Book Review: Logo Design Love

When you are reading a book to educate you on a specific subject, the worst thing is for it to seem like a textbook from grade school.  This book is the exact opposite of that, it is a joy to read.  That being said, the virtue of a textbook is that it imparts massive amounts of knowledge.  I have trouble ever remembering any of said knowledge, because I am usually too bored.  This book may not have massive amounts of knowledge contained in it, but that is not the purpose.

So the bottom line is this, I do think this is a very good book for what it is.  Sometimes too simple, and sometimes it gives advice that seems too obvious, but it does it well.  I for one learned a lot about logo design from this book.  It goes in depth into the process the author uses when creating a logo for a client.  At every step there are examples and interesting anecdotes.  The writing style is light and fun to read. It's easy to say that advice is obvious after you've read it, but it is rather nice that it speaks to you as a beginner, but has concepts to make you a professional.

There are so many books on this subject and like with anything, many of them are not very good.  This is one of the better ones to get started with before delving into some of the more in depth tomes of graphic design.

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