Logotype is the definitive modern collection of logotypes, monograms and other text-based corporate marks. Featuring more than 1,300 international typographic identities, by around 250 design studios, this is an indispensable handbook for every design studio, providing a valuable resource to draw on in branding and corporate identity projects. Logotype is truly international, and features the world’s outstanding identity designers. Examples are drawn not just from Western Europe and North America but also Australia, South Africa, the Far East, Israel, Iran, South America and Eastern Europe. Contributing design firms include giants such as Pentagram, Vignelli Associates, Chermayeff & Geismar, Wolff Olins, Landor, Total Identity and Ken Miki & Associates as well as dozens of highly creative, emerging studios. Retaining the striking black-and-white aesthetic and structure of Logo (also by Michael Evamy) and Symbol, Logotype is an important and essential companion volume.

'The next time you are tempted to design a logo, take a look at this book. Chances are, it has already been done. By raising the bar, this wonderful resource will make better designers of all of us.' – Michael Bierut of Pentagram Design, on the first edition of Logo This bestselling logo bible has provided graphic designers with an indispensable reference source for over a decade, and over 300 new logos have been added to this fully revised and updated edition. All the logos are grouped into categories such as crosses, stars, crowns, animals, and people, and are shown in black and white to emphasize the visual form of the logos. This offers designers a ready resource to draw upon in the research phase of identity projects. Logos are also indexed alphabetically by name of designer, and by industrial sector for ease of use.

A tribute and major survey of fifty defunct logos. Includes NASA, British Steel, and Pan Am.