70 Excellent Logo Design Tutorials and Resources

An effective logo sets the tone and public perception of your brand, and therefore careful thought and creativity must be put into constructing it.

In this article, you’ll find a large collection of tutorials and resources on the topic of designing logos by some of the most well-respected logo designers in the industry.

Logo Design Tutorials

Step-by-step logo

Designer/Author Chuck Green shows us the general process he takes when designing a logo.

Big Bocca - Illustrative Logo

This downloadable tutorial goes through the process of designing an illustrative logo.

Piranha’s Revenge - Illustrative Logo

Artist Von. R. Glitschka discusses his creative process for designing an illustrative logo.

Logo Frustration

Take a peak into a real-world project to see an actual logo designer in action.

Creating the Logo / Identity for “Blackberry Creek Community Church”

You’ll see, from start to finish, the creation of a logo for the "Blackberry Creek Community Church".

Drawing a Good Logo

UX Developer Nathan Smith discusses his method for creating an iconic logo design.

The process of redesigning a logo

Kristof Saelen discusses an effective course of action for updating an existing logo.

Day 30: Designing a Logo

Learn how to create a logo design in Illustrator via this step-by-step tutorial.

My logo design process

Graphic Designer David Airey shares his logo design process, including the very important step: the design brief.

Constructing the Perfect Logo

This short tutorial goes over the general methods for constructing a logo.

Logo Design Galleries for Inspiration

LogoPond

LogoPond is a logo design gallery where users can upload and share their logos. Members can leave comments/critiques, so it’s a helpful place for getting feedback.

Logo Of The Day

Logo Of The Day features one logo a day picked by a panel of judges.

The Identity Archives Project

The Identity Archives Project is a searchable database of logos and brand identity designs, it’s useful for getting inspiration on particular topics such as "technology" or "web 2.0".

Logos & Logotypes on deviantART

deviantArt has a section on user-submitted logos/logotypes that you can browse through for logo design inspiration.

Logo Faves

Logo Faves is a logo design gallery that seeks to present the best logo designs. Check out their "Highest Rated Logos" section to see what the top logos on the site.

FAVEUP

FAVEUP is a design inspiration gallery that has a wonderful Logos section. Users are able to vote on designs that are featured on FAVEUP.

Logo Galleria

Logo Galleria (currently) has over 400 logos featured in their gallery.

LogoFury.com

LogoFury.com is a frequently updated logo design gallery featuring thousands of logos. Check out the Top Rated section to see what their users like the most.

Logospire

Logospire is a logo design gallery where users can vote on, comment on, and upload logo designs.

LogoMoose

LogoMoose is a logo design showcase site. They have a monthly "Logo of the month" award for submitted logo designs.

LogoSauce

LogoSauce is a logo design gallery. Check out the "top 6" section to view the most popular designs on the site.

lo8os

lo80s is a highly-categorized logo design gallery. You’ll find categories like "Symbols" or "Household Items" on here.

LogoSurf

LogoSurf is part of BuzzShout is a logo design aggregate that displays tons of logos in one page to reduce the number of clicks you have to perform to see logo designs.

logoed

logoed is a blog-style logo design showcase for graphic designers that posts logos from various designers.

goodlogo!com

goodlogo!com is a database of logo designs. Check out the Logo Top 250 section to see the most popular logos on the site.

Logo Design Articles

30 Brilliant Vector Logo Designs, Deconstructed

Graphic and web designer, Chris Spooner, analyzes how one would construct the featured logo designs.

branding firefox

Acclaimed creative team Hicksdesign discusses the method in which the Firefox logo was selected.

What Makes a Great Logo

This is an excellent article on the fundamental elements of a good logo design.

how do designers create unique identities?

Logo designer and author Jeff Fisher ponders on the ways designers go about creating unique brands that stand out from the crowd.

Logos with a meaning

This article on creativebits examines logos that have a symbolic meaning to them, such as the FedEx logo and Sun Microsystems logo.

