Logo of the year 2011

The LogoMoose is a logo design inspiration gallery and community. Their community members have again selected a logo of the year.

The winner this year is Gert van Duinen with his Storm Foundry logo:

Storm Foundry by Gert van Duinen

Gert is a Dutch illustrator and brand identity designer. He’s been into graphic design since the mid 90′s but has been scribbling signs & symbols before he could walk. He’s always been intrigued and passionate about iconic design and logos, trademarks and anything distinguishable by either brandmark or impression.

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The Dutch Wolda ’09 winners

Wolda is the high-profile graphic design award scheme that rewards the best logos and trademarks designed throughout the world, creating an archive that tracks the evolution of tastes, styles and trends in global design, year after year.

Wolda’s standing is guaranteed by the endorsement of many of the most important design associations: Wolda is the only awards scheme in the world endorsed by more than 100 design associations and schools.

Today, the winners of 2009 were announced. From all these winners there were also 6 Dutch logos awarded:

• Best of The Netherlands: Niel-Jan Weijsters

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The logos of Dirk Leys

Dirk Leys is a 25 year old freelance graphic designer from Tilburg, the Netherlands. He’s been running his own brand identity design company called unieq since 2007 and works for clients worldwide. Dirk is also the designer of our Dutch Inspired logo and runs the logo inspiration website LogoMoose.com

Here’s a small overview from all the logo’s that Dirk has designed over the past years:

adanvio by Dirk Leys

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Telfort, bubbles and happiness

Last week, the Dutch brand development agency VBAT unveiled the new brand identity for Telfort, one of the leading Dutch telecom providers. Telfort contacted VBAT and asked them to redo the whole visual identity to set themselves apart from the other telecom providers (T-Mobile, Ben, Hi, Vodafone, and KPN). The new look should reflect Telfort’s position as the aspiring, price-sensitive peoples’ champion within the sector.

The result is a logo made from two speech bubbles in reference to a conversation. When used in the whole branding package the speech bubbles get six different fresh and fruity colors.

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The logos of Floris Voorveld

Floris Voorveld is a 24 year old freelance graphic designer from Nijverdal, The Netherlands. Floris studied at the Art Academy in Arnhem and has been fascinated by graphic design ever since. He specializes particularly in logo design and does most of his business through the internet.

Floris has designed some amazing logos and I’m sure there will be many more to follow. For now, here’s a little overview of his logos:

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The Dutch Inspired logo

Each company, product, website, blog etc. needs their own identity. It’s what makes you stand out from your competitors and gives you visibility, credibility, and memorability.

Logo guidelines.

For this website, we’ve chosen to go with our main theme: Dutch design. The Netherlands is currently one of the world’s poles of great modern design. The country is a center of innovation and experimentation in architecture, urban planning, industrial design and graphic design. Dutch design is modern, functional, simple and direct.

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