My personal favourite, and truly a benchmark in this category, has always been the Seibu Hong Kong logo. Designed at a time when computers and computer modified type elements started to dictate the logo design process, it dominates with a free flowing, single brush stroke and three aligned dots to form the shape of two intertwining carp and the letter 'S'.
The logo carries itself with a perfect balance, visually and symbolically.
A task well achieved considering the circumstances of having to please a Japanese client and a local consumer group alike beyond trying to express the importance of Hong Kong itself as the meeting point of Eastern and Western influences.
From a Chinese view point it offers the sensitive connotations of prosperity and the lucky number '2', to a Western observer it may just be a downright elegant logo that pleases the eye on a very aesthetic level. To both, however, it lures with a magnetic draw, an invitation to follow the lines over and over again.