5 vital logo design tips

Acclaimed graphic designer David Airey shares his tips on designing logos.

LogoBee’s Top 10 Logo Design Tips

Logo design company, LogoBee, shares some basic things to consider when creating a logo.

Color as Logo

Peter Windett discusses using color as your logo.

The Five Types of Marks

This back-to-basics article discusses the five main categories of logos.

Logos, Flags, and Escutcheons

A classic piece on logo design: Paul Rand discusses the meaning of logos and what makes it effective.

What makes a good logo design?

David Airey shares his thoughts on what makes a logo design great.

7 Logo Design Trends that have Withstood the Test of Time

Styles and trends of logos have changed throughout the years, but as this article shows, there are certain logo design elements that are as popular today as they were back in the day.

The Secret Life of Symbols

Maggie Macnab discusses the history of symbols and what they mean to us as a culture.

Branding Basics Create a Great Logo and Tag Line

This article shares some basic tips on creating a logo and a tag line for it.

How Google Got Its Colorful Logo

Wired News tells us the history of Google’s legendary logo.

The Power of RED

This article discusses the meaning of the color red and the emotions and perceptions it invokes upon the viewer.

Logo Design Revisited.

Designer Dmitry Kirsanov revisits and analyses some of the logos he’s done in the past.

Logo Design Showcases

Top 10 Rock Band Logos

Logo Design History

Logo Design & Branding Trends 2009

10 handwritten logo designs

10 Examples of Simple, Effective Logos

20 Inspirational Logo Designs

50+ Kick Ass Logos for Inspiration

35 Green, Leafy Logos

30 Dual Element Logos

15 wonderfully simple logo designs

The Logos of Web 2.0

A showcase of logos that have the "Web 2.0" look and feel.

Logo Design Flickr Groups

Design the Logo

Design the Logo group is a popular Flickr group with over 4,000 members and 8,000 items.

Brands, Marks & Logos

This 2,000+-member strong Flickr group showcases brands, marks, and logos from around the world.

Identity + Logo Design

With close to a thousand members, the Identity + Logo Design group on Flicker is a great place to hang out and gather design inspiration.

Logo Design Books

Designing Brand Identity

An excellent book on the topic of creating effective and successful strong brand identities. It also outlines strategies for maintaining your brand through time and throughout the company.

Logo, Font & Lettering Bible

A wonderful and pragmatic guide to working with logos. If you are new to the world of logo design and want to read about designing logos - this is a great starting point.

Logo Design That Works: Secrets for Successful Logo Design

This book analyzes 100 logos to see what features makes for an effective logo design. It also examines the evolutions of popular logos throughout the years, and why changes to them were made.

LogoLounge: 2,000 International Identities by Leading Designers

This book is a showcase of logos from around the world. It’s a great book to have around to gather inspiration: I look through it before sketching and firing up Illustrator to get the creative juices flowing.

Design Matters: Logos 01: An Essential Primer for Today’s Competitive Market

This book is about designing effective logos in today’s competitive market where consumers are baraged with plenty of options. How do you stand out from the sea of other logos? Read this book to find out.

30 Must-Have Logo Books

Here is a great set of books compiled by freelance graphic designer Gino Orlandi.

Logo Design Blogs and Sites

David Airey: Logo Design Category

David Airey has a section on his personal site that has a whole bunch of great logo design related posts.

Logolog

Denis Radenkovic runs a weblog where each post is focused on a particular logo which is analyzed and critiqued.

Logo Design Blog

Logo Design Blog shares news and information on logos and logo design companies.

LogoLounge.Com

LogoLounge.Com is a site dedicated to logos and is a great hang-out for logo designers.

Brands of the World

Brands of the World is a site that indexes the most popular, famous brands and logos around the world. Aside from using their search, you can also find designs by "Author", by "Country", and other sorts of filters.

The Logo Factor

The Logo Factor is a logo design weblog that discusses news and information on designing logos.

