Sven Lennartz

About The Author

Sven Lennartz Sven is the co-founder and former CEO of Smashing Magazine. He’s now writing at his Conterest Blog, where he focuses on blogs, content strategy and publishing — all in German.

Logotrend 2007: Leaves

In modern logo-design leaves stand for fresh ideas or - more generally - for an innovative way of thinking. In Web they are mostly used to communicate light-weight solutions as well as clean and unobtrusive designs. In fact, leaves, plants or ornaments which appear to be related to the nature can be found almost everywhere; it's a trend that will probably be reversed soon, due to an extreme...

In modern logo-design leaves stand for fresh ideas or - more generally - for an innovative way of thinking. In Web they are mostly used to communicate light-weight solutions as well as clean and unobtrusive designs. In fact, leaves, plants or ornaments which appear to be related to the nature can be found almost everywhere; it’s a trend that will probably be reversed soon, due to an extreme overuse of the theme in modern designs. The sites themselves, using leaves for their logos, mostly do not have a relation to foliage - and even although often green color is used, that is not necessarily the case.

We’d like to present you some of them. The following logos aren’t supposed to represent the quality of logo designs with leaves, but the trend we observe on the Web. The images can be clicked and lead to the sites from which the logos have been taken. You’ll also find tutorials you can use to learn how to create “leaf logos” at the end of this post. Please notice that this post features only those logos which are related to the Web.

What do you think? Is an extensive use of leaves in logos a current Web 2.0 hype which will disappear soon or are the leaves here to stay?

Leaves on light background

9rules

30Logo

Logo with leaves

Logo with leaves

Mint

Logo with leaves

Apple To Oranges

Coda

Vanilla

Sage

Logo with leaves

Hicksdesign

(This logo isn’t used any longer)

Logo with leaves

Logo with leaves

Logo with leaves

Logo with leaves

Cheeaunblog

Plank

Logo with leaves

Logo with leaves

Logo with leaves

Leaves on dark background

Logo with leaves

Logo with leaves

Logo with leaves

Logo with leaves

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Bonus

  • Leaf Logo With Adobe Photoshop Learn how to create a Leaf Logo using Photoshop Preset Shapes.

    Leaf Logo With Adobe Photoshop


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