23 Inspiring Blue Logos
Having inspiration sources is one absolutely important step in the process of creating a logo. The most trends you manage to check out, the best! Since I'm developing a logo for a new company, and their color is blue, I started a research on some blue logos... here are some of them.
Logopond is a great logo inspiration source, besides that, if you submit your logo there, you get lots of feedback (really important). There, I found these blue logos, that got different trends within. I actually don't know what to do yet... maybe just text, maybe contrast between two shades of blue? Well, I gotta develop that, in the meanwhile, you guys should check these out, and don't forget to visit the best source for logo in the web: Logopond! Cheers! ;)
PS.: Any tips for me, people?
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Hello, everyone! I'm Paulo Gabriel, a 24 years old designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. I work as a webdesigner since 2006, but websites and blogs have been a hobbie for me since 1999. Here in Abduzeedo, I try to bring only the hot stuff for you... and hope that all of you enjoy my posts! You may also follow me on Twitter.
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23 Comments
nice ones, hope more will come, good job
Almost all of those logos contain a gradient.
How will they hold up in a fax or a newspaper add?
The answer is, "Very poorly, if at all."
Thinking only in terms of the computer screen is killing print design.
The "FOLD IT" one is genious!
still laughing cause of the "ultimate balloon co."
:D
wicked
Cheers Sucka Fish..
I love the vision logo, it's simplicity is eye catching. Also like the Pino logo, it's a little more complex but i like it, the dotted I makes it memorable.
Se tu me disser do que trata a empresa pra qual vc está fazendo marca, eu posso dar uns palpites.
:)
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I will do that 'fold it' one
Some nice logos, gotta go with the fold it one as well, that is a great idea!
http://flickr.com/photos/alexanderblacker/
Love the integration of the word "Flook" into the body of the fish. Most impressive.
I like all of them, esp the wing and fish ones. All a real inspiration, as i couldnt think of one till not. Now I've got a great idea. :-D thanks!
Nice blue logo's :)
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hey, these logos are all from www.logopond.com! even in the same arrangement if you scroll through the gallery for blue logos :)
Nice post Paulo! Great!
yep, great ones, i love 'em
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Yeah, guess what, Martha, I told that before. Did you actually read the post? They are from Logopond... and so what? Didn't I link back? Geez, hater, go back home. ;)
I agree with Josh 100%. Most of these logos will look great on the web, but will suck in print. A good logo should first and foremost be designed to work well in black and white FIRST and then color be added. Color, shading and gradients are sometimes used as a cover for bad design.
If you want a tip, design the logo in black and white first, that way you have a version that will work at the lowest common denominator (fax, photocopy etc) And then you can build up you color scheme.
From the logos displayed: The metro sky one, and the ones below it will work fine in print and are simple enough. If you are doing color changes between light and dark blues, I suggest that Instead of using screens or opacities to get the variations, that you look at your pantone swatchbook, and use different swatches for each blue, if its going to print. You can then play with screens of those pantone colors to get a third color of blue, by say overlaying 50% dark blue with 50% light blue, to get medium blue. This makes sure that there is always 100% ink coverage where the logo is. Otherwise with less ink coverage the logo can fade out and be less strong, but also more importantly if its over a different color background it will blend with that, or alow too much of the paper color through
Just some tips from my experience as a print designer primarily. Of course if the design is solid for print, then you can go nuts on the web version of the logo. But we all know that clients hire us because they don't know how to design themselves, and if you give them the one flashy logo full of gradients and such you are going to get a call from an unhappy customer who is made their logo didnt work as intended on the visor for the annual golf charity game....
You forgot the Obama logo!!!!!
@joker101_np Those are really good tips! Thanks a lot!! :D
Anytime!
and PS I don't feel like I ever take enough time to mention what a great job you are all doing with this site. Pleas keep up the good work! thanks
My logo is Blue. :)
Some great examples! I like the Fold It logo :-)
Maybe you can post logo's more often. Love to watch them!
I agree with Josh and Joe and the problem with these logo's are not only that they all use gradients, most of them have too much detail too. A logo should be instantly recognizable at any size. For instance the biking nelson has all those little gears which will look terrible if you print it small, hell the wet inovations logo looks messy at this size, let alone a smaller one.
Take a look at some classic logo's and you will see that most of them are really, really simple and need none of these flashy details or gradients to work. That's good logo design.
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