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LogoGala
There are a number of Logo Design Inspiration sites out there, all of which provide similar resources. They offer the freelance logo designer a valuable way to increase the exposure of their work for ego purposes and impressing potential new clients. Not to mention providing a wealth of inspiration for idea strapped designers.
LogoGala, however, offers a few extras which sets it out from the other logo design inspiration and showcasing websites.
The Featured Logo – Not Just Pretty Pics
As you have no doubt caught on, I have cunningly timed this review to include my new ImJustCreative logo design, well, you know, if you got it, flaunt it.
The one thing that really sets out LogoGala is the Featured Logo section. It’s not just a regular ‘submit logo and thats it‘ site. It allows the designer an opportunity to explain the process involved with the design of the logo in question. Looking at cute logo’s all day is one thing, but frankly, after a while, ‘just’ images start to loose their impact. More so now there is a trend for a lot of submitted logos to be concept based rather than ‘real life client logos’. Often, the underlying reason for a logo design can be lost or just impossible to see.
The Featured Logo sets the record straight. Deron (@deronsizemore) has got this bit nailed down perfectly.
Upon submitting your logo, you also have the option of filling in a questionnaire. You can skip it if you want and just submit the logo design by filling in the following, or you can take some time out to answer some well thought out questions, some shown in image below.
Deron allows you, the designer, via LogoGala, to set the record straight.
This allows you to really go into as much detail as you want, there seems to be no character limit, so take the time and space to make the most of the opportunity.
Question 6 provides you with the option of attaching an image of your various sketches etc, which is a brilliant concept for a logo inspiration gallery. The real inspiration comes from seeing how the designer became ‘inspired’ in the process for a final logo.
Pretty Colours
A novel but useful part of LogoGala is the ‘colours used’ section. The website automagically picks out the main colours and displays them in a palette next to the logo design. On the home page, you can view logos by colours, which is a super neat way to find inspiration based on colour opposed to keywords.
No Voting here
A small aspect that I am in favour of is that LogoGala run without a voting system. It seems every inspiration and showcase site under the site is powered by votes. Ofcourse there are the most ‘view and popular logos’ shown on the homepage, but this is based on pure viewing numbers opposed to the very innacuate voting system.
Voting sites are flawed. It’s a pointless system, especially If you are as cynical as me. The more ‘friends’ you have, the more votes you can assure yourself if you are so inclined. Just this very aspect means that any logos with the most votes can’t really be taken seriously. It becomes almost laughable in this sense.
As with most other inspiration sites, LogoGala allows comments to be left. This is the most genuine way to show appreciation for a design you are ‘inspired’ by.
LogoGala Blog
Deron also keeps the LogoGala blog active and each month he features various logos in a monthly roundup, which is a genuine way to show appreciation for those submissions that attract the most ‘eyes’.
The author
Deron Sizemore runs and maintains LogoGala and you can find him on Twitter @logogala and @deronsizemore. He also is the man behind ‘NiceStylesheet.com‘ and ‘Random Jabber.com‘.
So all in all, LogoGala offers a nice slant on the usual inspiration sites. The site design is clean and easy to navigate.
If you are a logo designer and have not really checked out LogoGala then I would recommend you give it a shot.
Tagged: freelance logo designer, gallery, inspiration, logo design, logogala
Thank you so much for this fantastic review, Graham. It’s exciting for me that you (and hopefully others) have noticed the things I’ve incorporated into LogoGala to set it apart from the other galleries. I feel like I still have a long way to go with the site and I some other ideas that I would like to incorporate in the future, but hopefully I’ve got it started off in the right direction.
I only wish the site would automatically pick out the color scheme of the logo. ;) Unfortunately that’s all manually done by me when I review, approve and upload each logo. The colors are basically set up like normal categories would be in a blog post.
Thanks again, Graham. I appreciate you continuing to support LogoGala. I twittered and stumbled your post.
Thank you so much for this fantastic review, Graham. It’s exciting for me that you (and hopefully others) have noticed the things I’ve incorporated into LogoGala to set it apart from the other galleries. I feel like I still have a long way to go with the site and I some other ideas that I would like to incorporate in the future, but hopefully I’ve got it started off in the right direction.
I only wish the site would automatically pick out the color scheme of the logo. ;) Unfortunately that’s all manually done by me when I review, approve and upload each logo. The colors are basically set up like normal categories would be in a blog post.
Thanks again, Graham. I appreciate you continuing to support LogoGala. I twittered and stumbled your post.
Great post Graham! I agree, LogoGala really has it down. I love the no voting system, and browsing by color is brilliant. I think I’m going to take more advantage of the “Featured” form and upload more sketches and process info.
Deron – Congrats on LogoGala, you really have done a great job, and I look forward to watching the site grow.
:)
Great post Graham! I agree, LogoGala really has it down. I love the no voting system, and browsing by color is brilliant. I think I’m going to take more advantage of the “Featured” form and upload more sketches and process info.
