nice sharing

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  25. 125

    seibo

    September 12th, 2009 6:09 am

    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

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  26. 126

    BVV SATYANARAYANA

    September 17th, 2009 10:24 am

    NIce Logos

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  27. 127

    Peter From Alight

    November 10th, 2009 9:43 am

    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

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  28. 128

    Tilley

    January 11th, 2010 6:31 am

    wow cool logo thanks

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  29. 129

    nikhil

    February 5th, 2010 10:08 am

    really nice logos…..some of them are pretty lovely.
    thnx for sharing it!

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  30. 130

    kandhan

    February 17th, 2010 2:34 am

    nice logos…

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  31. 131

    Ashey Smith From Web Design

    February 17th, 2010 9:00 am

    Hey thanks! this really helps!

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  32. 132

    Shawn

    March 30th, 2010 5:45 am

    i didnt found the one i wanted….but then also nice logos

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  33. 133

    Dan Sunderland

    April 9th, 2010 11:00 am

    Thanks, gave me some food for thought while working on a job :-)

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  34. 134

    error

    April 11th, 2010 2:23 am

    can you tell me how to draw a logo
    theme- is tomorrow

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  35. 135

    jas

    April 14th, 2010 1:24 am

    This bunch is really nice! Very Creative. But It will be great to put up some more of these since these logos have been here for quite sometime now.
    Lets have a fresh set of creative logos al over again here.

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  36. 136

    Arun

    April 23rd, 2010 1:59 am

    Nice collection. Maybe you can add thinklive.in in your next post.

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  37. 137

    Cronin

    April 29th, 2010 6:42 pm

    From one to another, thank you for an inspiring post.

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  38. 138

    Mishael Simpson

    May 20th, 2010 9:14 pm

    The Play logo created with the hearts is a great design. . .BRAVO! ! . . . Simple but very effective.

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  39. 139

    John Robinson

    July 4th, 2010 8:38 am

    These are really beautiful. The Squared Eye logo is one of my current faves. Air Power Turbines is really nice as well. Elegant and well considered.

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  40. 140

    vengaates

    July 5th, 2010 10:23 pm

    nice collections……

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  41. 141

    Oleksii Chernikov

    September 29th, 2010 2:47 am

    Nice collection. Thank you for an inspiring post.

    Logo Design -

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  42. 142

    superpao

    October 18th, 2010 9:33 pm

    just found this when i was looking for logo inspiration, this is a excellent collection! lots of great concepts, my fav is the dream marketing

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  43. 143

    ViNo

    October 24th, 2010 9:59 pm

    Very Creative and Inspirational. Few of the logos, I think, will not fit well in white Backgrounds. like the Swing logo, the Background makes it amazing. All the logos have excellent color combination. Very Professional logos. Thanks for sharing. :)

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  44. 144

    Imran

    January 5th, 2011 9:39 pm

    Very Creative .. Thanks for sharing

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  45. 145

    steve marshall

    January 6th, 2011 4:10 pm

    These logos are wonderful! Great job. You guys are excellent graphic artists. Thanks always good to be inspired.

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  46. 146

    Sharaya

    January 19th, 2011 9:43 am

    I can’t believe no one recognized Herb Lublin’s Families logo. It was designed in 1980. Funny, how the article said, “This post presents the second part of our selection, featuring even more beautiful and creative logos that will hopefully inspire you or at least give you the idea of what the current logo design trends look like.”

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  47. 147

    Sarath

    April 4th, 2011 10:11 pm

    Very Creative .. Thanks for sharing

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  48. 148

    canndy girl

    April 13th, 2011 11:07 pm

    Very lovely design, very beautiful logos. Thanks for your sharing, and i really like these logos and i’m interested in logo design!

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  49. 149

    Matthew @ Perth Web Design

    July 5th, 2011 8:41 pm

    Fantastic finds. These are creatively designed logos. It’s unique and truly inspiring.

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  1. 1

    Puto

    April 9th, 2009 1:45 pm

    Esooo, bien ahy viejaa….

    che va a llegar el libro de smashing magazine a argentina?

    besooo

    +3
  2. 2

    sara

    April 9th, 2009 1:45 pm

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

    +1
  3. 3

    lipelip

    April 9th, 2009 3:53 pm

    the schizophrenic logo is just awesome

    +1
  4. 4

    frederik

    April 10th, 2009 1:39 am

    the point is there is never going to be a company that’s called “page fold”. companies that want to get a logo done usually have stupid and empty names.
    it’s a great logo but creating one for a company with the name “company abc” is the real challenge.

    +1
  5. 5

    Toxdel

    April 10th, 2009 2:29 pm

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

    +1
  6. 6

    Gjore

    April 14th, 2009 5:52 am

    what a great collection! Tnx guys

    +1
  7. 7

    Manasa

    April 24th, 2009 4:20 am

    Amazed at each one of them! Highly inspiring! Thanks so much!

    +1

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