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Do you want to get better at what you do? Well, getting feedback is the most important step in doing that. The world is much more social and information is flowing faster than ever before. We can’t afford to be doing things without listening to our followers or users. The only way we can survive and even stand out is by shaping ourselves with the help of others. So let’s get our customers involved in building our business better, with some feedback tools and services.

Now don’t get confused with all these feedback tools and services. Knowing what each tool is good at will help you get feedback more effectively. We’ve categorized each method of getting feedback into 7 different concepts to narrow your search.

• Voice of Customer Feedback – Get visitors to complain or give feedback by using widgets
• Process Level Feedback – Feedback forms trigger when an action is taken in the site
• Web Design Feedback – Get opinions for design mockups, ideas, or projects
• Crowd Sourcing Feedback – Build forums and communities for bugs, requests, or praises
• User Testing / UX – Test what you want and get feedback about it
• Surveys – Collect user opinions with multiple questions
• Website Chat – Get instant feedback about any situation

Voice of Customer Feedback Tools and Services

Wishbox
By pressing a button, it takes a screenshot of the current page, goes to the feedback wizard, and then allows users to paint, write, draw, blackout, crop, and give comments to show exactly what they want.

BugMuncher
Highlight a specific area on the web page, blackout unnecessary stuff, write a description, and check out the feedback preview before sending in the feedback.

WebEngage
A classic feedback widget which you usually see on the sides of a website. Start by setting up a basic feedback form, customize the fields, add some CSS styling to the feedback window, integrate it with code, and wait for the feedback to come in.

OpinionLab
Arrange the feedback places on any part of your touch/curiosity points and start collecting customer feedback.

Feedbackify
Create & customize your feedback form and put it on your website easily. Put custom scripts on your feedback form to pop up automatically in certain places.

UserEcho
Customers can vote on their favorite bit of feedback so you can track which changes are working, monitor feedback with a statistical system, and organize your content with an automatic duplicate search system.

GrabFeedback
Sign-up with the service, manage your forms, and put it on your site with a piece of code. Check out the analytics of your feedback in 3 different dashboards.

KissInsights
Target your questions to any customer type, keep questions short, and get results privately if you prefer to be exclusive.

Process-Level Feedback Tools and Services

Kampyle
The system triggers when a unique action takes place such as downloads, checkouts, uninstalling etc.

Webreep
Collects customer feedback in three ways. A feedback button, a direct invitation, or when users leave the website.

ForeSee
Measures satisfaction throughout the web experience across the purchase lifecycle (from browse to checkout, purchase, post-purchase, etc.), across brands, and across a lot of points to find out where a user fails to succeed in your specific pages or actionable items.

Web Design Feedback Tools and Services

Notable
Captures websites and makes it useful for web designers and developers to check up on their work, get constructive criticism, and improve their projects.

Concept Feedback
Post your landing pages, mockups, wireframes, apps, and interfaces and get feedback from experts with real world experience.

ProofHQ
Proofreaders will be able to see each others’ comments and be able to work more effectively while managing conflicting feedback.

ConceptShare
Visually review print, web, and video assets with markup tools like a pointer, pen, crop, highlighter, shapes, and images. Comment pins allow you to see a “heat map� of commenting activity on an asset.

Redmark
Upon uploading a design, an automatic e-mail is sent to clients which makes it easier to receive fast feedback.

Bounce
Grab a web page, give feedback, and bounce your idea around the web.

Launchly
Test your ideas, designs, and services from an audience that is passionate about new websites.

Crowd-Sourcing Feedback Tools & Services

Get Satisfaction
Engage customers on Facebook, your website, searches, or on any mobile device to build better relationships.

SuggestionBox
Create unlimited categories for suggestions such as, feature requests, bugs, in progress, and so on. Makes sure you don’t lose track of them.

User Voice
A feedback forum to maintain customer satisfaction and support. Answer feedback instantly on the platform or on your favorite mail service.

