50+ Kick Ass Logos for Inspiration

June 23, 2008 by adelle charles

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I looked at over 2000 logos on various inspiration sites to grab the 50+ best logos (in my opinion) to fuel your logo design inspiration. Some more resources below the post.

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118 Comments About This Post

liam

June 23, 2008 at 8:49 pm

Beautiful collection, you’ve got a really nice eye for it! Eden & farmdog are my 2 favourites I think. Keep it up!

adelle charles

June 23, 2008 at 9:02 pm

Thanks Liam, really appreciate it! Will try and keep it up :) Eden is one of my top faves too - another top of the top is Kotton & Zipliner.

J.D.

June 23, 2008 at 9:49 pm

Yum. Great selections. Like every single one of them.

Dustin Brewer

June 23, 2008 at 9:53 pm

Great collection of logos, definitely some inspiration to be found in this list.

adelle charles

June 23, 2008 at 9:58 pm

Thanks J.D. - glad you like all of them!

adelle charles

June 23, 2008 at 9:58 pm

Thanks Dustin, appreciate the comment & hope it inspires you in the future!

Jeff Fisher LogoMotives

June 23, 2008 at 11:11 pm

Thanks for including bLog-oMotives in your logo blogs resource list! - J.

adelle charles

June 23, 2008 at 11:29 pm

No problem Jeff, keep up the great site!

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Gaetan

June 24, 2008 at 3:31 am

We are pleased to see that you like one of our logo’s

Thx!

David Pache

June 24, 2008 at 6:39 am

Thanks for mentioning Zipliner and K12Reader :)

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foo

June 24, 2008 at 7:31 am

Really pretty logos. But: If you resize the logos to fit your design, please add a href to the full version. It looks ugly this way it is now.

adelle charles

June 24, 2008 at 8:11 am

Thanks David & Gaetan, great work!

adelle charles

June 24, 2008 at 8:12 am

foo, thanks for your comment, I appreciate it, although I don’t agree that they look ugly - a well designed logo done the right way should look good at any size.

Nout

June 24, 2008 at 9:29 am

WOW
nice logo’s!
That one from interfacefix is really great!


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Chris Farrugia

June 24, 2008 at 9:39 am

Bistro 1689 is the nicest logo I’ve ever seen.

adelle charles

June 24, 2008 at 9:46 am

Nout, thanks so much - yes i love the details in the interfacefix logo. I checked out your blog as well - nice!!

mbh

June 24, 2008 at 9:47 am

Much appreciation and thanks for your time and effort on this post. That said, I wish you would have sized the images and not squeezed them into the spaces above.

My eye was immediately drawn away to the jagged appearance thereby hindering the full enjoyment of these short of doing a view image on each one.

Thanks

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George

June 24, 2008 at 11:32 am

barf - not even close - come on - completely derivative

MyRule

June 24, 2008 at 11:37 am

Great logos! I really like eden & interfacefix :)

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Elevate

June 24, 2008 at 12:10 pm

I have to say at least 80% of these are terribly mediocre. And yes, they should’ve been resized.

Digital Fake

June 24, 2008 at 12:24 pm

Hi, lovely set of logos, but i have to agree with Foo about the resizing of the images and your slightly missing the point of what he’s saying. Or you just poking at him ( am only poking now so so don’t take offence).

All well designed logos should look good resized, on paper or web. But we are working with pixels her not pts.

Its the first thing I noticed and i’d say it would be the first thing their owners would too.

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Jonathan Gardner

June 24, 2008 at 12:58 pm

I love them all but InterfaceFix and Twentyfive92 are some of my favorites.

Trevor

June 24, 2008 at 1:11 pm

the most striking thing about this collection is how similar they all are to each other. Great set if the point was to show how few new ideas there are in logo design today. It’s actually stunning to see how nearly identical the compositions are (icon up top, type centered underneath on all but 9 of them). Beyond that, scaling, form and color is depressingly similar throughout all 50.

The inspiration here should be to break out of our safe themes, not to keep to doing the same things!

adelle charles

June 24, 2008 at 1:33 pm

Thanks for the comment Trevor, the similarities probably come from my style, I chose them because I liked them and it’s similar to color palettes, type and treatment that I design.

adelle charles

June 24, 2008 at 1:34 pm

George, that’s your opinion and I respect that.

adelle charles

June 24, 2008 at 1:34 pm

Jonathan, Nice picks!

adelle charles

June 24, 2008 at 1:36 pm

Elevate, thanks for the comment, however I was choosing designs that I think reflect a certain style and are very well designed logos. I’d like to know why you think they are mediocre or perhaps out of the 20% you do like, which ones?

