Maxim Durbailov

@arynadesigns Possibly an unhinged take, but I've spent years doing logos and full identities without once reaching for a mouse, haha.

Alright alright alright

One of many directions I explored for Optiworks, a brand restoring Soviet lenses. My usual instinct is to strip a logo down to a single idea and polish it until nothing else is needed. Here, the opposite happened, and I didn't fight it. Eccentric lens rings, an abstract eye, a craftsman bent over his work. Even the split between black and white reads like a photograph developing on paper. I don't believe a logo needs to do five things at once, but when those readings emerge without effort, I think it's worth noticing rather than editing out.

@morcoilst Wolf mark is fire!

Commissions are open!

Excited to start new projects: Email – hello@durbailov.com Book a call – cal.com/livada

Designed this logo before the inbox opened. No client, no deck, no rationale to defend. Just a mark, solving itself before coffee. When was the last time you designed something nobody asked for?

This elephant came out of two hours of grid work before breakfast. No brief, no client, no deliverable – just the kind of practice that quietly builds taste over time. In those two hours, no one rounds the corners back out in revisions, no one tells you the trunk is too thick. You sit with the shape until it reads right, and tomorrow you start something else. We've trained ourselves to expect a concept behind every mark, but isn't a fully resolved shape already a concept?

@kartikhq This is easily the most charming invoice printer ever!

Finalized mascot logo, branding in process for Kerbit - an all in one invoicing and billing platform

@tejashinduja Solid work on the 3D assets!

@VadimCarazan The strict geometry feels unexpectedly refreshing for a law firm!

law firm branding that doesn't look like law firm branding

@stevelauda_ Thanks, Steve! Had the chance to prepare a post with the final logo btw 🫣💪

@MaximDurbailov Love this man

Instead of meditation 🤌

LogoArchive Now: @MaximDurbailov LogoArchive has celebrated the logo designer of the past, but what of the future, who might find their own logos in the archive twenty years from now? Create and tag us in your own to be featured. #logos #branding #design

@LogoArchive Thanks for the feature, guys!

@LogoArchive Excited to start new projects: Email – hello@durbailov.com Book a call – cal.com/livada

One post wasn't enough. Marks I keep coming back to – collected and sent over to @LogoArchive for round two. Logo design is the discipline I return to when I want to remember why I started. Which one holds up best for you?

@DmitryLepisov I feel calmer just looking at it 😀

A logo reminder for designers: we’ll be OK

I sat down to draw a cat in a hat. Somewhere between the outline and the color picker, it turned into a frog. The interesting part isn't that the meaning changed, it's how little it took to change it. Same drawing, two animals. If I'd shown only one, no one would suspect the other existed. Curious what you’re seeing here?

@oliverhamrin Big fan of the spray paint textures!

All 19 Meta posters in a grid.

@Kreatank Thanks for the explanation, Daniel! It was really interesting to hear the context behind it.

@MaximDurbailov These are logo variations for an outdoor brand, and the logo should illustrate a red bridge they have in their region.

I love to sketch Pictorial marks ✏️ ❤️