Sitepoint Reviews and Critiques Forum
Sitepoint review and critiques forum has a large community which is available to help fellow designers out by providing feedback on their design elements and website reviews.

IdeaScale
Create a feedback community by giving your customers a platform to share, vote, and discuss feedback.

SparkBin
This tool works for your employees rather than your customers. It can quickly gather ideas and drive your employees to submit ideas more frequently.

Gripe
Helps users complain with a location-aware mobile app to one of any 100 million+ local businesses or service providers worldwide.

Zendesk
Get customer satisfaction ratings, advanced analytics, and open your customer service up to social media like Twitter and Facebook.

User Testing / UX Tools & Services

FiveSecondTest
Upload a screenshot/mockup, prepare questions, and wait for people to give feedback.

UserTesting
Select your participants from specific demographics or choose your own customers to perform tasks that you want.

Usabilla
Test designs at any stage by selecting popular predefined tasks or creating your own tasks.

Userfly
Implement to your site with a single line of code, start testing immediately, and watch your users’ mouse movements and clicks.

Feedback Army
With a cost of $20 submit your URL and arrange questions you want to get answered by an army of feedback people.

OpenHallway
Create tasks, share the link with your participants, and then watch and listen to the recorded sessions anytime, anywhere.

Loop11
A remote usability testing site which requires no coding and no downloads. Create a usability test, invite participants, and analyze data with quality metrics.

Userlytics
Handpick any demographic from age, gender, hobbies, occupation, etc. and get qualitative research results in a matter of days or hours.

WhatUsersDo
Prepare some sets of tasks for your users, their demographics, and watch them complete the tasks, or not.

UTest
Choose a test from a variety of user testing types and learn more about the process and engagements.

Survey Tools and Services

Confirmit Survey Software
Create surveys fitted with your company branding, and send them to your customers or employees.

SurveyMonkey
Create surveys by choosing question types, survey templates, skip logic, and many more customization options. Get responses and analyze with analytics.

4QSuite
Use an invitation rate to control the impression rate of the surveys. Upon completion, get real-time results and reach out to your respondents.

Zoomerang
Create surveys, send them out, get responses in real-time, and monitor the results.

SurveyGizmo
Combine 26 basic question types with customizable options for research, insights, tracking, and marketing automation. Use logic, branching, and jumping to make your survey dynamic.

JotForm
Drag and drop form fields to create any type of survey, embed to your site with a single code, or share it via a link.

Website Chat Tools

WebsiteChat.net
Put a live chat button on your site and wait for a user to click on it.

Mibew Web Messenger
This open-source live support application enables one-on-one chat assistance in real-time directly from your website.

Chatango
Add to your site including Facebook, Blogger, or many other social networks. Have control over the chat group where you can ban users, delete messages, add moderators, and even ban words.

Olark
Know who’s on your site, chat with them, and improve your business.

AjaxIM
Open-source extensible, customizable, instant messaging framework with an easy installation.

To Wrap It Up

We’ve got lots of feedback tools and services and tried to cover them all for curious and passionate listeners. However, if you know other tools, methods, or even experiences that might fall into this article range, feel free to comment below.

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Studies show that the website header is one of the first things a visitor sees on your website. That is mainly due to the way we are used to browser information on the computer presented from top to bottom, and due to the way HTML is built with the header being the first thing it’s loading on the page. Thus the importance of the header.

A beautifully designed one can help make a difference when attracting visitors to your website and getting them to stay awhile. Of course, content is still the most important website element, demonstrated by the latest Google algorithm updates, Panda and Penguin. But no matter how good your content is, if the visitor decides not to stick around long enough to see it, then your website suffers.

A visually appealing header design can assist in this department. To further add to its importance, a header often contains the website’s navigation and logo. Having solid, user-friendly navigation facilitates the browsing of your content and keeps users on your site for longer.

