Feb 04, 2015

15 Awesome Material Design Logo Examples for Your Inspiration

Material design is taking world by storm since it’s introduction back in 2014. This is the first time that Google has created a full design specification for developers and web designers to work off of when creating Android and Web applications. At first most designers were skeptic and against this trend but within a few weeks everyone started to love material design. There are still some skepticism about this design trends, but we can be sure that this trend is here to stay.

In material design the main attention goes to bold-flat colors, motion, light and shadows or realistic 3D appearances. Material design logo is all about tiny details for elements, shapes and shadows, because they ‘provide visual cues that are grounded in reality’. Recently we have seen large companies, such as Google adopting material design principles into their product logos.

Logos express complex ideas and concepts with simplified illustrations and typefaces that communicate distinctively and effectively. For this reason, high quality and inspirational logo is one of the most difficult aspects of graphic design. Some logos are incredibly effective and clever, while others are poorly made and fail to communicate.

Material Design Logo Characteristics

Material Design preset standards have been determined for specific keylines: circle, square, rectangle, orthogonals, and diagonals. This small palette of universal and simple elements has been developed to unify product icons and systemize their placement on the grid.

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Material Design product Icon Anatomy by Jovie Brett — Material Design product Icon Anatomy by **Jovie Brett**

Material design logo has its own remarkable and quite unique characteristics. Among them, the use of bold color combinations, hierarchical layers structure that best suit the style and the use of negative space to focus attention on important branding elements within a highly symbolic elements. To get a taste of this latest design trend, I’ve curated a roundup of conceptual & real/applied logo designs that reflect material design to hopefully inspire your creativity.