Disco-era logo love
August 6, 2010 | Tags: 1970s, logo design, logos, showcase
From designer/illustrator Eric Carl, a great Flickr set of vintage logos from a mid-70s World of Logotypes collection.
Lots to learn from a more innocent, Illustrator-free era, when you could be damn sure that the logo was going to reproduce well in black and white.
Some highlights:
So you want to brand a city?
August 3, 2010 | Tags: cities, gallery, identity design, logo design, showcase
When I studied typography with the legendary Ed Benguiat — type designer extraordinaire, with some 700+ typefaces to his name (and a second career as a jazz drummer) — he said that there was one project he’d always dreamt of: branding an airline. The scope, the scale, the range…what’s not to get excited over?
And if you like that idea, what about branding a city?
Start researching the competition at Stadtlogo Design, a huge and endlessly fascinating gallery of logos designed for cities. It’s heavy on European examples, since the site is the work of German economist Wilfried Weisenberger (and is in German), but there are plenty of U.S. examples too.
The work ranges from the lovely…
…to the hideous…
…from the somewhat too abstract…
…to the definitely too literal…
…from the Abstract Expressionist-inspired…
…to the 60s-inspired…
…to the Clip Art-inspired…
…to the…well…uninspired…
…to the just plain bizarre:
Wordpress NYC logo competition
August 19, 2009 | Tags: identity design, logo design, NYC, wordpress
WordCamp NYC, a two-day conference of WordPress users, designers, developers, educators and enthusiasts in NYC, is still a few months off — Nov. 14-15 — but the event’s logo competition deadline is coming up fast: Aug. 31.
It’s too good a chance to pass up. As the call for entries points out, “if your logo is chosen, it will appear on hundreds of attendee t-shirts, on web sites receiving millions of hits, and on all the printed materials at the actual event in October.”
Click here for full rules.