Logo Design News

Steve Douglas on September 27th, 2011

After ten years of selling logo design services, Utah-based Logoworks announces that it’s closing up shop. Arguably one of the first crowdsourcing design sites, and since its inception in 2011, Logoworks was one of the top-ranked and successful logo design websites of the internet era. Purchased a few years back by Hewlett Packard for a [...]

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Steve Douglas on September 24th, 2011

After four months and a global online campaign that netted 15,000 submissions, Serbian designer Predrag Stakic has been announced as the winner of a design competition to find a logo for human rights. My opinion on logo design contests notwithstanding, gotta admit this is a pretty nifty logo, designed as part of a contest to [...]

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Steve Douglas on February 24th, 2011

Retail giant JCPenney rolls out a new logo in an attempt to rebrand themselves as a “modern retailer.” Prior to the official roll-out during Oscar commercials, giant retailer JCPenney announced yesterday that the company was rebranding themselves with a new logo (above right). Following GAP’s new logo debacle from a few months ago, internet critics [...]

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Steve Douglas on January 5th, 2011

In one of the first major brand roll-outs of 2011, Starbucks unveiled their new logo today. Missing is any reference to Starbucks, with the new design dropping the words encircling its iconic sea nymph, and the mermaid figure given a bit of a graphic facelift. The new logo was announced to employees today, with plans [...]

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Steve Douglas on January 3rd, 2011

Hours after unveiling the new logo for the Rio 2016 Olympics, organizers were denying charges of plagiarism Organizers of the 2016 Olympics, to be held in Rio, Brazil, trotted out their new logo as part of an elaborate beach party on New Years Eve, and Brazilian media were quick to claim that the design looked [...]

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