Announcing Logospire
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on a new project called Logospire. Logospire is a logo inspiration gallery. You can browse logos, upload your own logos, rate logos and leave comments and feedback.
While there are a few other logo galleries out there right now, I found that each one of them was lacking something. Most of the current galleries also moderate all logo submissions, so it may be a while before your logo actually goes live.
Logospire is different in that there is no moderation queue. You can upload your logo and it will go live straight away. By default, the front page sorts logos by highest rating, so even if there are low quality submissions, these won’t make it to the front pages. You can of course also sort by latest submissions, so you can browse, rate and comment on all the upcoming logos.
Instead of using pre-made gallery management software, I’ve built Logospire from scratch to ensure it fulfills its goals 100%. In the coming weeks I’ll be tweaking and updating the site, so if you have any suggestions, don’t hesitate to contact me. Here’s what the site looks like:
So if you’re interested in logo design, go ahead and check out Logospire. I hope you like it.
[Update 3 Jan 09] - I’ve created a Twitter feed where I’m posting updates, so if you’re interested in any changes or news on Logospire, just follow me @logospire
Great work.
Thanks Alexis :)
Looks promising. I am missing RSS-feeds though. :-)
why no RSS?
Can’t vote without beeing a member?
So bad.
Because RSS would be useless for this website.
I can add RSS, I just didn’t feel it would be the best way to browse the available logos. But it’s on the todo list :)
pickupjojo: I can enable voting without signing up, but it was a design decision to keep it like this. Voting without signing up is very anonymous and insecure — i.e. it’s easy to purposefully vote many times since i.p. checks are unreliable. Sure, not many people will want to mess with the votes, but it’s much more secure behind a login. Besides, you can sign up in about 10 seconds ;)
Great work. Can I ask what language/framework you used to build it? Just curious…
Thanks Raymond. It’s built using Ruby on Rails.
Very nice site. Will be great once it gets more logos.
I shall sign up 100 accounts to gain control of the content display! j/k
good job.
Jin: You’re kidding now, but someone might just do it ;)
Very nice! :)
I’ll really gonna use it.
Please keep us informed about the site.
Cheers,
BTW:
It would be nice if you would be able to “unvote”. :)
Nice one !
Rss feed would be nice… I’ll check it anyway.
“Instead of using pre-made gallery management software, I’ve built Logospire from scratch to ensure it fulfills its goals 100%.”
That’s probably the first good reason I ever saw for using home-made stuff.
Looks great, I like the dark brown color. Good concept, too.
@pickupjojo: I think he should keep it the way it is, if you have to register to vote you’re more likely to join the discussions and comment on the work, and that’s a good thing.
Having issues putting a URL into the description. is not allowed (ok), but blank lines are stripped out too (not ok): http://www.logospire.com/logos/16
Vadim: Noted — I’ll go add some simple formatting now.
Edit: Ok, line breaks will show up now :)
Fantastic! I love the site already, simple and clean. Couple small bugs I noticed: After making an account, then clicking “Settings”, my e-mail address showed up twice both in the e-mail and the website fields. Also, the first password field was pre-filled when I loaded the page, causing an error to be thrown when I tried to update my other info; I needed to clear the field before I could save.
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Andrew: thanks for the feedback. That’s really strange — never had this happen before. I’ll keep an eye out for this.
Good job Dmitry, Logospire certainly looks promising. But you mentioned not being satisfied with the other logo galleries. Just out of curiosity, in what aspect is LogoPond lacking?
Really nice! I like it! Simple and clean. But RSS would be nice. I know its not the best way to check these logos but i wont forget to check them anyway:)
Really nice job!
Just two design issues: check the usability on the tabbed menu, i think it’s a little confusing. And any username longer than 10 chars breaks the comments display.
Congratulations on this new project! ;)
Great design! And I agree with Facundo that the tabbed menus could be confusing.
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Love the site Dmitry. Beautiful, clean and usable. Just perfect.
Hello, Dmitry. This is bads, which said on habrahabr.ru.
- Communications are subjected to moderation, my post on their logo says: «Happy New Year!» - Did not pass moderation)
- There is no way to see all the published work of the author, such as contact with him, that is no community
- Strict size of the logo (I would be in their place added resizer)
- Assessment of logos for 5 stars is not a good idea.
