This logo design was sent to us by a designer named Mikey Maruszak, who made it for his place of business, Printplace.

What does everyone think?

I think the .com is too small to be seen. I like the graphic, and the font. Maybe the ink and P’s could be a little bigger within that drop icon. I hope you’re using that face as a mascot on the body of an owl. I could see that working.

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What is a great custom logo design really worth? It is hard to say but there are a few things we can say for certain. The logo has historically been called “the face” of the company because it’s usually the first encounter the public has with the company. It’s likeability either loses or gains a company customers, and it does this 24 hours a day for the life of the company. In terms of marketing power, this effect is similar to what financial brokers call “compound interest.” When a customer is considering a company for services of any kind, they usually compare them to one or two other companies – and besides price, the look and feel of the company logo and website design is what they have to use to consider what kind of service they will receive from a company. You make hundreds of decisions based on looks every day. Here’s an example:
The last time you bought an app on your iPhone, you probably typed in the category of app you’re looking for that ill fit your needs. You were then presented with a few options, all represented by a little 57 x 57 pixel graphic square. The meticulous customer checks reviews and reads all the info about the app, but most of us pick the one based on the icon. And when I say most us, I mean, studies show it’s about a great majority of app consumers buy the app based on the graphic.

A well-tailored logo and corporate brand design tells the customer that the company is not a fly-by-night operation and that their service will be fair and consistent. A well-designed logo catches the attention, and is retained in the consumer’s mind.

Sometimes you have to take a time-out as a designer, and just do what you love. After watching this last season, I just had to make a little vector illustration of my favorite characters as a small tribute to the show’s greatness.

You can see more illustrations like this at our portfolio. We’d love to do something like this for your team!

Now that everyone’s buzzing about the golden age of superhero films we’re living in, it got me thinking about hero-type logos we’ve done….this may have to be a 3-part post, because we’ve done a lot of logos with heroic figures. It’s not a bad idea, its just that it is so often used, the struggle is to make the figure both classic and unique.

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Sometimes there’s clients that want a character thats not exactly an animal, and not exactly humanoid. We love to draw whatever the client wants, from an actual beancounter to a snowboarding yeti.

$20 (through Paypal) for the first person who can correctly identify the typeface used here. I tried WhattheFont, and found nothing similar. Good luck.

One of our Business Logos clients has a logo that they did with LogoWorks. The designer forgot to put the font identifier in the file. Now this client would like to know what font his tagline it is in. I tried the WhatTheFont tool at Myfonts, but it didn’t work. Can anyone identify this? It looks like something done at fontdiner, but I can’t find it there, either. Hopefully one of you designers out there can help me out. The first one to correctly identify it wins $20.

First Name: Eduardo
Last Name: Mello
Designer: Yes
What will the logo be used for: web, brochures, office templates

It would be nice to have more info on this one, but it’s good to see your process. I like the final logo. I’d like to know what the Social Seguridad has to do with it.

Today’s submission is from Isaac. “The hispanic area council is a student run organization that is designed to give minority students in the student senate, promote and educate outsiders on hispanic culture, and recruit new Hispanic Students to the college. ” What do we think?