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School Logo Design

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:24 GMT

In celebration of March Madness, I thought I’d do a blog entry on school logo design. For those following the tournament, we’re down to the sweet sixteen. This post is a showcase of the school logo designs of the teams participating in the sweet sixteen. Leave a comment and let me know who your favorite school logo design is! Who ya rooting for this year? Those that know me, know that I grew up in Ohio. So, GO BUCKEYES!

The Ohio State University

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University of Arizona

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Duke University

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Florida Gulf Coast University

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University of Florida

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Indiana University

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University of Kansas

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La Salle University

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University of Louisville

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Marquette University

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University of Miami

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University of Michigan

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Michigan State University

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University of Oregon

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Syracuse University

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Wichita State University

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Logo of the Month - September 2012

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:34 GMT

Category: Logo Design

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I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, so rather than explain all the reasons why I haven’t, I’ll just get down to business.

Instead of picking 10 or so designs each month as the “best of,” I’m going to (hopefully) pick one design each month as the “Logo of the Month.”

It’s not that I don’t have the desire to put the time into the site to pick 10 designs, it’s just that it’s tough to find time lately (which is why the blog has suffered).

At any rate, here’s your Logo of the Month! Enjoy!

Lovephant

From Bilalk

Looking Ahead to 2012 and Beyond

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:09 GMT

Category: Site News

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First off, I want to wish everyone a happy new year! Hopefully 2012 brings good fortune your way. Second, I apologize for the lack of updates to the blog in the past year. Since the birth of my daughter, it’s become more difficult to find time to update the gallery along with consistent updates to the blog. LogoGala recently was showcased in an article for the best logo inspiration galleries and in the caption, they mentioned that LogoGala has a blog along with the gallery, but the blog was rarely updated. That really made me realize how much I’ve been neglecting the blog.

Future Plans

Since day one, LogoGala has been at a disadvantage compared to other logo inspiration sites. The other popular galleries allow designers to create an account and manage their own profile as well as allowing designers to upload and remove designs as they wish. I’m not a developer and did the best I could with what I had at the time. That just meant that I had more work to do to upload designs to the gallery and manage profiles for everyone. My plan for the future of LogoGala is to completely redevelop the site from the ground up and start over. The current system is too far ingrained that I think it would be way too difficult to convert the current system to a system that would allow designers to upload and manage their own work. So, I’ll start from scratch, develop the site the way it should have been from day one and allow designers to take control of their logos on the site. The site in it’s existing form will continue to exist, but it will exist as an archive only. No more designs will be added to the current site once the new solution is complete. I think this the best option for myself and the designers that have made LogoGala a success. Do you think this approach is the best option? If not, what would you do?

Lastly, I want to try to keep the blog updated more frequently. I used to write a “best of” article each month that consisted of the best designs (in my opinion) in the gallery for that month. It became increasingly more difficult to look through the gallery entries for the month, decide on 10 designs and then create the blog entry. So, my solution to this is to simply feature one design in the “best of” article each month. I think featuring one design instead of 10 would make the recognition more meaningful for the designer of the selected design. I may even get real crazy and design some kind of badge which can be uploaded to the winner’s website. What do you think about this approach?

I would also welcome designers to write blog entries for the site as well. Not only would it keep content on the blog fresh, but it also presents more exposure for the designer than just a single logo in the gallery. If you’re a designer and you’re interested in blogging on LogoGala, please contact me.

Final Thoughts

Thanks to everyone out there who’s submitted designs this past year (and since the site launched). It’s because of you that LogoGala continues to be one of the most popular logo inspiration galleries.

The Ryder Cup Gets a New Logo

Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:23 GMT

Category: Logo Design

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Anyone that knows me, knows I’m an avid golfer. I couldn’t wait to post this blog entry when I found out that the Ryder Cup had redesigned their logo.

Aiming to unify the brand and strengthen the alliance between the two organizing bodies of the world’s most famous team golf competition, The PGA of America and Ryder Cup Europe have announced a new official logo for the Ryder Cup.
— Press Release

The original design is extremely dated and has a very clip art feel to it, especially the Ryder Cup. The new design gives the brand a very sophisticated look in a crest-like style. The thing I like about the new design the most is how Interbrand reduced the US and European flags to their most recognizable parts and incorporated them into the design. One thing I am not sure about is the stars on each flag. The US flag only has four stars where the European flag has five. Maybe they felt that they simply couldn’t fit another star on the US flag? Or was there a reason behind only having four?

The other aspects that I’m not a fan of is the gradient behind the Ryder Cup and the gray border around the crest. I’m not sure what could have been done in place of the gray border, because I don’t think it would look good without it either. Maybe just not as thick? Different color?

Also, where is the venue name going to go? The Ryder Cup is held at a different course every two years. Every Ryder Cup logo has the course name in the logo. I hope that the course name isn’t an after thought and just gets thrown in somewhere at the bottom of the design (kind of like the original design had).

The Big Question?

I know a lot of people are saying: “That design will be impossible to embroider.” Interbrand must have known that question would come up so they answered it right on their website (image below). I think it actually looks quite good embroidered; would love to have a shirt with the logo on it myself.

Final Thoughts?

The new design is a huge improvement over the original. The aspects of the design that I didn’t care for above are really just nit-picky at best. There is something in every design in existence where you could question if it could have been done different/better. Overall, this design is a winner in my book.

What do you think?

Best of January, 2011

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:37 GMT

Category: Logo Design

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It’s been a couple months since I last posted a “best of” entry. It was a busy holiday time with family and work and I just didn’t take the time to post. I apologize to those designers that submitted designs in November and December and didn’t get the opportunity to be in the “best of” entry for those months. I hope to be back on track going forward. Here’s your best of January, 2011. Thanks to everyone that submitted a logo.

