signature logos

Davidoff logo design

Logo designer: Zino Davidoff, in 1968–1969.

Zino Davidoff was born on March 11, 1906, in Kiev, and died in 1994 at the age of 87.

Davidoff made it his business to upgrade cigar smoking, and every cigar from the company carries a label with Zino’s signature.

Ford logo design

Logo designer: Childe Harold Wills, in 1909.

Ford’s first chief engineer and designer, Childe Harold Wills, is thought to have developed the stylized Ford script in 1909. The oval was added in 1912, and the design has remained virtually intact since 1928. The Partners are responsible for the most recent update to the Ford identity.

Harrods logo design

Logo designer: Minale Tattersfield, in 1967, modified in 1984.

The 1984 re-design for this UK department store incorporated ‘Knightsbridge’ into the mark, which is Harrods‘ London address.

Cartier logo design

Logo designer: unknown, designed before 1888.

Cartier was founded in Paris in 1847 by Louis-François Cartier when he took over the workshop of his master. Today, Cartier lends its name to a long line of prestigious products, from watches and jewellery to leather goods and fragrances.

Cartier’s largest stores can be found in New York, Milan, Beverly Hills, Rome, Boston, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai, London and Vancouver.

Paul Smith logo design

Logo designer: Zena (a friend of Paul Smith), date unknown.

The Paul Smith logo design was actually written by Zena, a friend of Paul, so handwritten trademarks need not be authentic signatures. Paul Smith is an integral part of his company; he is both designer and chairman, and is continually involved in every aspect of the business.

Olive logo design Logo designer: Liquid Agency, sometime after 2005.

Olive is a digital audio equipment manufacturer based in the United States.

Disney logo design
Logo designer: Walt Disney, in the 1940s.

Today’s representation is an evolved, stylized version of the founder’s signature that now identifies a media empire worth over US$25 billion in annual sales.

Kellogg’s logo design Logo designer: Will Keith Kellogg, in 1906.

One of the world’s most recognizable wordmarks, the Kellogg’s logo is a classic case of using the founder’s signature as a guarantee of authenticity.

logo twins !!!looks similar

some of the logos resemble other logos.we may think that they have copied them or just unaware of the exsiting logo.no matter how creative or innovative you are ,sometimes we think in a fixed path.

oh!!!i am not saying that you should copy,but want to make it very clear that most of human's inventions ,designs etc has been modified from some other person's creations.

Wayback Machine and Google Blogscoped

ubuntu and human right first

Sumpter & gaonzalez LLP and Stylegala

Sinarmas and Airbus

Star Sports and Maltastar.com

SimpleBits and Logomaid

Searchmash and Smashlab

Scottish Arts Council and

pseudoroom design and cyberathlete .

NBC and NEBRASKA ETV Network

LA Lakers and LA Clippers

Beats and Stadt Bruhl logo

Carrier and Ford

BigFix and Priority

British Paints and Pagan Osbourne

google tid bit

• Google’s original name was BackRub.

• The Google logo was never centered (as it appears today). It only appeared centered in March 2001. It was aligned to the left earlier.

• Google is a play on the word googol, a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. The use of the term reflects Google’s mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
  
• Google’s First Logo Was Created Using GIMP and Mimicked Yahoo!
  
  

• Google logo font is Catbull BQ
• Google often makes special modifications, known as Google Doodles.The doodles are currently designed by Dennis Hwang who has created over 150 doodles since the year 2000

http://www.google.com/logos/

• Google’s employees are known as Googlers.

• The company headquarters is called the Googleplex.

favicons:mini logos -never heard of

Previously even i have never heard about it .however i heard some people telling about their dislike towards google's FAVICON!!!?

so what exaclty is a favicon -short form for favourite icons.

-A favicon, short for “favorites icon”,

- 16 x 16 image

-resides on a browser’s url bar, browser tab, and in a browser’s “Favorites” folder.

-designed to include a portion of a company’s logo or the colors/theme of a company’s website.

When a user bookmarks a website, the browser will request a favicon.ico file from the website’s directory. If that file exists, the site will return the favicon file to the web browser. If it does not exist, the browser will automatically display a default icon — the IE logo for Internet Explorer users.

A favicon then, as opposed to the browser’s default icon, will make a website stand out from all the other sites saved in the favorites folder.

FACEBOOK GOOGLE

STUMBLE UPON WIKIPEDIA

unearth the hidden messages of some logos

concentrate on the letters “E” and “x”. The negative space those 2 letters create, form an arrow pointing to the right side.


The logo has an arrow pointing from A to Z. This signifies that they sell everything from A to Z. The arrow also forms a smile.


Volkswagen
The simple logo icon contains the letters V and W: “volks” means “people” and “wagen” means “car”.

For the first glance the logo shows “Africa’s Map” but with a penetrating look you will see the outlined face of a child and a protective elderly figure.

There is the Baskin Robins new logo, in where the BR also creates the number 31 for how many flavors they have.

Carrefour is one of the biggest European retailers, and it’s also French for “crossroads”. The logo symbolizes this word via two opposite arrows. They also added the first letter of the name, because if you look closely you’ll see the letter C in the negative space between the two arrows.

Sony Vaio is a well known brand of laptops. it reads vaio ,well DUH!!!everyone knows that.Well, the first two letters represent the basic analogue signal. The last two letters look like a 1 and 0, representing the digital signal.

LAST FOR THE BEST
this one doesn’t have any hidden messages, but it does have a hidden audio element. If you go to the homepage and click on the logo’s exclamation point, you’ll hear Yahoo!’s trademark yodel, made famous in those Yahoo! commercials from earlier days by western singer Wylie Gustafson of Wylie & the Wild West.

your guess work is right !!!!,that is swiss alps.toberone originated in bern,switzerland-a city whose name is rumoured to mean."city of bears"but when you look at it again you will find a bear in the logo.super logo with super chocolate!!!LOL

four types of company logo design

1.)Textual logos are devices that use text, i.e. recognisable word and letterforms that may be slightly modified, but are still recognisable as text and letterforms, in a logo format. The font type can appear in various shapes and sizes to put your message out there to the public. A thick font conveys the businesses’ power or strength while a more script-based font could really put foward style and elegance.A good example of a long lived and powerful textual logo is that for Walt Disney.

2.)Illustrated logos are pretty much what they say on the tin – illustrations that are used as logos. These illustrations can be as simple or as complicated as you like but it is better to keep the illustrations simple and to the point.A really good example of an illustrated logo is that of Pepsi which features the red, white and blue textual rendition as well as the bottle cap illustration. This is a significant development from the 1940’s, when the Pepsi-Cola logo was entirely textual and mirrored the rival coke’s symbol almost exactly.

3.)Symbolic logos are increasingly popular and have many positives to them.Using a symbol to portray an abstract representation of the company can work well across many international markets but a great deal of collateral and marketing or advertising budget has to be spent to successfully get that symbol associated with the company.When it works, it can work very well and a good example of a symbolic logo is the DC logo.

4.)Combination logos can be a mixture of any or all of the past things discussed. A nice example of a combination logo is America Online which features a symbolic device in the triangle and the textual device AOL underneath.Both of these are actually registered independtly so they can be used in separation if you needed. Whatever design approach you select for your company logo, remember that it will have to be carried through into all aspects of your brand communication, including stationery design, advertising, packaging and online marketing.