Practice Logos.

[Mbesuma]

Hi,

I read a few times on here, that it was good to make up some fictional companies, so I did, there not the best, but hopefully I can put them in my future portfolio anyway :)

Any tips on improving them would be very much appritiated..:)

http://www.imagehosted.net/img/fictionallogosjpg631c1be7.jpg (http://www.imagehosted.net/#fictionallogosjpg631c1be7.jpg)

[PrintDriver]

I look at logos as a signmaker as well as a wide format printer.

The TuneIt logo has the most promise but the elements are too small to stand up to size reduction. You may need a version with a solid "It" to get swag done. Otherwise the elements work well together.

FreeQ is not legible. You would need a signblank color to see the yellow against white. The outlined Q definitely doesn't work. That blinding lime green is a difficult color to get in print unless it is applied as a spot color ink. Forget it in large format which is based on CMYK or RGB.

Pools, think about your swooshes' start and end points. A Whirlpool (and this is the logo this reminds me of) has a continuous flow, not a sharp flat bottomed one.

NuWave...Do you have a reason for cutting the font? There are reasons curved letters descend below or above baseline and this looks unbalanced to my eye due to the cuts. Also the gradient on the film will be difficult to produce in embroidery or sign vinyl.

[Mbesuma]

Thanks PrintDriver, theres alot more to printing than I thought :o I see your point about the lime green, I printed it out and you can hardly see the 'Q' lol. About the nuwave logo, there isnt really any reason I chopped the text up :rolleyes: I guess thats not recommendable....

Thanks again for the advice PD :)

[CkretAjint]

The logos aren't all that different from one another. When you boil it down all 4 logos consist of 2 'words' with no space between them. The first word being 1 color, and the secong word being another color....

Also on TuneIt, when you shink it down to business card size the "Musical Managment' will not be legible.

Try using some fun funky fonts (fff). Aside from the TuneIt logo, the other 3 logos look very generic font wise. Almost default-ish.


Definately on the right path, just needs some tweeking :D

[milano.design]

i really like the tune it logo... alot. the small words will get lost and do take away from it. and i like the E better in black with the white space. when you added the stroke on the red you took something away from it.

Don't like the font in the word FREE. maybe bolder?

like nuwave but the kerning needs to be tightened. alot.

[DMG]

great logos

I think if you changed the colour of the free q one to soemthing like blue or red and the outlined Q to a black outline it would look great

[Two-Toe Tom]

hey, nice start on your logos! here are a few suggestions i have:

tune it: i really like it, but i found the outline kind of distracting, especially in the colour version. i would maybe try removing the outline for "tune" and making it thinner for "it"? the black on red for "musical management" might be a bit hard to read, you might have better contrast with white on red.

Free Q: Yellow is pretty hard to see over a white background. if you want to keep the yellow, i'd consider putting a thin black outline around it. also, i think the text would better match the image if it was not italicized.

portsmouth: i don't really like how the swooshes cut off right before the words like there's a white box around the word. that could just be me tho. have you tried not overlapping the text and image or maybe putting dark text over a light image?

nuwave: this is pretty nit-picky, but i would try cutting off the words a bit more so that it's a bit more obvious that it's a design choice. and i would also try and have the films trip going upwards instead of downwards.