I don’t know how legal all of this is, but since we’re talking cartooning here and we’d only be using these under the fair-use parody provisions in copyright law…
Brands of the World has free vector art downloads of just about every single product, brand or company logo you can think of. I checked out the logo of the Miller High Life Girl in the Moon, and the vector art is pretty good. It looks like there may have been some Illustrator Auto-Trace going on, but the quality is decent.
And there are plenty of bitmap logos to be had from all the advertising plastered all over the pages (but were you expecting less?). Small price to pay for the free vector art.
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I work at a sign shop and BOTW is our go-to website for logos. I’d say we can get the logo we need there probably 80% of the time. It’s great for those times when a mangled business card is the best ‘artwork’ our customer can give us.
That’s a great point Jason. I have worked in situations in the past where even corporate clients somehow don’t have access to hi-res let alone vector art of their own logos, let alone smaller businesses who want to promote, in their own advertisements, a large brand they sell or carry.
Years ago I worked with a trade show booth company, I was developing the graphics for the printing. I got to talking with their graphics specialist there (who was a big vector fan of course) and he said even when large corporations came to them, these companies somehow didn’t have, or the reps/employees had no idea where or how to get, the vector art of the logos.
This is sure to be handy resource just as you mentioned your company uses it. Thanks for the insight.
Also, http://www.brandslogotypes.com have more than 130.000 brands logos in vector formats
Thanks for the link Jeny, nice additional resource.