Here is my logo for review, also on my www.suoakesdesign.com website below.



I do all graphic communications for print and web. Thank you.

good logo

don't forget to have it on all your pages!

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MacKlamm
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www.globalart4u.com

Good looking logo.

Why don't you use it on all of your pages?

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You are absolutely right. I teach this in my classes, I should follow it. The site needs a face lift, and that will be my first priority. Thanks for your input!

Sorry to disagree, but I don't think it fulfills the criteria of a logo. Is is înstantly reconizable? Does it suggest or reflect you business? Will it reproduce well in various formats and small and large sizes?

The left looks looks like a half-eaten burger on a green wire fading off into space. The red ribbon does nothing but lead the eye across and off the page and distract from the company name that dribbles across the whole area in a jokey font. It all looks a bit thrown together to me. Sorry...

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I agree for the most part with Paul B on this one. Your logo is more of a collage of semi-random images than it is an actual logo.

Maybe if the flower were more simple and stylized.

The font to me is okay just because it's different and creative, and since you're going for a graphic design theme you probably want that.

The ribbon could go too, unless you could find a way to somehow tie it in with the flower (which I doubt.)

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Hey, I asked for a critical review! I agree that logo designs should be simple memorable, and work large or small. (This resizes well, as it is an Illustrator vector image.) And it should be simplified and stylized. However, most people recognize it as a flower (viridiflora tulip), not as half eaten hamburger.

If anything, I am guilty of being too specific and realistic. The reason I haven't changed it is because so many people recognize and remember it when they see the logo a second time, as when I give them a business card.

I am in the middle of a major lifestyle change (out of state move, business change) so this might be a good time to redesign it. I have seen loads of graphic design logos which are just abstractions of type, some have animal or object themes, artistic tool themes, (pen pencil, paintbrush), computer tools, (monitor, mouse), web themes, (wire-framed globe). The last three categories have been done to death.

My thought was that the logo should say something about what I do, as in original illustration, to represent me. Obviously, I am not targeting the high profile, big corporate image fortune 500 companies. I am targeting the small or start up business.

Perhaps my problem is that I'm an artist in the closet, doing design work. I do appreciate all the input and will consider these points when I go about a redesign. Thanks again.

I'm going to have to agree with Paul B and ADAM. The graphic is too complex to be a logo and the text seems almost disconnected from the image... like an after thought. Not saying that the illustration you have drawn isn't a good "true-to-life" illustration of the viridiflora tulip, but I do believe that it needs to be simplified with the text being incorporated into the logo a little better and not as an afterthought.

Just one guys opinion though.

Regards,
Anthony