Yellow Robin

From Imar

Ron Jones Consulting

From Averil Eade

MapTrackr

From Daniel Evans

Wetuts

From Jay

Accolade Wine

From Odbrand

Infineighty

From James Mitchell

Best of October, 2010

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 02:34 GMT

Category: Logo Design

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Here are my picks for the best logos on LogoGala from October, 2010. The logos are in no particular order. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below.

Mojito

From Mateusz Turbinski

Pelican

From Nikita Lebedev

Cardigan

From Marc Katsambis

Campusounds

From Josiah Jost

Koala

From designfirst

Infocus

From Florencia Viadana

Ariawan Catering

From Jippy Rinaldi

James Forbes Plumbing

From Jess Hindmarsh

Pinefresh

From Gareth Hardy

Nucleus Creations

From David Pache

Best of the Previous Eight Months, 2010

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 02:13 GMT

Category: Logo Design

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Time seems like a trick sometimes; I feel like it’s only been a few weeks at most since my last blog entry. It’s been much longer than that, though. I apologize for the huge time gap between posting, but I’ve had a lot going on in the last eight months. So much that I basically only had enough time to keep the gallery updated with new designs, and nothing else. The reason for the lack of time lately is because of the birth of my daughter. For anyone that doesn’t have kids, wow, it makes it tough to fit in web updates between all of the feeding and changing. I feel like I’m slowly starting to get back into some resemblance of a routine and plan to start updating the LogoGala blog on a more regular basis again with at a minimum, the best designs of each month. I also have some major changes in store for LogoGala, but I’ll save that for a later blog entry. So, without further ado, here are my favorite designs over the last eight months.

Reghardt

From Reghardt Grobbelaar

Anthony Lane

From Anthony Lane

Sophister

From Oguzhan Ocalan

Fiezay

From Breno Bitencourt

Galephant

From George Staicu

Love Clip

From Rich Scott

Illusion

From Anthony Lane

Smart

From Alejandro Lecuna

Coop Elefant

From Java Acosta

Nica Photography

From Toni Romero

Tropocol

From Matt Jackson (MATJAK)

Evan Kistron

From James Waldner

Tazle

From Sean Farrell

The Rockstar Foundation

From Veerle Pieters

Watson

From designfirst

Botania

From Josiah Jost

iOrchard

From Bart O’Dell

Limelight Studios

From Sean Farrell

Fetcher

From Alen Pavlovic

Best of January, 2010

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:36 GMT

Category: Logo Design

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It was a good first year for LogoGala. The site has grown much fast than I ever anticipated and is getting close to the 100,000 page view per month mark which is by far the most popular site I’ve ever developed. I’m hoping to surpass that mark sometime in the next few weeks. I’m a little late posting the latest of the “Best of” series (again) but I hope you enjoy it anyway. Here’s the best of January, 2009:

Bamboo Paperie

From Scott Lambert

Australian Art Supplies

From Yawen Chan

Water Drop

From Peter Vasvari

Love Clip

From Rich Scott

Redfox Solar

From J.T. Knight

Loading

From Mako Lehel Mor

Monkey Fruit

From Kit Peverley

Root Creative Limited

From Mick Reilly

Ass

From Breno Bitencourt

Alone

From Onetreeink

New Logo Concept for the Spartans?

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:58 GMT

Category: Logo Design

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There’s big logo news coming out of Big Ten country and Michigan State Spartan fans are not happy about it. Last month, the Board of Trustees at Michigan State University filed for a trademark application for the redesigned mark of Michigan State Spartans athletic teams. I have to say, I agree with the fans.

The new mark isn’t that much different from the original one, so I’m wondering first why it took two years to arrive at this design and why not just stick with tradition and keep the original mark?

What About a Combination of Both?

If a change is going to be made, I think a combination of both marks might be the better option. There are certain aspects of both marks that could be improved but also parts of each that I feel could be left alone. The eye hole of the original helmet seems too pointy, maybe it’s just me? As for the new mark, the green plume on top is definitely a deal breaker. However, it’s possible that this is just a bad version of the new mark as I believe it was taken from the Patent Office website. Assuming that the plume on the new mark is in fact how it’s meant to look, it’s not good; definitely one aspect of the original that could be left alone. The solid green area between the plume and helmet is another area that could have been left as is. On the original mark, this area added something extra to the design and I think it’s too plain on the new mark. I think the original helmet was fine (though I don’t care for the eye hole), but I do like the new helmet better; It doesn’t seem as friendly as the original.

You can see my version of the new mark above. I’ve taken what I felt were the best aspects of both marks and combined them, along with touching up the helmet in a couple places. What do you think?

Best of 2009

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:14 GMT

Category: Logo Design

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As you may have noticed, there was not a blog entry for the best of December. Basically, to make a long story short, my full time position in Information Technology was eliminated at the first of December. The only computer I’ve used the last few years belonged to my previous employer. So, when my position was eliminated, so was my laptop. As you can imagine, December was a hectic month. I had to purchase a new computer and ended up getting a new MacBook Pro, which I love by the way. The new Mac took a little getting used to coming from using Windows my whole life, but I’m getting used to new system and hoping to be productive again going forward.

The past couple of days I’ve went through the 800+ submissions from 2009 to find the best. I want to thank everyone who submitted logos in 2009, I appreciate all of the submissions and continued support. Unfortunately, all 800+ could not be the best of 2009 so after going through all of the submissions, the result is the following 45 logos which all stood out to me in one way or another. Enjoy!