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Logos!Multimedia Design

MMP-200

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what’s a logo?

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a distinctive symbol of a company, organization,

object, publication, person, service or idea

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why use a logo?

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communicate particular origin, ownership, identity.

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Logo types

• wordmark- company name in proprietary letterforms

• symbol- iconic portion of logo

• monogram- design of initial letters

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mistakes!• Not having an idea

• Having a bad idea, but making it fancy

• Using computer tricks to fix a bad logo

• Not paring scale of abstraction to scale of business

• Attending to figure, not to ground

• Using same elements as everyone else

• Designing for only one size/format

• Looking at a design on a blank page

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what does the logo say?(let’s look at some logos!)

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Paul Rand

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