Brand New

Brand New is a site that shares opinions on brand identity, usually in the corporate setting.

Logo Notions

Logo Notions is a web column by Jeff Fisher that has essays on the topic of designing logos.

Got more?

Leave your favorite logo design tutorials and resources, or talk about the ones above, in the comments.

openSUSE 11 Speed Tweaks

1. Disable Swap.
Swap is provide to anticipate lack of memory when using heavy application like graphical application. But sometime i using it.
To disable swap, in terminal konsole as root type /sbin/swapoff -a, anyway it can enable anytime with /sbin/swapon -a.

add on : Oct 17, 2008
Just found the effect when i swap off 256 MB RAM on my friend PC. It’s resulting Hang. I’m not recommend to disable swap if RAM size <=256MB

2. Inactivate Unnecessary Service
Open Yast | System | System Service (Runlevel) and click Expert Mode radio button. Disable service below by pressing STOP button then following with SET button to disable.
1. aaventd
2. boot.aapmor
3. atd
4. auditd
5. autofs
6. autoyast
7. fbset
8. gpm
9. joystick
10. mdadmd
11. portmap
12. nfs
13. nscd
14. ntp
15. openct
16. pcscd
17. postfix
18. powerd
19. powersaved
20. raw
21. rpasswdd
22. smbfs
23. spamd
24. xfs
25. xinetd
26. ypbind

3. Edit Innitab
At terminal konsole type vi /etc/inittab then push insert button on keyboard and give comment with # at following line :
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty –noclear tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
#3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
#4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
#5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
#6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

This will inactivate ty3~tty6

4. Modify sysconfig
open Yast | System | /etc/sysconfig Editor, click plus on SYSTEM then KERNEL tree and change
SCHED_MINTIMESLICE to 1000
SCHED_MAXTIMESLICE to 40000
next click File systems then mdadm, change MDADM_DELAY to 0.

5. Edit Service Manager
open K menu | Personal Settings | advance tab | Service Manager
Let below service running :
KDED Favicon Module
Konqueror preloader (if using Konqueror)
Kwallet Daemon Module

And disable others than above.

6. Inactivate Beagle
open Yast | Software | Software Management
search for beagle and tick to remove this application then click Accept Button.

openSUSE Tweak : Increase openSUSE Speed & Performance

openSUSE Tweak : Increase
openSUSE Speed & Performance

Image
credit to : masternewmedia.

Before you read this, please keep in mind that there were no
tweak
or tips which suitable for all condition and completely work for all
users. Tweak and tips will only be suitable depending your purposes,
requirement and environment. As an example, I may disable a service but
the same service must be keep enable on your side because I do not use
the service but you do.

This post is based on true
story :-). It’s my experience
and I’ve applied it. I get a faster and nicer openSUSE after applying
these tips. The success story may vary depending above reason and I’ll
be very pleasant for your advice or suggestion. Please share your experience by dropping a comment
if you decided to apply these tweak, partially or fully implementation.

1. Disable Swap
   
   If you have more than 512 MB of RAM (1 GB an example), it’s
   may better to disable your swap space. Swap will only be used if
   computer has not enough memory
   for managing system task, but in certain condition, swap will be used
   even on enough memory condition. Disabling swap will push the system to
   fully managing memory allocation with RAM.
   
   
   
   Disabling swap :
   
   
   

   
   

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   1./sbin/swapoff
-a

   
   

   
   
   
   

   Enabling swap :
   

   
   
   
   

   
   

   view
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   1./sbin/swapon
-a

   
   

   
   
   
   

   BEWARE : Please don’t try this if
   you have less than 512 MB of RAM.
   Even though Linux have a good memory management to manage memory
   allocation, I do not suggest this tips because the computer may
   suddenly hang if Linux has not enough memory.

