Illustrative, dolphin themed logo for a family owned ice cream parlor

The central theme of this design is that of a fairly accurate dolphin and like most illustrative logo treatments, this example started off as a series of sketches and renderings before the artwork was vectorized into digital media. When aiming for an effective mascot logo, It’s important to ‘nail down’ the character before adding text and other other visual accents, and more often than not, these characters are developed the old fashioned way – with pencil and paper.

Highly rendered cartoon logo for a family-owned laundromat

Been a while since we posted on The Daily Logo (not really daily then, is it?) but let’s get back at it. Today’s offering is this nifty little laundry logo for a family-owned laundromat. To create this design, we took a fairly illustrative approach with an anthropomorphic washing machine. Both the illustrative style and font choice were chosen to emphasize ‘speedy’, which just happens to be the name of the laundromat in question.

Simple iconic logo design for a youth ministries church group

As more and more churches embrace marketing as a way to get their message out, more and more are turning to modern logos as part of their branding. Case in point, this logo for a youth ministries logo that employs a simple icon with a funky font style.

Logo design for an Internet services provider based in the Netherlands

Logo for an ISP in the Netherlands features an abstract icon based on a computer mouse. Designed in one color, this design is utilized in a wide range of applications.

Dragon themed logo for an upscale toy company

Whimsical dragon character was designed to be non-threatening to younger children or their parents (the target audience) and was set up technically for store signage and posters. As the logo was created in vector format, the large reproduction sizes were not an issue.

Dynamic bull icon makes up this logo for a stock market monitoring company

Hard to believe that this logo was designed by the shop over 13 years ago, illustrating the value of a timeless logo. Designed for a stock market monitoring company, the bull icon is almost breathtakingly simple, but still strong enough to stand on its own. This logo was also turned into a nifty Flash screensaver (click on the play button to launch).

Delicate butterfly illustration forms the design focus of this logo for a rapid detox center

Illustrative logo for an ice cream parlor

Highly rendered illustrative logo for Penny Lick’s Ice Cream Parlor features a cartoon ice cream attendant (with cones, natch) and a colorful palette.

Simple icon makes up the visual focus for this construction company logo

Eschewing the typical construction company imagery (heavy duty equipment, etc) this logo features a low viewpoint of a construction worker combined with bold typography.

Simple text based logo for a new internal project – The Logo Design Network.

When it came to developing a logo for The Logo Design Network (a new off-shoot project from the shop) we chose a brutally simple text-based logo. Besides being used on the website header (see below) the design also needs to be recognizable as small sizes when used as an avatar on social media sites. The colors of the logo are based on the various components of the web site and reflect the three main focuses – logos, clients and designers. You can check out the site screengrab below.

Speaking of LDN (yes, we were) the site’s a few weeks away from official launch but designers may wish to list themselves in the logo design directory on the site. It’s free (for the time being anyway).