Logo Design Love: A Guide to Creating Iconic Brand Identities, 2nd Edition 2nd Edition
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In Logo Design Love, David shows you how to develop an iconic brand identity from start to finish, using client case studies from renowned designers. In the process, he reveals how designers create effective briefs, generate ideas, charge for their work, and collaborate with clients. David not only shares his personal experiences working on identity projects - including sketches and final results of his own successful designs - he also uses the work of many well-known designers such as Paula Scher, who designed the logos for Citi and Microsoft Windows, and Lindon Leader, creator of the current FedEx identity, as well as work from leading design studios, including Moving Brands, Pentagram, MetaDesign, Sagmeister & Walsh, and many more.
In Logo Design Love, you'll learn:
- Best practices for extending a logo into a complete brand identity system
- Why one logo is more effective than another
- How to create your own iconic designs
- What sets some designers above the rest
- 31 practical design tips for creating logos that last
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- Publisher : Peachpit Press; 2nd edition (August 20, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0321985206
- ISBN-13 : 978-0321985200
- Item Weight : 12.7 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.95 x 0.7 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #63,017 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7 in Desktop Publishing
- #8 in Design & Graphics Software Books
- #10 in Branding & Logo Design
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About the author

Designer of enduring logos and visual identities, David Airey runs an independent graphic design studio in Northern Ireland, collaborating with clients worldwide to grow their businesses through distinctive, meaningful, and emotive design.
The pages of his design websites — Logo Design Love & Identity Designed — are visited millions of times each year, compelling David to write their accompanying books. The first, Logo Design Love, is available in thirteen languages, an expanded second edition, and is included on the reading lists of design courses around the world. The second, Identity Designed, is, in the words of Adobe’s principal designer, Khoi Vinh, “not just a beautifully designed book, but also beautiful in its depth and detail about the identity design process.”
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It's undoubtedly an enjoyable book. Easy to understand breakdowns of some brand identities as well as very crucial tips and guides, such as "mind mapping" for example, to take into account when designing a brand identity that increases the possibility of producing greater results that hit the mark. The book really helps narrow things down from the initial meeting with the client on throughout the design phase and delivery.
Usually when you observe a brand's identity, i.e. their logo or trademark, at times it can be difficult to comprehend aside from the obvious fact that it represents something. This book is just one of many capable of changing that perspective with numerous sketches, as one example, that give a hint of what it can take for a mark to get from concept to final design. Some of the other books out there are more portfolios in my opinion and that's fine, but any design book that includes the process will always be more valuable :)
By Nik on March 3, 2020
It's undoubtedly an enjoyable book. Easy to understand breakdowns of some brand identities as well as very crucial tips and guides, such as "mind mapping" for example, to take into account when designing a brand identity that increases the possibility of producing greater results that hit the mark. The book really helps narrow things down from the initial meeting with the client on throughout the design phase and delivery.
Usually when you observe a brand's identity, i.e. their logo or trademark, at times it can be difficult to comprehend aside from the obvious fact that it represents something. This book is just one of many capable of changing that perspective with numerous sketches, as one example, that give a hint of what it can take for a mark to get from concept to final design. Some of the other books out there are more portfolios in my opinion and that's fine, but any design book that includes the process will always be more valuable :)
I'm a starting graphic designer, still learning and this my second book I bought but the first I read, it is an amazing and very helpful book indeed, reccomending to every graphic designer or any who wants to become a designer, I'm self-studying, so this book was a great start, I now have much better understanding of brand identity design and already putting everything on practice table, using his ideas to make logos, and yeah it is working very well and much more satisfying to do the whole process instead of working randomly. Anyway, this book has my reccomendations.
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The analysis and thinking from a professional is always highly inspiring and at the stage in my BA it was the perfect kick towards harnesses the work flow through the examples given in this great book.
I used this thoroughly as a professional source throughout the start of my design career and wanted to recommend it to new designers, students, or people wanting just some great logo design advice.
Pick it up! Enjoy!
It's very well written too, with a ton of useful insights and case studies.
The Q& A section is interesting too.
Still amazes me the amount of ideas agencies show clients, and this guy certainly puts them in their place. Too right.
This is well worth adding to your collection. Layout is spot on, the wording is carefully crafted and the sections are well informed.
Can only recommend.












