In his article on LogoLounge.com, Bill Gardner says that unlike most years, logo trends in 2008 took unusual paths:

"Instead of a hub-to-spoke relationship in which trends fan out from a central source, prevailing tendencies in logo design now seem to send out long underground runners that poke through the dirt in unrelated, unexpected places, anywhere in the world."

To read the complete article, which includes many visual examples, go to LogoLounge.com.