Save Canuck Logo History!
Great article from the Ottowa Citizen (Via Quipsologies) about Canada's celebrated logo history… I don't notice any Wildcats or Red Dragons logos in there though, eh....
Branding Tag
And the winner is
Volcom takes the cake in our inaugural Logo World Championship of the World. After a couple close rounds when battling Quiksilver & Powell Peralta, Volcom rolled through the final taking 78.3% of the vote in it's battle vs Vans. We'd like to thank everyone who...
LogoLounge – Book 8 Call For Entries
Logolounge is having a call for entries for their 8th book. The site is a great resource & the books are a great way for designers to get some recognition. Plus it's aways cool seeing your stuff in print amongst a bunch of other good...
Made in California
Wrapped up a Made in California logo a couple weeks ago for Cosmetix West, a private label skincare manufacturer based in LA. Pretty excited about how it turned out. They've got it up on the front page of their newly-redesigned website as well. ...
XFusion RV1 fork branding & graphics
Excited this finally released, keeping tight lipped for the past 5 months has been tough. Last fall I worked closely with XFusion's John Hauer to brand & create the graphics for XFusion's long-awaited jump into the downhill mountain bike fork game. The graphic briefing was...
Advice from Saul Bass
One of the design greats gives his one key piece of advice to hopeful designers & design students....
World Industries logo
Logo I did last summer for for World Industries, one of the most influential companies in modern skateboarding. As soon as I did this one, I knew it was the one to go with and a few rounds of comps later, they agreed. Follow the jump to see a screenshot of the illustrator artboard while I was working on the logo with some other versions / concepts.
March Logo Madness
Inaugural March Logo Madness is underway, head to March Logo Madness to vote!...
Arby’s = Fail
Looks like the folks at Arby’s decided to reinvent themselves, ditching one of the only things the brand had going for it. In Chief Marketing Officer Russ Klein‘s infinite wisdom, he replaced the super-awesome cowboy hat logo with something that looks like a c+ logo project from a community college “Introduction to Graphic Design” course. If you care to read more about our views, follow the jump because there’s a lot to say about this travesty.
Big Battle Over Small Fruit
Pretty interesting article over on Yahoo about the Cuties brand of clementines. Very interesting read on how much of an impact the branding has had on the tradition-steeped industry in America. The Big War Over a Fruit...
Saul Bass’ Bell System Pitch
Video prepared by another branding genius, Saul Bass, for bell systems. It's a bit long with the first half being basic identity design stuff & the second half (around 13 minutes) being the pitch itself. Thanks Under Consideration...
That’s a big logo.
Kinda cool seeing my work painted so large. Hard to believe it’s been 9 years since the call from Ronnie saying he needed a logo. Anyways, this is Shadow x Ben Hucke Painting from Shadow Conspiracy
the CBS eye logo – rant or rave?
Another logo's up in our Logo Rants & Raves section...
the CBS Eye logo
On Sunday October 17th, 1951 CBS revealed their new logo placed over a cloud formation photograph. What was intended as a logo to be used for one year has went on to become one of the most recognized logos ever created. CBS President Frank...
Chick-fil-A Logo
Our too-long neglected Logo Rants & Raves section has a new logo. Is it a rant or a rave? Check out our Logo Rants & Raves section to read up on it's history & learn some trivial nonsense about the brand!...
Chick-fil-A & Doodles
Clucking it's way onto Valhalla's world famous Logo Rants & Raves page is my current favorite logo out there, the Chick-fil-A "Doodles" logo. Simple, straight & to the point. Fun, inoffensive, instantly recognizable & down to earth, it hits on all levels. I love how...
History of the RCA logo
So, the story goes like this. The logo we (American’s) know as the RCA logo is one of the first instances of company branding. See, way back in 1899 the Gramophone company bought a painting by Francis Barraud with a dog listening to a record of his dead owner’s voice. Interested? Follow the jump to find out the whole story.
Custom font for Angels & Airwaves
Our work with Angels & Airwaves continues to trickle out. Their newly relaunched website features our custom-created AvA font that we just wrapped up for them a couple days back. Check it out on their site AngelsandAirwaves.com! We'll keep posting more of our work with...
New Balance Baseball gets a lift
Wrapped this little number up a couple months ago for the folks over at New Balance. In case it’s not obvious enough, it’s the new logo for their baseball division which should have premiered a couple weeks ago at the beginning of Spring Training in Arizona & Florida. After the jump there’s an alternate horizontal version.
Valhalla’s 2011 Lookbook
Put together a lookbook of our most current work which is available for download. 41 pages, chock full of case studies, branding, advertising & consumer goods.
Download the 6.5mb PDF for free here:Valhalla Lookbook or follow the jump for more shots!
Seattle’s worst logo?
So about a week ago Seattle’s Best Coffee decided to drop their new logo. In case you haven’t read really any design blog, msn or yahoo type site or have a water cooler gossiper who knows you like that arty stuff it’s causing a pretty big commotion, generally not the good kind.
Evolution of the Google Logo
Wired has a pretty cool little article on how Google got their colorful logo. The article follows through the preliminary concepts through the final design. Check it out here. Or see more after the jump
We Recommend – Logo by Michael Evamy
Book of the Month time again. This time around, it's an amazing number by Michael Evamy, simply called Logo. It's as thick as a dictionary and has just about every good logo you can imagine. Check out our mini review here....
The Chocolate chunk
The latest addition to the Logo Rants & Raves section is the Chocolate chunk script logo by Evan Hecox. Is it a rant or rave? While that shouldn't be too hard to figure out, you can check it out in the Logo Rants & Raves...
Don’t forget about the Germans
Sure yesterday, we put up some good examples of American design on cars from the 70’s but don’t think for a second that the German’s were sleeping at that time. The early 70’s meant business at the Porsche factory, their cars were works of art and to top them off, they painted them amazingly well for the races. Here’s a great set from the Porsche museum of the branding on their racecars. (check after the jump to see out highlights)
Cars used to be cool.
Seems like now the only thing that car companies make are remakes of older cool cars, cars with some Green story or just complete garbage. Enough of that though, here’s a cool set with some amazing examples of how cool the typography on old cars used to be (you can also see a condensed version after the jump)
Leaf me alone.
Been cruising around on Flickr looking at different type examples lately. Came across a pretty good set by a fella named Michael Spitz today. Click here to check out his work....
20 years of shredding
Twenty years of shredding is a long time. Twenty years ago in snowboarding was a different world. To celebrate it’s 20th anniversary, the MMSC asked us to do a revise of their logo.