hey everyone, could I please get some feedback on this logo for a local court mediation department? What should I do? I like the simplicity but i believe its lacking somewhere.
To be honest, I think it lacks simplicity. I struggle to see what is happening here. I see a speech bubble with the abstract scale symbolism but it is quite busy.
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It’s way too busy and done in a style that seems inappropriate for the subject matter.
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I see the speech bubble, the scales, and two people; but, like @BenBerryBiscuit, I don’t see simplicity. Not totally, but it has a bit of an eastern or car pinstriping feel to it (think Von Dutch or Ed Roth). It’s interesting, and I’ll give you credit for working a lot of concepts into the mark, but I don’t see it working very well as a logo.
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Simpler is better.
This is not simpler…
Thank you, I’m trying to find a way of making it more simple yet communicating the idea of mediation.
Thanks! do you have any thoughts as to how i could get it to work better as a logo?
What style do you think might be more appropriate for a court mediation department?
A logo doesn’t have to literally depict a company’s goods or services. Think about Apple. Their logo doesn’t have anything to do with computers.
To add to what others have said, I am not at all sure what a speech bubble has to do with meditation. Intuitively, it feels like the exact opposite of meditation. Even a thought bubble would be the opposite of meditation should achieve ( or not achieve). I get why you’ve used scales, but even then, in both cases, they are highly clichéd devices. This should always be avoided, in much the same way, jigsaws and crosswords should be. They trivialise. Think about the core essence of what meditation is and go from there.
mediATION, not MediTATION. 
(PS, i read it as meditation too.)
Oh poo! Honestly, sometimes I despair. In my defence it had been a long day and I was frazzled. Still no excuse for such a moronic howler on my part.
On the upside, my remarks about clichéd devices still stands – thankfully!
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