A website footer is like a book’s foot note. When you need more information, usually you find it there. In the case of a website, a footer usually features copyright information, a second navigation and in some cases contact details. But the footer has a more important role than that. If a visitor has made it to the bottom of the page, that tends to mean they are hooked. They have gone through your offerings, and are now looking for more. So it is important to keep that in mind as you build yours.

Below are a few examples of beautiful header and footer designs that stand as effective testaments to the roles these web design elements play.

Header Designs

Cult-Foo has probably one of the most well known header designs around the design community. The use of colors and pixelation effects is stunning.

Corvus Art uses a beautiful canvas effect with awesome illustrations and a functional menu to achieve the desired visual impact.

Merchand de Trucs is like a story of its own. The overall feeling of the header is simply “Welcome! What would you be interested in?”

Viget Inspire has a simple yet powerful header. The menu is basic and very functional.

Glamping‘s vivid illustrations give an overall feel of delight. It bids you to stay longer and see what it’s about.

Ten 24 Media‘s header invites you to “Enter the Show”, and join the game if you will. Hurry if you don’t want to be left out.

Komodo Media‘s header is a preview for the wild and beautiful design resources available there. Brilliant use of illustrations.

Octwelve is another great example of the use of an illustrated header. The author uses the header to introduce himself and his skills.

That Indie Dude features one of the best uses of Twitter integration in the header around the web.

Ozon 3, the header makes you think of ecology and the concept of “eco-design”, as one of the categories of the blog also suggests.

Pixel Resort has a beautiful animated header. The overall feeling is, as the title suggests, one of relaxation and joy.

Helmy Bern features one of the most innovative headers and menus on the web. The stitched cardboard design does the job well, and raises the eyebrow of the visitor; making them want to see more.

PSD Layout‘s header suggests many things coming together in harmony and creating the web layout. The message is clear and the design is great.

Koko Digital has another header that makes excellent use of illustration and really stands out on the web.

Larissa Meek uses a very simple, personal, and efficient header. Need we say more?

Dana’s Garden…as the subtitle says: “A storybook setting for memorable events”.

Blog Solid makes excellent use of Photoshop brushes and effects.

Sprintime Tennessee, “Tennessee is calling”…the beautiful landscaped header almost single-handedly makes you want to be there.

Bits and Pixels has a simple, yet effective design. This header features a beautiful logo and diagonal menu.

Toucoleur‘s header is an amazing blend photo-manipulation and illustration.

Veerle’s Blog is probably known by nearly every designer. Not just the website, but also the talented designer behind it. Nothing more to say than an amazing website overall with a beautiful illustrated header.

20CM Records‘ header is for a Romanian hip-hop band, and the functionality is quite stunning. On the push of the button the light is turned on or off and the disk is rotating and playing one of their beats. Truly beautiful.

Ernest Hemingway Collection has an amazing storybook-like header featuring the journey through the life of one of this highly regarded American author.

Footer Designs

Black Sheep Brewery‘s beautiful use of footer space features the mascot of the brewery reading a sign saying “To the Baa..r”. Excellent integration of Twitter here also.

Ready made Designs features another great integration of Twitter in the footer, this time with Facebook also. The middle of the footer is used for the most recent blog posts.

Sand and Starfish has a beautifully illustrated postcard blog footer, inviting users to subscribe to the posts RSS and comments RSS.

Golden Boy Media‘s organized footer with a good Twitter and newsletter subscription integration shines. The left column is used for information where you can reach the company both online and offline.

Inchoo has a beautiful multiple row, multi-column footer featuring a contact form, Twitter integration, social media reach and services offered.

Pound and Grain uses the footer to summarize the services they offer to effectively drive the point home.

Visionssuche is an example of a simple, yet beautiful, use of the footer to display the copyright information and website sections.

V Dezign Studio‘s footer features a beautiful and creative “Back to top” section.

Chriswi has an amazing illustrated footer which includes a contact form and social media information.

Keith Cakes uses the footer in a very efficient way, displaying the running schedule, address, map and telephone information for the business.

InfinVision uses a creative footer featuring social media info and contact information.

