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What Makes a Logo Timeless vs. Trendy
Every few years, the design world falls in love with a new trick. Gradient meshes. Ultra-thin sans-serifs. Geometric everything.
And every few years, those logos start looking dated.
The marks that last decades share a few things:
Simplicity that survives scale. If it doesn't work at 16px, it won't work at 16 feet either. The Nike swoosh. The Apple mark. They're almost absurdly simple.
No dependency on color. A strong logo works in black and white first. Color is a layer, not a crutch.
A point of view, not a trend. The Mercedes star wasn't designed to look "modern." It was designed to mean something. That's why it still works over a century later.
I've been designing logos for over 10 years. The ones clients come back and thank me for aren't the flashy ones. They're the ones that still feel right 5 years later.
Trends are fun to watch. But I design to outlast them.
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