Making of 10 Famous Logo Designs – From dream to reality!!

Posted on Monday, January 11th, 2010
 
You have done a diploma in Logo designing, fair enough? Everyone can earn a degree, but only seldom are truly talented in the art of developing a successful Logo Design. You can possess the design degree and the tools for logo designing but none of it can ignite the passion to become a logo designer. It is the creator inside you that needs to be awakened. The exceptional talent coupled with degree and tools is the recipe for a great logo designer.

As we all know that behind every creation there is a creator and for every invention there stands an inventor. In the words of Alexander Graham Bell “A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself”.

So, my today’s post display 10 brilliant masterpieces designed by creative souls of Graphic Design industry. Great logo designers share their experience and process of making their best logos.

However, here are some general rules which every designer has to focus while designing a logo:

  • Inspiration: To research and generate many ideas
  • Clarification: To have clear concept about your goals
  • Evaluation: To review your work and learn from it
  • Distillation: To list the workable ideas
  • Incubation: In which you leave the work alone
  • Perspiration: In which you work determinedly on your best ideas

However, to refurbish your logo designing talent, let’s see how top designers created some of the best logos and if any of you want to share your experience of designing a sensible logo, you are more then welcome :)

 

Tammy Lenski Brand Identity Design:
Project: Tammy Lenski
Logo Designer: David Ariey
 
 

Logo Design Process for Just Creative Design’s Award Winning Logo:
Project: Just Creative Design
Logo Designer: Jacob Cass
 
 

Behinf the Scenes of the Design Bump Redesign:
Project: Designbump Redesign
Logo Designer: Chris Spooner
 
 

Crazy Cool Logo:
Project: Crazy Cool Logo
Logo Designer: Fabio Sasso
 
 

Brainstorm Logo Process:
Project: Brainstorm # 9
Logo Designer: Fabio Sasso
 
 

Step By Step Design: Thomas & Gray Logo:
Project: Thomas & Gray
Logo Designer: Mario
 
 

A Special Need Logo Design Process:
Project: Special Need logo
Logo Designer: Brian Hoff
 

myNiteLife Logo Design:

Project: myNiteLife
Logo Designer: Chris Spooner
 
 

How to Design the Firefox Logo in Photoshop
Project: Mozilla Firefox
Logo Designer: Henry Hoffman
 
 

Smashing Network Logo and Badge Design Process
Project: Smashing Network
Logo Designer:  
 
 
 

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  1. tom okeefe On January 11th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
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    10 Famous Logo Designs?
    The only one I would consider “famous” is the firefox icon that is widely used by millions daily. Henry Hoffman DID NOT DESIGN THE LOGO! The original sketch is by Stephen DesRoches http://newrecruit.org and was rendered by Jon Hicks http://hickdesign.co.uk. You should correct this info you have listed for the Firefox logo.
    The others are just logos done by some that just so happen to make a name for themself with a blog. Famous? hmmm that’s an opinion. Famous logos? far from it. MyNiteLIfe it’s not even a live site yet. it’s a “comming soon” Don’t get me wrong these are great examples of showing designers process. It’s just hte “famous” part that I have a problem with.

    Good article though.

    Thanks

  1. 509 Media On January 11th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
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    David Ariey does really nice work. Sasso’s Braincast9 logo is simple and cool.

  1. ps3 accessories On January 12th, 2010 at 2:27 am
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    Very cool logo designs here.I was wondering this stuff only.I am very delighted to get all these logo design here.Thanks for sharing it here.I will bookmark it for further use….

  1. Luke Southwell On January 12th, 2010 at 5:46 am
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    Wow those are really neat logos. These fanous logo designs are recognizable.
    Great post! Thanks for sharing this.

