A religious logo essentially portrays three important things: the direction of the faith (the religion/sect you follow), whether you are traditional or progressive, and the type of your religious establishment (is it only a place for prayer or a religious community center or both).
If you are a graphic designer, you can probably appreciate how difficult it can be to create such an effective religious logo design while also making sure that it doesn't look too corporate, sales-y, or too shiny and glossy. There needs to remain a sense of maturity and spirituality in the design. And this can only be achieved via a simple design that is only clever but subtle in its choice of design elements.
For such a design, forget about your routine religious and spiritual logo symbols such as a cross logo, a dove logo, or a crescent logo. You need to look deeper and try to represent the logo in a more creative and imaginative way. Few ways to do it: look at the brand name and see if there's something there that you can use. Most churches, for example, use their location or their sect in their brand name. Perhaps you can create an image out of it. You can also follow the minimal design philosophy. Start removing the elements in the design until only the most essentials remain, and then see how you can present them more creatively and cleverly.
When you are brainstorming for your religious logo design ideas, make sure that your choice of religious icons is relevant. There are certain icons that are always associated with certain religions. The cross is often used for Christian logo designs, while Islamic logos use crescent, moon and stars as their traditional symbols, and Jewish logos will gravitate towards the six-pointed Star of David symbol.
When it comes to selecting colors for religious logos, there are certain colors that each religion prefers over other hues and shades. White, blue, red, and yellow are mostly used in Christian logos. Green is the preferred color for Islamic logo designers, and blue is the most common color you'll find in Judaism logos.
Apart from these three main religions, some other religious logos that are popular are Buddhism logos, Hinduism logos, Sikhism logos, and quite a few others. If you take a look around at our religious logo portfolio, you'll realize from the logo contests that our designers are professional that can create all different kinds of religious logo designs, no matter what you are looking for.
To start the process, you simply have to start a logo contest here at the Zillion Designs. You'll be asked to write a design brief in which you can explain what you are looking for in your religion logo idea. As soon as you submit your brief, our designers will start sending you design samples that you can review and comment on. Following your comments, the designers can make changes and through this collaboration, something great can be created. We also offer stationery designs, brochure designs, website designs, and so much more.