Gauvain Bricoult‘s footer doesn’t do much in terms of functionality, but it sure says something in terms of beauty. Amazing design with a “Back to top” button for user’s convenience.

Matthew D. Jordan has a clever and impressive footer. First of all the message “It’s You, It Was Always You” brilliantly fits the site, and the contact box…well, we’ll let you discover that on your own.

Munch 5-A-Day employs a beautiful, organized footer featuring a newsletter subscription module, social media links and copyright information.

Mike Dascola has an amazingly creative footer displaying the different awards won by the website as well as social media info.

Simply Artifice‘s extensive footer features a beautifully designed contact form.

Jay Hafling is another extensive footer example with 2 sections. A section presenting the services the website offers and another with the most recent blog posts organized in columns.

What Do You Think?

We would really love to hear your opinions on the importance of header and footer designs. Do you know of other websites with amazing header and/or footer designs that were not featured here? What were some of your favorites from the showcase?

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Logo design is a broad medium, full of diverse styles, genres and talents. With advancements in software many logo designs have become increasingly complex, utilizing wide color spectrums, complex gradients and intricate illustrations.

Whilst these logos are visually impressive, they often are not the most effective way to successfully communicate a brand or idea. Often a simpler, more basic logo will serve the company or individual better.

Today we demonstrate the power of a truly simple, sleek approach by presenting a collection of inspiring logo designs. We hope that these logos motivate you to try a ‘back to basics’ approach in your next design and really get to the heart of the brand in question.

Simple and Sleek Logo Designs

Angelina by contrast8
A wonderfully elegant logo that transforms the letter ‘A’ into a stylish logo graphic, with visual hints at a flower vase shape.

Valdao by magicshadow
Valdao uses a simplistic representation of a bird of prey to infer the companies qualities (speed, efficiency). The bird’s wings also form into a ‘V’ shape, whilst taking on the look of a stylish car emblem.

National Photography Month by firebrand
A very clever logo that combines the basic images of a camera with the national flag colors for Britain. Negative space is used effectively in this design to help construct the camera icons. The staggered camera icons allude to the passing of time/months (like calendar pages turning).

Discovery Finance by ricardobarroz
A very sleek logo that uses a stylish, arcing abstract shape to represent the concept of discovery and exploration inherent in the company’s name. The way that the logo icon wraps around itself feels secure and safe, which is relevant for the financial sector.

One Line by David Blazewicz
A very simple but clever concept – One Line’s logo is literally constructed of a single white line, contorted into elegant typography.

Tenfeet Productions by Daniel Evans
This logo uses ten simple feet icons to construct a stylish, memorable logo. The resulting icon feels highly creative due to the rainbow spectrum of colors used. It also hints at a camera lens iris.

Draft by Daniel Evans
The creative process of drafting is captured well in this simple logo, as the floating particles represent ideas passing and formulating.

Chic by Vikkiv
A bold, fun logo that includes the typography as part of a wider illustration. The letter ‘h’ in ‘chic’ becomes part of the chickens leg/foot and results in a highly unique, memorable logo design.

VineSquare by Bojan Stefanovic
A very simple logo concept that works very well. The ‘square’ part of the company name is represented by a very slight shift in hue between the left and right parts of the logo icon. This results in a boxed feel for the icon, as the center of the icon becomes a corner.

Todd Thiele Photography by Logomotive
A clever way to integrate the two ‘T’s of the company name into the logo. Two ‘T’s and a simple dot between them create the illusion of a camera by using negative space. The logo feels sleek and professional, being only as simple as is required to put across the visual concept.

Appex 2nd Proposal by ALL4LEO
The upwards arrow in this logo is both a simple representation of the letter ‘A’ in the company name and the concept of an Appex. The gradation of color occuring infers energy, drive and clarity.

Logo Milk by Designabot
This simple typographic treatment instantly evokes ‘milk’ and the illustrative splash is both stylish and fun. The concept is for a logo gallery that presents logos in black/white (their simplest form) and so appropriately is presented in monotone.

