Comments on: Smashing Magazine Logo Contest

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:51:42 +0000

Tough choice! There are so many of them that I like …

By: Jess

Jess — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 21:37:01 +0000

I personally like #1 because it’s very simple. I’m a very simple kind of person and it takes very little to impress me. The arrow on the G is quite creative and maybe that’s why I like #1.

The rest of the logos I found creative just because logos are very hard to come up with. For me, it’s hard to even think of a logo, but to design one? Now that’s creative. All the logos are very unique so that’s why I said that they were all creative.

By: Joey

Joey — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 18:24:39 +0000

Okay Ibit, you sound like the designer. Oh wait, You Are a Designer. If you get enough comments on this post it would be interesting to see which one your readers pick.

By: ibit

ibit — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 15:29:56 +0000

it’s interesting to note how your comment is a complete opposite to all the points I’ve tried to make in this post.
Why do you personally like #1 the most, Jess? And what did you find creative in all those logos: the colours, the originality, the concept, …?

By: Jess

Jess — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 15:16:17 +0000

Very impressive! I personally like #1 the most, but they’re all very creative logos.

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By: Ronald Huereca

Ronald Huereca — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:23:05 +0000

I personally liked #8 with the orange look.

By: Shankar Ganesh

Shankar Ganesh — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 07:18:01 +0000

I’m not a designer, and dunno anything about such stuff, but on seeing the logos, I liked the last one on that page.

By: ibit

ibit — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:05:50 +0000

You sound like a designer with a modern flair
I do agree about that logo’s simplicity, but I don’t like the difference in words baseline positioning and to me the two words look too disjointed. If Smashing was a name of an actual magazine, then it would make sense to make the word Smashing stand out and use only the letter S in the logo’s symbol. But in this case, “Smashing Magazine” is the blog’s title and should be unified in the logo’s design.

By: Joey

Joey — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 05:29:20 +0000

I liked the logo by Roland Hidvegi the best. They put it at number 8. I think it is clean and simple but with a modern flair. Do I sound like a designer? I think not but I like it anyway.