The History Of Logo Design

The history of logo design and logos dates back to Greece in ancient times . The word "logo" means a name , symbol or trademark designed for easy recognition . Logo design history had it's humble beginnings as a cipher consisting of a single letter , and later a design or mark consisting of two or more letters together . The cipher may be either all the letters of a name , the initial letters , or the sumame of a person for use on stationery , business cards , or eisewhere .

Many early Greek and Roman coins bear the monograms or logos of rulers or towns . The most famous of these early logos is the sacred monogram , which is formed by the conjunction of the first two Greek letters of XR , S , T , O and S : (Christ) , usually with the A : (alpha) and O : (omega) if the Apocalypose on each side of the coin . The Middle Ages were extremely prolific in inventing ciphers for ecclesiastical , artistic , and commercial use .

A logo can be a sign of graphics or logotype and used as a company's symbol -- a corporate identity . The logo should be literally the first piece of graphyics that the reader would see , no matter on print covers or web pages .

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Cool....i never knew that. Nice one

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funny, never knew that. well, many words in modern languages are roman, etymology is funny. (for those who don't what it is: etymology is finding out where a word comes from. especially in chinese characters it's funny to see where they come from. for example: big disaster is the sign of a big flood (as in the Bible) or sometihng like that. and choosing between good and evil was something with a tree (Bible again..) really interesting. i couldn't find the article, but you should google it.

PS:no offence, but please quote when you quote.
www.logodesign.com/logo_history.html &www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9053400 both give that article.

 

 

 

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I never thought of that! I never thought of tracing the logo's history back to the Greeks and Romans, but now that you mention it, it all makes sense! Thanks for the interesting history lesson!

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Really interesting!

“Even though the word “logo” comes from ancient Greek and it translates to “word” or “speech”, other cultures - the Babylonian, Assyrian, Mayan, Chinese, Egyptian also used pictographs to communicate words and ideas. Pictographs could be considered early logos; unfortunately, gang graffiti on the walls of inner city buildings continues that trend of identification through signs and pictures.”

I agree always quoting: http://www.logoworks.com/logos.html

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