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On logos, symbols, icons, and marks, with the accompanying book available in thirteen languages.

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2026 3

  1. symbools
  2. Tropical Smoothie Cafe
  3. Yakitoriya

2024 10

  1. Super Logo Design
  2. Space exploration logo archive
  3. Logo Trend Report
  4. 100 Days
  5. The World Games logo
  6. Zelman Meats
  7. Shoop
  8. The Hidden Factor
  9. Logo Rhythm
  10. Wonka

2023 12

  1. Tony’s Chocolonely
  2. Game+Logo
  3. Logo Rewind
  4. Paris Olympics logo
  5. Uovo logo
  6. The Guinness harp: a mark of Irish heritage and identity
  7. Vinyl Records
  8. Flipper Taps
  9. Paul Rand’s Ford presentation
  10. Clarence Pearson Hornung
  11. Helios Publishing House
  12. Bulgarian logo archive

2022 8

  1. Bands FC
  2. Hiiibrand Awards
  3. Graphis
  4. Armin Hofmann
  5. Harbour Kitchen
  6. Karol Śliwka
  7. La Patria
  8. Logo Wave Awards

2021 11

  1. Marked with thought #3
  2. Made by James
  3. Aphex Twin
  4. Marken und Signete
  5. Sait Maden
  6. The Spirit of Ecstasy
  7. The story of the Coca-Cola logo
  8. Woody Pirtle
  9. Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and its “vanishing” logo
  10. Tony Spaeth, corporate identity pioneer, 1934–2021
  11. LogoArchive Akogare

2020 6

  1. Man and His Mark, 1970
  2. Word as Image
  3. A language without letters, by Japanese graphic designer Yukio Ota
  4. The yin yang symbol
  5. Reimagining the Swan Vestas logo
  6. Goodyear’s iconic Wingfoot

2019 6

  1. Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas
  2. The Logo Design Idea Book
  3. Sushi Daily
  4. Architectural Logos, from Counter-Print
  5. The extinction symbol
  6. Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols

2018 8

  1. Marked with thought #2
  2. The World Symbol Festival, 1994
  3. LogoArchive #1
  4. Hobo signs and symbols
  5. Identity: Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv, by Standards Manual
  6. Adrian Frutiger logos, 60s–70s
  7. How Paul Rand presented logos to clients
  8. Mark Spencer, forensic botanist

2017 34

  1. The Pixar logo and the hopping desk lamp
  2. Marked with thought #1
  3. Cruz Novillo: Logos
  4. HOW Logo Awards winners
  5. Moonpig ditches the space pig after 17 years
  6. Famous logos drawn from memory
  7. Belfast’s 2017 logo and the tabloid response
  8. FireSigns: a semiotic theory for graphic design
  9. John&Jane
  10. SŽDC by Studio Marvil
  11. Waddesdon Wine
  12. How to get design clients
  13. Ian Cartlidge on identity design
  14. Evolution of the LEGO logo
  15. Design Research Unit
  16. Land Heritage
  17. Félix Beltrán and Pepe Cruz Novillo
  18. Origins and making of the Porsche crest
  19. Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française
  20. The Music Shop
  21. Oslo City Bike
  22. Gerd Leufert (1914-1988)
  23. Soviet logos
  24. On the Hillary Clinton logo
  25. 60 years of Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv
  26. The rebus and the visual pun
  27. Logobook archives the finest old and new logos
  28. Eero Aarnio Originals, by Bond
  29. Behind the Volvo logo
  30. The Atari logo: behind “the Fuji”
  31. How to price design services
  32. Wings, Meatballs, Worms, and Swooshes
  33. Printworks London, by Only
  34. TrademarkVision uses image recognition to search for similar trademarks

