• The Facepunch Graphic Design Thread
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Curly brackets – also called braces (US) or squiggly brackets (UK, informally)
[QUOTE=Autumn;32341814]your { } should be aligned so that with is in the middle of them i'm ashamed to say i don't know what they are called. they're not brackets [], and they're not parentheses () and there should be a bit more space around the BIG and there's no need to kern LETTERS so extremely, i don't think it looks good to be taken pretty much right to the edge of the paper[/QUOTE] I agree with all the stuff you said but I always thought kerning was when referring to spacing between a pair of letters specifically, whereas tracking was referring to the spacing between all the letters in the word, no?
shush :(
[QUOTE=Autumn;32342874]shush :([/QUOTE] I wasn't criticising! just checking if I'd read it wrong before :)
[QUOTE=Alcapwne;32342427]I agree with all the stuff you said but I always thought kerning was when referring to spacing between a pair of letters specifically, whereas tracking was referring to the spacing between all the letters in the word, no?[/QUOTE] Kerning is for the space between characters, some characters have more kerning than others in order to glide further into the word to make them more readable. K for example have those long lines going down and needs to be tucked further into the following letter to make it seem like it's placed as close to the letter as every other letter. Tracking is an identical amount of space between all letters. So yes, that is correct.
[QUOTE=Autumn;32336332]sorry mang, even if it was an unintentional rip off... [t]http://www.yourlogoresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/fendi-logo.jpg[/t] [url]http://www.fendi.com/[/url] yours does make more sense, since the 2/to is part of the name, but yeah sorry![/QUOTE] Don't worry about it, as I was doing it I was thinking "man this is generic, I'm sure tons of people have done this." If it was for a paying client I would have explored other options, but it was just a free logo for some on facepunch. I'm sure FENDI's logo is similar to others as well. Also, I wouldn't consider it a rip-off, it is a different interpretation and mine has a 2 in the middle for a reason. Anyways, I never claim to be 100% original :P. When I do stuff for FP requests, I roll it out in like an hour, so not much thought process has gone into it.
So, school task, make a logo for a made up company. Had to chose between specific companies or a specfic word that had to be in the name. I took both and made "kraftatto", a tribal-specialized tattoo company. These are the three refined sketches that I liked out of 30 I made. [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3655193/Kraftatto-refined.png[/img] Showed these to my teacher now since we all get a short 15 minute guidance with him. He pushed me for the arm, which I had already settled on anyways, thank God. Now then, this is how it looks right now. [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3655193/Krafttattoo-Final-Design-V1.png[/img] But the typography. It just doesn't feel quite right. I want something a bit gothic, but not too gothic, it should be clear and stand in contrast to the logo itself, but not so much that it becomes a plain and/or superbold font, because that's too much and loses the personal touch.
i feel like the typography should be more incorporated with the tat arm, rather than just be slapped under
the fist looks a bit unnatural. I think you should tilt it a bit
[QUOTE=Rusty100;32370354]i feel like the typography should be more incorporated with the tat arm, rather than just be slapped under[/QUOTE] As my teacher said which is something I've been thinking too, the text should stand out from the logo symbol, since then it can also be used standalone without text at all. Making the text too similar to the arm will also just make it messy and remove the focus which is the name of the company as well as the logo symbol being an arm in tribal design representing pretty much everything the company stands for. Tattooing human body parts with a specialization in tribal design. But if you have any suggestions then I will happily listen to those and try it out. But I don't really have any good ideas for doing that myself. I have also tried having the text in the empty area in the left corner, but it looked pretty shit. [QUOTE=D3TBS;32370414]the fist looks a bit unnatural. I think you should tilt it a bit[/QUOTE] To the left or the right? I traced the shape from an anatomical drawing of an arm flexing, so I don't really see it myself.
oh wait I got it nevermind. It should be a bit to the left but now that I was doing the position with my arm I figured that it was the fingers that were bothering me. See, when I close my fist, none of the fingers are in the same level. So the indicator one is higher then the middle one and so on. And also I cross my thumb in front of the indicator and not on the side, but that's another point
I prefer Smeetins, italicising it makes it easier to see the '2'
For a new wedding films company: [img]http://www.shrani.si/f/K/24/2aWHmD72/leven-films.png[/img] Thoughts?
