Logo Lounge, for the past ten years, has posted annual logo design trend reports and they have just released the 2013 logo design trends report. I would love to hear your thoughts on the showcased trends.
Do these identity / branding trends affect you or your process? Do you agree with these suggestions? Have you noticed any other trends?
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2 Logos of Mine Featured in Logo Lounge Book 8
On a similar note, I just found out that two of my logos designed for Ruff Club and PharmSouth are going to be featured in the book Logo Lounge 8, which will be my 5th time featured in one of their inspirational books. Always an honour!
The 2013 Logo Design Trends
Without further ado, here are the logo design trends compiled by LogoLounge.com. You get more information on each trend on the original post.
The Here Logo Design Trend
The Crosses Logo Design Trend
The Wave Logo Design Trend
The Molecule Logo Design Trend
The Nature Marks Logo Design Trends
The Membrane Logo Design Trend
The Formula Logo Design Trend
The Bracketing Logo Design Trend
The Eyelet Trend
The Slash Logo Design Trend
The Written Logo Design Trend
The Line Craft Logo Design Trend
The Badges Logo Design Trend
The Banners Logo Design Trend
The Monograms Logo Design Trend
Do these identity / branding trends effect you or your process? Do you agree with these suggestions? Have you noticed any other trends?’
© Artwork shown is copyright of their respective owners. Designer’s names & clients can be found on the original posting linked above. Original compilation by Bill Gardner. Reprinted with permission from LogoLounge.
Jacob, you have shared some famous logo design trends for the year of 2013, but currently The Crosses Logo Design trends are followed by the peoples. Anyway, both of your logos are impressive and according to modern design trends.
Great collection of some of the most creative and colorful logos. Enough creative sparks in them to inspire the targeted audience.
Nice insights but the trends are so generic .For logos , playing with text and using negative spaces in texts are also going to be popular in the next few years .
Actually, this has to be the only trend that was always popular.
On topic, great collection.
Congratulations on the publication of your work sir, and thank you for sharing a plethora of other designs.
Yeah , this was a great article i really need to get on getting a logo made for my site thanks for some great examples
Logo design is an important area of graphic design, and one of the most difficult to perfect. A unique logo plays an important role in marketing of your Business.
You know looking over this I can’t help but think its looking back at the last 2 years. I think the predictions for 2012 are more accurate for this coming year. Its just me and my friends have been joking since august about the seals and the crossed logos just for instance.
some great logos there,as long as a logo is designed to the business you cant go wrong.i love clean fresh logos without to much going on.simple is always better in the longrun.
Care to explain the process behind PharmSouth ? I can’t seem to understand the logo at all.
The Pharmsouth logo is a mortar & pestle and the mortar (the bowl) is an arrow pointing south.
Nice logos. I love making logos but with fonts only. Thanks for sharing these logos. I will learn from this about how to use my mind at the full potential. Thanks.
These are awful. Following trends is a bad idea. Curating logos into trends is very helpful as it shows us what to avoid. And these examples are a low bar. Side note: at the top, your copy reads, “effect” you, which should be “affect” you. Sorry to be a downer. Very rare occurrence for my comments.
Thanks for the typo fix up and yes trends are there to be aware of, not to be followed for trend’s sake.
For goodness sake, why are so many graphic designers so negative? Everyone in our profession has such arrogance – now that’s a downer.
Really great logos and love the article.. Keep up the great work!
Vessel Wines looks like ‘Vale’ logo http://www.thinknorth.ca/cmsAssets/images/Vale%20logo.jpg
Congratulations on the publication of your work sir, and thank you for sharing a plethora of other designs.
In regards to following/creating trends…I can honestly say that at no point during the Pharmabond project did I thought about eyelets.
The thing to remember about the Logolounge trends report is that it’s not absolute, just a summation of what’s been uploaded within that season i.e. A logo developed 50 years ago can be considered as part of a 2013 trend. In regards to ‘following’ a trend, I think it’s taken more from the specifics of the brief (unless it’s conceptual) rather then asthetic approach/technique.
And Paul Rand shed a tear.
What I would say I think most of these logo designs have in common (which I enjoy about them) is that they all are very simplistic and take advantage of positive and negatives space as well as shape to catch and keep our attention. Great overall round up!
It seems to me like logos are becoming very simple. Which makes sense because the simple ones look the best to me. Thanks for your post!
Some of these logo designs are great. Especially the simple designs that incorporate what the company is all about and might have a little twist by using negative space that makes you think before realizing how creative the design is. A major part of developing a successful brand is to have a simple, attractive logo that clearly portrays the company’s focus.
Thanks for posting a brilliant information. I really too happy to read it. So much necessary information i’ll get from these topic.Thanks once again……………..
Beautiful works, The logos are really trendy!
I just stumbled upon a great online logo design site, It’s called http://www.logogenie.net
I managed to design a cool looking logo in a few minutes, they’ve got super easy design tools and plenty of examples so you can inspire yourself before starting.
brilliant work by designers. I like the Bracketing trend, so unique and colorful.
Thanks Jacob for sharing this article.
Awesome Logo, Now i have some inspiration for my logo. i think i’ll try The Membrane Logo Design Trend
Good Stuff, it interesting logo designs….. thanks for posting this collection
Really amazing logo designs you have shared with us. The logo design should be unique, appealing and memorable in order to grab the attention of your target audience.
Great logos and love the article.. great work!…. thanks for posting.
Wow; very nice. I really did not think that companies would go to these design lengths on their annual reports.
Really well explained logo trends. Thanks for sharing. Keep up the great work!
I am late here but I think this is good for me to understand some key points from these trends.
I really need to get on getting a logo made for my site thanks for some great examples
amazing logo designs
Good logo examples, it is very interesting. Thanks for posting this collection!
Nice list of logo designs and i must say that the giftology logo was just awesome, so much of thought has gone into it, its just simple and the concept if brilliant. Thanks for sharing
What a Brilliant Collection, I admire this!!!
Firstly, I must say that the logos that you have designed are good. Secondly, the trends that you shared are cool. My personal favorite is the wave trend. They provide inspiration and a head start in your mind. However, for expert logo designing, I would seek assistance from professionals. I came across some positive and recommended logo designing. Check this at http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Craftive-Reviews-E826219.htm .
Marvelous collection of logo’s, I love your conceptual art a lot.
A lot of people think they know how to do graphic design, but only a few of them actually doing it the right way!
This is amazing!!!
Amazing stuff, I’m in love with many logos presented here.
Really good logo examples. Thanks for this great article.. Keep up with good work!
Hi author I always get excited when it comes to logo making as it needs a hell of creativity and the thoughts of the company are to be presented in a form of a design. This design becomes the face of a brand or a company.
Big respect for your job especially for The Line Craft Logo Design Trend.Nice collection for every taste!
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