NEW

PROFILE:

"I Can Fly" logo. This logo will be used by Wasinc for a program based in China that will enable the less fortunate to attain the skills to pilot an airplane. This will be a decal on a Boeing 777. How awesome is that?

That's me you see there in the logo

This logo was published in the I HEART LOGOS book and several other design annuals including LogoLounge

as well as a feature in Smashing Logo Design

INSPIRATION:

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

-Leonardo da Vinci

NEW

PROFILE:

Incendio Design - Interior Design Firm in Brampton, Canada.

INSPIRATION:

When I met with the great people at the firm, 2 things stuck out for me, their passion for fire and metal. It's what and how they make their great products. I tried to create a logo that would capture that in a pleasing way considering the harshness of the 2 elements.

NEW

PROFILE:

Architecture logo -

The Ikon Tower will be the most prestigious office tower in Northern Cyprus and an 'iconic landmark'.

www.ikontower.com

INSPIRATION:

I took one look at the blueprints and decided to use the simple shape of the beautiful bulding to house the IKON lettering.

NEW

PROFILE:

Blue Volt Online training for electricians

INSPIRATION:

'Hands On' approach, softening up a tough-guy industry. Letter combination of B and V.

NEW

PROFILE:

HolyWood Acting Studio Los Angeles based acting school founded by talented actor/producer, Eduardo Verásteguir, famous for the movie Bella.

INSPIRATION:

I had a vision of an angel bowing gracefully after a stage performance so I captured it. Eduardo got the image on his BlackBerry and loved it instantly.

NEW

PROFILE:

MyEducation®

'MyEducation Global Limited (trading as MyEducation®) is developing innovative approaches to meet the needs of UK and international students and educational institutions...'

INSPIRATION:

We wanted an iconic M that would serve as clever as it would memorable. The concept utilizes --loosely --the letters M and Y to create a hand holding a book.

"A good book has no ending.

~R.D. Cumming"

NEW

PROFILE:

Illusionz Wine Bar

A cool new night club under development.

This logo won the International Wolda Logo Award for Best of Canada.

See press release.

See more here.

INSPIRATION:

Some people see 2 wine glasses, some people see 3 wine bottles. Drink all the above and who knows what you'll see.

NEW

PROFILE:

Peaceful Healings

Energy healing including Reiki. Animal healing and wellness. See more of this logo and brand identity

INSPIRATION:

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated"

- Mahatma Gandhi

NEW

PROFILE:

Afuze Technology

Toronto IT firm with focus on centralizing 'fusing' technologies. See snapshot of logo construction grid which was part of the style guide manual that I created. This logo was designed in colabboration with one of the best brand designers - MikeRock.co.

INSPIRATION:

Liquid metal was mentioned a few times. The properties of the element Mercury seemed to fit the essence of thier key message.

NEW

PROFILE:

Isenguard Investent Group

Logo designed for high-scale investment firm. They selected another one of my concepts for their web site.

INSPIRATION:

In case you don't know, my middle name is Lion, literally.

NEW

PROFILE:

No Shame Records

New York City Record label - the name says it all so the logo didn't have to.

INSPIRATION:

Anarchy

NEW

PROFILE:

Logo designed in 2005 for online storage company no longer in business.

INSPIRATION:

colorful cubic straight jacket!

PROFILE:

Fashion week, down unda'

Featured on Designing Successful Corporate Logos

INSPIRATION:

Kangaroo with style.

logo will be featured in LogoLounge3

NEW

PROFILE:

Mangia Pasta Bar

INSPIRATION:

This noodle was sitting on my desk and it looked like the letter M to me.

PROFILE:

CityCliq.com goes beyond traditional Yellow Pages advertising to help you reach more customers.

Logo featured in Great Logos With Smart Concepts

INSPIRATION:

The cursor when hovering over a link. I chopped it in half and Voila, a city was born. Click!

PROFILE:

Personafire - motivational coaching service.

INSPIRATION:

The 'personfication' of flame to man.

