Logo Design Love

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Logo Design LoveTropical Smoothie Cafe Tropical Smoothie Cafe, also known as Tropical Smoothie , is a restaurant franchise in the United States. It operates more than 1,700 locations nationwide, and was acquired by Blackstone in 2024.

09.29

Logo Design LoveSuper Logo Design Super Logo Design , edited by Taki Ono , is a two-volume set of paperbacks published in 2001 and 2002 by Graphic-sha in Japan.

2024.11.14

Logo Design LoveSELA Rome–based designer and art director Davide Mascioli shared his latest project — SELA (Space Exploration Logo Archive).

2024.10.28

Logo Design LoveLogo Trend Report Each year, for more than 20 years, Bill Gardner of Gardner Design has been studying thousands of logos to select the strongest fit for the year’s Trend Report.

2024.07.18

Logo Design Love100 Days Each year, the students of SVA’s Masters in Branding program spend 100 days documenting their process with a chosen creative endeavour. This year, Print Mag has been showcasing each student.

2024.07.16

Logo Design LoveThe World Games logo In December 2023, the Chengdu 2025 Organising Committee (OC) initiated a national contest to create the logo, mascot and slogan of The World Games 2025.

2024.05.27

Logo Design LoveZelman Meats The Zelman Meats logo, designed by Sam Lachlan of Red Dot Studio , identifies Misha Zelman’s steakhouse in Knightsbridge, London. Speaks for itself.

2024.04.30

Logo Design LoveShoop Shoop is the brainchild of Noam Oppenheimer, an Israeli architect with a burning passion to bring hot soup to the people of central London.

2024.02.29

Logo Design LoveThe Hidden Factor A new book by Steven Skaggs dropped through the letterbox, titled The Hidden Factor: Mark and Gesture in Visual Design (2023).

2024.02.27

発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo