This 21st annual study by founder Bill Gardner provides a sweeping overview of logo trends gleaned from over 30,000 examples reviewed this year, as well as insights and musings on the cultural and commercial contexts from which they arise.
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Spirals
LogoLounge 2023: Spirals
Sonics
LogoLounge 2023: Sonics
Wireforms
LogoLounge 2023: Wireforms
Ballcaps
LogoLounge 2023: Ballcaps
Namefills
LogoLounge 2023: Namefills
Stretchers
LogoLounge 2023: Stretchers
Neostencil
LogoLounge 2023: Neostencil
Halfaster
LogoLounge 2023: Halfaster
Double Os
LogoLounge 2023: Double Os
Ritz
LogoLounge 2023: Ritz
GDUSA February 2024 Digital Edition
The February 2024 digital edition features our 61st GDUSA People To Watch special report. It features Packaging People and is exclusively sponsored by MOHAWK. Access to this edition is free.
20th Annual LogoLounge Trend Report
For the 20th straight year, GDUSA publishes Bill Gardner’s LogoLounge trend report, the first and last word on logo trends and the cultural context within which they are conceived. As Bill says: “Only when you grasp the trends… can you transcend.”
Reverse Stress
LogoLounge 2022: Reverse Stress
Loopers
LogoLounge 2022: Loopers
Over Arching
LogoLounge 2022: Over Arching
Whiplash
LogoLounge 2022: Whiplash
Hand Dots
LogoLounge 2022: Hand Dots
Super Traps
LogoLounge 2022: Super Traps
LogoLounge 13 Open For Submissions
LogoLounge.com is currently accepting submissions for LogoLounge Book 13, which will feature 3,000 of the best and brightest logos from around the world.
LogoLounge 2021 Trend Report
LogoLounge 2021: Designers as Scouts and Guides in Alien Territory
LogoLounge 2020 Trend Report
The LogoLounge 2020 trend report is an observation on the logo industry: the ideas here can push your design skills to the next level and keep the trajectory moving to the next iteration.
Counters
There are more than enough idioms in our language that lambast the individual that can’t spot the obvious: They can’t see the forest for the trees; Couldn’t see it if it hit you; Hidden in plain sight; or a personal favorite, Can’t see a hole in a ladder. Though questioning a designer’s perspective can be […]
Mazes
Mazes and their inception have always puzzled me. In classical times, I can imagine them being laid out and pruned within an inch of their life to amuse the owner of some well-healed estate. On the other hand, I can see that they could have been a way for the elite to dispose of boorish […]
Sisters
Humans have a desire to achieve a level of balance and harmony. We like to create order. As a rule, order can give us a sense of wellbeing. This is all part of a much bigger psychological conversation associated with the Gestalt theory, but for the purpose of this trend it’s driven by our comfort […]
Chexmelt
Sometimes an aesthetic meets it demise and no one remembered to tell it. A bit like my feelings for designs that trod out the old circuit board solder pathways careening around like a pair of Tron cycles abruptly flaring out to terminate in a silver dot cul-de-sac. That technology probably took us to the moon […]