PROFILE:

Proposed to the new I.T city of Alatau in Kazakhstan.

This logo was mentioned here Design Successful Logos

INSPIRATION:

An organic looking abstract fibre representation of hills that at the same time conveyed growth.

PROFILE:

Software start-up for retail sector.

www.merchantlogix.com - site mock up

This design was created in 2004. The business has since shut down. Some say the logo's influence has gone far.

Here's what I said

INSPIRATION:

After creating the name, I toyed with the M and L letter forms and came up with this cube like icon. The L is in blue. This is a web version of the logo

.

logo will be featured in LogoLounge3

PROFILE:

Performance enhancement for athletes. Product in development.

INSPIRATION:

cobras in unison, slithering, muscle fibre, flames. motion captured

PROFILE:

Xanadu - Canada's newest health club experience

This logo won best of 2007 at plainBeta

http://www.whatisxanadu.com/

INSPIRATION:

energetic grace, embodied with the universe

PROFILE:

Created for the grmuleat people at Jive Software. You can see a blog entry about the logo evolution here.

INSPIRATION:

The C letterform serves as a thumb and finger capturing clear space.

PROFILE:

Xtensha - Web Development company in Australia.

INSPIRATION:

Must be the X factor.

NEW

PROFILE: MuleSoft.com

MuleSoft™ is the #1 integration platform for cloud and enterprise. Clients include GE, Boeing, Starbucks, Cisco and Verizon.

This rebranding included a name change from the previous handle, MuleSource. It was important the image of the mule from the old logo be carried into the new logo. If you look hard enough, you might see the top of his head and ears.

INSPIRATION:

A nice ass

NEW

PROFILE:

Jivespace was the developer community for Clearspace which has now become the Jive Community

INSPIRATION:

As an homage to the clearspace logo,this mark stylized a 'big bang' around a C. This logo was designed in partnership with an awesome logo designer known as Nido

NEW

PROFILE:

Jive Jive Software is the global leader in Social Business Software. This reberanding was featured in Entrepreneur Magazine . In December 2012, Jive Software had an IPO. See here on Forbes

INSPIRATION:

Collaboration - Zoooom!

NEW

PROFILE:

Google Sponsored XMPP Formerly known as Jabber is the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), an open technology for real-time communication, which powers a wide range of apps including Facebook Chat , Google Talk

INSPIRATION:

I cant come up with anything Xcellent to write yet...

NEW

PROFILE: Wikinvest.com

Wikinvest wants to make investing easier by creating the world's best source of investment information and investment tools. They provide stock charts to Forbes

Wikinvest was amongst Time Magazines' '50 Best Websites 2012'

INSPIRATION:

show me da' money!

PROFILE:

MACHEAD.com - consultants of Apple(MAC) systems who also offer cost-effective iPhone App development.

INSPIRATION:

Hmm.. what keeps the doctor away?

PROFILE:

Identity for a clothing business I am starting up.

INSPIRATION:

an elegant roar

PROFILE:

VAVA - GO! mobile technology soon to be seen at www.vavago.com

This logo design was featured in 10 Great Ambigram Logos

INSPIRATION:

Intrigue.

Vibrant dynamic coolness: All taken from the V and A shapes. The type also easily works as an ambigram. I wanted to create a visual state of suspension - making the viewer wanting more.

PROFILE:

Vivino - an iPhone App Logo featured on Forbes

INSPIRATION:

Stumbling home late one night with my head down, I noticed this brilliant pattern on a paved driveway, too bad it was the wrong house.

PROFILE:

Secondary concept for above client.

INSPIRATION:

Is the glass half empty? Who cares, pour the wine!

This logo has had quite the journey, some of it can be seen here at Logopond where it has gone on to have over 25,000 views.

The Bistro ogo was also mentioned on Creative Pro in an article titled "..experts discuss what goes into designing a logo.." next to the Google logo.

PROFILE:

IgniteRealtime is the community site for the users and developers of Jive Software's open source Real Time Communications projects.

