In 1970, design student made design and music history by designing a logo for The Rolling Stones, for just $250. Today, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, purchased the original artwork for $92,500. The iconic tongue and lips logo, first used on the band's "Sticky Fingers" album, is one of the world's most recognized logos. The pop art inspired logo came about after lead singer Mick Jagger was frustrated with then label Decca's increasingly boring designs. After visiting Pasche's student exhibition at the Royal College of Art, Jagger approached Pasche and commissioned him to design a more exciting, ...

In honor of Labor Day it seems fitting to examine some “labor” related logos. Unfortunately, Google did not grace us with one of their many creative holiday designs, but luckily other designers didn’t all take the day off. Labor unions are known for a lot of things, but not necessarily their design expertise. While unions may exist to represent their workers legally, the logos they choose represent them visually. If you will notice with the logos below, there are some clear similarities: Take for example the general shape. In my research I have come across a vast majority of circular ...

Football, Fútbol, Soccer. Regardless of your native tongue, the “world’s game” is a source of history, competition, and champions. It is also a source of some of the more interesting styles of sports branding. Unlike many American sports clubs, European football teams take a more classic route when designing their logo. Lacking colorful mascots, many of these clubs choose to brand their team with a crest. While different from the primarily illustrative logos of American teams, football clubs incorporate more history into their designs. These designs are not necessarily flashy or cutting edge, but their attention to history, and meaningful ...

Everyone in the design community knows Paul Rand. Everyone in almost any community knows Paul Rand. If you have seen the logos for Abc, Enron, Westinghouse, IBM, or UPS, you know his work. In his passing, logo designers lost one of their most innovative and dedicated leaders. Along with the loss of a great artist, the logo design world also seems to have let go of a certain way of doing things. As a student of design theory, typography, and art history, Rand offered organizations a deeper branding solution. Logical and witty designs allowed Rand to express a company’s image in ...

Hello Everyone. As Jessica so eloquently alluded to, I am Kevin Scott, the new voice of LogoBlog.org. I couldn’t be more excited to develop a relationship with you, the readers. As a self proclaimed logo fanatic, it’s hard to find topics that I enjoy more than logo design. Looking at logos, critiquing logos, talking about logos, I like it all. LogoBlog.org has presented me with a new opportunity that I have never experienced before, an online community of fellow logo aficionados. Since this is my first post I would like to keep it light and fun. As I’m still ...