Branding Cities: I Used City Names To Create Their Logos

I was trying to create a representative banner for a travel agency, and while doing some research I started asking myself how can I creatively represent a city's name with an image.

I started with Bucharest. What best represents the city I live in? How can it be drawn? See results bellow!

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Bratislava

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118points

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On And Off

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102points

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Berlin

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96points

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Keep In Mind. Bu-car-est Is Not Buda-pest

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95points

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Norbert Didics 8 years ago

could have been done with a much nicer picture... :/

9points

Raluca Popescu (Submission author) 8 years ago

Hi! Thank you for your thoughts, will keep in mind for the next ones!

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Sagar Dube 8 years ago

you could have used an insect's pic instead of writing 'pest'.

2points

$copper-fractions avatar$

Tiny Dynamine 8 years ago

This is not a good representation of what Buddha looked liked as he was extremely thin. For a lot of his life he ate almost nothing as he wanted to push himself to the limits.

1point

Vlad Matrescu 8 years ago

BUcharest, not Bucarest :) by de fact, in Romanian it's spelled Bucuresti ;)

1point

John Mcentire 8 years ago

You could have made it from BUddha (Buda) and a Rat (pest)

1point

Ferenc Beke 8 years ago

It is BUDApest, not Buddhapest! This is big s**t

0points

Johanne Delorme 8 years ago

Budapest

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Ceteras Dan 8 years ago

That is not actually Buddha, that us Budai, so you actually spelled Budaipest. Just do a bit of research before you invest your time in doing something that admitedly looks beautiful :)

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Joëlle JPa 8 years ago

but then the leftover is 'pest' : (

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Moscow

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94points

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Winter Is Coming

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90points

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Bucharest

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81points

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By The Sea

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75points

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Cambridge

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73points

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Liverpool

Final score:

73points

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Manchester

Final score:

61points

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Paris

Final score:

52points

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Glasgow

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50points

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What do you think ?

Pemberton 8 years ago

The idea itself is good, but I was annoyed by the inconsistency -- sometimes the icon is taken from spelling (e.g. Seatle) while others from pronunciation (e.g. Bu-cha-rest with a car). Chinese and Japanese place name would look interesting if they can put an icon showing the meaning, say Shang-hai with sea icon.

Вилиана Друмева 8 years ago

Here is Plovdiv, Bulgaria - P/love/div. There is a global social campaign pLOVEdiv as Plovdiv city has been selected for an European Capital of Culture for 2019 - www.plovediv.bg. Image: http://zdravkoyonchev.com/ Plovdiv-57...2a-png.jpg

GroovyMutation 8 years ago

faking sLOVEnia much? :P

3points

Kasia Jackowska 8 years ago

WAR SAW

nazan fidan 8 years ago

ISTAN BULL

Priyanka Jatan 8 years ago

Ha! These brands are so cool

Jenni Raappana 8 years ago

HELsinki :)

Erik Mihalcin 8 years ago

It's sis, bro...

Tanny Art 8 years ago

Our Bra is the best Bra, bro.

Bengamin Jerrems 8 years ago

Any copyright issues in play on those images??

Arty 8 years ago

easy pun but funny ^^

Hannah Hollowell 7 years ago

These are great

Yolanda Tai 8 years ago

HONG KONG

Candy Chan 8 years ago

Interesting concept. But I think that the visual can be execute better. For an example, some text are hard to read on top of images.

Pramod Sahu 8 years ago

So innovative

Camil Bradea 8 years ago

what fonts did you use ? they are great :)

Shiva Dheva 8 years ago

It would be better if you didn't put there the city's real name. It could be a kind of quiz.

Iliyana Tsoneva 8 years ago

I think they chose pretty good the sign for Berlin, since the bear is also the symbol of the city :P

Cristi Edward 8 years ago

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David Reed 8 years ago

Pretty childish and unfunny. You can do better.

-3points

Cristir 8 years ago

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Because BRAtislava, LondON, MosCOW and GLAS(S)GOW...

7points

Katarina Škembarević 8 years ago

Bratislava-bra(underwear) , London-on , Moscow-cow , Glasgow-glas (glass). Just the part of a city's name sounds like something else. :)

Arjan 8 years ago

Those are the city names that happen to have a word in them that is easy to make an image out of. Try applying this on Rome, Athens, Madrid, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Beijing, Miami etc. It just so happens these 13 where easy for this concept, it happens a lot. That said I would still like it if at least the style was consistent, the font is the same for most but the icons just seem to be ripped off the internet.

Branding Cities: I Used City Names To Create Their Logos

Bratislava

On And Off

Berlin

Keep In Mind. Bu-car-est Is Not Buda-pest

Moscow

Winter Is Coming

Bucharest

By The Sea

Cambridge

Liverpool

Manchester

Paris

Glasgow

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