2016 35

  1. Longsands Fish Kitchen
  2. The Institute of Heraldry, 1969
  3. The Swan Hotel
  4. Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada
  5. Brentford FC crest redesign
  6. The symbolism of Japan’s prefectural flags
  7. Noji Architects
  8. AGDA Design Awards 2016 finalists
  9. Number 1 in the Official Charts
  10. Rob Janoff on his logo for Apple
  11. IV Centenary of the death of Cervantes
  12. The meaning of the CND symbol
  13. LogoArchive
  14. Behind the Subway logo
  15. Henry Wood
  16. The Tesla Motors T
  17. Mastercard simplified
  18. East River Esplanade
  19. Of course it’s been done before
  20. Logos of companies that test on animals
  21. Herb Lubalin: Typographer
  22. Embark
  23. The Co-op’s “clover leaf” logo
  24. Feed Magazine
  25. Top symbols & trademarks of the world
  26. “The Love Symbol”
  27. Refining Aston Villa’s club badge
  28. Stravinsky Festival Trust
  29. Logos from the 1950s to 70s
  30. Cultural differences in logo design
  31. The Golden Wattle flag
  32. Dresden eDition
  33. Little Green Pig
  34. 1979 Mediterranean Games
  35. What makes a truly great logo?

2015 40

  1. Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
  2. Lisa Winstanley
  3. The Royal Mint identity guidelines
  4. Rethinking IKEA’s logo
  5. Netflix, by Gretel
  6. Logo design with Draplin: secrets of shape, type and colour
  7. Depero Quadrigea
  8. Channel 4 rebrand
  9. Wiggins wordmark refinement, by Dalton Maag
  10. Logo Modernism
  11. DC Comics style guide, 1982
  12. The evolution of Major League Baseball logos
  13. A brief interview with Lance Wyman
  14. Rolling Stones Hot Lips
  15. Mr Cooper
  16. The graphic art of the advertising mascot
  17. How many logo options do you present?
  18. The Montblanc star
  19. Rebranding the LTA’s Major Events
  20. Oculus redesign
  21. Resources for logo mockups
  22. Logos for the jilted generation
  23. The International Flag of Planet Earth
  24. CN logo evolution
  25. Canadian logos, lovingly preserved
  26. Adapting logos for small screens
  27. Hillary Clinton’s campaign logo
  28. Daily Overview
  29. Africa Solo
  30. Chip Shop Awards’ best use of logo category
  31. Everything is Design: The Work of Paul Rand
  32. Wall of Wally
  33. A better level of achievement for CIMA
  34. Western trademarks for the Chinese culture
  35. The ubiquitous work of Ian Brignell
  36. The history of the MGM lions
  37. What does a designer need to consider when designing a logo?
  38. Pulsating Sonos
  39. The Canada wordmark
  40. The origins of Red Bull

2014 37

  1. I DO, by George Lois
  2. Elephant Book Company
  3. 7UP logo through the years
  4. Sapo
  5. animodul by atipo
  6. Respublica University
  7. Design Matters: Tom Geismar
  8. A failure to acknowledge work as work
  9. Beko gets an update
  10. Melbourn Squash Club
  11. La Chamarilera
  12. Logos on vintage badges
  13. Tm classic logos book
  14. The wheelchair symbol gets an update
  15. Design Matters: Bob Gill
  16. Rio 2016 typography, by Dalton Maag
  17. Airbnb’s Bélo
  18. The oldest registered trademarks
  19. Paula Scher‘s “Liquid Identity” Skillshare class
  20. Michael Bierut on why logos endure
  21. Evolution of the SKODA logo
  22. An alphabet of monograms
  23. Six iconic logo designers
  24. Original Apple office signage from $10,000
  25. Manuals 1. Design & Identity Guidelines.
  26. The ubiquity of similarity
  27. English Heritage
  28. Aston Martin logo evolution
  29. Islamic Solidarity
  30. SFA logo axed a few days after launch
  31. Jigsaw identity
  32. Milton Glaser on the Florence logo
  33. Origins of the Mitsubishi emblem
  34. Signet Signal Symbol
  35. Warner Bros
  36. A few thoughts on trademark infringement
  37. The Chain Reaction Project

