50 Clever, Creative Logos

By Steven Snell | Published November 3rd, 2009 in Inspiration

If you’ve browsed through any logo design galleries, you’ve probably noticed some that take a very creative approach. In this post we’ll feature 50 clever logos for your design inspiration.

Uptown

Uptown

Cowbra

Cowbra

Typeface

Typeface

Shy Child

Shy Child

Mary and Andy

Push the Bottle

Cafe Click

Cafe Click

Iron Duck

Iron Duck

Threesome

Threesome

Pain

Pain

White Crimson

White Crimson

Sushi

Sushi

Wine Kingdom

Wine Kingdom

Strategical Office Solutions

Strategical Office Solutions

Natuur 2000

Natuur 2000

Shocked

Shocked

Broken Goggles

Broken Goggles

Steers Restaurant

Steers Restaurant

American Culinary Foundation

American Culinary Foundation

Egg

Egg

Eco-Cities

Eco-Cities

Families

Families

Fenz-it

Fenz-it

Plated

Plated

Rentzilla

Rentzilla

Miskeeto

Miskeeto

Doghouse Brewing Company

Doghouse Brewing Company

Exitive

Exitive

Forkwire


Mind Over Math


Catalyst Construction


Umbrellar

Modani


Wiesinger Music


Playground


Elephant Talk


African Film Club


Twins

DJ Loop

Oil

Shelter

Shift Creative

Look

Killed

Swing Studios

Unpugged

Mr. Cutts

Peace Rebels

Shirt Pepper

Bar Code

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101 Comments
  1. designfollow on November 3rd, 2009

    great logos

    thanks.

  2. LiliekS on November 3rd, 2009

    Wow very creative… My favorite is Push the Bottle Logo :D

  3. Design Informer on November 3rd, 2009

    Nice logos. I can’t even choose which one as my favorite. Good job!

  4. captaindagher on November 3rd, 2009

    Very creative! You should look at the “Canadian Press” logo, would definitely fit with these.

  5. theComplex on November 4th, 2009

    Wow… these are so inspiring! Can’t wait to share this!

  6. Brian Yerkes on November 4th, 2009

    Thanks for the collection. I really like the “Shy Child” logo, haven’t seen that before.

  7. dotndot on November 4th, 2009

    Awesome collection…Great post.

  8. Emma Williams on November 4th, 2009

    Simple logos but very effective, I like them. Logos are so important to promote your brand and the above are very good, Thanks

  9. Nicolas Crovatti on November 4th, 2009

    Very inspirative. I particulary love the “Killed” logo, simple, effective and easily readle.
    Thanks for the research!

  10. Senthil Ramesh on November 4th, 2009

    Lots of brain and creativity needed for these. I am stunned at many places. The first one inspired me was SHY

  11. Ronald on November 4th, 2009

    GrEat LoGOs GOOd InSpiRation.

  12. Iura on November 4th, 2009

    wow !!!

    very and very nice

    love the simplicity in everthing

    great works

  13. Jaky Astik on November 4th, 2009

    Hey, it’s wonderful. I have just started a new magazine designing blog. It’s different from your design blog from the context that it need arrangement of typographic layers on paper and a lot of distinguishing ideas.

    Anyways, I like your blog. it’s worth reading.

  14. TimHolmesDesign on November 4th, 2009

    Some really awesome and inspirational logos here very good indeed

    Cheers

  15. Jack Harris Jr on November 4th, 2009

    The Rentzilla and Typeface ones are my favorite.

  16. BebopDesigner on November 4th, 2009

    Wow! these are brilliant. Thanks for the inspiration.

  17. Arnaud on November 4th, 2009

    Very good logos !!! The best one I think : Shy Child and Killed !

    See U

  18. Monsieur M on November 4th, 2009

    Brilliant selection !

  19. Thomas on November 4th, 2009

    Nice selection, lots of very popular logos

  20. Wes Wilson on November 4th, 2009

    Great post! Thanks for showcasing several of http://brandstack.com logos!

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  22. Larissa on November 4th, 2009

    Great collection. I haven’t seen some of these before. Here are a few more great logos: http://ljdesignstudio.com/logo-inspiration

  23. Kelsey on November 4th, 2009

    WOW! These are great and so inspiring. It’s so refreshing to look at good design. I’m blown away.

  24. Felipe Ávila da Costa on November 4th, 2009

    Great selection…

  25. Steven Snell on November 4th, 2009

    Thanks for the feedback everyone, I’m glad a lot of people have found this post to be inspiring. If you have any suggestions for future logo design showcases please leave a comment.

  26. Gopal Raju on November 4th, 2009

    Loved the shy logo! a masterpiece!

  27. Tim on November 4th, 2009

    I HATE YOU PEOPLE!!! How can you come up with such clever ideas?!?! Soooo inspired. Simple yet full on impact. Nice post.

  28. Ray on November 4th, 2009

    SHift & Families are spectacular

  29. A.D.K. on November 4th, 2009

    Some really nice ideas here. Thanks for sharing this. I like cowbra and cafeclick . Really clever ideas. Also swing and un pluged :D

  30. Liora on November 4th, 2009

    Fantastic! Inspiring!!! Why was there never a “threesome” logo before?

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  32. Jay Cookingham on November 4th, 2009

    Great logos, thanks for sharing!

  33. Mr.JOSE on November 4th, 2009

    Really great Logos…. cool… thanx for the collection!!

  34. Business on November 4th, 2009

    These are amazing. So simple, yet so complex. Definitely gets my attention.

