r/logodesign • u/IbbeTheCat • 2d ago

Inspiration How modern logos would look like in '84

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u/raisinbrains69 2d ago

All of these are simultaneously good logo designs and SO extremely 80s lol

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u/andy921 2d ago

PlayStation's logo here totally looks like NEXT (Steve Job's 1980's rebound he used to get back together with Apple)

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u/brianlucid 1d ago

Designed by Paul Rand and, at the time, the most ever paid for a logo. Jobs gave him a blank check.

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u/Joepatbob 16h ago

and Paul Rand demanded no revisions. that was a one pass final logo.

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u/Spocks_Goatee 1d ago

The PlayStation logo prototypes are pretty neat too.

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u/tensen01 2d ago

Only thing that bothers me is the usage of several fonts that didn't exist in the 80s, they just grabbed fonts with a retro feel.

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u/tygerr39 1d ago

To be fair the entire thing is anachronistic since companies would never have names like Google or Twitch back in the 80s. But it's very well executed.

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u/santaclouse 2d ago

Yep, a lot of the stylized fonts are very late 90s/early 00s. It's a fun pastiche of a few different eras

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u/Thanks_Obama 1d ago

Yeah it’s the type that misses the mark by a mile in many of these.

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u/the-friendly-squid 6h ago

Or discord having a modern gaming controller as the logo instead of something that’d make sense for the time like an atari joystick

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u/UVSoaked 1d ago

Right?! Pretty sure those companies didn't even exist in the 80s, too!

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u/abelabelabel 1d ago

This guy/gal kerns.

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u/prollydrinkingcoffee 2d ago

This made my entire day so much better!

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u/Szydlikj 1d ago

That discord one just made me… feel

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u/Ill-Woodpecker1857 1d ago

The Discord one bothered me because the controller should've been age appropriate. Maybe a NES controller would've been better.

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u/MarieLaNomade 17h ago

I was thinking of an Atari one?

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u/ExcellentSun3849 1d ago

These are super. Love the nod to Paul Rand.

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u/Commercial_Badger_37 1d ago

That Instagram one 👌.

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u/LevelZeroDM 1d ago

These go so hard lol

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u/CostinTea 1d ago

reminder that these were made by Kostya Petrenko aka kxdgraphics!

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u/acockycrybaby 1d ago

Ah thank you, I shouldn’t have had to scroll so far for this!!

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u/Ahaigh9877 1d ago

I don't mean to come across as rude or annoying, but a little note, since you're not a native English speaker: it's "how it looks" or "what it looks like", but never "how it looks like".

This is an incredibly common mistake that non-native speakers make, even those whose English is otherwise perfect, and I have no idea why!

I hope you don't take this as snark, I'm just trying to be helpful :)

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u/CostinTea 1d ago

Neither the crossposter, nor the OP are the creators of the montage.

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u/Exzakt1 1d ago

Kinda random but the GD youtuber Vit12 always says “how it’s looking like” and my blood starts boiling

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u/IbbeTheCat 8h ago

Thanks, I didn't notice that!

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u/MnMikeee 1d ago

The twitch one is 👌🏻👌🏻

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u/DownTheDrip 1d ago

Very cool 🔥

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u/KayJay_803 1d ago

And I love them all.

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u/SnooPeanuts4093 Haikusexual 21h ago

Love the twitch logo

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u/AndriiKovalchuk logo master 21h ago

This atmosphere, it's very mesmerizing.

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u/j3horn 19h ago

I didn’t know Spotify has been around that long!

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u/SnooFoxes6682 17h ago

Ha! Love it, but lots of companies were also using fonts with serifs back then.

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u/Joepatbob 16h ago

I really like the Nvidia one for some reason

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u/Senior_University921 pixel picasso 13h ago

This looks too classic

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u/Background-Table-625 12h ago

cool cool cool

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u/Just_Tru_It 8h ago

Most of these are way better than the current ones

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u/fucking_unicorn 2d ago

What did you use to animate these?

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u/CostinTea 1d ago

The creator (the ORIGINAL creator) seems to be designing these in Adobe Illustrator, and is probably animating these in After Effects. https://www.instagram.com/kxdgraphics/?hl=en

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u/Internal_Ad_255 2d ago

If you say so...