Comments on: Amnesty International logo design

By: Daniel Campos

Daniel Campos — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:14:44 +0000

Great Post.
This blog is wonderful! Congratulation.

Daniel

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:06:03 +0000

A classic indeed. Great post!

By: Trish

Trish — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:34:44 +0000

Back in college, 1990 there bouts, a friend of mine wanted to start an Amnesty International club on campus and he asked me to design the logo for it. I came up with three sketches based on his ideas (I didn’t know what Amnesty International was at the time): barbed wire around an African woman’s face, barbed wire around the dove of peace and barbed wire around a candle. I tried to make the barbed wire make an “A” in all three sketches. I figured you could interpret an “I” as the woman’s profile, in the wire around the dove and the candle itself. The ideas never went beyond the sketches. I liked the first sketch the best and still have it somewhere in my college art file (not for the logo design but for the fine art aspect of it). I may have the other sketches, too, they were all in the same notebook; I just remember the first sketch the best because the profile came out so well and the barbed wire wove perfectly from her hair. Damn, I’m going to have to track those sketches down now.

I wonder where he is now and if he looks at this logo and goes, “If only!”. I would guess everyone has had this thought at one time or other.

Course I can’t help but look at this design and think of Brian all those years ago and the passionate way he described his design ideas to me at the time.

It was a good design idea then and it is a good design idea now.

Trish

By: David Airey

David Airey — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:09:58 +0000

You’re very welcome, Eric.

David,

A classic indeed. I’ll be featuring some more classic designs here soon, and this is the first in the category.

Tracey,

This logo is without doubt a timeless design. One of my favourites.

By: Tracey Grady

Tracey Grady — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:13:23 +0000

Designing a logo for an international organisation would have challenges in terms of choosing symbols with true global recognition and appeal, something the AI logo achieves in a very elegant and timeless way.

By: David Pache

David Pache — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:11:45 +0000

A classic!

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:22:26 +0000

Excellent logo and a great organization. Thanks for bringing that to our attention. - Eric Eric's last blog post...MTV reality show for graphic designers