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Art Logo Ideas

Three logo ideas per press, each with the shape it fits and its number of colors.

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  1. A triangle on its point with the name along the top edgeSquare, 1 color. The flat top edge gives the lettering a shelf. Put one small mark in the middle.
  2. A stool and an easel in three lines eachWide, 1 color. Two stick shapes side by side with the studio name ruled underneath.
  3. A brush whose stroke forms your initialSquare, 2 colors. The brush sits at the end of the letter it has just painted. Draw the bristles as one block.

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Initials and monograms 12

  • A classic three-letter monogram, surname letter enlarged Wide, 1 color. First name letter, surname letter, middle name letter, with the one in the middle drawn larger.
  • A diamond frame with letters tilted to match it Square, 1 color. Tilt the letters to match two sides of the diamond, so the frame and the letters lean together.
  • A monogram where both letters lean on one shared stem Square, 1 color. The shared stroke makes two letters read as one shape, even at the size of a fingernail.
  • A small letter circled by one gappy brush sweep Circle, 1 color. Leave a gap where the brush ring starts and ends. The gap is what makes it look hand-made.
  • An initial built from five brush dabs Square, 1 color. One dab per stroke of the letter and no outline. Uneven dabs look better than neat ones.
  • An initial mirrored into a symmetrical badge Square, 1 color. Draw the letter, flip it and join the pair down the middle. It need not read as a letter anymore.
  • An initial that drips a single round bead of paint Tall, 1 color. Keep the drip short and round. At small sizes a long drip turns into a stray line.
  • An initial whose crossbar is a pencil Square, 2 colors. Suits A, H, T and F. Keep the pencil to a bar with a point so it still reads as part of the letter.
  • Initials cut out of a solid square Square, 1 color. The letters are the paper showing through. Thick letters survive shrinking, thin ones fill in.
  • Initials hooked together like chain links Wide, 1 color. Break one stroke where it passes behind the other, so the letters seem to interlock.
  • Initials stacked, the top one resting in the lower Tall, 1 color. Works when the lower letter is open at the top, such as U, V, W or Y.
  • Letters formed by the space two solid blocks leave Square, 1 color. Draw two solid blocks whose inner edges trace the letters. Squint to check it at thumbnail size.

Signature and handwriting marks 12

  • A lowercase wordmark with no gaps between letters Wide, 1 color. Print your name so each letter touches the next and the word becomes one block.
  • A nickname in brush pen with thick downstrokes Wide, 1 color. Press on every stroke that travels down and lift on every stroke that travels up.
  • A signature cut down to one letter and a long tail Wide, 1 color. Small enough for the corner of a drawing. The tail can curve back under the letter.
  • A signature that ends in a small star Wide, 1 color. The star stands in for the period. Draw it no taller than a lowercase letter.
  • A signature with one crossbar reaching over the whole name Wide, 1 color. The bar of a t or the top of a capital stretches into a roof for the other letters.
  • A two-stroke squiggle that is yours alone Square, 1 color. Not letters at all, only a quick shape you can repeat the same way every time.
  • A wordmark tilted uphill and closed with a period Wide, 1 color. Tilt the whole word a little, never letter by letter. The dot makes it look decided.
  • A wordmark whose i is dotted with a little sun Wide, 2 colors. Swap the dot of an i or j for a small drawing. Keep it no wider than the letter.
  • Handwriting looped around by an overlapping oval Wide, 1 color. Draw the oval in one go around the finished name and let the ends overlap.
  • Your first name in your own handwriting, underlined once Wide, 1 color. Write it twenty times and pick the best. The underline starts from the last letter.
  • Your name in capitals with one letter flipped Wide, 1 color. Flip a letter that still reads backward, such as R, N, E or S. One flip is enough.
  • Your signature with the year tucked under its tail Wide, 1 color. Change the two digits each January and the mark dates every drawing for you.

