Logos from Stylo Design

Apr 4, 200924 appreciated comments

Stylo Design

Stylo Design is a creative design agency based in England and France. Here are a few of their logos I particularly enjoy.

Eight

I like this one so much I featured it back in 2007, as one of those “logos of the month“. A custom typeface was created using the figure 8.

Double Knot

Double Knot logo design

Escape Studios

Photo courtesy of Sharebrain

Update: 09 September 2009
This logo was designed by Bob of Original Linkage, with stationery created by Stylo Design.

Surefire

“Their combination of design quality and limitless technical ability always provide fantastic results and mean that we can satisfy our requirements with one agency.”
Greg Richardson
Marketing Director, Surefire

To view different images for these, and many other projects, why not visit the Stylo Design website?

Get your free subscription now, or follow Logo Design Love on Twitter

24 appreciated comments, click here to add one

Rafie

This post now proved that designing logo is more that just holding a pencil and start sketching. Behind those logos there are deep thinking process and thought, lines and concept.

Personal favourite: Double knot

Thanks for sharing David

Apr 4th, 2009
Abbas Arezoo

Great post, great to see an agency giving such an in-depth look into their design process.

Apr 4th, 2009
Panasit Ch

I like Eight and Escape studio. Simple optical illusion in a logo is like a sophisticated pun.

Panasit Ch’s last blog post…All about the AIG Bonuses

Apr 4th, 2009
Andrew Kelsall

I’m a little unsure as to how the “8″ typeface would work on other words [other than 8], but it’s a great experimental concept and pushes the boundaries of font design.

Apr 4th, 2009
Jacob Cass

Their logo is superb, always like illusions! Always been a fan of the eight logo too. Nice showcase!

Apr 5th, 2009
Pop Ovidiu Sebastian

Escape studios is very good

Apr 6th, 2009
David Airey

I’m a big fan of portfolios where there’s more than just the final logo shown (as with Stylo’s). Cheers for the comments, guys.

Apr 7th, 2009
Photocritic

Hey buddy!

Just a quick thank you for keeping this blog – I enjoy the RSS feed hugely, always lovely to see what people are up to in the world of logos and branding.

Thanks again, and keep up the good work!

- Haje (of photocritic.org relative infamy)

Apr 7th, 2009
Miles

Very nice work – thanks for sharing.

Apr 7th, 2009
Noah

I love how they show the structure behind their logos. I bet their clients feel very comfortable and happy with the results when they are presented in that way. Similar to how an architect’s clients must feel seeing blueprints on the way to construction. It shows confidence to allow your process, or at least the underpinnings of your solution to be seen.

Apr 7th, 2009
Antonio

Love the Surefire S/Flame! I can’t even begin to imagine how they came to that solution.

Great post, and great design studio.

Apr 8th, 2009
Stephen Downes

Surefire should change their name (which is pedestrian) and keep their logo (which is brilliant).

Apr 11th, 2009
Al Woods

Love their website, huge fan of simple sites that focus on their message and the work they’ve done.

Good stuff!!

Apr 16th, 2009
Eve

The Surefire Logo appears to be the Hebrew letter from the Alphabet “Aleph”. It very much throws me into that state, if you are at all familiar with hebrew calligraphy you could see why.

flickr.com/photos/maltin75/279157666/

Jun 10th, 2009
Bob

Hi
Just wanted to clarify, Stylo did not create the Escape Studios Logo, they had only designed their stationery and website.

Just for the record I had in fact designed the logo.

FYI – Escape rebranded last year with Spin studios.
http://original-linkage.blogspot.com/2007/12/all-change-at-escape-studios.html

thanks
B

Sep 6th, 2009
Tom Lancaster

Just to quantify Bobs statement, we make no claim on the Escape Studios Box marque. We did however work on the re-brand of Escape some years ago and reworked the typography of the logo (this used to be a digitally inspired piece of typography that rather dated the brand) and we also redrew the box mathematically.

At the time we fought strongly for a replacement of the box marque as we felt it too conceptual / abstract to represent the company’s services but were unsuccessful.

This does all seem rather irrelevant as the logo is no longer in use but I can understand Bobs frustration.

Sep 9th, 2009
Bob

Hi Tom

How’s it going?

Thank you for confirming this, and agreed, it’s not so relevant now, nonetheless it was my work and felt I should make the distinction.

You are obviously a very good designer and create some excellent work, and I just wanted to say that I do not intend to detract from that.

I wish you guys the best, and hopefully speak soon.

Best
Bob

Sep 9th, 2009
Tom Lancaster

Hi Bob,

All good here thanks, I completely understood your frustration on this and certainly we have no intention of taking credit for work that is not ours, I hope you appreciate the misunderstanding. I’m glad this is cleared up.

I hope all is going well with you, do get in touch to let us know what you’re up to nowadays. Are you still in touch with Dom? (Sorry I know this is slightly off topic).

All the best,
Tom

Sep 9th, 2009
David Airey

Hi Bob, thanks for the info. I’ve made an update to the post text, and if you want me to credit you in any other way, that’s no problem at all.

Hi Tom, no worries about going off topic. I’m always happy to offer an open forum, of sorts.

Sep 9th, 2009
Bob

Hi Tom

don’t want to bombard the design community with our conversation – Ill drop you a line now.

Hi David

Thank you for that, and no worries about a credit.
Keep up the good work though – I do like this blog a lot.

Best
Bob

Sep 9th, 2009