"Where everybody knows your name,
and they're always glad you came..."

That's what I get from the logo. I'll need some time for it to sink and figure out what I like about it or what needs work.

What type of restuarant is it? I don't know if I get a feeling from this logo or not.

i didn't see 'cheers' at all.

i got more of a metropolitain or art deco feel.


what i would do is object>flatten transparency. be sure to 'convert all strokes to outlines'. then i would use the smooth tool (in the pencil tool submenu...it has 3 lines on it) and play away. but then, i like doing things the messy way - you get more exciting results.

It must have been the colors and the slight movement up from left to right.

Mynock: The restaurant is owned and managed by a Romanian family that I understand are fairly new to the U.S., so they need what help they can get. Their menu is disturbingly over-Americanized, but what can you do. I hear they're good anyway.

I was getting the cheers vibe a little bit, myself. While it does have the same general lift the Cheers logo has, it'll be more clearly distinguished by the end product. How's the recognition so far?

Uncle carbunkle: That Metropolitan sign is actually designed more with Art Nouveau principles in mind rather than Deco. From the looks of it, it's very inspired by Mucha's work -- one of my favorite commercial illustrators.

I'll try out your suggestion. Does Illustrator 10 make this any easier?


I'm thinking to broaden the lower half of the C and the A in Rosca's. I believe that's one of the things that've been bugging me.

i stand corrected. art nouveau. pardonnay mwah.

i was using illustrator 10. i would try to play with the edges of the type & tie it into the decoration...like in a piece of metal-work or a stencil...but that's just me.

That's a good thought, carbunkle. I'll play around with that idea.

Very Toulouse Lautrec like , i really like it.

But i would use plane colors!!

ikyut

It looks vintage like a 20's retaurant, I like it. I would also use solid colors. Maybe you could draw various lines on paper and then scan them in and trace & clean them up in illy. That's what I usually do with illustrations. Or print the whole thing out and use tracing paper to go over it and modify your lines and then scan it back in and redraw with the pen tool.