Some designers with possibly a little too much downtime between clients have identified what they think are the key design trends for logos this year. We took a quick look at some of the top ones.

Psychedelic Pop Backgrounds We’ve seen lots of advertising with a myriad of colours and shapes (ever since those iPod print ads with all the album covers) and now it seems that’s boiling down into logos with colours and shapes bursting out of them. Will the 60’s never end?

Origami You don’t have a real logo unless it can be cleverly made out of a piece of paper... Or at least look like folded paper with geometric shapes.

Tactile/3 D It could look like striped toothpaste squeezed out of a tube or 3-D Letters built for real and photographed, but if your logo looks like a real object and casts a shadow, it’s totally hot right now.