EAGER by Logotyped
An abstract logo that constructs a lowercase ‘e’ using a basic illustration of a wild cat. The wild cat is used to represent the strength, power and eagerness of the company.

Antarctica by A. William Patino
This cute logo uses a lowercase ‘a’ with a simple dot added to create a basic penguin illustration. An unbelievably simple, yet very effective typographic treatment that is totally relevant to the company’s name.

Love Puzzle by Mateausz Turbinski
This logo concept couldn’t be simpler – Love Puzzle – a heart constructed from interlocking puzzle pieces. The interlocking pieces help to show unity and connection.

Filmaps by Siah Design
This logo uses an image of a pin to represent the locational/maps aspect of the business. Very cleverly, a few simple squares are added to the pin design to give the impression of a film reel.

5 Locks by houston-we
Another incredibly simple, yet effective design. By cutting into the ‘o’ in ‘locks’ this logo gives the impression of a door keyhole. Wonderful typographic treatment!

Scissor by palattecorner
This simple, sleek logo creates a crest type symbol from two intersecting shapes. This resulting shape is a simplistic representation of some scissors, and provides a balanced, symmetrical symbol for this design.

Saltwater by ASD
This logo constructs a letter ‘S’ from two interlocking fish symbols. The mono-chrome logo is simple, sleek and professional and no more complex than it needs to be.

PowerBloom v2 by Julius Seniunas
A clever logo that combines the icons of a plant with an electrical plug. The icon is very minimal, yet perfectly captures the two concepts inherent in ‘Power Bloom’. The green leafs tie in with more of an environmental concept, whilst the contrasting red is more fitting for the idea of ‘power’.

Elephant Combs by TbwaIndia
A very simple, sleek design that creates the double illustration of a comb and an elephant simply by adding a dot (for an eye) in the top left of the minimal comb illustration.

Muchmore by Fayda
Possibly the simplest, and best concept in this entire collection. This purely typographic design perfectly encapsulates the concept of ‘more’ by each letter becoming increasingly bold. A great concept!

RIP Steve by Jonathan Mak
The logo that went around the world! This viral logo by Jonathan Mak is a great concept that incorporates the late Steve Jobs’ outline into the iconic Apple logo.

SpadeDealer v2 by Julius Seniunas
A clever logo that uses negative space between two simplistic hands to create the shape of a spade (from a deck of cards). The flexing hands create a sense of energy associated with a casino dealer.

Night Cat v2 by ALL4LEO
The basic curved outline of a cat overlaps a glowing semi-arch, giving the impression of the animal lurking in front of the moon. Another great example of negative space being used to show two concepts in one.

Edith Stein Foundation by LumaVine
The individual represented by this company is featured in the logo icon in her simplest form. The vector graphic presents the core of Edith Stein, communicating many values through a wry look to the viewer.

Green Hope by Master_ino
Another logo capturing two solid concepts in a single design. The long waves of green grass take on the form of an outreached hand, combining both environmental and community ideals.

Quality Performers by Antonio Cappucci
This logo captures a really intense atmosphere in a fairly simple design. The dark nighttime horizon depicted sits underneath a shining star. This logo may not be monotone or a single vector design, but considering that it is comprised of a few simple gradients we get a very immersive sense from it.

French Property Exhibition by Roy Smith
An incredible concept featuring a distorted French flag. The blue panel of the flag is transformed to appear like an opening door, which successfully marries the ideas of France with property.

CitiSync by Logomotive
The icon in this logo adds a cyclical detail to a classic cityscape outline. The result is a logo that has a definite urban feel, but also energy.

SOCIONIC by Logomotive
A wonderfully sleek and elegant logo, using flowing lines to create an attractively framed, ornate letter ‘S’. The logo has a really nice feeling of symmetry and balance and the monotone palette helps keep things simple and sleek.

Favorite Designs?