  1. matin On January 12th, 2010 at 5:59 am
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    I like the night life logo. Thatx for sharing all this with us it was awsome. I just wanted to ask if you could write some post about poster and bruchures aswell. You do a great job with logo post.I’ve learnt so much from them And I loved the buisness card. Thx anyway

  1. MandaBee On January 12th, 2010 at 9:39 am
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    What happened to the logos that were in this post last night? I set this up for a retweet today, but I was actually interested in the logos you had on here originally. Can we get them back? Maybe do the top 20 logo makings? I understand that these are more “famous”, but I think the process is the important part!

  1. Lucas A On January 12th, 2010 at 10:19 am
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    I spy a bear climbing a chocolate mtn. Please send years supply of Toblerone.

  1. AJ Aerni On January 12th, 2010 at 11:06 am
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    I see a bear in the Toblerone mountain. I’m not quite sure what relevance a bear and chocolate have, but I’m sure someone can make light of it :)

  1. free FONT On January 14th, 2010 at 12:02 am
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    hi there! thanks for sharing! cool article you got here! much appreciated!

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  1. Ricky Salsberry On January 16th, 2010 at 12:05 pm
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    “Famous” may have been a strong word, but it’s nice seeing designers’ processes regardless.

    Wondering — why the hell is the Firefox logo tutorial (not a design process at all) in PHOTOSHOP. There’s no way in hell that should be in PS. Illustrator people. yikes.

  1. Web Designing Pakistan On January 16th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
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    Awesome article regarding to Logo designing i am totally agree with you that “It is the creator inside you that needs to be awakened”.
    it is true that logo designer should be creative mind. please post some more articles related to Graphic designing

  1. theLULAdesigns On January 17th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
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    Interesting and informative post. It is always intriguing to dive into the creative recesses of someone’s idea to see how it seeded and then came to fruition.

  1. dean martin On January 20th, 2010 at 2:43 am
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    Amazing! I was awakened by your quote “It is the creator inside you that needs to be awakened”. A designer must be creative enough, with positive outlook in life, and know how to share his talents to everyone. Thanks for sharing these tips! You are really a great logo designer!

  1. Brian - Logo Design On January 21st, 2010 at 12:34 am
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    Logo Designer is born not made.There are very few grpahic designer who can pick up the essence of an idea and bring it forth in a logo design.The way ideas has been presented in the above logo is brilliant

  1. Site O Rific - affordable web design On January 22nd, 2010 at 6:15 pm
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    This reminds me how lovely the Firefox logo is. You get so used to seeing something that you fail to see it anymore.

  1. Logo Design On January 23rd, 2010 at 3:50 am
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    Here we are not talking about the designer it is just about the top logo designs.

  1. Elizabeth Ormiston On January 25th, 2010 at 6:11 pm
    19

    My 7 year old daughter was watching a video from an agency (I start a new job with them shortly) and asked me what a logo is, then decided she wants a logo – about her. I thought this was quite cute. I began searching for cool logos to show her. The best part about this post is that it shows her how the logos come to be. Great stuff!

  1. tri-fold brochure design service On January 29th, 2010 at 2:59 am
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    Very cool logo designs here.Logo design is highly creative. Thanks for sharing it here. I will bookmark it for further use….

  1. TordDesign On February 16th, 2010 at 5:57 am
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    Brilliant! Really interesting to see how these award winning logos have been made. Thanks for sharing.

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  1. Company logo design On May 28th, 2010 at 6:56 am
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    It’s a kind of common topic, but i like the representation of your logo design.

  1. Jonathan Keller On June 30th, 2010 at 7:59 am
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    I’m in congruence Mr. Okeefe. Good job on the Firefox research.I was like ‘whaaat?’ when I saw the MyNiteLife logo.. imo it’s not even a good looking logo in addition to the fact that it’s barely even in use as of yet. The JCD logo has gained some popularity in the recent months though. The others are good example of logo design but by no means famous.

    ~J

  1. Soji Benn On May 15th, 2011 at 5:33 am
    25

    David and Mario, great jobs!

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