Tools as a mark 12

  • A brush whose stroke forms your initial Square, 2 colors. The brush sits at the end of the letter it has just painted. Draw the bristles as one block.
  • A compass drawing the ring that frames it Circle, 1 color. Two legs meet at the top, and one of them has just finished the circle around the mark.
  • A knotted pencil, point and eraser at opposite ends Wide, 2 colors. One loose loop in the middle of the pencil. Keep the body one flat color.
  • A paint roller leaving a stripe with the name knocked out Wide, 1 color. The stripe is solid and the letters are bare paper. Suits murals and big work.
  • A paint tube squeezing out a line that spells a name Wide, 2 colors. The tube sits at the left and the paint runs right into cursive letters.
  • A palette with a dab for each thing you make Wide, 3 colors. Three dabs at most and a thumb hole. More dabs than that blur together when small.
  • A pen nib with an initial for its breather hole Tall, 1 color. The nib is a pointed shield shape. The letter replaces the breather hole in the middle.
  • A pencil viewed from its tip: six sides around a dot Circle, 1 color. Six sides and a center point, with no fine detail to lose when the mark is tiny.
  • A sharpened tip doubling as a snow-capped summit Square, 1 color. A triangle with a zigzag where wood meets lead, like a snow line. Good for a landscape artist.
  • A stylus leaning on the corner of a tablet Square, 1 color. One rounded corner and a slanted bar. A mark for someone who draws on a screen.
  • Open scissors with a scrap between the blades Square, 1 color. The blades make an X. A mark for collage, cut paper or printmaking.
  • Two crossed brushes beneath a letter Square, 1 color. Cross them low so the letter has room. Thick handles and blunt tips read better than fine ones.

A small creature or mascot 12

  • A bee trailing a dotted loop beneath the lettering Wide, 2 colors. The dotted loop behind the bee runs under the lettering and ties the two together.
  • A fish assembled from three overlapping thumb marks Wide, 1 color. Press a thumb three times, overlapping, then add a tail and an eye. No two copies match.
  • A four-armed ink blot holding a pen Square, 1 color. A blot with two dot eyes. Give it four arms at most, because more turn into fringe.
  • A frog perched on a flat pencil Wide, 2 colors. The pencil lies flat as the base line. The frog is a bump with two bigger bumps for eyes.
  • A goldfish swimming a ring around an initial Circle, 2 colors. The fish is a teardrop that circles the letter once. Only the fish takes the second color.
  • A rabbit with one ear bent like a brushstroke Tall, 1 color. One ear upright, one folded over with a ragged end, as if a dry brush made it.
  • A round blob creature with two dots and a drip Circle, 1 color. A mascot of three marks, easy to redraw with a new expression each time.
  • A seated cat using its tail as a loaded brush Square, 2 colors. A sitting cat as a solid shape. Only the tip of the tail takes the second color.
  • A small bird holding a brush in its beak Square, 2 colors. The bird is one teardrop shape with a dot for an eye. The brush is a single bar.
  • A snail carrying one spiral brushstroke Wide, 2 colors. One spiral brushstroke for the shell and a plain body with two short stalks.
  • A symmetrical moth marked with four color dabs Wide, 3 colors. Four wings as flat shapes and one round dab on each. Symmetry makes it read at once.
  • A winking owl mark with sharpened tufts Square, 2 colors. One ring eye and one curved line for the wink. The tufts are small triangles with a darker tip.

Shapes, frames and stamps 12

  • A circle split in half, one side solid and one side lined Circle, 1 color. A plain mark that hints at light and shade. An initial can sit on the dividing line.
  • A date-stamp bar with the name where the date goes Wide, 1 color. A long box with rounded ends, the name in blunt capitals and a thin rule above and below it.
  • A hexagon badge with one small tool in the middle Square, 1 color. A double outline and a single brush, pencil or nib. Leave out lettering at this size.
  • A postage-stamp frame with a tiny drawing inside Tall, 2 colors. A scalloped edge all around. The drawing inside can change while the frame stays the same.
  • A rough-edged square stamp holding one initial Square, 1 color. Nibble the edges and leave a few specks bare, as if the ink did not take everywhere.
  • A rubber-stamp ring with the name around the rim Circle, 1 color. Name over the top, a word such as studio or art under, a star each side between them.
  • A solid disc crossed by a name ribbon with folded ends Circle, 2 colors. The disc is solid. The ribbon carries the name and folds back at both ends.
  • A sunburst of short lines around an initial Circle, 1 color. Twelve to sixteen rays, all the same length, with a clear gap before the letter.
  • A thumbprint with an initial cut through its ridges Tall, 1 color. Draw the ridges as broken arcs and leave the letter as clean paper running through them.
  • A triangle on its point with the name along the top edge Square, 1 color. The flat top edge gives the lettering a shelf. Put one small mark in the middle.
  • An oval label with two lines of lettering Wide, 1 color. Name on the first line, what you make on the second, and a thin inner border.
  • Crop-mark corners framing the name Wide, 1 color. Four small L shapes stand off the corners, like trim marks on a printed sheet.

