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The Little Book of Logo Recipes: Successful Designs and How to Create Them

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This book looks, reads and feels thrown together. The logo designs and shapes presented look as if they were produced in a middle school design class. Stay away from this book, I would not even suggest it to beginners.

This is a book of how NOT to create a logo. The author relies on cheesy Photoshop filters applied to random shapes to create something "interesting". Seriously, there's a whole section on circle logos where he takes circles and does various things to them to make something that doesn't really qualify as a logo.

And honestly, the examples are very sloppily done. Things don't align properly, there are gaps and corners poking out where they aren't supposed to. You would think he would go over his "designs" carefully before publishing them in a book. The whole thing looked like he put it together in a couple evenings after work.

Terrible book! Total waste of my money and went straight into Good Will pile since I have an aversion to throw books in trash! And very dated book too!

I bought this book expecting it to provide examples of good logo design as well as showing how to use your plug-ins or other design applications to create your own versions of the logos. While it does provide good instruction on different Photoshop plug-ins to generate design results, the sample logos in this book seem very, very dated. Many of them are not good examples of logos that I would except to see from a design house. This book could be beneficial to a novice designer, but is not for the expert one.