INSPIRATION:

Connecting radiant hotspots, the doppler effect, sonar, you get the point.

PROFILE:

Innoplex Technologies

INSPIRATION:

I tried to add some humanistic element by combining the letters 'I' and 'T'

PROFILE:

Trinvo - TRanslation INto VOice - An electronic translation device.

This logo was also mentioned on Creative Pro in an article titled "..experts discuss what goes into designing a logo.." next to the FedEx logo.

INSPIRATION:

Toying with the sound and shape of the letters T and V, I formed an icon that appears to be in translation.

PROFILE:

SignalCom - Voice and Data communications.

INSPIRATION:

around every corner of the world

PROFILE:

This mark was created for 2Talk, a new VOIP company.

INSPIRATION:

I got inspired as I was twirling the phone cord around my finger while speaking with the client.

PROFILE:

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM), a global telecommunications giant, launched Media Flo as a mobile service. CEO Paul Jacobs later wanted to pull the service as seen on Business Insider

INSPIRATION:

;)

PROFILE:

This is my own personal logo. I have it as a tattoo on my arm. Click here to see it.

The Raja Logo was featured in Top 20 Talented Logo Designers

INSPIRATION:

It took me three years to create something that I was satisfied with and felt represented me. The concept here is using one shape to create the letters 'r', 'a', 'j', and 'a' again (raja - my name) in a maze type of structure. You can see it animated here, on my friend Nirmal's website . This logo is also published in LogoLounge 3 and will be featured in a few more publications in 2008.

PROFILE:

online gaming and sports betting

INSPIRATION:

Q and P letterforms combined to create an arrow. A HIDDEN ARROW!

PROFILE:

Ultimatennis - tennis league

INSPIRATION:

Tennis ball

I got this idea while thinking about a tennis ball. If you look carefully, you can see a 'U' (for Ulitimate) and a 'T' (for tennis).

PROFILE:

Fair Indigo - Clothing

This logo was featured in Five Great Monogram Logo Designs

INSPIRATION:

Duality.

There is more to this logo than at first appears. If you look at the 'white' areas, you can see a 3 dimensional 'F' and a 3D block type lowercase 'i'.

Here are some more concepts that were presented to the client. These were inspired by the character 'F' and an open hand, to suggest giving, fairness.

PROFILE:

online paper items

INSPIRATION:

'b' and 'p' to hint at paper shopping bag.

This logo will also be published in the new Logo Masters book by Rockport

PROFILE:

Spoiled Rotten Ent.

INSPIRATION:

Grime

logo will be featured in LogoLounge3

PROFILE:

Video and Photo Sharing

INSPIRATION:

The combination of the letters V and S.

PROFILE:

First Rate Logo. Document handling company.

This logo was featured in Five Great Monogram Logo Designs

INSPIRATION:

F-R monogram, digitized

logo will be featured in LogoLounge3

PROFILE:

Online retailer of innovative products.

INSPIRATION:

Using the WhimsyTT typeface, I combined the letters in LUDOS to form this character. LUDOS means "games" in Latin. I used the letters below to make the face.

PROFILE:

The most innovative access control, hi-definition surveillance, fire, and security systems available.

Securex

INSPIRATION:

Chain link security

PROFILE:

Proposed concept for Grammy award winning singer Norah Jones.

This won Logo of the Day

INSPIRATION:

Dichotomy. The initials N and J are twined in an impossible linkage.

M.C. Escher

PROFILE:

A personal project that has gained global attention in the design community before I could even finish it because of this little fish! Now this design has been publisjhed in 10 international design books.

INSPIRATION:

a fish, on fire, what else?

PROFILE:

Landscaping business.

INSPIRATION:

Using the A shape I used the inside to suggest a tree or bush. I added 2 more to create a landscape. Client wanted a contemporary look.

PROFILE:

FIDO computers. Winner of Logo of the Year 2008

INSPIRATION:

Good to the bone.

