In this post I have added a few images which I grabbed from the following YouTube video which I would strongly urge you to watch in it’s entirety. Icon to Interface – Evernote Trunk Conference So thanks to ElephantChannel for the tweet that put me in exactly the right spot to get all the information I needed. Then today the answer was given to me by a few people due to a relatively recent Evernote Trunk Conference Youtube video, uploaded September 2011. Since starting LogoStack I have been curious to find out the origins of the Evernote logo, and for a while kept drawing a blank on who/whom was responsible. The Evernote logo is also a perfect example of a mainstream online brand identity to study. There is not one application I have seen where the logo fails to fit perfectly all the way from the 16px favicon, the browser extension icons in both colour and mono, the iOS icons, Macintosh dock icon and so on and so on. The Evernote logo is a perfect example of everything done right to cater for many possible variations of physical and digital requirements. That might surprise a few of you, but I always felt that this was a perfect mix of style, colour, detail and meaning as well as being totally flexible in it’s universal application.

It’s actually right up there as one of my favourite logos of all time. The particular shape of the elephant with the folded back ear reminiscent of a document icon, or a folded page in a book, oozed brandability. Evernote Logo & Icon Design – Brand Identity ProcessĮver since laying eyes on the famous Evernote Logo and Icon, I have always been a huge admirer of the design.

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