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emmerse
05-13-2006, 10:44 PM
Needed a break from some mind-numbing stuff, so I thought I'd take a minute and work on an idea kicking around in my head.

My friend is looking for a logo for his website and asked me to see if I could come up with something. The website is sort of a centralized location for all things electronic dance music in the state of south dakota. Its a place to get unsigned local artists' tracks, download mixes from local djs, post event reviews and discuss other things related to the scene. here's my first rough concept:

http://www.unexist.com/djemmerse/605soul.jpg

The basis for this design is to convey a music community. I did some brain storming about the site and I thought the logo really needed to drive home the community aspect of the scene. I chose the central figure to have headphones to represent the local djs, and the other two figures to be either fans or music producers behind the scene. Mostly though I wanted it to represent a group of music lovers, both djs and fans alike.

couple things that I'm doubting myself on: 1) the headphone thing has been done a million times with music websites, 2) the figures are also a little too generic and should be stylized a bit more.

barely an hour into this, and should probably get back to doing some real work. so lemme know what you think - good, bad and ugly.

ps: I had some other concepts I was working on and then my computer crashed. lost them all, so this isn't the one and only direction I'm going, just the only thing saved. :(

LuLu
05-13-2006, 10:55 PM
It reminds me of the myspace logo, alot. The text is hard to read. Post some other concepts you are working on.

tZ
05-14-2006, 02:03 AM
I actually like this the way it is…

I think it conveys the communication well.

Eraser Nubbin
05-14-2006, 05:44 AM
I think you are right scrutinizing the head phone thing.

typographics
05-14-2006, 05:59 AM
what does 605 soul mean? how did the name come about?

Epectasis
05-15-2006, 06:23 AM
what does 605 soul mean? how did the name come about?

gosh! always asking such scrutinizing questions matthew :P

stop making sense will you!

typographics
05-15-2006, 08:07 AM
:)

Cass54321
05-15-2006, 06:20 PM
For some reason the sounds bars on the bottom of the logo really bother me. Also, they would be really hard to see when the logo is shrunk down. I think taking that away and playing more with the text might make it a little more easier to read.

emmerse
05-15-2006, 06:30 PM
to address the points:

south dakota's area code + common adjective for house music = 605soul.

The sound bars were added in to fill out the space between the bottom of the 5 and .com. I already wanted to incorporate them somehow, as I felt the headphones alone didn't say "music" enough. They fit pretty well right there, but I'm aware of them getting lost once the logo gets small.

thanks for the comments so far!