Want to improve your brand recognition? Grab your customers attention? You need some of this….

Although the contest is officially closed, we’re still getting 5 or 6 logos a day from people asking if they can still take part, or update or tweak their previous entries. Here are a few that came in recently:

Shirtnerd created this little fun logo “to all those enthusiasts who joined the OLP-game but are a little bit frustrated that their logos have not made it to the grand finalist hall of fame.”

Nelson sent in one find Superheroes example to show how it could work on the site

Clem sent in a new concept free as a bird

Plenty more examples of it here on his blog

Thanks guys, but we can’t take into account any more logos :(

But the good news is that there is another logo design contest, like this one called wilogo. There you can show off your skills for a different company every day of the week!

Here’s some ink for the inspiration well, as things have fallen a little quite on the main blog the past day.

I think the correct term for this is “phallic”. Its when deliberately or accidentally, art or in our case logos have developed a certain….hum, “adult” quality. You might need to squint or tilt your head, but others pretty much lean forward and slap you smack in the face (so to speak) leaving only a “oh my god, how did no-one notice that looks like a giant….” sort of expression.

See some examples in the full post.

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Photoshop unveiled their new (well actually their first independent) logo a few days ago. The response was a storm of criticism and negativity on the product managers blog. Its interesting reading and some of the comments remind me of the discussions we’ve had here and also internally at Spreadshirt before we kicked off OLP1.6. Themes such as

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One of the hardest parts of designing the winning logo will be getting something memorable, but flexible. We’ve discussed recently about some designs lacking an obvious signia or iconic element that could work on its own, such as Spreadshirt TM by Family:

I planned to post about the London 2012 logo at some point, and whilst browsing found this example. This logo is one London used during their successful bid for the Olympic Games. I thought it was an interesting example of how a logo that is lacking an obvious stand-alone icon (the rings itself representing the olympic games, not londons bid)

The second image is a proposal for adding it to St Mary’s Axe or “the gherkin” as its affectionately known (I guess this didn’t actually happen). But its shows that the colour ribbon band can be removed and used as a stand alone graphic in a variety of settings, outside of traditional logo locations. Seeing this example really made me appreciate the strength of the logo more.

Found via 38one, the logo design blog

Interestingly the design by Norman Foster of Kino Design won a contest similar to OLP which received over 1100 entries! Does anyone else have similar examples with other logos? Whats the most flexible design you’ve seen entered so far?

I’ll be the first to admit I do sometimes look for opportunities to view photos of women in their underwear, but this one (opportunity not woman) fell into my lap and could not be ignored.

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