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Japanese town logos

Alright, I’m not even going to pretend I know what’s going on here. Last week I came across this gallery of Japanese town logos on Pink Tentacle and have been amused, baffled and star-stuck ever since. Each municipality has their own simple, 1-color iconic logo.

No pictures of the town clock. No lighthouses. No “Welcome to Blah-blah” slogans. Just symbols. Clean, nice symbols. Man, how amazing would it be to see stuff like this on roadsigns as you bomb down the highway?

Absolutely beautiful. All I have to say on that. Swing over to this post to read the little story as to what these are.

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4 responses to “Japanese town logos”

  1. Reilly Newman (Zangaroo) Avatar
    Reilly Newman (Zangaroo)

    Slick!
    Very cool!
    Thanks for sharing.
    I love the one-colorness!
    -Reilly

  2. Brennan Avatar
    Brennan

    You should design one for Halifax or Dartmouth!

  3. Paul Pants Avatar
    Paul Pants

    I’ve seen these before somewhere, they are tremendous. It’s amazing what you can do with just 1-color, there are way too many ‘logos’ these days that are illustrations and not logos. Heavily illustrative logos usually don’t work at smaller sizes and definitely don’t work well in 1-color. These town logos put more ‘complex’ logos to shame.

  4. John Avatar
    John

    Simply a stunning use of Typography to create a great visual. Agreed with Paul Pants on the complex logo.

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