I believe a logo design to be successful if it has the ability to stir feelings and emotions of a customer. Nowadays, a product is not considered merely as a commodity but a thing of pride and possession. The best of corporate brands are ones that generate feelings among their customers.
The best way to create an emotional bond between your company and your customers is to create a logo design that can touch their intrinsic feelings. We all experience strong feelings that accompany either positive or negative emotions. A day without feeling emotions is impossible to imagine. Just by adding a smile in your logo design, you can express care and affection for your customers. Some of the most widely used expressions in logo design are happy, sad, laughing, crying and angry emotions.
The real art is to integrate a suitable emotion within a logo design in an appropriate manner. Following are 30 inspirational logos that incorporate an emotion within their logo design:

  Return to joy

  TIPYO

  SAD Emotion

  U 2 Brust

  File Drama

  Gepapelle

  Sumo Shirt

  Electric Smiling

  Dermato Logic

  Pozzitiva

  Good Will

  The Happy Cup

  Smile Pathway

  Kids Style

  Blink

  Answer the cry

  Laugh Attic

  King Hams

  Mouserious

  KOAL

  Father joy

  Mobile Ceria

  Nerd smile

  SWAY

  Osmocha

  Crazy Tomato

  Angry Teeth

  Wild Man

  Funkyen

  Zvon Cafe

Creating a logo design that revolves around a particular concept is a constant challenge for a professional logo designer. The proper arrangement of design elements is vital in a great logo design.

Fire and water are two extremes of nature that can never co-exist. But I’ve always had a fascination towards both fire and water. Each of them has its own positive and negative aspects. Water, with its beauty, embodies a feeling of tranquility and serenity and at the same time it has the power to unleash rage and fury. The same goes with fire. Appropriate use of fire provides us warmth and light, but in some instances it backfires.

But don’t worry. Both can cause no physical harm when used in a logo design . Now let us see fire and water effects in inspirational logo designs.    

ArtFire Films

IT Hot News

Ignite Creative

Fire Spark

Cajun Heat

Wild Fire

Persona Fire

Fire Starter

Flame Tweet

Outs Mores

Spark Events

Fire Brand

Fire Embrion

Fuel

Spot Burn

Blunote Lounge

Water Drop

Voda

Ocean Spirit

Ocean Beauty

AWW

Bits n Baths

Future Footprints

Jolli Drop

Rain Cut

TMA

Mostly Water

Lochness

Aqua

Hydro Pol

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You get to enjoy thousands of logos over the net everyday but have you ever noticed those unusual features which make a logo stand out among the crowd. Including unique features to a logo design makes it unforgettable and extraordinary for the viewers. Here I would like to appreciate the idea of punctuating the logos …. commas, colons, semicolons, exclamation marks, question marks and brackets can amazingly decorate your logo designs.

Exhaust

Negative

Person Tage

Sh*talking

Branding

Numerical Man

Look!

Wynne Designs

Luv Talk

Fire Embrion

Enfinitive

Up

Schizophrenic

nhow

Ingenio

Quotekid

Rawik

God Press

Cloud Corner

Inequality Records

Punch Quotes

Earth

What?

studpaper

Talkmore

Enrecell

Web Company

Restyling

Ouch!

Have you ever imagined the earth without colors…how boring and dull our lives would have been. My journey as a graphic designer has helped me learn the symbolic and psychological impact of different colors. Every color has a unique personality and delivers a different message. Therefore, when you get a logo design for your company, be very careful with the color selection. Always pick those colors which reflect the nature and characteristics of your business.

Red, is claimed to be the most commonly used color in logo designs as it easily grabs attention of the viewers. However, red should not be only used for its arresting quality because it says a lot more. It reflects courage, romance, aggressiveness, strength, danger, blood, passion and Christmas.

Yes, my friends, with the soon approaching Christmas, I clicked with the idea of collecting some of the charismatic red logos from the internet. So, let’s join the Christmas celebrations with these inspiring 35 Red Logo Designs”

Shirt Pepper

H3O Creative Studio

Higginson Harvest

Crave Foods

Pasha

Remember

Fhoke

Turn Left

Marker

Play

Bread & Pepper

Shutter Bug

Raco de Catalunya

E2

Cloud of Love

Backword

Taco Mortale

Ketchup

Fork Wire

Minimum

Ant

Pepper Creek

Infinite Love

Love Yarn

M2D

Habit a Click

Negative

Homespun Chili

RAB

Zoo Smart

Law Fare

Poison Apple

Etfi

Jalapenos

Another year has come to an end…. time to wave goodbye to the year 2009. With every ending year, we get to see interesting collections on different blogs, after all its packing time Such compilations rewind all the pleasant and unpleasant happenings of the closing year and it’s always fun to go through them. 

