They don't seem to mention it anywhere, but Inkscape is probably the best tool for opening .ai files, assuming you don't have a copy of Adobe Illustrator.
The amateur game development community would love these. Designing logos for in-universe companies is a thankless chore.<p>But they're really adverse to using things without an explicit license. This could really use a CC0 stamp somewhere.
I have been building my first personal site with links to demo toy projects and was just about to figure out the logo situation. I want to create a simple but engaging brand for myself. This rocks. Thanks!
The pharmacy logo is more or less the logo of Lloyds Pharmacy in the UK. Close enough that it could be deemed to be infringing their TM IMO (it's tricky though with generic imagery).
You, too, can have a generic logo that doesn't actually reflect your individual company, message, or values! Simply pair it with a font of your choosing (font and logo need not match), and you have yourself a brand.<p>These kinds of things devalue the actual work that goes into real branding, like crowdsourcing your logo or Marissa Mayer popping out something that she thinks "looks nice" over a weekend. It also has the effect that any graphic designer who can whip something up in Illustrator thinks they are a brand expert.
Thanks for this! These could be really useful for folks creating design templates. There's tons of stock photos, icons, videos, etc available, but not a lot of logos.<p>I don't see any information about a license, though? This article might be helpful:<p><a href="https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Marking_your_work_with_a_CC_license" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Marking_your_work_with...</a>
I like this, but I'm trying to understand the consequences of more than one person using the same one. I think the answer is, nothing until two or more users start to clash. At which point it will come down to who trademarked it first. That sounds reasonable, since you are probably dealing with small use cases wouldn't bother trademarking such a thing. They would get their own unique one first.<p>One the other hand, I suppose a new type of "trademark troll" could hypothetically arise from paying to trademark these, and then suing you for using them. Although I would like to think that a reasonable defense in court would be, "look I just got it for free from this site, and I willing to stop using it". ... and on the third hand, we see actual out of court settlements for patents that have less to stand on than that.<p>So I guess it's more of a "who gives a damn", and "quit worrying so much" thing.
This is great! I played around with mixing a couple of them into a possible logo for my snail simulation: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/hRkCw2q.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/hRkCw2q.png</a>
1) I really like this!
2) How to make it better: Design your own quick-and-dirty logo.
2a) Upload a photo.
2b) Apply a filter.
2c) Overlay a simple icon.
2d) Bonus: combine filter and icon to create a favicon!
These logos aren't good. A logo should have some degree of symmetry, simple enough to draw, original, and not readily resembling something in real life or a prior logo.<p>this is an umbrella plus tear drop: <a href="http://www.logodust.com/img/logo18.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.logodust.com/img/logo18.png</a><p>paperclip
<a href="http://www.logodust.com/img/logo20.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.logodust.com/img/logo20.png</a><p>too complicated to be effective:<p><a href="http://www.logodust.com/img/logo9.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.logodust.com/img/logo9.png</a><p>ripoff of star trek and anarchy circle<p><a href="http://www.logodust.com/img/logo2.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.logodust.com/img/logo2.png</a><p>this was the only good one <a href="http://www.logodust.com/img/logo1.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.logodust.com/img/logo1.png</a>
They're all just geometric shapes that anyone could throw together. Really, you're pretty damn lazy or uninspired if you can't put together a stop sign outline with 2 circles on either side of it!