Autorun (http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/design/48306/#comment_1248078)
Sevenov: I noticed your post in moderation queue, and have now approved it :) The site uses Akismet spam filter, which is what pretty much every WordPress blog uses, so it’s pretty solid. I’ll do my best to approve any non-spam comments should they get moderated.
Published work of author: Yes I absolutely agree with you and it’s the next thing on my todo list. I will add this very shortly.
There is a resizer, though I’m still getting it to work well. If you submit a larger logo there is a chance it may skew the proportions. I’ll see if I can make it better.
I’ve also now prevented users rating their own logos, so new logos now won’t be getting an automatic 5 star, which resulted in mediocre logos jumping to the front page :)
tasuki: LogoPond is the biggest logo gallery out there and they’ve certainly got a lot of features on their site. However, I felt there was just too many things going on. There’s 14 links on top, just in the navigation area. The site also has some issues in Safari, which I use as a main browser. It’s a great site, but I just feel there is too much going on there — feels a little bloated :)
I really like something like Faveup — very simple, easy to browse and has a 5 star rating system. The problem with Faveup is that it’s a touch too simple as you can’t even leave a comment.
I’d like to contact the author. And how is it done?
Quick update: Added user pages ;) Just click on a user’s name in the logo details section of each logo and it will take you to their page.
Edit: I’ve set up a Twitter feed, so if you need any updates or want to message feedback, just follow/tweat @logospire
Hi Dmitry! Logospire is great, altough in usability point of view, after a couple of logos uploaded, there are problems. What I really miss is some kind of tagging and searching! You should add some kind of tagging option if you can, for example:
- type of logo (graphic, text, text+graphic)
- industry of the company, or brand
- 1-2-3-4-direct colour, etc.
Still the idea of the site is great!
Дмитрий, классный проект.
Не могли бы вы добавить cut-сервис к загрузке лого, я обычно превью делаю 600х600px. Будут ли какие-либо еще возможности для общения между юзерами?
Amazing website!
Dmitry, I like the site very much. The design is awesome.
Hello, Dmitry!
It would be nice to see how many people voted for a logo (just like at Faveup).
Now Faveup has too many images in gallery. It’s hard to browse them.
Usability of designflavr.com is much better! Hope you’ll take some useful decisions from there!
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The one thing that all the galleries I’ve seen lacked is tags for the logos.
Дим, добавь пожалуйста возможность поправить (ну или удалить) лого (свое). А то промазал, не то загрузил, и вот хз как изменить :(
vitalyu — The edit/delete links are on the page of each logo, under the description and details :)
Nice project Dmitry ;)
Is there no search form on Logospire ?
Anton: Thanks, I’ll see if I can create more detailed author pages. Contacting authors isn’t a very easy thing to do because most people want to keep email private. I’m not a fan of direct messaging features either because they create yet another channel of communication for you to watch. I’ll definitely think about this tough, thanks for mentioning it.
Thanks for the comments everyone — I’ll keep them in mind for later updates.
Nice site but I really need the RSS!
Great site Dmitry, just like the rest of the comments here it needs rss and search. I quickly leave gallery sites that filter by color, etc. instead of just letting you search.
Very nice! I dig it a ton. Keep up the good work!
There’s an RSS feed you can grab at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/logospire I’ll put up a link to it later on the site. Because the site is open to submissions without moderation, I can’t vouch for the quality of the logos in the feed — there will be both, good and bad :) I’ll see if it’s possible to get a feed for higher rated logos only.
Заметное улучшение было бы, если бы не был виден текущий балл за лого, перед своей оценкой.
Very nice looking site. I just signed up.
Some comments about the site: I think it would be nice to be able to view just the logos in a grid form. Also, the width of the content seems too narrow to me. I do like the dark brown colors though.
>> The edit/delete links are on the page of each logo, under the description and details :)
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Oh! =) thx =)
very good site. ive just update my own logo:
http://pixelhype.co.uk/
What’s the license / TOS of logospire content actually? I cannot find any information about that in the site.
All the content is copyright to the individual owners/designers. There’s a checkbox you have to tick to verify that you’re either the owner or have a permission to upload it. I don’t think a simple gallery like this needs a TOS — I’d love to hear your thoughts if you disagree though.
I’m not sure about the legalities of uploading other people’s logos so I’m going with this setup for now.
I posted 2 comments that just never got posted. There was no notice that I needed to register or that moderation was enabled?
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