Doing a project for kids at school re. logo design

I am trying to guage opinion of "popular" logos.

Whats yours and why? Post a pic please 🙂

Fedex with the arrow in the text is quite cool

Some other good ones here

A negative space odyssey

Never noticed that Grumm 🙂

cheers

designed to be popular and to appeal to a global market and yet it sucks bigtime. What went wrong? Discuss.

that is the logo that i use as a bad design – its what can only be described as shite!

even Mrs Cb knows what this means…………..

Italian clothes folk A-Style

Rob: I believe that is the technical term…

There seems to be loads of companies using a variation of this

Like the ibis logo second the spesh logosimple but looks class!!
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?profile=1&id=53663356166 orange?? or orange the mobile company very simple but insatntly know what it is!

Clean, distinctive and only on sale for 6 more hours.

Interesting site:
http://best-ad.blogspot.com/2008/08/evolution-of-logos.html

Edit:
FWIW It's arguably more 'branding' than 'logos' .. but the cigarette manufacturers' work over the past decade or so is interesting to study.
ie. Since they've clocked greater and greater advertising restrictions.
The zenith has become (in certain circumstances) that a single colour is all that is needed: Red=Marlboro, Purple=Silk Cut)

Morally questionable? Sure. Clever? Absolutely.

Firefox

I like the logo more than the music:

and this one seems to have lasted well:

keep em coming and thankyou 🙂

Not really a 'favourite', but an interesting example that transcends languages across the globe and is such a good logo they keep it despite it being a byword for US imperialism and crap burgers.

Again, not a 'favourite', but a good example of a symbol that has been used for as long as humans have existed. Cave paintings, tribal art, etc. It's a protector, agressor, sign of power.

I can't stand their products*, but the logo's great:

* The iPhone's OK.

A real classic:

The Ducati logo brilliant, strong & simple

The Ducati logo brilliant, strong & simple

Can't be that good can it…I wouldn't have had a clue what it was only that you said it. And I know what a Ducati is…obviously they haven't worked hard enough at the logo.

Unlike say, thinking about logos that don't have the company name, but you know immediately who they are, I suppose car companies are strong, but maybe only because we see them every day e.g.

Like this one though…especially the Windows Vista – a mishmash of a "reliable" and unreliable brand!!

I've always liked this one

don't know why

just found out it was designed by Salvador Dali!

Quite well known..

More of a word than a logo but the style has remained unchanged since it's conception.

And from that, as an interesting aside, scroll down to the bottom of the page, there's an eye opener.

http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/

😀

On the Coca-Cola one, doesn't the swirl follow the same contour as the original glass bottle?

brilliantly friendly

Fedex for me, just love telling people to spot the subliminal arrow.

da funk

It's universally understood – as far as I know. But then so are the Merc and McDonalds and Nike ones.

gotothehills – Is the Swiss flag a logo then?

😉

Simple but easily remembered!

Simple, classic.

WorldClassAccident – Member

gotothehills – Is the Swiss flag a logo then?

Hmmm – let's play "spot the difference" 😉

your starter for 10 – The Swiss Flag:

and your bonus for 5 "The flag of the Red Cross"

You're right to make the link though, WCA – I think it's considered to be the case that it was the reversed out Swiss flag design that reflected the country / neutrality / founder of said organisation.

olympic rings – all that linking and teaching the world to sing and everything

gonetothehills – Well done, I wasn't sure if you would pick up on the original reference.

total simplicity, immediately identifiable, in whatever colour and whatever background…no text needed

@WCA: "Why thank you!" [doffs cap] 🙂

A degree spent watching John Smith's and Flake commercials hasn't been completely wasted then!