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Coolest Company Name/Logo Combo Ever?

08 Jul 2003 by

Rogue Amoeba. Got another?

41 comments so far (Post a Comment)

08 Jul 2003 | Ben said...

Not really in the "coolest" category, but I've always been fond of the silliness and blatant misinformation of the Hooters logo.

08 Jul 2003 | Bill Brown said...

I've always loved the logo for The Harris Bank:

www.harrisbank.com

Also, I like the art deco feel of the McCarthy Building Companies' logo:

www.mccarthy.com

The names are pretty boring, though. My favorite "company" name is Effengüd Software.

08 Jul 2003 | Steven Garrity said...

Bank of America

08 Jul 2003 | pb said...

That's one of the worst logos I've ever seen. I suppose it's OK if you're resigned to serving a niche market. Very tasteless, tho.

08 Jul 2003 | Paul Scrivens said...

To be honest none of these seem like a cool combo at all. Maybe I am just lame. Not too many companies go for the "cool" effect, just the one that seems to work.

08 Jul 2003 | JF said...

"Cool" in a funny way.

08 Jul 2003 | hurley #1 said...

I'm partial to Blambot. Perfect name and perfect logo for what they offer and the audience they cater to.

08 Jul 2003 | tomas said...

stallinga

08 Jul 2003 | Jon Gales said...

I've always been a sucker for Cingular... Very cool logo and a catchy name.

08 Jul 2003 | robert said...

I think what mr. scrivens and "pb" said. most of the logo/company names are very bland or boring. I like the names of kaliber 10000 and cuban council. as for logos? umm... the apple logo has decent brand recognition. ha. find a good logo/name combo and you've got something.

08 Jul 2003 | Don Schenck said...

Mmmmmm ... makes me want a Cuban cigar ... mmmmmm.

08 Jul 2003 | Lance Osborne said...

I was always partial to the Wax Trax! logo.

08 Jul 2003 | Scott said...

I love the Saturn logo. I know, I know, it's really swooshy - but, damn. That's a good logo.

08 Jul 2003 | hurley #1 said...

Speaking of celestially inspired car companies, I actually like Subaru's name, which means "The Pleiades" in Japanese, referring to the constellation, which appears on the logo.

And yes, I realize that "Subaru" spelled backwards is "U R a Bus!"

08 Jul 2003 | Will said...

Shout out to my local boys silverorange. That's right, no capitalization - can you handle it?!

08 Jul 2003 | kawika said...

Can't top Nike and the Swoosh for simplicity, recognition, or relevance to the product and the product's ideals. Pretty cool.

08 Jul 2003 | Don Schenck said...

Sticky Bumps!

09 Jul 2003 | Meeka said...

Try Logoistic. BTW, I'm not related to them, just like what they do and though of suggesting their work.

09 Jul 2003 | Mike said...

Yeah, Harris Bank is my favorite too.

But check out Streams' logo... just because I work there doesn't mean that I can't recognize cool 3D stuff when I see it, right?

And, oh ya... 37signals' logo is hot too (the dot thingie, not just the stylized text). ;)

09 Jul 2003 | hurley #1 said...

The current logo for the Tour de France is nicely done...clever but not overly so.

09 Jul 2003 | johnDude said...

Flight Club, anyone? (this is a link to the inside page because the front doesn't have the full logo sexual orientation functionality, which is killer)

10 Jul 2003 | Theo said...

Oh come on pb, it's an amoeba with a gun. How is that tasteless? It's kooky, it's weird, it's funny, but I don't find myself offended. Have a sense of humor.

10 Jul 2003 | Don Schenck said...

Perhaps pb doesn't like guns.

10 Jul 2003 | flitcroft said...

I think FedEx is the best name and logo pair anywhere. The name FedEx sounds "express-like" in everyway and the brand name is now so common that FedEx has become a verb in American business vernacular. Plus, the FedEx logo is among the all-time greats. See anything special hidden between the 'E' and 'x'?

The theme of 'express' is everywhere. Absolutely perfect.

11 Jul 2003 | Wesley said...

If it comes to great logo's i'd have to support the fedex vote, as for a cool name/logo combo i think we score pretty highly with MediaMonks :)

First post on signal vs noise by the way, have been a regular lurker and love some of the discussions.

11 Jul 2003 | Don Schenck said...

Flitcroft, I've been pointing out the arrow for years. Amazing how people have never seen it!

11 Jul 2003 | Steve said...

I had never seen the arrow in the FedEx logo till now.

13 Jul 2003 | Hieronymus said...

Two of the most recognizable and versatile logotypes I know are those of the North Sea Jazz festival and of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. (Yes, both logotypes are Dutch :-)

North Sea Jazz
The combination of the trumpet and a full set of tall-ship like sails describes the essence of this musid festival in a sublime way. Plus the way the circle extends from the 'h' and fluently ends in the 'z' is nice, apart from some typographic details, such as the way in which the 'J' in jazz precisely extends the 'h'. Class act, as far as I'm concerned.

IFFR
The tiger comes up in several versions: completely (with the head looking back), or only the head of the tiger, or sometimes only the stripe pattern of the tigers' body is used.

14 Jul 2003 | robert said...

it doesn't get much better in terms of cool. rockstar games.

14 Jul 2003 | robert said...

nuts, wrong url. here we go.

14 Jul 2003 | Jeff said...

Does anyone remember the old Procter and Gamble logo, the satanic one? That one was cool.

P & G story

15 Jul 2003 | Charles said...

In my opinion, the SUN Microsystems logo is one of the best out there.

15 Jul 2003 | Scott M. said...

Rand's Westinghouse logo is great.

18 Jul 2003 | Charlie Stewart said...

One of my favorites is a simply stated logo for a little company called Wingspan Technology Group, Inc. www.wingspan-tg.com.

18 Jul 2003 | Jarrod Crawford said...

Passion has the best logo and name. www.passionnow.org

19 Jul 2003 | Fabian said...

I absolutely agree with Nike and Sun Microsystems. Personally I like the webstandards.org Logo.

21 Jul 2003 | AJB said...

AVEDA


AJB

02 Aug 2003 | Steve said...

Not high-tech or modern at all, but since back in the day, I've always loved Sysco's logo.

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