The town of Des Moines, capital of Iowa in the US, revealed its new logo :

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This logo is composed of a blue arch representing the bridge of Des Moines.
This new logo represents the news elements of the town, the urban view, the transformation of the town et a new idea of the future that awaits us.

>>> Source : desmoinesregister.com
>>> Information sur la ville de Des Moines

During the Olympics game of beijing 2008 google as made a different doodle (custom logo) for each day of the event !

Wal-Mart is a company that specializes in large-scale distribution in the USA. The net income of Wal-Mart in 2006 stood at 12,178 billion for $ 344,992 billion $ turnover (second global company in terms of turnover). (Ouch!)

Lets take a look at walmart new logo !

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The new logo for the presidential candidate of the USA, Obama, has been shown.
This new logo bears a striking resemblance with the presidential logo !

only difference, except the rejuvenation of the eagle, the presence of the original logo of the candidate during his last campaign.

>>> Source : CNN

In the category “logotypes” Jury have chosen to highlight sobriety this year.

For the category company logo, the winner is the logo created by the spanish agency Valladares for the company Dulce Xerach

For brand logo, it’s the German Agency Gewerk which gets the honours with the brand image created for Berliner Mauer

What’s your opinion ?

source : la cuisine du graphiste

New on Wilogo for customers and designers

CUSTOMERS :
If you don’t have the budget to get Wilogo services, you can buy already proposed logos design.
This means that you can get a logo for your company (or your brand) for a smaller price.
You can select your logo from many logos design, you can get a logo with your company or brand name. the logo will be delivered with national rights.

DESIGNERS :
You can sell your unsold logo design on Wilogo (option available in the page “my acount”). in the mean time, you can upload a neutral version of your logo, that is to say with “my company” instead of the real company name. (option available in the logo page).

If you want to know the history of a logo, there’s a website made for you

View here

You can spend a long time looking and reading about logo design history.

Enjoy.

A very neat idea from Minichamps (manufacturer of miniature car) to make younger version of famous car brand (Jaguar, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati).
A great achievement from the designers. the result is amazing !

>>> Source (french): Blog WCIE

For the Euro 2008 of football that will take place in Austria and Switzerland in 9 days. Wilogo has decided to lunch a new international contest ! For this event you will be able to propose a modified version of the actual logo representing this european event !
Good luck to you all, and beat the french community !

Take a look at wilogo prior contests here !

>>> Participate at the creation of this logo : Wilogo - Euro 2008
>>> Take a look at the designer’s creations
>>> Register on wilogo

Let me know! I’ll be in San Francisco from June 7th to June 15th and on Monday 16th I’ll be in New York. I’d like to do some kind of “video/photo report” with a small description of what your logo is about. You don’t have to be a Wilogo client, you just have to proudly show and explain your logo. Get in touch with me, my email is “stuffmc at wilogo dot com”.