Being in the design community, I couldn’t think of anything better then displaying the major redesigned logos of 2009. Although, famous companies and brands have established identity but to transmit an up-to-date image they keep playing with their logos. We all know that re-branding or logo re-design is no easy task and results can be harmful as well but still we get to see revamped famous logos.

1 ) Telecom

2 ) Play Station 3

3 ) Sunny Delight

4 ) Lays

5 ) Sony Ericsson

6 ) Yale

7 ) Sprite

8 ) Segd

9 ) Pfizer

10 ) Opera

11 ) OMCA

12 ) Msn

13 ) Nickelodeon

14 ) Movistar

15 ) Meiji

16 ) Kraft Foods

17 ) Doctor Who

18 ) Jack in the Box

19 ) France

20 ) Master Card

21 ) Forth Worth Museum of Science and History

22 ) Cadillac

23 ) Discovery Kids

24 ) Chicken Now

25 ) City of Melbourne

26 ) Cheer

27 ) Bavaria

28 ) Audi

29 ) AOL

30 ) Art Gallery of Alberta

31 ) Videocon

32 ) Veggie Tales

33 ) Olympic Air

34 ) Quick Time

35 ) FireFox

With the present logo design awareness I think there is no need to explain the term ‘Negative Space’. To me, interpreting the negative space within a logo design is no child’s play and I deeply respect the designers who succeed coming up with such clever logo designs.

However, one never gets tired of admiring the beauty of negative space logos which skillfully portray a lot of things at the same time. Initially, we found this concept within few logos which are ranked among world’s best logo designs for their uniqueness…FedEx Logo, ED Logo and Yoga Australia Logo. But now, negative space logos have become the most positive aspect of logo design world.

So, for now, let’s just stop praising such logos and treat our eyes with some clever examples.  

Do you agree that negative space logos can be confusing at times and fail to convey the multiple messages to the viewers?

   

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    ]]> http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/interesting-negative-space-logos/feed/ 32 http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/c-is-for-cookie-sesame-street-google-logos/ http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/c-is-for-cookie-sesame-street-google-logos/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:16:18 +0000 Nora Reed http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/?p=3168 Sesame Street turns 40! The widely known children’s program has come a long way in 40 years, so it deserves a celebration. The show began on November 10th 1969 and is the longest running children’s television program on US TV. Google has proudly modified its logo to commemorate the joyous event with characters from the show. Jim Henson’s Muppet characters bring the educational series to life, adding personality and entertainment to the educational program.

Today was Cookie Monster and yesterday was Big Bird. What other characters will Google feature? Most likely the very popular Elmo will make an appearance.

It’s hard to keep a child’s attention span for very long, but Sesame Street has done a great job keeping kids both entertained and educated. Since the show has been around for so long, even adults have fond memories and favorite characters. The adults have passed on the tradition and perhaps Sesame Street will have another 40 yrs to go! Happy Birthday Sesame Street!

-Nora Reed

Of course the pumpkin is a great, classic symbol for Halloween, Thanksgiving and the Fall season in general. It’s one of the first things anyone thinks of when this time of year rolls around. They symbol is used in many logos to show their festive side and it is a great image for artistic creations. Here, YouTube replaces their known TV symbol with a square shaped pumpkin for that perfect Fall season feel.

Apple’s logo transforms from an apple to a pumpkin pretty easily, although I only think the stem should have been green or brown. Apple does traditionally use one color for their logo, so I guess they were staying consistent to their theme and brand identity.

How can there be a Halloween without the constant replaying of one of the many Halloween movies? The buildup to Halloween is one of the best parts of the holiday. It’s fun to look forward to a month or week of scary movies, decorated houses and stores overstocked with candy. The movies have always been my favorite part. When it comes to great horror films, new titles are always fun and refreshing, but on that particular night, tradition is always the better way to go.

I personally enjoy when candy companies create Halloween themes for their candy wrappers. This is the biggest day of the year for them so it would make sense for them to go all out.

Every year, it seems like new Halloween stores pop up, but since costumes are expensive, some competition is a good thing.

Google, being known for its constantly changing logo, also participates every year in showing off a great Halloween design. These are a few nice ones from the past, but I am looking forward to seeing what they come up with for this year.

Have a fun and safe Halloween!

-Nora Reed

It seems to be a given that President Obama’s logo would make it to pumpkin carving popularity. I’m sure many doorsteps will have this one on display this Halloween.