PROFILE:

State University of New York, online education.

INSPIRATION:

Empowered individual traveling forward, in touch with the world ahead of him riding on the magic pillar of knowledge.

PROFILE:

new VOIP service provider

INSPIRATION:

natural blends

PROFILE:

Lending group.

INSPIRATION:

freedom, flight, laying in a hammock.

PROFILE:

proposed to a web design firm in the UK

INSPIRATION:

This personified line character is looking back in angst at the artist who is drawing him and telling him to continue drawing the line so he may carry on walking.

I remember seeing something like this when I was a kid.

PROFILE:

Creator of video capture devices. First concept, still in progress.

INSPIRATION:

RGB, graduates.

PROFILE:

chinese networking site

INSPIRATION:

Rising Sun - 9 fingers.

PROFILE:

You Photography - Logo proposal

INSPIRATION:

This figure was created using the lletter forms, Y, O, and U from the Herculanum typeface.

All art is but imitation of nature.
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca

PROFILE:

New Media design firm

INSPIRATION:

Watching a high-wire performance. Arms out. Perfect balance. Movement in stillness.

PROFILE:

Foley Products (concrete fill)

INSPIRATION:

you should be able to see the letters F-I-L-L in that cement block

PROFILE:

Sting Security ( London, UK)

INSPIRATION:

Ouch.

Had to suggest some pain :)

thought this would look good on a bouncer's black t-shirt

PROFILE:

Photo-Sharing and storage.

INSPIRATION:

:)

PROFILE:

Cabin.IT

"we put the .IT back in cabinetry"

INSPIRATION:

can't think of anything cool right now, it's not easy coming up with these little blurbs

PROFILE:

Ghostwriting services

INSPIRATION:

Using a paper corner, I attached a paper clip and formed a G

PROFILE:

Michael Roth Logo - Independent consultant.

Main Feature in Logos of Character M

This logo is published in the LogoLoune Master Library

INSPIRATION:

I don't know, Mr.

PROFILE:

Virtual 3D Imaging company.

INSPIRATION:

A block letter 'I', immersed below a glass floor.

PROFILE:

Impossible Is Nothing - IIN

INSPIRATION:

an impossible object

Escher

PROFILE:

blue fire design group

INSPIRATION:

paint brush tip, smoking, bound, yet unbound. The letters B and F, twined.

man, that's a lot of fire logos

PROFILE:

same as above

INSPIRATION:

These were some other proposals for GhostWork...

PROFILE:

Restorative Health Center for Intergrative Medicine

INSPIRATION:

Wellness, the union of mind, body and spirit. the Lotus plant.

PROFILE:

Distributor of gold products

INSPIRATION:

The letters H, G and D were combined to create this mark. The H can be seen in the negative space.

PROFILE:

Male "enhancement" gel, concept presented.

INSPIRATION:

hmm, I don't really want to say I was inspired now do I?

This logo gets honorable mention at B3ta.com

Here are the Phallic Logo Awards. LOL

This logo will also be published in the new Logo Masters book by Rockport

PROFILE:

EdgePoint trademarked logo

EdgePoint Wealth Management Inc. is an independent employee-owned investment management firm based in Toronto.

INSPIRATION:

This logo reads the same when inverted. This unique aspect is reflective of the EdgePoint creed.

This is an ambigram.

logo will be featured in LogoLounge3

PROFILE:

bunk design

INSPIRATION:

bunk bed

this logo reads the same when inverted, another ambigram

PROFILE:

New media firm

INSPIRATION:

PROFILE:

An inter-office project for an insurance

company.

INSPIRATION:

using a quotation mark, I suggested the end of one of those old telephone handsets.

PROFILE:

New Hip-Hop group. Goldiggez.

INSPIRATION:

G and D and Bling.

Here is a web site mock-up I made for them.

PROFILE:

Virginia US, based escrow business

INSPIRATION:

PROFILE:

Beyond Networks.

