Logo Gallery
The logo is arguably the most important thing invented by our species. I hope I haven't overstated the importance of the logo with that statement, and of course I am including all single images that carry meaning and association under the heading of the logo.
If you agree with me about the central place of the logo in our human civilisation on planet earth (above language, science and love) then graphic designers hold a terrible and frightening power.
The most frightening thing about the power of the graphic designer is the temptation to take the enormous and many faceted capabilities of the logo and use them to turn a quick buck.
And I am just as guilty as the next graphic designer or illustrator. Here are some of the logos I have designed recently and the only common factor I can discern in them is an eagerness to please and desperation to make money from the Google adds this site hopes to attract.
This logo for example is my catch all logo for the articles on the site.
I am always adding complexity to my logos and then being forced to take it away again or at least water it down, as a good logo should of course be simple and instantly recognisable.
I try to keep text out of my logos so that I can put it somewhere that Google can read it but sometimes the impulse is irresistable as in this logo which is tagged to the role-playing game content on the site. The need to avoid text has led to me designing a number of squareish logos to accompany text as part of the title bar of a web page
I love the new fashion in logos to give them a semi transparent jelly like look and I have been experimenting with Photoshop to find the best way of doing it. I think this pink Spiralcat logo for the advice section of the site is my most successful so far. I have finally worked out how to do a gradient after swallowing my pride and looking in the help section. I much rather just fiddle aimlessly with an application's buttons and hope the right result, like a pretty logo with a shiny highlight for example, will just pop out than look up how things are actually done but in the case of Photoshop it has turned out that internet tutorials and the program's own help section have been invaluable.