Trevor

June 24, 2008 at 2:20 pm

adelle charles - very good point that we should all pay attention to with these lists. When showing the work of others, we’re saying as much about our own personal tastes as we are about what we’re looking at. And that can be plenty useful in its own right.

Pavlow Vinelli

June 24, 2008 at 3:11 pm

Salvation is perfect wonderful amazing and so all.

Ryan D.

June 24, 2008 at 3:40 pm

Nice…most of these I’ve seen which means they’ve done a good job at branding. :) I suck at creating logos…

Joey

June 24, 2008 at 4:21 pm

Very nice Logos, I like them al.

Joey - http:///www.leetwebmasters.com

herval

June 24, 2008 at 4:41 pm

Excelent logos, but some of the company names are TERRIBLE!
‘ingenioustries’? Ouch!

:-)

David Airey

June 24, 2008 at 6:15 pm

Hello Adelle.

Thanks for the kind mention in your resources section. All the very best.

Jarrod

June 24, 2008 at 6:41 pm

adelle charles wrote: “foo, thanks for your comment, I appreciate it, although I don’t agree that they look ugly - a well designed logo done the right way should look good at any size.”

Um… no. Maybe if they were vector-based you’d be correct, but a jpg re-sized (but not resampled) does indeed look like garbage.

It is hard to appreciate these pics when you need to constantly “rightclick->view image” (in FF).

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Chris Jones

June 24, 2008 at 11:35 pm

Great post, it inspired me to design new logos for my sites.

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Rob

June 25, 2008 at 5:25 am

I count only 43 … ??

Fubiz

June 25, 2008 at 6:32 am

Amazing list!

liam

June 25, 2008 at 4:54 pm

@ Elevate I’d love to see what your idea of a good logo is if you say that these are just standard. I disagree with your comments as I can appreciate the simplicity and elegance of these logos. They’re stunning.

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July 1, 2008 at 11:18 pm

Fantastic collection of logos you have here, thank you for the inspiration!

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July 2, 2008 at 8:45 am

Superb collection I must say, some great examples!!

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July 2, 2008 at 10:00 am

I really like Zipliner, very cool logo.

anna

July 3, 2008 at 11:33 am

These are nice logos indeed! But, to me, the best one I have ever seen is this one: http://nmi.nl/img/logo_gfx.gif . Sometimes I drive by in my car and see the giant logo on their building http://nmi.nl/img/home_main_content_gfx_delft.jpg

(NMi is a knowledge intensive organisation focused on metrology and gaming.)

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July 3, 2008 at 1:34 pm

Thanks Anna! That is a very cool & simple logo. Nice eye!

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July 5, 2008 at 10:08 am

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July 7, 2008 at 11:06 am

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July 10, 2008 at 11:58 pm

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John

July 11, 2008 at 2:43 pm

The Core Cider logo and the Bistro logo are my 2 favorites :)

Jen

July 11, 2008 at 3:42 pm

There are a few good concepts in here, but most of them are pretty vanilla. Nice inspiration for form, though.

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July 14, 2008 at 11:47 am

Thanks for including my Cream logo!

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July 14, 2008 at 11:23 pm

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July 16, 2008 at 6:24 am

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July 19, 2008 at 4:30 pm

Excelent design

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July 24, 2008 at 8:53 am

adelle charles wrote: “foo, thanks for your comment, I appreciate it, although I don’t agree that they look ugly - a well designed logo done the right way should look good at any size.”

These images seem to be resized solely to fit the design of this page. Squeezing a 300×200 image down to 50×50 (just an example) will distort the image. Anyone not “in the know” would only see jagged images and not understand why. Full respect for the artists’ works means showing the image(s) as they intended. (Try the “fuel your creativity” icon at 270×219.)

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July 26, 2008 at 12:31 pm

awesome collection, but why did you chose the feedsburner logo, it’s so ugly

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July 26, 2008 at 3:20 pm

I must agree that they are quite mediocre. As much as I liked Twentythree92, the use of numbers as letters is so overused.

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July 28, 2008 at 12:38 am

Great post! I can’t get enough of the “Core Cider” and “Cream” logos.

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July 28, 2008 at 9:49 am

i find logo design one of the hardest tings to do, and can be quite nerve racking hopefully ill beable to get some inspiration from these [stumbled]

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November 12, 2008 at 2:38 pm

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November 15, 2008 at 7:50 pm

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November 21, 2008 at 11:44 am

Love this article! I come to it whenever I’m working on a logo project. Thanks!

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