# Well-designed, clever logos: The Encyclopedia of Alabama **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-designed-clever-logos-the-encyclopedia-of-alabama/532700 "2010-03-16T21:47:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-designed-clever-logos-the-encyclopedia-of-alabama/532700/21 "2010-04-14T06:44:58Z")
I wouldn’t be surprised if [this](http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/033/1/b/Thinktank_Logo_by_logiqdesign.png) is in one of the lists already posted, but they’re not loading for me. It’s a Thinktank. ---
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-designed-clever-logos-the-encyclopedia-of-alabama/532700/22 "2010-04-14T08:03:41Z")
> [@HelloNinja](#): > > Since the FedEx logo has already been mentioned, I really like the [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) logo w/ the arrow pointing from A to Z. Huh. I always thought it looked like a smile, not an arrow. (Hey, books make _me_ happy…) ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-designed-clever-logos-the-encyclopedia-of-alabama/532700/23 "2010-04-14T14:05:02Z")
I love the [UK Space Agency](http://www.ukspaceagency.bis.gov.uk/default.aspx) logo - it’s modern but it actually says something, namely “We’re British, and we’re doing space!” ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-designed-clever-logos-the-encyclopedia-of-alabama/532700/24 "2010-04-14T14:59:59Z")
I don’t think the [Sony VAIO logo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaio) is on either of those lists of cool logos, but it is an interesting one. The VA part of the logo looks like an analog wave while the IO looks like binary code. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-designed-clever-logos-the-encyclopedia-of-alabama/532700/25 "2010-04-14T16:44:41Z")
Cool! Thanks for the links. My favorites are Aviator (great color choices, and I like the crisp lines of the paper airplane/capital A), Wiesinger Music (with the piano keyboard forming the W and M), Spartan (had to look twice to see not just the golfer but the face and helmet of the warrior), and Love Clip (simple but effective). I designed quite a few logos for fictional companies in a high school art class. My teacher practically had a fetish for logos; designing one certainly forces you to be concise and imaginative. My favorite (I can still draw it!) was for the Yokum Yo Yo Corp. - three interlinked Ys. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-designed-clever-logos-the-encyclopedia-of-alabama/532700/26 "2010-04-14T22:59:55Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > I signed up for updates from EoA on Facebook, and it took me a little while to “get” their logo, but it’s wonderful. > > Check it out [here](http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Home.jsp). > > What other logos do you think are particularly clever? “An image of a kid being crushed like a bug by a closed book” is clever?😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-designed-clever-logos-the-encyclopedia-of-alabama/532700.md?page=1)