Just recently, I discovered a very lovely looking book. My teacher brought the Los Logos 4 book to a meeting about designing icons. That book gave me a lot of inspiration.

After browsing the web to order it, I was thinking about DivitoDesign. That book is very interesting for any of you, so I get up and contact Gestalten to do a book review for this blog.

Los Logos 4

The Los Logos series, published by Gestalten, is all about logos. In their 4 books, they have gathered thousands of different logos for your inspiration. With 567 pages Los Logos 4 provides you with plenty enough knowledge about current logo design trends.

Let’s talk about the different aspects of the book.

The cover

Woow! That cover looks absolutely beautiful. From the outside the cover feels like velvet, yet the cover stays robust and massive. The colors are great as well, it looks like gold with a greenish flow lying over it. The color depends of the angle you watch at it. I am not a large fan of the symmetrical logo, but it is a good contrast with the ‘soft’ cover.

The Logos

The logos are split into 9 different categories, ranging from Sports to Games to Corporate and anything in between. One thing that I really like is that they listed all the logos with the same style together. That means that you will find typography-based logos together, noisy logos together etc.

The quality of the logos are exceptionally high. There are so many styles and approaches to logo design inside this book that you can use this book forever. Every time you will browse the book again, you will find new and different inspiration. That makes Los Logos 4 the most complete inspiration book I have in my book-library.

Book design

This book really focuses on the logos. The graphical aspect of the pages are minimal and very subtle, which makes it very pleasant for the eye to browse the book. The gold cover is also present inside the book to indicate different chapters.

What do I miss?

As a graphical student, I am learned to gather information, analyze that information and to compose a goal. In this book however, you see logos only. That means you don’t know how and why the designers have chosen for that approach and style. You don’t know their motives and the requirements of the client. What makes that logo good for that specific business?

Unfortunately, a brief description about the project isn’t available in the book. This makes it impossible for the logo designer to learn something from these projects and logos. However, I think the goal was to provide inspiration anyway.

Conclusion

Los Logos 4 is a fantastic book to get to know the latest logo trends and styles. You will get plenty of inspiration from only browsing a few pages. So, in my opinion, if you are a designer of any kind, I think this book deserves a place in your book library.

Get more information and order details on Gestalten.