From the course: Logo Trend Report 2017-2018

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- As you can tell, I have a tremendous affection for logo design and frankly, I can literally trace this fascination back through my childhood. Even then, sitting at my father's drafting table, I recall re-drawing his real estate and construction firm's logo. Way before it's time, it was a couple of single white interweaving skylines. Pretty brutally crafted, but fairly aspirational as I look back at it. Now, we're talking about a logo first drawn in the 50's. And that pretty much means it would forever be classic black ink on some pretty classic white paper. Brilliant. I reminisced about this logo as I looked through the logos we considered for this year's report. There were a couple of marks that just weren't too far off my dad's. But besides a little color, something else moved the born on date of these logos into our generation. Any clue what that was? Line breaks. The concept of making a cut into a line or a field when it passes beneath another is one of those tricks that once…

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