   
   

   There were also some suggestion on
   installation tutorial to
   prepare about 2.5X of RAM as good swap partition. IMHO, it may suitable
   for an ancient history where 128 MB of RAM
   is quite big. Now, RAM bigger than 4 or 8 GB is a common environment.
   2.5X of 8 GB is 20 GB. Do you need 20 GB of swap for buffering daily
   task ?
   

   
   


2. Disable Unnecessary Services
   
   It’s an important tips. Disable unnecessary service to increase
   available memory. Go to YAST | SYSTEM | SYSTEM
   SERVICES - RUNLEVEL to disable or enable any service.
   You may also used chkconfig servicename off/on to
   disable or enable services but I recommended YAST as primary choice
   because YAST has complete information about what is service provided
   for.
   

   Choose Expert Mode to see
   complete
   information.What’s service should be disable ? As describe on prologue
   above, it may vary depending your purposes but I try to keep it simple.
   Below is a list of some service. Please adjust the service state with
   your purposes and condition. If I skip the service, it means that I
   leave it on default condition.
   

   
   
   
   

   
   

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   01.SuSEFirewall2_init
and setup : disable, unless you used firewall.

   
   

   02.aaeventd
: If you have never used AppArmor, disable it. Disabling this service will also disable boot.apparmor

   
   

   03.

   
   

   04.acpid
: leave it

   
   

   05.alsasound
: leave it

   
   

   06.atd
: disable

   
   

   07.auditd
: disable

   
   

   08.autofs
: disable

   
   

   09.autoyast
: disable

   
   

   10.avahi-daemon
: disable (will also disable avahi-dnsconfd)

   
   

   11.bluetooth
: disable, unless used bluetooth

   
   

   12.bluetooth-coldplug
: disable, unless used bluetooth

   
   

   13.

   
   

   14.cron
: leave it, unless you have no scheduled cron job. I leave it enable on
my work PC but disable this
on my home PC

   
   

   15.

   
   

   16.cups
: leave it if
you has attached printer or need
CUPS to print to another printer, if not
so, disable it.

   
   

   17.dbus
: leave it

   
   

   18.

   
   

   19.earlykbd
: leave it, unless you do
not need keyboard

   
   

   20.earlyxdm
: leave it

   
   

   21.earlysyslog
: leave it, for
logging

   
   

   22.fbset
: disable

   
   

   23.gpm
: disable

   
   

   24.haldaemon
: leave it

   
   

   25.idmapd
: disable

   
   

   26.joystick
: disable, unless used it for
games

   
   

   27.kbd
: leave it, for
keyboard

   
   

   28.lirc
: disable

   
   

   29.mdadmd
: disable

   
   

   30.named
: leave it, for
DNS Server daemon (I leave it
disable on my home PC but automatically change to enable if I
decided to install DNS Server)

   
   

   31.mircocodectl
(Disable for
AMD CPU, leave it for Intel
processor)

   
   

   32.

   
   

   33.network
: leave it, unless you have stand alone workstation and do not
need to share files or used networking service

   
   

   34.

   
   

   35.nfs
: disable

   
   

   36.nfsboot
: disable, depending

   
   

   37.nfsserver
: disable

   
   

   38.nmb
: disable, unless used it for
Samba sharing file

   
   

   39.nscd
: disable

   
   

   40.ntp
: disable

   
   

   41.openct
: disable

   
   

   42.pscsd
: disable

   
   

   43.portmap
: disable

   
   

   44.postfix
: disable, unless used it for
mail transport or mail server

   
   

   45.powerd
: disable

   
   

   46.powersaved
: disable, unless used suspend feature

   
   

   47.random
: leave it

   
   

   48.raw
: disable

   
   

   49.rpasswdd
: disable

   
   

   50.saslauthd
: disable

   
   

   51.smb
: disable, unless used it for
Samba sharing file

   
   

   52.smbfs
: disable, according to smb state

   
   

   53.smpppd
: disable, unless used it for
dial up

   
   

   54.spamd
: disable

   
   

   55.splash
: leave it

   
   

   56.splash_early
: leave it

   
   

   57.sshd
: disable, unless used it for
ssh access. sshd = ssh service
daemon.