Mickey on a pumpkin in a common site around this time. Disney theme parks have their own Halloween celebration, in which their logo has a mickey face made out of pumpkins on advertisements for their attraction.

This carving required some skill, mostly because the frog’s hand is standing up on it’s own. I have attempted these kind of pumpkin carving designs and the unsupported piece of pumpkin always seems to sink in or collapse from the heat of the candle inside. I assumed it was the famous WB frog, isn’t it?

The Starbucks logo looks great this way and there are no actual cuts made into the pumpkin. It’s an interesting technique.

I think it’s scary that the Twitter site crashes so much that the image of the flying whale from their “over capacity” page is this well known that someone carved it into a pumpkin. You would think Twitter would have fixed that by now, considering how often it is used.

Out of dedication to all you bloggers out there, I am happy to the throw the wordpress logo into this mix. With so many great ideas, pumpkin carving takes a whole new turn this season, bringing so many famous logos to light. I can’t wait to see them all displayed! Happy Carving!

-Nora Reed

Abduzeedo

Abduzeedo has a great neon sign approach, which adds a lot of character. Other than the header, the design is simply a black background but nicely done and elegant.

Creative Nerds

The red background brings out the warm colors of the fire design. I think the fire is a great indicator of creative thinking.

Logo Design Love

I love how the blog name is set up as one word, but separated by a color difference rather than spaces. The logo covers the entire top of the page like a newspaper headline. The additional heart is the perfect way to tie it all together and add a bright color to the black and gray.

Noupe

Noupe has a great color scheme, in which the accents of pink really bring out the design, although they recently changed their look, to a pale blue background with navy lettering. The pink is still present and still ties the logo together nicely. Without the pink, it would be much more lifeless. I do think that all of the lettering should have a background shadow, it would help it jump off the page.

Outlaw Design Blog

This look is perfect for the name. Outlaw Design Blog has the great stencil look of the old west. It reminds me of lettering that would be painted on the wall of an old saloon. I like the new design a lot better now. It is much more creative and works great with the letting, although it would look nice if there was an added lasso or horse somewhere within the lettering or alongside it. It’s just such a great theme that there are so many interesting ways to take it and run with it.

Web Design Ledger

I love the wrinkled background with the subtle stripes, but I think that the lettering would benefit from some color or shadow. It just seems too plain for the interesting start going on in the background. The actual site does have a lot going on, so something plain is more beneficial to the design.

Blog. Spoon Graphics

This is such a busy logo but it works well. It demonstrates what it promises: good graphics!

Pro Blogger

Pro Blogger has a very bold design, in which the letters stand out and seem to shout at you. The “P” symbol on the side is an innovative and modern concept.

Techguy Tales

I’m not sure how they can get away with this one. Are they ignoring copyright laws? I’m surprised that the representation for Family Guy has not shut this down for stealing their angry monkey image, but it makes sense nonetheless and works for the theme.

Celebrity Gossip

This design works perfect for its purpose. The large pink star in the logo is reminiscent of the celebrity walk of fame and the fashionists in front of the star represent typical gossiping girls. Good gossip is always fun!

Little Box of Ideas

The thought bubble emerging from the “i” in “ideas” is a fantastic little touch to this logo design, however I don’t fully know what the face represents. Is this the author in cartoon form? The design concept is very clever and demonstrates exactly what it is, a release of thoughts and ideas!

Crazy Leaf Design Blog

I would be disappointed if there were not a leaf somewhere in this logo, although it somewhat resembles a feather. I love how the background and lettering have a shaded effect and don’t just look like solid colors.

Design O’ Blog

I like how the mouse is interpreted within the logo, considering it seems to be Niki Brown’s mascot. It’s cute and inviting and follows a fun, freehand text.

Cats Who Code

Simple and creative. Cats who code has a fun cartoon cat figure typing on a mac. I’m surprised Apple hasn’t forced them to change it with their paranoia over logo theft, although it seems there are many blog headers that include macs in their design.

The Design Mag

The coloring of the word “design” is what sets this concept apart from others. It looks to me like the sunset on a flat horizon and delivers a comforting feeling, yet appears professional. 

Smashing Magazine

Smashing magazine is anther great example of an interesting logo. You can’t miss that giant “S” as soon as you see it.

When I search other blogs, I generally search by article and go after what is most compelling, no matter what blogger wrote it. Others often check specific sites everyday in search of more content. I don’t know which method is more common. With so many great logo and header designs, it’s hard to tell if those are the sole attraction to blog sites or if there is much more to it and the logo or header are just part of the entire package.  What do you think?

-Nora Reed