These logos look SAME!

By admin

THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED ON LOGODESIGNLOVE.COM

It’s becoming more and more difficult to execute original logo designs. No matter how clever your idea, the chances are someone has created a very similar logo. Why is that? We’re all surrounded by the same influences, exposed to the same shapes, forms and patterns. With the importance of branding in the marketplace, and thousands of designers working on similar projects, it’s obvious ideas will, from time-to-time, look almost identical.

Here I have compiled a few similar logos, showing them side-by-side so you can see what logo designers face today.

Sumpter & Gonzalez LLP and Stylegala.

stylegala sumpter gonzalez logos

National Film Board (recently updated) and Virtual Global Taskforce.

NFB virtual global taskforce logos

Carrier and Ford.

carrier ford logos

Scottish Arts Council and Artworkers.

scottish arts council artworkers logos

NBC and Nebraska ETV Network.

nbc nebraska etv network logos

One Spa, Manulife One and Penzeys One Magazine.

one spa manulife one logos

penzeys one logo

SimpleBits and LogoMaid (LogoMaid link directs to a Flickr thread with a fascinating commentary).

simplebits logomaid logos

pseudoroom design and Cyberathlete Professional League.

pseudoroom cpl logos

Ubuntu and Human Rights First.

ubuntu human rights first logos

Graphic Design Blog and Peter GI.

graphic design blog peter gi logos

Star Sports and maltastar.com.

star sports malta star logos

Sun Microsystems and Columbia Sportswear.

sun microsystems columbia sportswear logos

Applied Materials and Planned Parenthood.

applied materials planned parenthood logos

searchmash and smashLAB.

searchmash smashlab logos

Wayback Machine and Google Blogoscoped.

wayback machine google blogoscoped logos

Beats by Dr. Dre and Anton Stankoswki’s 1971 Stadt Bruhl logo.

dr dre beats stadt bruhl logos

Not to mention the BigFix logo.

big fix logo

British Paints and Pagan Osbourne.

british paints pagan logos

LA Lakers and LA Clippers.

la lakers la clippers logos

Belfast City and South Hams Food and Drink.

belfast devon logos

Blackburn Market and Barrow.

blackburn barrow logos

Additional suggestion:

Harbork and Fitucci

Wise words

Tell yourself at every step in the design process that someone has undoubtedly already thought of this and what can you do to really set it apart. In design, and particularly logo design, the pessimistic axiom that “everything has already been done” is becoming more and more true, and it is only the virtuous designer who can continue to stand out in a sea of sameness.
Mike Davidson

2 Responses to “These logos look SAME!”

  1. Hi there,
    I have already seen it somethere

    Have a nice day
    Tania

    #32
  2. Greatings,
    Everything dynamic and very positively! :)

    Thank you
    Zoran

    #97

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