2013 32

  1. Flags and symbols of Japanese municipalities
  2. Exxon by Loewy
  3. A fluke accident. Clearly.
  4. International Symbol of Access
  5. Anita Giraldo
  6. Thomas Cook logo evolution
  7. FHK Henrion, by Unit Editions
  8. Bing updates
  9. TSB by Rufus Leonard
  10. A Logo for London, by David Lawrence
  11. Alzheimer’s Disease National Congress
  12. Satirical logos by Maentis
  13. Unbranded cigarettes perceived as less satisfying
  14. Paula Scher on designing identities
  15. Top corner
  16. Last Bummer Records
  17. Lale
  18. Dali’s Chupa Chups logo
  19. Star Wars logo evolution
  20. A Continental update, by Peter Schmidt Group
  21. Thoughts about similar-looking logos
  22. Do good logos need to look good?
  23. Ace Frehley on the Kiss logo
  24. National Rail symbols
  25. We will not solve problems before we are paid
  26. Firefox sketches
  27. Superman symbol evolution
  28. Bell System logo redesign
  29. DeLorean Motor Company
  30. ITV logo creation
  31. British Airways logo evolution
  32. “The Golden Combover”

2012 61

  1. The birth of the Michelin Man
  2. Jägermeister and Saint Hubertus
  3. University of California
  4. A history of the Hollywood sign
  5. Architectural logos
  6. Katona József Theatre
  7. A collection of identity style guides from around the world
  8. Saul Bass on the design presentation
  9. The Woodshed Horror Company
  10. Famous logos in Comic Sans
  11. Apple logo insults Russian Orthodox Christians
  12. Logo R.I.P.
  13. Megan Sheerin
  14. The symbol for the acid house generation
  15. eBay in corporate standardisation
  16. Logos from the 50s and 60s
  17. Pirelli logo evolution
  18. The Microsoft logo
  19. Fiji Airways logo
  20. The Dandy faces closure
  21. Australian court OKs cigarette logo ban
  22. Obama source code logo
  23. Emblemetric
  24. Bruce Mau Design rebrands Canada
  25. A process for designing successful identities
  26. More4 rebrand options
  27. The art and origins of logo design
  28. Nuts.com
  29. On circular logos
  30. What is spec work?
  31. Vintage vehicle logotypes
  32. Flexible brand names
  33. Olympic logo a day
  34. The cost of a Saul Bass logo
  35. No perching allowed
  36. I Love NY logo set for makeover
  37. doWntown ARLINGTON
  38. Minnesota Zoo logo sketches
  39. Behind the innocent logo
  40. Elephant Combs
  41. Stedelijk Museum
  42. The illusion of choice
  43. Swisscom sketches
  44. Sharing a Coke
  45. The story behind the English National Opera logo
  46. The old dove/hand logo combination
  47. Crowdsourcing Haiti
  48. Crowdsourcing Liechtenstein
  49. Nottingham Jazz
  50. White House Conference on Children
  51. IDA and Pentagram recreate Pangaea
  52. Peter and the Starcatcher
  53. Minolta and the magic dot
  54. Madrid 2020 logo causes controversy
  55. Green T
  56. DC Entertainment
  57. Kodak logo evolution
  58. 2012 Olympic non-events
  59. Rio 2016 Paralympic Games logo
  60. Waterstones returns to Baskerville
  61. British Rail’s double-arrow

2011 50

  1. Penguin logo evolution
  2. Watching Words Move
  3. LogoGarden secures $2M in funding
  4. Moving Brands does HP
  5. Unilever icons explained
  6. Trademark symbols, what’s the point?
  7. MGM Grand logo for just £29
  8. Carlsberg logo translations
  9. Brandstack closes, leaves designers out of pocket
  10. Matías Nadal’s piano keys monogram
  11. Australia bans logos on cigarette packaging
  12. Some of the best logos are obvious.
  13. British Steel logo
  14. Decluttered logos and thoughts on container branding
  15. Mobil logo
  16. Human Rights logo selected
  17. The history of the Ferrari logo
  18. Brandversations
  19. Nike logo 40 year anniversary
  20. NASA logo evolution: meatball vs worm
  21. The Armoury
  22. “The Logo Remains Supreme”
  23. Committee of Organ Donation in Lebanon
  24. BMW logo evolution
  25. The Queen’s approval?
  26. Angus Hyland on logos
  27. World Wildlife Fund logo
  28. The Time Warner logo
  29. A logo doesn’t need to say what a company does
  30. Thoughts on the Human Rights logo contest
  31. Edgeboard
  32. Typical design contest ending
  33. Remove the logo and still know the brand
  34. The story of the NBA logo
  35. Loose Leaf
  36. Planes, trains, and logo-inspired art
  37. Five personal favourites
  38. Himalayas Art Museum gets it wrong
  39. Saul Bass logos, then and now
  40. Branding Peru
  41. Snooty Peacock
  42. London 2012 logo threatens Iran
  43. Behind the New York Cosmos logo
  44. Jet Cooper refinement
  45. Pro-logo versus no logo
  46. JAL’s crane logo resurrected
  47. Recycling symbols quiz
  48. What are your favourite logos?
  49. Starbucks logo evolution
  50. Rio 2016 logo