For a class or a studio 12

  • A drooping cord hung with four small pictures Wide, 2 colors. Pictures hung up to dry, a clip on each. One of the four rectangles carries the initials.
  • A handprint with the studio's initial left bare in the palm Square, 1 color. Suits a class of young children. Print a real hand, then trace it for a clean version.
  • A jar of brushes with the class name on the jar Tall, 2 colors. Three brushes at different heights. The jar is a plain rectangle that holds the lettering.
  • A little house with a brush for a chimney Square, 2 colors. A square and a roof. The brush tip pokes up where smoke would be. Good for a home studio.
  • A paint dab stamped with the room number Square, 2 colors. One blobby dab with a short handle of drip. The number is bare paper in the middle.
  • A ring of dots around a circle for a shared table Circle, 1 color. A circle ringed by evenly spaced dots. It says shared table without drawing a single person.
  • A round badge with the founding year across its middle Circle, 1 color. The year the class began sits across the middle, with the name curved above and the town below.
  • A stool and an easel in three lines each Wide, 1 color. Two stick shapes side by side with the studio name ruled underneath.
  • A window mark: dots, lines, crosshatch and solid panes Square, 1 color. Four panes, one texture in each, standing for four things taught in the room.
  • An arrow-shaped door sign reading studio Wide, 1 color. A plank with one pointed end and two nail dots. The same shape can point the way down a hall.
  • An open sketchbook with a pencil sprouting from it Square, 2 colors. The book is two leaning rectangles. The pencil stands in the fold with two small leaves.
  • Studio initials inside a single paint splat Square, 1 color. Big rounded lobes, not thin spikes, so it survives being printed on a shirt or stitched.

How it works

Art logo ideas for someone who makes art: a mark for the corner of a drawing, a profile picture, a stamp for a small shop. Each of the 72 says what shape it fits and its number of colors.

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Sorted by what the mark is built from

Initials and monograms use one to three letters. Signature and handwriting marks start from your own writing. Tools as a mark turn a brush, a pencil or a nib into the picture. A small creature gives a mascot. Shapes, frames and stamps are borders to put a name in, and one group is for a class or a studio.

One color, thumbnail size

A mark on a profile picture is about the size of a fingernail, and a rubber stamp prints one color. Most ideas here work in a single color and say so. Where a second color helps, the hint counts it.

  • Draw the mark big, photograph it and look at it on a phone. Whatever vanishes there can come out.
  • A circle suits a profile picture, a wide mark the corner of a drawing. Every hint names its shape first.

Questions and answers

What makes a good logo for an artist?

One idea, drawn simply enough to read at thumbnail size and in one color. A monogram where both letters lean on one shared stem does it with two letters, and a pencil viewed from its tip does it with six sides around a dot.

Can an artist use a signature as a logo?

Yes. Signature and handwriting marks has 12, from a signature cut down to one letter and a long tail, small enough for the corner of a drawing, to a wordmark whose i is dotted with a little sun.

What are logo ideas for an art class or studio?

For a class or a studio has 12: a jar of brushes with the class name on the jar, a ring of dots around a circle for a shared table, and studio initials inside a single paint splat, built to survive printing on a shirt.

Do these copy existing logos?

No. None of the 72 describes or imitates the mark of a company or an organization.

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