desk.noLogo Design Contest

Making voices be heard (dont use in logo)

The website desk.no is cultivating the ongoing news-driven debate, by empowering bloggers, first hand sources and opinion leaders.

PS: the word desk in desk.no means newsdesk and not the furniture.

Black, blue.

Open for suggestions

Design Brief

 

Product
Logo for Desk.no

The logo should work both online, on print and on merchandise.

Desk.no is short for newsdesk.no.

Site category
Online Media. News. Debate. Discussion.

Desk.no is making voices be heard.

The website desk.no is cultivating the ongoing news-driven debate, by empowering bloggers, first hand sources and opinion leaders.

Design profile
The design for the logo, and later the web site itself, should unite modern web 2.0 with classic, serious typography. The design feeling should be twitter meets New Yorker. We are looking for the impossible comination of smashing modern tabloid storytelling and stylish lowkey elegant layout design.

Designs we love
We think that the nowegian online newspaper www.dagbladet.no really has understood how to use powerful pictures, short texts and good titles to sell clicks to their users. We love the cool typography of the fashion magazine Fantastic Man (http://www.fantasticman.com/magazine/fantastic-man-12/). We love the colourful Spanish printed newsmagazine “I” (http://www.innovationsinnewspapers.com/index.php/2010/10/10/innovations-i-becomes-the-best-designed-newspaper-os-spain-portugal/). We think that Yahoo News (news.yahoo.com) is an effective and tidy website. We like the use of huge pictures and little text on www.d2.no.

Logos that we love
We like simple clean logos that communicate well. From WWF and FedEx to Apple. We love all the logos in this blogpost http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/09/30-great-logos-with-smart-concepts/