2010 36

  1. Everglades Nation, make it a million
  2. AGM logo
  3. Lance Wyman
  4. An interview with Sagi Haviv
  5. Logo warehouses, crowdsourcing, and a lack of understanding
  6. Where Gap went wrong
  7. “This wasn’t the right project for crowd sourcing.” — Gap
  8. What Gap should’ve done
  9. The S from Hell
  10. The designer and the tech guy
  11. How to lift an EPS logo from a PDF
  12. Landfit logo
  13. Facing your toughest design client
  14. Ligne Roset logo evolution
  15. Braun logo evolution
  16. Indian rupee symbol selected
  17. The John Lloyd archive
  18. 3 letters, 48 hours, 1 logo
  19. Ian The Plumber
  20. BP logo gets a makeover
  21. Batman symbol evolution
  22. Television Associates logo
  23. Hebrew translations of Latin logos
  24. Birds of a feather…
  25. Scandinavian logos from the 60s and 70s
  26. The folly of logo design SEO
  27. Michael Bierut talking logos
  28. Gravity Flooring
  29. NeXT logo by Paul Rand
  30. Wine Searcher, by Gareth Hardy
  31. Logorama, the movie
  32. What they don’t teach you about identity design in design schools
  33. Christophe Szpajdel
  34. The London Underground
  35. “Logos are dead.”
  36. Vintage logos

2009 30

  1. Ghostbusters
  2. UEFA EURO 2012 logo revealed
  3. Sochi 2014 Olympic logo
  4. Mercedes-Benz logo evolution
  5. An interview with Tom Geismar
  6. Aol.logo
  7. Logo design from The Chase
  8. Ask Tom Geismar
  9. A negative space odyssey
  10. Stock trade marks from 1975
  11. iStock opens can of nasty worms
  12. I Love New York
  13. Love Irish Food could lose millions
  14. A conversation with Paul Rand
  15. Don’t try to be original. Just try to be good.
  16. Love Irish Food, but don’t love the logo
  17. The work of Stefan Kanchev
  18. An interview with Paul Rand
  19. The Woolmark logo, 100% wool
  20. Martin Newcombe, Save Your Logo!
  21. Logo design tips from the field
  22. Cross that one off
  23. Stretching the Virgin logo
  24. Logo laws, black versus colour, tarnished brands, and a juicy fruit salad
  25. Logos using the standby symbol
  26. Pentagram Marks
  27. Peter Arnell defends Tropicana rebrand
  28. Greenpeace Airplot logo
  29. New York Philharmonic logo
  30. Thoughts on the Pepsi rebrand

2008 23

  1. A closer look at ambigrams
  2. Obama logo ideas that weren’t chosen
  3. Talking about logo design #8
  4. CultureBus logo by Pentagram
  5. Talking about logo design #7
  6. Wegmans logo refresh
  7. V&A buys original Rolling Stones logo
  8. BBC logo evolution
  9. Two buns and a burger, for Bobby’s Burger Palace
  10. The Bayer Cross, “your guarantee of purity.”
  11. Red Cross logo
  12. When logos look alike
  13. Belfast’s 2008 city logo
  14. Amnesty International
  15. Handwritten logos
  16. Shell logo evolution
  17. Chermayeff & Geismar
  18. All about Paul Rand
  19. FIFA World Cup logos
  20. Airline logo designs
  21. Car brand logos
  22. Logo, by Michael Evamy
  23. How much for a logo?