I hope that you enjoyed this article. Did you have any favorite logo designs in this collection? Do you prefer more complex, intricate logos or are you a fan of the simple/sleek style? Let us know in the comments below and we can get a discussion going!

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Logo design is a broad medium, full of diverse styles, genres and talents. With advancements in software many logo designs have become increasingly complex, utilizing wide color spectrums, complex gradients and intricate illustrations.

Whilst these logos are visually impressive, they often are not the most effective way to successfully communicate a brand or idea. Often a simpler, more basic logo will serve the company or individual better.

Today we demonstrate the power of a truly simple, sleek approach by presenting a collection of inspiring logo designs. We hope that these logos motivate you to try a ‘back to basics’ approach in your next design and really get to the heart of the brand in question.

Simple and Sleek Logo Designs

Angelina by contrast8
A wonderfully elegant logo that transforms the letter ‘A’ into a stylish logo graphic, with visual hints at a flower vase shape.

Valdao by magicshadow
Valdao uses a simplistic representation of a bird of prey to infer the companies qualities (speed, efficiency). The bird’s wings also form into a ‘V’ shape, whilst taking on the look of a stylish car emblem.

National Photography Month by firebrand
A very clever logo that combines the basic images of a camera with the national flag colors for Britain. Negative space is used effectively in this design to help construct the camera icons. The staggered camera icons allude to the passing of time/months (like calendar pages turning).

Discovery Finance by ricardobarroz
A very sleek logo that uses a stylish, arcing abstract shape to represent the concept of discovery and exploration inherent in the company’s name. The way that the logo icon wraps around itself feels secure and safe, which is relevant for the financial sector.

One Line by David Blazewicz
A very simple but clever concept – One Line’s logo is literally constructed of a single white line, contorted into elegant typography.

Tenfeet Productions by Daniel Evans
This logo uses ten simple feet icons to construct a stylish, memorable logo. The resulting icon feels highly creative due to the rainbow spectrum of colors used. It also hints at a camera lens iris.

Draft by Daniel Evans
The creative process of drafting is captured well in this simple logo, as the floating particles represent ideas passing and formulating.

Chic by Vikkiv
A bold, fun logo that includes the typography as part of a wider illustration. The letter ‘h’ in ‘chic’ becomes part of the chickens leg/foot and results in a highly unique, memorable logo design.

VineSquare by Bojan Stefanovic
A very simple logo concept that works very well. The ‘square’ part of the company name is represented by a very slight shift in hue between the left and right parts of the logo icon. This results in a boxed feel for the icon, as the center of the icon becomes a corner.

Todd Thiele Photography by Logomotive
A clever way to integrate the two ‘T’s of the company name into the logo. Two ‘T’s and a simple dot between them create the illusion of a camera by using negative space. The logo feels sleek and professional, being only as simple as is required to put across the visual concept.

Appex 2nd Proposal by ALL4LEO
The upwards arrow in this logo is both a simple representation of the letter ‘A’ in the company name and the concept of an Appex. The gradation of color occuring infers energy, drive and clarity.

Logo Milk by Designabot
This simple typographic treatment instantly evokes ‘milk’ and the illustrative splash is both stylish and fun. The concept is for a logo gallery that presents logos in black/white (their simplest form) and so appropriately is presented in monotone.

EAGER by Logotyped
An abstract logo that constructs a lowercase ‘e’ using a basic illustration of a wild cat. The wild cat is used to represent the strength, power and eagerness of the company.

Antarctica by A. William Patino
This cute logo uses a lowercase ‘a’ with a simple dot added to create a basic penguin illustration. An unbelievably simple, yet very effective typographic treatment that is totally relevant to the company’s name.

Love Puzzle by Mateausz Turbinski
This logo concept couldn’t be simpler – Love Puzzle – a heart constructed from interlocking puzzle pieces. The interlocking pieces help to show unity and connection.

Filmaps by Siah Design
This logo uses an image of a pin to represent the locational/maps aspect of the business. Very cleverly, a few simple squares are added to the pin design to give the impression of a film reel.

