I did this logo to rebrand the firm I work at. It's probably not the most original logo ever, but it just has that combination of boldness and simplicity that really represents what we do.

I don't do logo for work, as a web developer, so the follwoing is my pretty naive attempt to logo on my own, for my own site.

Be Kind, please.

I noticed the N logo at the top looks a lot like:

which I didn't do, but just figured I'd present it.

And it also looks like this one, and I knew about this logo (done by pentagram) even before I started mine. I'm not a bragger, but I think my logo is better integrated than these two. And please if anybody doesn't think so, that's fine, say it, but let's not get into any discussions about it. It's just my opinion.

I like the norman logo, I don't think a 'n' letter in a circle could make two different logos look the same.

I'm thinking �Saul Bass’ .

Were the letters for �norman’ hand-drawn?

AWCR, if not for the orange... For simplicity and good effect, would you consider dropping �solutions’?

Chris May, why not show us some of your exploratory for Palm Island.

favorite of my own:

the closet logo.

actually, i like the entire campaign. the logo's only a component. i think the writing is some of my better work.

favorites from others:

hasbro and playtex.

cheesy: yeah. i love hand-drawn advertising calligraphy, though.

there's a fantastic repository of logos in illustrator-compatible format here.

Because I can’t decide on one, I’m going to be an unpardonable windowspace hog and post three logos. (The good Speak Up admins are welcome to remove any or all.)

Something I did for my school’s campus gathering place, a ’50s-era monolith that begged for a bit of fun-poking. My pal did the illustration using a bunch of original architectural drawings I swiped from the building’s admin offices. The font is Garage Gothic by Tobias Frere-Jones.

They make pre-fab blocks for construction. The font is Knockout by Hoefler.

A french skateboard corp that never got its wheels off the ground. Using the cat head for the ‘O’ came easy. Things that come easy are rare, so I’m fond of this project. The fonts are Sarcastic Girl Scout Bitch by Core and a roughed up Akzidenz Grotesk.

That's only sentimental...

Talking about the sentimental side, what about this one:

Another one of my favourite is the "The Ladd Company" logo, remember the green tree appearing at the beginning of movies (is a movie distributor, actually). I remember the first time I saw it, it was for the 'Blade Runner' movie, it was great, especially related to that particular movie.

Someone could find it, I tried some searches but I didn' succeed.

>Were the letters for �norman’ hand-drawn?

Not all of it, it's based off ITC Bauhaus extra bold, but the "a" looks horrible so I changed that one completely, then I made slight adjustments to the rest of "norman" and then I redid all the lowercase so we could use it in our brochure. Bauhaus has all those weird open letters, like the p,q,d,b,e,2 so I changed most of those.

>Kiran

It would be nice to see it out of the box too, just AWCR in those big, bold orange letters.

>Stephen

Don't worry, the good admin people at Speak Up are really nice and will let you post all three logos. I really liked how you complemented them with the typeface information. I especially enjoyed the University logo.

>Sentimentalism

LEGO

Armin - Nice idea on replacing the wacky Bauhaus glyphs. I'd love to see the rest of the modified face.

Here you go Stephen:

And for comparison purposes, here is the original Bauhaus Demi:

This is one that I did for a comedy duo who kept using the word "edgy" when they talked about the stuff they did.

I'm not sure it's my favorite, but I'm convinced I could sell a ton of t-shirts with an S&M smiley face on them.

Very much on target and very, very creepy. The eyes look like those eye-rolling cat wall clocks.

(just thinking out loud)

Worst descriptions to come out of clients' mouths:

-Edgy

-Out of the box

-Make it Pop

-Traditional

-Free

This one just got approved by the client. I like it because I was able to do some calligraphy, which I hated when they tried to teach me in college, but now I appreciate the effort made by the teacher.

Still my favorite:

For a company making livestock management software. Excuse the yellow. The only logo I could find online happened to be aliased against yellow.

Darrel, that cow rocks man! I really like it.

> Herd-pro ... livestock management software.

"Previously only available for use by the US government!"

hhp

I feel dumb. I think I should understand your comment HRANT, but it went completely over my head. Sigh.

Darrel,

Hrant is probably making some sort of social commentary about how the government treats it's citizens like cows waiting in line to be butchered : (

That's just my interpretation, sometimes it's easier to understand the meanings of your dreams than Hrant's comments : )

And not understanding what I wrote reinforces it...

The further west you go in our world today,

the more it smells like Coalinga.

hhp

The link to a non-existant page didn't help clarify your comment, hrant. ;o)

maybe it's this?

These people moved from alaska to coalinga:

What does Coalinga smell like?

Drive on the I-5 (Northbound, for the full effect), and try not to stare so long as to cause an accident: it seems like one billion cows are waiting... waiting... waiting... The smell? Like a Happy Meal left under the sun for a week or so. You know, it's like a Food Cycle...

hhp

Ah! OK. I get it now...well, at least the Coalinga connection (still not sure about the US Gov comment ;o). Yes, I know that smell well. We actually attended World Ag Expo out there a few years ago. It's an amazing area of the country in that valley.