Cool Vintage and Retro Logo Designs

admin — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:05:20 +0000

I’m a fan of logos. These are bloodline of every business out there.
Here you can find some cool vintage logos for your inspiration or just for plain fun.
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15 inspiring ambigram logos

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:00:51 +0000

An ambigram, also sometimes known as an inversion, or flipscript, is a graphical figure that spells out one or more words not only as presented, but also in another direction or orientation (from Wikipedia).

Here follows 15 inspiring examples, with some further ambigram resources.

Aerosmith

John Langdon designed this logo for Aerosmith.

“Created to be a gift from Dan Brown to Stephen Tyler. I was able to retain the look of Aerosmith’s long-standing logo, while turning it into a rotational ambigram.”

John has written some great tips for those wanting to create their own ambigrams, and I’ve referenced his website in the resources below.

Wachovia

More info about Brian Risk’s take on the Wachovia logo.

Balance

A personal design from Agency26.

Edge

Edge logo, designed by Raja Sandhu.

Ann

Logo designer: Kevin Burr of Ocularink.

Delorean Motor Company

This one’s a mirror-image ambigram, for the car made famous in Back to the Future.

Update: 03 March 2009
The following two logos, for NIN and ABBA, have ambigram-like qualities.

Nine Inch Nails

For the band Nine Inch Nails.

ABBA

Logo for the iconic band, ABBA.

NEW MAN

Logo for the French clothes manufacturer, NEW MAN, designed in 1969 (source) by Raymond Loewy. This was one of your favourite logos, featured here previously.

Blacksmith

Blacksmith website. Thanks, Steve.

Society 27

The Society 27 ambigram is a personal project of Pavel Pavlov.

Truce Vodka

Not quite an ambigram, and I’m not sure what you’d call it, but I found it interesting nonetheless — for Truce Vodka, ~~by Agency26, who also created the Balance ambigram shown previously~~.

Update: 09 August 2009
If you know who’s responsible for the Truce design, do let me know.

Update: 22 November 2009
I’ve been told it’s by Turner Duckworth. Thanks, Owen.

Travel

For those travel-loving logo designers out there, how about this ambigram travel mug?

It’s available from Flipscript, and reads ‘travel’.

Labyrinth

I found this beautiful ‘labyrinth’ design in the ambigram Flickr pool.

Logo for Ambigram

You’ll notice this one isn’t quite like the others. It’s a logo for the Ambigram advertising agency, created by Pentagram (more info onPentagram’s blog). I think they missed a trick by not actually allowing for logo rotation. Okay, so it may not have been as legible, but you only need to visit the Wikipedia page on ambigrams for an example of how effective it could’ve been.

25 Stunning 3D Illustrator logos

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:43:32 +0000

A really amazing thing that a human is able to do with a help of a computer is 3D graphic. This post is about 3D illustrator logos that will amaze you or even give you some inspiration. It should be a good sight for brands and other designers and for sure this should greatly impress any other reader who is not related to design. And now.. Here is the list of 25 3D logo designs, see them all!

As you see they are really detailed, shining, colourful, creative, full of effects. That’s what a stunning 3D logo should have in it. Hope you enjoyed them!

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Cool Vintage and Retro Logo Designs

15 inspiring ambigram logos

25 Stunning 3D Illustrator logos