   
   

   58.syslog
: leave it

   
   

   59.xdm
: leave it

   
   

   60.xfs
: disable

   
   

   61.xinetd
: leave it

   
   

   
   
   
   


3. Edit Inittab
   
   Edit /etc/inittab and disable (add # mark) tty3-tty6. It should like
   this :
   
   
   

   
   

   view
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   01.#
getty-programs for the normal runlevels

   
   

   02.#
<id>:<runlevels>:<action>:<process>

   
   

   03.#
The “id” field MUST be the same as the last

   
   

   04.#
characters of the device (after “tty”).

   
   

   05.1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty
–noclear tty1

   
   

   06.2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty
tty2

   
   

   07.#3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty
tty3

   
   

   08.#4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty
tty4

   
   

   09.#5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty
tty5

   
   

   10.#6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty
tty6

   
   

   
   
   
   


4. Change sysconfig setting
   
   Change concurrent setting onYAST |
   SYSTEM | /etc/sysconfig editor Choose positive sign (+)
   on SYSTEM, KERNELChange
   
   
   

   
   

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   1.SCHED_MINTIMESLICE
1000

   
   

   2.SCHED_MAXTIMESLICE
40000

   
   

   
   
   
   

   Make another change on SYSTEM, File System -> mdadm

   
   

   Disable MDADM_SCAN and set “0″ for MDADM_DELAY
   

   
   


5. Increase Partition Performance.
   
   Modify /etc/fstab and add these setting :
   
   
   

   
   

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   1.for
Ext3 : natime, nodiratime, barrier
= 1

   
   

   2.for
XFS : noatime, nodiratime

   
   

   3.for
ReiserFS : notail, noatime,
nodiratime, barrier = flush

   
   

   
   
   
   

   Please keep in mind that change the setting or partition
   type will
   make a deal with recovery capability of appropriate partition. It’s a
   good idea to read this
   and there
   tutorial for a reference.
   

   
   


6. Disable Beagle
   
   Beagle used for desktop search.
   It has such improvement on openSUSE 11.0 and 11.1 but if you didn’t
   used it for daily usage, removing beagle will saved a memory that being
   used for indexing. Remove it with YAST | Software | Software Management
   or used our lovely zypper :
   
   
   
   

   
   

   view
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   1.zypper
rm beagle

   
   

   
   
   
   


7. Disable Nepomuk Desktop Search (on KDE 4)
   
   
   
   If you use KDE 4, you may get a bonus by disabling
   Nepomuk Desktop Search and Strigi desktop
   Indexer . Navigate to Kick
   off Menu | Configure Desktop | Advanced | Desktop Search.
   Disable (uncheck) Nepomuk Desktop Search and Strigi desktop
   Indexer.

After applying these tips, launched Konqueror and navigate to
System Information (type sysinfo:/
on URL address and press enter. I used KDE 4.2 beta 2 with standard
menu while writing this post. You
may also get same result by go to kick off
menu | Computer | System Information).
See how much free memory available on your computer. After that, reboot
your computer, re-check the system information before and after
tweaking.

Reference :

1. Tips
   Meningkatkan Kecepatan openSUSE (Indonesian)


2. Ben
   Kevan : Speed up your Linux Boot and Normal Use (openSUSE)

Super Grub Disk - Fix Linux or Windows Bootloader with Super Grub Disk

I just wanted to post this here since it has saved my a** plenty of times. Well, not that I couldn't fix boot issues manually, it's just that SuperGrub Boot Disk Makes it so much easier to fix your Windows and/or Linux Bootloader.

This is a must have if you dual boot!

Here's more info and the link to download it free:

Super Grub Disk is a bootable floppy, cdrom or usb that help you to deal with boot problems. You can automatically restore Grub on your MBR.

Here is the download page:

Super Grub Disk