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iPhone App Logos

10 of the best and worst

By Tom Kaneshige | CIO US
Published: 15:13 GMT, 30 September 09

Designing an iPhone app logo poses a big marketing challenge. The logo must be creative enough to stand out from the crowd in the App Store. Yet it has to clearly convey the function of the app on the iPhone's diminutive screen. It also has to tie into a brand's Web site and other marketing collateral. All this in a thumbnail's worth of space. Here's a look at some iPhone app logos that do the job well (and some that leave us wanting more than cute animals or screen clutter).

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Too many developers simply cut an image out of existing marketing collateral and make it their iPhone app logo undefined even though it doesn't translate. But here's one case where it actually works. Whole Foods took the familiar fruit-shaped "O" in their name and turned it into an iPhone app logo. "It's about boiling it down to its essence," says CEO Steve Yamaguma of Design2Market, a graphic design firm in Silicon Valley.

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