Deron – Congrats on LogoGala, you really have done a great job, and I look forward to watching the site grow.
:)
JWG : I find a lot of logo inspiration galleries pretty dull without any descriptions to go with the design.
A lot of concept logos seem to be pretty colours and generic wording, but without any thought process, Im not impressed.
“Oh great, another logo that spells ‘Crow’ and is made to look like a crow”. Yada yada. ‘So why did you do that?’
Without the whys and reasons, a lot of logos, when there are 100′s to look at are hard or meaningless. Unless you just like looking at pretty pictures. Part of the inspiration is and should be the reasoning, not just the finished result.
I am more inspired by a though process than the end result.
This is where Deron has it sorted with LogoGala.com. It allows the designer to really bring to life the design, and to see what motivated the idea. This is true inspiration. Not just another pretty concept logo.
Im sure it’s not just me, but the amount of concept logos entering these galleries is astonishing. But hey, Im deeply cynical and mistrustful. :)
JWG : I find a lot of logo inspiration galleries pretty dull without any descriptions to go with the design.
A lot of concept logos seem to be pretty colours and generic wording, but without any thought process, Im not impressed.
“Oh great, another logo that spells ‘Crow’ and is made to look like a crow”. Yada yada. ‘So why did you do that?’
Without the whys and reasons, a lot of logos, when there are 100′s to look at are hard or meaningless. Unless you just like looking at pretty pictures. Part of the inspiration is and should be the reasoning, not just the finished result.
I am more inspired by a though process than the end result.
This is where Deron has it sorted with LogoGala.com. It allows the designer to really bring to life the design, and to see what motivated the idea. This is true inspiration. Not just another pretty concept logo.
Im sure it’s not just me, but the amount of concept logos entering these galleries is astonishing. But hey, Im deeply cynical and mistrustful. :)
The more I think about what you’re saying in regards to descriptions, I’m leaning toward adding another field for a brief description for those logos not “featured.” The nine featured interview questions would remain, but I think a field allowing the designer to give a brief description on those not featured might be good.
The more I think about what you’re saying in regards to descriptions, I’m leaning toward adding another field for a brief description for those logos not “featured.” The nine featured interview questions would remain, but I think a field allowing the designer to give a brief description on those not featured might be good.
Deron : this would be a great idea. Some people may not want to bother with a huge description but may want to add just a few words about the meaning of the logo for example.
Crucial perhaps for putting a certain design or style of logo into context. This potentially allows for a much better appreciate of someone else’s work.
I had this problem with the zulu safari logo. It was a odd shape really, but the meaning and purpose for that logo were important. But because on most sites I was unable to just add a few words about what you were looking at, I felt the logo may have been lost ‘in context’ to some.
Sometimes you need to see a logo in it’s environment, and not just on a small background.
So yeah, this would be a great addition to you’re site.
Deron : this would be a great idea. Some people may not want to bother with a huge description but may want to add just a few words about the meaning of the logo for example.
Crucial perhaps for putting a certain design or style of logo into context. This potentially allows for a much better appreciate of someone else’s work.
I had this problem with the zulu safari logo. It was a odd shape really, but the meaning and purpose for that logo were important. But because on most sites I was unable to just add a few words about what you were looking at, I felt the logo may have been lost ‘in context’ to some.
Sometimes you need to see a logo in it’s environment, and not just on a small background.
So yeah, this would be a great addition to you’re site.
Wow. This seems like a great site. I love seeing the process and sketches behind a logo.
Wow. This seems like a great site. I love seeing the process and sketches behind a logo.
Thanks, Jenny!
Feel free to submit some of your work, you’ve got some nice looking logos I see in your portfolio. ;)
Thanks, Jenny!
Feel free to submit some of your work, you’ve got some nice looking logos I see in your portfolio. ;)
Really nice article Graham and the colors are intelligent in the logogala website
A good and interesting fervor in this website is that we can submit/suggest a logo as well, good services by logogala
Yes, Deron continues to make excellent progress with LogoGala. Happy he is not just sitting on his laurels, but continuing to find ways to improve it.
Really nice article Graham and the colors are intelligent in the logogala website
A good and interesting fervor in this website is that we can submit/suggest a logo as well, good services by logogala
Yes, Deron continues to make excellent progress with LogoGala. Happy he is not just sitting on his laurels, but continuing to find ways to improve it.
hey thanks for the post… bookmarked!
hey thanks for the post… bookmarked!
Sometimes you just stumble across a website and think, “Thank you God”. Some really inspirational stuff which has helped me out of a bit of a mental meltdown today.
Sometimes you just stumble across a website and think, “Thank you God”. Some really inspirational stuff which has helped me out of a bit of a mental meltdown today.
@Keith – Little late (ok, a lot) in my response here, but I’m glad you were able to find LogoGala useful. I feel like I’ve got some more useful features currently in development. Stay tuned.
@Keith – Little late (ok, a lot) in my response here, but I’m glad you were able to find LogoGala useful. I feel like I’ve got some more useful features currently in development. Stay tuned.