[QUOTE=Zay333;32378162]For a new wedding films company: [img]http://www.shrani.si/f/K/24/2aWHmD72/leven-films.png[/img] Thoughts?[/QUOTE] It's not bad, here are my thoughts 1) for the two circles logo, have it so that there's a gap sort of between the rings, suggesting that they are linked 2)Move the tagline down a bit, it's too close to the main text. Also move the icon up a bit. 3)remove the shadow from the tagline, or have it much closer to the text 4)I'd have a different font for the main thing rather than futura I think it is. I think a shorter font would look more posh and wedding like it looks good though, just keep revising it until it's great
and the text under the logo should have a more clear font and more spacing between letters
Any good websites for Illustrator tutorials?
[QUOTE=Flem;32392284]Any good websites for Illustrator tutorials?[/QUOTE] [url]vector.tutsplus.com[/url]
[QUOTE=Alcapwne;32392586][url]www.vector.tutsplus.com[/url][/QUOTE] Doesn't work?
[QUOTE=Flem;32392816]Doesn't work?[/QUOTE] Ah sorry, I didn't mean to put www in there, I updated it now
[QUOTE=Alcapwne;32392891]Ah sorry, I didn't mean to put www in there, I updated it now[/QUOTE] Thank you very much buddy :)
[URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/835/beyondthenorm.png/][IMG]http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/7080/beyondthenorm.png[/IMG][/URL] Just my first thoughts / doodles. I went with the theme of breaking out of the norm (ie. square) the bottom one (my preference) is an arch letting you see beyond, with a street leading you out into it.
[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;32420383]The first one made me have an idea... I'll try it out. What was your criteria for making those?[/QUOTE] What you posted.
For school (media line) we had to recreate an old newspaper, preferably around 1800-1930. Feel free to nitpick, as I want to get better. [img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Tidning.png[/img] I know that the text is too bright (you can't possibly have that black ink for such an old newspaper) and that A4 paper wasn't standard at that time (but we had to work in it so couldn't do anything about that).
I feel like the text is too clean for an old newspaper
Was the assignment to recreate an old newspaper as it would look like today, or as it would have looked when it rolled off the press. Because that's a huge difference.
Just some recent stuff. [t]http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/3/119238/1648607/deanotto_640.png[/t] [t]http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/8945161005/1/tumblr_lpym2yJs9u1qfvi16[/t] [t]http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/10316374387/1/tumblr_lro9xx6xVa1qfvi16[/t] [t]http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/9035693138/1/tumblr_lq2ip6HSUJ1qfvi16[/t]
did you do all the drawing on the first two yourself? looks nice
[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;32420447]I know, but how do you go about translating the client's demands to the logo? I really want to learn this, since I'm often asked to do logos but I simply can't get someone's idea into a logo [editline]22nd September 2011[/editline] sorry didnt see the edited post[/QUOTE] Sounds like you need to learn the philosophy, I'm thinking you are probably decent with the technical aspect. You should do some reading of books, but possibly more helpful is case studies / process articles. David Pache is a branding guy I respect. [url]http://www.helveticbrands.ch/[/url] is his website, if you browse through some of his logos he gives short descriptions and occasionally will have a link to a picture showing his process. That is one starting point. Another place could be [url]www.behance.net[/url]. Quite often in the branding section, people post their process shots / intentions. One other source I'm coming to appreciate is works of architecture, often buildings have a lot of symbolism / intention within them that is more on the abstract side. This is an example: [url]http://www.behance.net/gallery/Dimitrovi-Co-Identity-process/329015[/url] Pretty much, learn by example / reading. Not that I'm a master, far from it, but that's what I have done.
Bit of playing around, logo for my friend, they are doing some sort of a zombie LARP or something. [URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/856/zombielogo.png/][IMG]http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/1534/zombielogo.png[/IMG][/URL] Woops double post
[QUOTE=Rusty100;32439202]did you do all the drawing on the first two yourself? looks nice[/QUOTE] The DO one is a heavily modified font, I wish I could draw tapestry that well :/ But the even Keel one was done on paper, so that one is all drawing. I appreciate the kind words!
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