This round up features 20 timeless
black and white or greyscale
designs from the designer community on DesignCrowd.com.
Black & white Versus Color
The collection highlights awesome examples of greyscale logo design, web design, flyer design, t-shirt design, icon design and more. We explore how greyscale can be harnessed to create eye-catching design for print and when you bid for logo design. As a designer you might typically design in black and white before you start working on the color palette. I hope this post convinces you that design in greyscale has its own place in the design canon.
Big brands in greyscale
Nike, London's Victoria & Albert Museum (below), Playboy, Channel have shunned color showing a preference for greyscale in their logos. This gives the application of the design greater flexibility. Easy to reproduce on a range of formats and mediums greyscale also lends a classic or timeless quality to a brand identity. Chanel's interlocking Cs which forms a stunning monogram logo, epitomises this approach. The famous design museum, the V&A, is well known for its iconic black and white logo in a timless serif font. It's the simplicity of the visual shapes which black and white logos create which in part helps to make them memorable.
The Victoria and Albert Museum black and white
logo designed by Alan Fletcher of Pentagram
in 1988. |
The logotype was given to Chanel by the
Château de Crémat, Nice. See more here
|
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Greyscale Design: 20 Classic Black and White Designs from DesignCrowd
Which was your favorite example of greyscale graphic design? Let us know in the comments below or see more grey logo designs on BrandCrowd!
Written by Jo Sabin on Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Jo Sabin is Head of Designer Community at DesignCrowd. She's led the company's public relations and social media programs since 2012. With more than ten years' experience working with Australian and international tech startups in the creative industries, Jo has been instrumental in meeting DesignCrowd's objectives in Australia and abroad. Get in touch via Twitter.
