My Newest Project

Many of you probably have already seen me begging for logo submissions and trying to build traffic for my newest website logopallet - the logo design gallery, but I haven’t taken the time to introduce it to everyone.

What is logopallet?

Logopallet is a logo design gallery. Logopallet is a place for designers and businesses to go to display their prized logo designs, their brands to enhance recognition, and to find logo design inspiration. Logopallet allows you to get a little extra exposure for your brand and to see what others think of it. The simple design of logopallet allows for users to vote for their favorite logos and to leave comments about what they think without too much getting in the way. I designed the site to be pretty clean and simple so that navigation was easy and so that the logos would be the focal point.

Why should you submit your logo?

Because you love me and love to support all of my ventures right? Well if that isn’t enough each logo submission allows you to receive a free keyword targeted back link to the site of your choice, you will get 24 hours of front page exposure for your logo, and it will live on forever in the gallery giving you a long term link. Also I have made it as easy as pie to submit your logo all you have to do it head of the submit a logo page fill out the simple form and upload your logo and boom within 1-2 days I will have posted your logo on the site. Did I mention there are no limits to how many logos you can submit? That is right if you are a designer or know any designers let them know that you can upload your entire portfolio if you like. We are looking to build a huge library of logos so that we can become the best design gallery on the net so if you have a wealth of logos submit them all.

Special Thanks

This section is actually written for Andrew of www.pr0gr4mm3r.com. Andrew was around before logopallet became a logo design gallery and was intended to be a logo design competition site. Andrew is a php guru and built the entire back end of a logo design competition site for me while he was a student at Purdue University. I wanted to say thanks to you Andrew for putting in so much hard work to develop a site that I never launched. I hope you are not disappointed with what logopallet has become and want you to know that your hard work has not gone to waste. I found that the competition for logo design competition sites was just to heavy at the moment and may implement that as a portion of the gallery once I get it off the ground.

Let Me Know

Tell me your thought on logopallet and how to make it better. This is just the first version of the site as I get subscribers, submissions, and fame I will work into developing all kinds of new features. Please check the site out and let me know how to improve it for the future. And don’t forget to submit your logo and spread the word.

LogoBlog.org is Garbage

Yeah, I said it, but you don’t have to take my word for it, check the site out and make your own decision if you want, but I think you will agree with what I have to say.

I am writing this today because I am sick and tired of having comments removed from sites simply because you either post a link to your own site in the comment or the author of the site is ridiculous and deletes it because they don’t agree with your opinion.

A few days ago logoblog came out with a post detailing the wonders of the new xerox logo and as you may or may not know I think the new logo is garbage. (My Reasoning Here)  Anywho I went to the site read the article as I do with most of the articles on logoblog because it is something I am interested in, and then I decided to leave my opinion in the form of a comment.  You know that little area underneath the posts where authors ask for your opinions.  Well apparently mine wasn’t in agreeance with what the thought police over at logoblog had in mind so they removed it.

This was my comment on the post.  Not verbatim of course because I can’t remember it completely but you will get the point.

Adam (Me) says…

I think the new Xerox logo is garbage, it is bubbly and web 2.0.  I never thought Xerox needed something flashy for you to know who they were.  I wrote a post about this on my blog a while back when the logo first debuted if you want to see the other reasons why I didn’t like it please check out (inserted link to site).

So if you are the author of logoblog and are for some reason find yourself reading this post and still have a copy of my comment please send it to me so I can show my readers the exact qoute you thought couldn’t be on your site. It wasn’t spammy and didn’t have any inappropriate language in it.

I was a moderate fan of logoblog but now have decided that it isn’t worth mine or your time so here are some more reasons it sucks. 

• Horrible Theme - a slightly modified version of the default wordpress theme.  Way to go there guys.  I am supposed to take your word on the creativity and the importance of a design and you can’t even create and design one for yourself.

• Free Logo Maker - If you are going to offer a free service such as logo design try to take some time and have it do something besides add a dropshadow to a font.  Or at least don’t say you are an authority on logo design and then try to pass this shit off as a logo.

• A Free Ebook - Wow this sounds great… I would love a good ebook about logo design. Wait they are not giving away a free ebook they are asking you to give them free information so they can compile it and then give it back to you all while making advertising money. 

• Simply put they are liars -  Their about us page describes how they provide up to the minute logo news and unbiased opinions.  Unless you can back that up don’t print it.  You update the site once a week, which is almost never up to the minute information, and you remove comments you don’t like which hardly ever leaves room for unbiased debate and discussion.

I am sorry for my rant, but I am so tired of bloggers deleting comments if it is not warranted.  If you didn’t like my link remove the link, if you disagree tell me why don’t be a wenis and delete what could lead to a good discussion.  If you like logoblog or don’t let me know why.  If you are logoblog defend yourself.

An Arbitrary Logo and Name

Yesterday I was browsing through my usual forums and came across a thread asking for opinions about a companies new logo design.  I gave my opinion that the logo left me wanting more because after viewing it I left without knowing anything about the company at all.

I was met with the words “that is exactly what we wanted” and the point was made that many successful companies often give no clues to what they do through their name or logo design.

This was a point of view that I had never really taken into much consideration as I have always been a supporter of the have your brand represent what you do idea.

But it is true, look at google, nike or amazon.com.  If you didn’t know these companies you would never guess what they were by simply looking at their brand.

So I want to know what you think.  What defines a good logo if it isn’t determined by how it represents a company?

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