Really Good Logos, Explained: Top Design Professionals Critique Over 500 Logos and Explain What Makes Them Work

A collection of 500 great logos critiqued by a panel of internationally acclaimed designersIn Really Good Logos Explained, some of today's top creative minds critique and appraise over 500 examples of truly exceptional logos, and explain what makes them work. The insight provided by these four outstanding designers is - like the logos themselves - succinct, specific and effective. Their comments provide a rare and insightful glimpse into the inner workings of excellent design, and offer a new understanding that is immeasurably useful to anyone working within the creative fields today.

Four internationally acclaimed designers were presented with the challenge of explaining in five sentences or less what makes each design effective  or how the design could have been improved. The rules were simple: no jargon. No fluff. No pretentious designer-speak. The result is a collection of razor-sharp insights from some of today's top creative minds.

Really Good Logos Explained examines the aesthetics of good logo design and points out with wonderfully specific detail, exactly what makes each design sing - what makes them "really good."

 

Rian is an award-winning graphic designer and typographer who has produced designs for watches, CDs, animated films, and Hawaiian shirts for clients from Tokyo to New York.

Ron is the founder and creative director of Miriello Grafico Inc., which has created world-class communications for a national client base.

Alex is the author of numerous books on graphic design and typography and is a Chairman Emeritus of the Type Directors Club. He is a professor and chairman of the graduate program in Design Management at the Shintaro Akatsu School of Design at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. He holds an MFA in advertising design from Syracuse University and a BFA in graphic design from Kent State University. He lives in Greenwich.