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Post Thu May 22, 2008 9:47 am   Reply with quote         


What supak said.

Fancy bells and whistles do not make the logo.

I'd hate for someone to give me a "Web 2.0" style logo with glassy & glossy effects...you can only do so much with it.

Trends will come and go but good design stays forever.




ReinMan

Location: Kingston, ONTARIO, CAN

Post Thu May 22, 2008 9:48 am   Reply with quote         


Okay - I'll try not to be funny here as I've got an important point that ISN'T about the Stone Grinding Wheel Logo (funny one, Oscar!)...

Two things:

1) the Black and White peeps is right - if you can say it in black and white you are doing it right (you can soup it up later with the Inner Glow filter if you want Razz ).

2)"Original Medium" - have you registered this name yet? If so I'll shut up.

*waits for 30 seconds*

Okay - no reply so I'll assume you haven't registered it.

I have a problem with the name: I think "MEDIA" is a much more effective word than "MEDIUM". I know what you are trying to say but the word medium is also the term they use for fortune tellers and "spiritual guides" etc. One thing about a company's name is that it should do it's best to be one-way in its understandability.

ORIGINAL MEDIA - now that I like.

Okay - please: talk amongst yourselves.




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Post Thu May 22, 2008 9:50 am   Reply with quote         


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One reason your logo should be simple is that people process an image in their mind more readily than words alone. The other reason that your logo should be "simple" is that the simpler your logo is, the easier it will be for your graphic designer to resize and recolor it for various design purposes. You should have various logo sizes (small, medium, and large), a web version and a print version of your logo, and a black-and-white and color version. Always plan beyond your initial design purposes for your logo since the ultimate goal of your business is to expand.



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The logo should be simple. If a small black circle took care of the other 3 criteria it could be the perfect logo design, so the trick is to design something as simple as a small black circle and something that is unique and representative of you business. Apple and Nike have done this really well. However this is where I get tripped up with most my clients. Often logo design starts a client giving me a laundry list of elements that they want in the design. Reason is, they believe that by adding all those elements together in a design they completed the 1st two objectives… the combination of elements is unique and the design has elements that represents what they do. Problem with that is the logo becomes too distracting, too much of an assembly of elements, and too complicated so it loses any value of building identity through a graphic. For logo design remember the adage "less is more"




ScionShade

Location: VeniceFlaUS

Post Thu May 22, 2008 9:56 am   Reply with quote         


ReinMan wrote:

I have a problem with the name: I think "MEDIA" ...

wow..I didn't even notice that. I saw media...medium means the cd itself... that's not gonna work. nobody in the world has an actual 'love/like' for cd's..they just are.




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