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Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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Of those, the middle one. The way the eye is being sliced off by the mane is bother me, though. There's also some weirdness going on with the jaw-line and how the snout(?) is pointed upwards. I know it's stylized and all but in some ways it doesn't look like a lion.

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Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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Spacedad posted:

I just wanted to say that this one grabbed me. It's the dynamics of the slash on the N and the R playing against one another that makes the logo grab my eye. The spraypaint and the font choices are also great and immediately tell me where this is coming from. Hell, I'd wear this on a T-shirt.

I don't think the spraypaint effect is working at all.

Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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Jeherrin posted:

I think my instinct would actually be to go for the top-and-centre one. The top row has better type alignment, too. I wonder if it might be improved by shunting the d and the h down slightly within the box so that it's centred as a letter (from baseline to the top of the ascender) rather than just centring the x-height. It might read more obviously as two letters then, I'm not sure.

I'm also not convinced by the typeface, either. The mark reminds me very much of something like VAG Rounded or Gotham Rounded, and it just doesn't seem to quite marry up with the typeface for your name, I think because the proportions of the d of 'dawn' as compared to the proportions of the d in the mark don't really sit right together. Something more Futura-esque might work; H&FJ's Verlag is an excellent choice if you're looking for something that's like Futura but doesn't feel quite as dated, but the ascenders might be a bit tall. I'd originally suspected the typeface was Avenir, but it appears not to be—Avenir, however, might be something that works well.

Strongly agree with all of these points.

The "a" doesn't bother me though.

Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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Exclamation Marx posted:

This is how they ended up


I'm not sure what you mean by polished either. I wanted (needed) to avoid finer lines, since they were printed at 4.5 x 3 cm.

Also no Illustrator was used in the making :c00lbutt:

Nice. I like all the revisions except for the new Black Robin backdrop.

Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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- I had no idea what it was for at first glance.
- You cut out the star of the movie and made the other characters unrecognizable.
- Kern that text. JA WS

Hell, the Jaws poster is so iconic you could take it, remove ALL the text, and stick the location + date + time on it and nothing else.

Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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I think that would help with how bottom-heavy it feels to me

Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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That works a lot better, imo.

Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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Not exactly in the spirit of the topic but man do I hate the new PayPal logo.

Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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Go next level with it and use a 3 line cross. I'll show them who's hardcore.

Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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Imo none of the KS combinations are working very well. I fear you're trying to force it.

Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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Seems like burst should be the italicized word and then you can use a more dynamic angled shape for the card. Maybe others will disagree but the font feels really incohesive. Almost as if the u, r, and s are from totally different fonts.

Just throwing poo poo out here

Yip Yips fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Mar 30, 2015

Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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I still like this one the best. Try "bolding" STOP and BOTTLED. I suspect it will gently caress with the balance but those are the key words that should stand out, imo, so I'd give it a shot.

Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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Arthil posted:

So I've been working with my first real client, and it's been shockingly pleasant so far. I know I'm in for a world of hurt with others in my future.

Point being, we're nearing the end of the design process. They're very happy with this design, and the only thing they truly were uncertain about was the font before I presented them with this. I guess what I really need is some critique which might refine the design. If anyone was wondering, they are a nutritionist and will be using the logo on their website.



This is more than you asked for but:

- very busy
- very flat
- what's the significance of the triangle the fork is stabbing?
- likewise, what's the significance of the circle around it, why does it have a dry brush effect, why is it two colors?
- red/green is very difficult to read. if you look at the website they use a brighter red and a lime green, with yellow, white, and grey to balance all of it.
- font is hard to read, pretty unprofessional, and will scale poorly.
- the style of the logo doesn't say "food" to me
- the level of detail in the state outline is distracting

tldr: simplify simplify

Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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Sorry, what I meant by "bolding" was the white on black. Still, I think this one has potential. Wondering what Fayez's thoughts are. Too many different font sizes? I can't tell anymore.

It almost has a gradient effect which is a bit charming.

Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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Stuporstar posted:

Oh, I get it. So something like this:



I kept the different font weights, though I rearranged them a bit to balance the design.

Yeah, that's kind of throwing it off. Was just a thought.

I don't care much for that blue personally. If this is going onto a water bottle have you experimented with actually cutting out letters? Not sure what you're doing this for so that might be too much trouble for you.

Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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The text on the hound shirt is right over his face.
The straight line edges at the bottom of the illustrations are begging to be underscored by the text or something like the sansa/jamie shirts where it's blended. If not by moving the text there, there's probably better ways to "fade" out the art. The straight line just floating there is really unnatural looking.
In general the text treatments need work
Some of the dark shirt color previews are still using black ink when they should just be all white.

Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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I don't think I've ever seen a tach with pink/salmon sections so that throws me off a bit

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Yip Yips
Sep 25, 2007
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Not crazy about the link font. It's whatever the opposite of crisp is.
Title fonts on the subpages ("TRIP PLANNING STRATEGIES AND ADVICE", et al) are a bit much. They overpower everything else on the page
Logo needs a complete redo
Navigation links should be aligned

Something is lacking with the navigation links but I can't put my finger on it. It could use some color blocking maybe. A better logo would be a great start. Maybe make that entire section orange and use a white font. Maybe not, that might fight too much with the homepage images. I think I would like to see some color or design element that adds a bit of structure in there, though.

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