INSPIRATION:

some gizmo from space (beyond me)

PROFILE:

ETFI, broadcasting organization.

INSPIRATION:

F-I in E-T

PROFILE:

Online design firm

INSPIRATION:

Something that would look good on the side of an airplane.

Morphs of the letterforms D and O.

PROFILE:

StudioZ Imagery - Animation studio

INSPIRATION:

Client asked me for "Something magical".

I thought, hey, how about a floating wizard :)

PROFILE:

LOGOED. Upcoming web site for logo design inspiration.

INSPIRATION:

Nike, Lucent, General Mills, Microsoft, Disney. Pop-culture.

All copyrights are retained by the respective companies.

PROFILE:

Concept presented for motivational speaker, Burke Hedges.

INSPIRATION:

B-H monogram

PROFILE:

Financial Services

INSPIRATION:

A merger of the 'm' and 'c' letterforms.

PROFILE:

Software company.

INSPIRATION:

Let's see if you can get this one ;)

PROFILE:

Singer: Ashley-The music

INSPIRATION:

Eh?

PROFILE:

Import and export logistics.

INSPIRATION:

Bird, flight. The letter H.

Recognition from a distance.

PROFILE:

Concrete & Steel construction/engineering company. Tag=Go With The Flow

INSPIRATION:

Metal, concrete, flow and elegance. Water-saw. Engraved S

PROFILE:

JCK Landscaping co.

INSPIRATION:

Arranging the letters J C K from the Danube typeface, I formed this fella with the spade.

The only dumb question is the question that you don’t ask.
—Paul MacCready

PROFILE:

X365 software is a small software co.

INSPIRATION:

An embedded "X" in 365, negative space. This is the first logo I ever designed.

PROFILE:

Hapy - Egyptian God.

Hapy Imports Ltd.

INSPIRATION:

This design was meant to work even if flipped 180 degrees. Go ahead, turn your head sideways and read it backwards

John Langdon.

PROFILE:

DJ CLIP

Underground NYC DJ

INSPIRATION:

Paperclip, play on the name. Also forms a D with the J in the negative.

PROFILE:

Clothing label

INSPIRATION:

retro boogie

PROFILE:

Linux network maintenance

LNC website

INSPIRATION:

network cables

PROFILE:

PC hardware retailer. Proposed design.

INSPIRATION:

buttons and little people. All things "techy".

PROFILE:

IT solutions.

INSPIRATION:

Nature, math, sine dots

PROFILE:

Landscaping company

INSPIRATION:

A's and V's. Mountains.

PROFILE:

A personal business venture of mine.

INSPIRATION:

I saw that Q and thought of, well, a thought bubble - to communicate. Then I said, "hey, what a cool name for a business"

the domain name was available so I picked it up.

PROFILE:

Video gamers community. This concept wa never sold to or used by the client.

INSPIRATION:

naughty naughty

PROFILE:

Interior Design Company

INSPIRATION:

Turquoise. Arrows, the number 4.

PROFILE:

Data management.

INSPIRATION:

Lab chemicals, something brewing, I hear sounds when I look at this logo, bubbly ones :)

PROFILE:

Foreign exchange house.

INSPIRATION:

Internationalism. Flags. Money.

PROFILE:

Creative firm.

INSPIRATION:

Light bulb (Idea) Bomb.

Someone jacked this domain from me as well, stole the logo concept too, www.ideabomb.com

PROFILE:

Mortgage group

INSPIRATION:

Gracefully big. Corporate look yet neighborly feel. P-M. duality, again.

PROFILE:

ROOP - retailer of home stereo equipment

INSPIRATION:

boom boom boom boom

PROFILE:

Racks

INSPIRATION:

Resonance

PROFILE:

Contest winner. Fitness equipment.

INSPIRATION:

PROFILE:

Carpages.ca, car sales online. Visit site

INSPIRATION:

Rubber.

PROFILE:

concept presented to high-tech firm

PROFILE:

consulting firm

INSPIRATION:

A-S monogram icon

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