5 Locks by houston-we
Another incredibly simple, yet effective design. By cutting into the ‘o’ in ‘locks’ this logo gives the impression of a door keyhole. Wonderful typographic treatment!

Scissor by palattecorner
This simple, sleek logo creates a crest type symbol from two intersecting shapes. This resulting shape is a simplistic representation of some scissors, and provides a balanced, symmetrical symbol for this design.

Saltwater by ASD
This logo constructs a letter ‘S’ from two interlocking fish symbols. The mono-chrome logo is simple, sleek and professional and no more complex than it needs to be.

PowerBloom v2 by Julius Seniunas
A clever logo that combines the icons of a plant with an electrical plug. The icon is very minimal, yet perfectly captures the two concepts inherent in ‘Power Bloom’. The green leafs tie in with more of an environmental concept, whilst the contrasting red is more fitting for the idea of ‘power’.

Elephant Combs by TbwaIndia
A very simple, sleek design that creates the double illustration of a comb and an elephant simply by adding a dot (for an eye) in the top left of the minimal comb illustration.

Muchmore by Fayda
Possibly the simplest, and best concept in this entire collection. This purely typographic design perfectly encapsulates the concept of ‘more’ by each letter becoming increasingly bold. A great concept!

RIP Steve by Jonathan Mak
The logo that went around the world! This viral logo by Jonathan Mak is a great concept that incorporates the late Steve Jobs’ outline into the iconic Apple logo.

SpadeDealer v2 by Julius Seniunas
A clever logo that uses negative space between two simplistic hands to create the shape of a spade (from a deck of cards). The flexing hands create a sense of energy associated with a casino dealer.

Night Cat v2 by ALL4LEO
The basic curved outline of a cat overlaps a glowing semi-arch, giving the impression of the animal lurking in front of the moon. Another great example of negative space being used to show two concepts in one.

Edith Stein Foundation by LumaVine
The individual represented by this company is featured in the logo icon in her simplest form. The vector graphic presents the core of Edith Stein, communicating many values through a wry look to the viewer.

Green Hope by Master_ino
Another logo capturing two solid concepts in a single design. The long waves of green grass take on the form of an outreached hand, combining both environmental and community ideals.

Quality Performers by Antonio Cappucci
This logo captures a really intense atmosphere in a fairly simple design. The dark nighttime horizon depicted sits underneath a shining star. This logo may not be monotone or a single vector design, but considering that it is comprised of a few simple gradients we get a very immersive sense from it.

French Property Exhibition by Roy Smith
An incredible concept featuring a distorted French flag. The blue panel of the flag is transformed to appear like an opening door, which successfully marries the ideas of France with property.

CitiSync by Logomotive
The icon in this logo adds a cyclical detail to a classic cityscape outline. The result is a logo that has a definite urban feel, but also energy.

SOCIONIC by Logomotive
A wonderfully sleek and elegant logo, using flowing lines to create an attractively framed, ornate letter ‘S’. The logo has a really nice feeling of symmetry and balance and the monotone palette helps keep things simple and sleek.

Favorite Designs?

I hope that you enjoyed this article. Did you have any favorite logo designs in this collection? Do you prefer more complex, intricate logos or are you a fan of the simple/sleek style? Let us know in the comments below and we can get a discussion going!

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When working around bugs and different levels of support in various browsers, a common approach is using conditional comments to target certain versions of Internet Explorer. Come to think of it, it’s pretty rare to need to fix something for an older version of any other browser. People who do not use IE tend to upgrade quicker and CSS-related bugs in other browsers tend to be less severe than in IE, especially compared to IE7 and older.

Anyway, while working on a lot of responsive layouts lately I’ve started using an approach that I’ve found reduces the risk of more advanced CSS, especially CSS3, tripping up older browsers. I simply wrap any CSS that I know won't work at all or may only half-work in a very basic media query, like this:

@media only screen {
    /* "Advanced" CSS2 and CSS3 goes here */
}

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