30 clever logos with hidden meanings. The magic of negative space...


FedEx
One of my favorites. There is a hidden white arrow between the “E” and “x”. Amazing.

fedex

London Symphony Orchestra
Two different meanings: the rhythm of the music and a conductor with his baton….

lso

Hope For Children Initiative
It’s self-explanatory.

african

Yoga Australia Logo
If you watch it carefully you can see the Australia Map.

yoga

Galeries Lafayette
There’s the Eiffel Tower!
lafayette

VIA Rail Canada Logo
You can see two train tracks with the letters” V” and the “A”

via

Goodwill
A smiling face but…with a closer look you will see the lower case “g”

goodwill

Sun Microsystems
The diamond shaped logo is composed by the letters “S-U-N”

sun

A-Style
You see….two people….

astyle

Museum of London
Each shape shows the growing geographic area of London. Stunning.

museumlondon

Modern Nerd
This one is really smart.
You see a nerd, right? Now look the letters “D” and “N”, they are both open and you can read the work “nerd”.

Modern-Nerd

Seattle Aquarium

seattle

ED Milan
“E” and “D”. An electric plug. Stunning.

ed

Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium

zoo

Washington state university
The letters “W”, “S”, and “U” are arranged to form a Cougar head

washington-state-university-logo

Hartford Whalers
Whale + “H” + “W”.

Hartford-Whalers-logo

Carrefour
Did you notice the hidden “c”?

Carrefour

Toblerone
There’s and hidden bear.

tobleronelogo

Amazon
Two different meanings: Products from “a” to “z” and…a smile!

amazon

Baskin Robbins
31 flavors….

baskinrobbins

Treacy Shoes

treacy

Ogden Plumbing

Ogden-Plumbing

Talk

talk

Microsoft “Mouse”

MOUSE

Big 10
There are 11 universities in the Big 10 conference, with one (The Pennsylvania State University) added 19 years ago.
Now the logo reflect the 11th university too. Amazing.

bigten

Mammoth Mountain

mammoth

Tostitos
Look, there are two guys enjoying a Tostito chip with salsa!

tostitos

Eight
Variations of number “8″. Great!

8

Milwaukee Brewers

Milwaukee-Brewers

Eighty- 20
This is not a negative space example but it’s too cool: dark squares are “1′s” and light squares are “0′s”. It’s binary code.
Top squares= 1010000= 80
Bottom squares= 001010 = 20

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18 Comments

 

  1. Robin Cannon 26/10/2009  3:54 pm Reply

    That's a superb showcase. Really great collection, and something that demonstrates perfectly the power of negative space in design. Much appreciated.

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  4. Lori 26/10/2009  9:52 pm Reply

    I happened across your site last week and I love it!

    This post is just too cool - fascinating images incorporating negative space. If you hadn't pointed out some of the hidden messages, I would have completely missed them (i.e., FedEx)!

    Amazing site, thank you!!

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  7. anon 28/10/2009  12:23 pm Reply

    The London Symphony Orchestra also has a L S O in it.

    • anon 14/04/2010  10:51 pm Reply

      And the river Thames maybe!?

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  10. andre 31/01/2010  1:05 am Reply

    que lixo

  11. mlah 07/04/2010  5:18 am Reply

    Am I the only one that saw neither of the two meanings of the London symphony orchestra logo

  12. Shark 24/04/2010  8:12 pm Reply

    Shark is another good one. http://www.sciencepunk.com/v5/gallery/SharkEnergyDrink.gif

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  14. andre toet 16/11/2011  10:37 am Reply

    Great site, Great lists! Especially the 30 clever logos with hidden meanings.

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