Red Hat is changing its logo from a “shadow man” in the red hat to just the red hat.
Not a huge change by any means, and I like it. It’s simpler and it’ll work better in black-and-white, as well as in smaller resolutions, like mobile screens and application icons.
Slashdot runs the story with more links and commentary, as usual.
There are numerous tools online that help companies and teams with their design and branding. But I don’t remember seeing anything as simple and as impressive, in terms of both the process and the result, as My Brand New Logo.
Pick a company name, a slogan, provide three keywords describing the company, and you’ll instantly get a rich selection of automatically generated logos. You can further customize the ones that you liked with layouts, colors, and more.
If you are a startup on a budget, give them a try – no need to spend big coin on a designer just yet.
“The Evolution of Brands” is an interactive timeline showing how the logos of some of the major global brands changed over time, starting from the year 1900 all the way to 2017.
Executive summary: we’ve got more brands now and their logos got a lot simpler.
There is a whole lot of online image editors. Some are very simple and only allow one to crop or rotate and image. Others are super powerful, almost replacing all of the Adobe PhotoShop functionality. There are also a few which are in between and were built for a very specific purpose or two.
DesignEvo is an online image editor which was built with one purpose and one purpose only – help you create a unique logo for your project or business. It’s super simple to use, yet the results are better than what most non-technical people can achieve with a fully featured image editor.
I played around with it for just a couple of minutes and this cute variation of the Qobo logo came out. I liked the rich selection of icons, fonts and shapes, as well as a super simple set of controls for colors, image sizes, and positioning.
If you are in need of a quick logo design, give it a try.
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