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Logo Design Workbook: A Hands-On Guide to Creating Logos

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I'm used to design books that show examples of good work, but never give any real advice on how to make something. At first glance, this book is accessible and has lots of great images, but the content goes beyond that. It's actually pretty dense. It clearly explains how to make a logo and sell it. It has all the components of standards manuals listed. It even has a process guide for clients. I'm amazed AdamsMorioka was willing to divulge all of their "trade secrets" on good identities. This book also has an incredible collection of blue-chip designers and others that I've never seen before.

This is perhaps the most honest book that I have read since my beginning education in graphic design. The reading is objective yet incredibly insightful. I have been attending a local Art school for nearly four years now and can honestly say that this book offers more real world direction into the logo development process than any I have been assigned in the classroom. This isn't just a collection of logo designs and their designers, but a very well organized breakdown of how and why for logo development. Logo Design Workbook should be handed out the first day of school; where was this book when I was 18? I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in logo design from the student to the CEO.

I don't know why the author decieves us wih the word "Workbook." It should be called "about the design of famous logos"

The first 51 pages (of 230) are great. I like the colorful charts and stuff about logo design in the first 51 pages.

The rest is interesting to look at and read, but not what I need and not essential (230 pages long). I am still looking for a book about the logo design PROCESS. It is well designed and has some really great stuff, but still not everything I needed.

ANY AUTHORS OUT THERE? WRITE IT! I need a book which uses about 5 individual designers, their clients, and quotes from both about the process. I want pencil-sketchy looking beginnings. I want stuff about failures as well as successes. I want nitty gritty detail. If you can even include pictures of the designers and clients working together, photos of designers holding up logo proposals in front of a client, that would be great. I know what logos look like. I see them all the time. I do not want to see another book like this that just shows me a bunch of logos!

You will not become the logo master overnight. This book is a decent resource for developing your own thought process in logo creativity.

The book is full of decent examples of "how we got here from there."

It is good reading and very educational but not necessarily a revelation.

A great introduction to logo design process. The first part of the book is about the process and the second part is a catalog of case studies.

This book will not teach you how to draw your logo in your favorite vector-based drawing program, but gives you a bird's eye view on process and it does it great: it is easy to understand and covers important topics as asking the right questions to make your logo successful. Because it talks about the process more, it does not go into details with e.g. typeface and color selection (there are books which cover those topics), but you can see how the complete identity was designed e.g. for Metropolitan Market. Recently I had to work with external graphics professionals to re-design the graphical identity of one of our products and this book's focus on the process has helped me a lot to understand and to set up project requirements.

I recommend this book to anyone who works with designers or interested in logo design.

Subtitled "A hands-on guide to creating logos," the book Logo Design Workbook is a must on the studio library shelf of any designer interested in the creation of logos. Now in paperback, this Rockport Publishers offering covers all aspects of identity design clearly and specifically. From "The Ten Rules" to "Implementing Logos," the authors provide a visual smorgasbord of case studies and examples from firms such as Landor Associates, Morla Design, Pentagram, and over 45 other studios of all sizes, in explaining the basics and the idiosynchrocies of the logo design process. This book should be required reading for the students of any educational institution as they begin to study the creation of identities. - Jeff Fisher, Logo Notions/CreativeLatitude and bLog-oMotives

This book really takes you through every step of the process! It explains complicated ideas in an easy to understand format, loaded with excellent examples from today's top designers & firms. This is a must-have if you do Logo design. My only complaint, is with Rockport publications because I've read several of their books and they always seem to have frequent typos which sort of damages the credibility of the text.... but I guess I'm just picky. Other than needing spell check, this book is a wonderful reference book for any designer to keep in their library!

Another great book from AdamsMorioka. Graphic design geniuses. :) This book is superb-- it tells you what concerns need to be addressed before the design process begins, which was the most helpful part of the book. But the eye candy-- the logos-- were the most fun. I went through it all in a day, but can't wait to study it more intently. This will be a great reference and inspiration to me in my work.

A great and interesting book to read if you want to design logo's (or just your own, like I did).

The layout is great and makes you enthousiastic to start designing.

The reason that it is not five stars is that I missed some great examples (could be that I've different reference materials because I live in Europe).

Though it was an inspiring and usefull book; I'd buy it again.

This book is very informational and is great for looking at. it has a very nice layout style and has been helpful with suggestions on logo design. A great book for all designers- from beginners to advanced.