A while ago, Smashing Magazine announced that it was going to have a contest to design the website’s new logo. The entries are in, and Smashing Magazine has posted them.

• Logo Contest – Sketches and Designs

Some of these are quite nice. It’s very interesting to see the variety of ideas from different people.

Don’t forget to check out the Favicons at the end of the entry. I still need one of these…I’ve been grossly negligent.

Shameless.

• LogoMaid Rips Off Dan Cederholm’s SimpleBits Logo, and Then Things Get Weird

A short paragraph about the invention of the Apple logo:

• I Invented … the Apple Logo