  35. Hayley on November 4th, 2009

    Clever, love the ’shocked’ and ‘threesome’ !

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    This is a really great post! Thanks for putting it all together.

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    These are some really awesome logos. Very inspiring. Seeing Steers Restaurant logo just makes me want a steak immediately.

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  41. Grey on November 4th, 2009

    This is a very nice showcase, thank you for taking the effort to put this together! Many of the logos are pretty smartly designed, I think I should check back here every time before I start a logo design project :D

  42. Deathgleaner on November 4th, 2009

    Love how they used some of the denotations of words in the logos themselves.

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    Brilliant designs

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  45. Vhuwan on November 5th, 2009

    Nice Logos.

  46. Oliver on November 5th, 2009

    Very Cool Logo-Ideas! Great.

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    Excellent article. Thanks for sharing.

    Cheers

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    nice idea

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  50. Denis on November 5th, 2009

    Cool! Very clever! Most of all i like Families logo

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    Thanks. Another compilation of great ideas.

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  61. Roel on November 9th, 2009

    Those are absolutely stunning logo’s.

    However, most of them are probably case studies of companies that don’t actually exist (I’ve seen lots of those on logopond.com). Many times you can see that the designer had a clever idea and made up a company name that matches that idea. However in reality you have to deal with a dull uninspired company name and have to create something clever that matches that name. Which is really really difficult! :-)

  62. Steven Snell on November 9th, 2009

    Roel,
    You’re right and I agree that it is often much more difficult in a real world scenario. Still, I think they can be good sources of inspiration.

  63. Logo Design on November 9th, 2009

    I really, really like these my favorite is push the bottle.

  64. Ted Rex on November 9th, 2009

    Great collection. I happen to be working on a couple logos right new so this was great timing. I posted a link to this page on my daily design blog:
    http://designthoughtfortheday.blogspot.com/

    Ted

  65. Creative Guy on November 10th, 2009

    Brilliant collection!
    Can’t really say which one is fav…
    Thanks for sharing.

  66. Shweta Saxena on November 10th, 2009

    hello

    your site is awesome ……………..very nice work…………& very inspiring
    i think you have to add very user friendlly tutorials for design specially logo design b’coz its difficult to design very informative and conceptual logos………
    plz think abiut that mr stevan…………..

    thnaks fornice logos ideas

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  69. Enver on November 14th, 2009

    Great logos here…
    I saw may be half of them before, but they are all great.

  70. Shrikant L Gupta on November 28th, 2009

    Just 2 word. very good. shy child, pain,&elephant talk are realy realy good.

  71. Urviho on November 29th, 2009

    Some of them are really cool logos :)

  72. Luke Southwell on January 7th, 2010

    Very impressive! The logo designs you posted are very clever indeed. Gives impact to the viewers’ eye.
    I enjoyed reading this post of yours.
    Keep it up!

  73. me on February 13th, 2010

    a very simple idea but the creative source of inspiration

  74. afino on March 2nd, 2010

    Cowbra is interesting…

  75. Ghassan on April 21st, 2010

    i need a logo could you assist me in that ?

  76. Genevish Graphics on April 21st, 2010

    One of the funnies ones – “unpugged”
    Thanks for sharing – these are quite inspiring ways to think outside the box~

  77. eshanne on April 22nd, 2010

    Hehehe.. Thanx for all the logo’s here.. It is really inspired me.. LOL.. WHOWW!! What can i say.. WHOWWWW!! Peace!!

  78. DsignLovr on May 4th, 2010

    “families” logo is created by Herb Lubalin (1918-1981), my favourite designer… :)
    very clever logo…

  79. dhana on May 25th, 2010

    wow…

  80. oxidizzy on July 6th, 2010

    families logo so good ! But everything was great here !!

  81. utari on July 8th, 2010

    awesome, good logo design..so great!!

  82. Website designers chennai on July 12th, 2010

    Creative logos…its useful for to designing logos..its great ideas,thanku for such useful post

  83. ardhan on July 13th, 2010

    great logo, but philosophy of the logo is important too

  84. eric on July 13th, 2010

    it was cool… :)
    thanks for share…

  85. ilham on July 15th, 2010

    its amazing, thanks

  86. Koje on July 15th, 2010

    Those are so inspiring logos :)
    Thank you for sharing/….

  87. chai on July 15th, 2010

    simple and creative, i like see them

  88. tee are on July 15th, 2010

    nice collection you have. simple and nice.

  89. Eko on July 19th, 2010

    Very creative and inspired logo design, thanks

  90. kai on July 19th, 2010

    so inspirative…. i think i can mix it with my logos

  91. vuitton hanbags on July 23rd, 2010

    nice collection you have. simple and nice.

  92. lv on August 3rd, 2010

    good job

  93. MBO on August 9th, 2010

    nice post! simple yet very interesting. good job! I really liked it.

  94. Matthew on August 11th, 2010

    Great inspiration, thanks for sharing! :)

  95. isha on August 13th, 2010

    great designs seriously… awsummmmm…….

  96. lv on August 14th, 2010

    awesome, good logo design..so great!!

  97. Logo Designer on August 19th, 2010

    The “Mary and Andy” logo design is my favorite. I like how the heart encompasses the entire pictorial mark.

  98. TwitterBackgrounds on August 20th, 2010

    Great logo designs :) I really liked the Plated logo and Push the Bottle; Thanks for sharing these original creations.

  99. women seeking women on August 28th, 2010

    The “Mary and Andy” logo design is my favorite. I like how the heart encompasses the entire pictorial mark.