Sarah Rice-Tiffany & Company

I chose the Tiffany logo of course because I'm a girl and what girl doesnt love Tiffany's. I think it fits the current assignment very well. It also does a great job of describing the company; very elegant and refined. The typography chosen helps to emphasize that. None of the letters are "combined" in actuality but the layering (overlapping) makes it very clear yet complex. Very well executed in my opinion.

Megan James- LA Dodgers

I chose the LA Dodgers team logo. The letters overlap and the bottom part of the L makes the cross section on the A. It is very simple and clean.

Gonzales- ESPN logo

Who knew that the Walt Disney Company owns the Entertainment Sports Programming Network? Just a little random fact for you.

I like ESPN's logo because even though there is a white line crossing the upper portion of the letters, the logo is still legible. The "S" joins the "P" and forms, in my opinion, a solid block floating in space, but when you look at the bottom half you recognize the letters.

ESPN was founded by Bill Rasmussen and first aired on September 7, 1979.

Davis-Cotton logo

I chose the Cotton logo for its simplicity. The way the two t's come together to form a cotton plant is dynamic and rather stylish.

Tyler - Oakley retro logo

This logo is from Oakley sunglasses, the O, A, & K are combined, as well as the L, E, & Y.

whisenhunt - Bike Worx

This is for a bike shop in South Carolina
This is a cool design that uses the first letters to create the logo that works as part of the shop name and works as a stand alone logo too.

This is a nice logo that connects the G and the T. Ive found that sports teams do a lot of this and I think it's very effective in creating a compact text that represents the team well.

Kopecki- Randy Rogers Band

I like texas country music and the Randy Rogers Band logo has always looked cool to me. The band began here when it was Southwest Texas State if anyone didn't know. The band’s cattle-brand-style double-R logo has facing letters divided by a broken white line symbolizing the never-ending highway of their road-warrior existence. I could not find exactly who designed their logo, but it sounded like it was more their idea. Each memeber of the crew even has a tattoo of it!

I've always thought this was a clever logo. I saw it for the first time when i was twelve or so and obsessed with skateboarding. DC is a skate shoe brand, and they've successfully created a semi-symmetrical design by using a "c" with semi serifs and a modified "d." Not quite sure what the star is for, perhaps the designer was unhappy with all that negative space inside the "c" and just threw it in there to make it nice and balanced. Whatever the reason, I think it's a handsome brand logo.

king-merger

OK!!! I have tried to upload this j peg 12 times and its not doing it sooooooooooo, here is the link.http://culturemap.com/newsdetail/07-20-10-continental-united-pilots-resume-cooperation-with-new-management/. its the united/Continental merger. they took the continental world logo and kept the name united

Boothby-Volkwagen

I choose the Volkswagen logo which combines/merges the two letterforms V and W together closed in by a circle. It was created in Germany during the 1930's For the automobile and to this day remains one of the more famous automobile logos out there. It was created by german engineer Franz Reimspiess, who also perfected the Beatles engine. The logo was the result of an office competition in which the employees were to design the new cars logo and with Franz creativity he meshed two letterforms together to create the logo. The logo may also be seen in not only blue but gray as well.

king-merged logo

I've tried to upload the picture seven times now so I'm just leaving the link. Its the new logo of the merger btwn continental and united. http://www.churchjuice.com/blog/the-united-continental-logo-merger/ Fun for us, either way your plan ride will be lacking in the same bad air no room way it did before.

Simchick - Milwaukee Brewers

This logo if for the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team. I've always had a strong liking for the logo and I think it does a great job combining the lowercase initials "m" and "b" to create the image of a baseball glove. It is easily identifiable; if you have never before seen the logo you can put two and two together and realize it is a symbol of the Brewers-- the glove shows it is a baseball team while the letters "m" and "b" abbreviate the team name.

The logo was the result of a contest that the Brewers held in 1977 inviting designers to create the new logo for the ball club. It was created by Tom Meindel who at the time was an Art History student at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

PARSONS - Merging : RnR, CSC, D&P, AMRO

Greetings and Salutations All! I hope everyone is well. I am posting a few of the logos I've found that might fit the assignment typic.

First off is from a company called RnR who make Rifle Sights out of California.

http://www.rilesmachine.com/RnR_Design/AboutUS.htm

This one has more history behind it. It stands for Computing Scale Company (1891-1914) which eventually merged with other companies eventually becoming what we know as IBM

This is just a personal project logo made for Phil and Donna for their wedding announcements

AMRO Bank Logo which came into existence in 1964 came from the merger of the Dutch 'Amsterdamsche Bank' and the 'Rotterdamsche Bank'. The banks of the Netherlands' two biggest cities.

The name of the new bank and brand was a concatenation of the first two letters of both banks.

Blog Assignment #2: Merging letterforms

Blog Assignment #2: Merging Letterforms
In project three, OMG! Typographic Symbols, we are investigating the merging of letterforms to create a single object. This is a common practice for logos. For this blog assignment, find a logo/or other designed element that merges letters or parts of letters together. Make a note in your post what the element is for, who did it, etc.

Label as follows (place a COMMA between labels)

• class time ---- ex. 8am or 11am
• merging

Your post is due BEFORE next Thursday's Class (September 16th)

Prof. Newton