Zook is 100 percent right. Your logo needs to represent your company and needs to be "portable" It needs to look good on your business card, on a website and on the side of a truck. Some of the designs that Zook pointed out look great for web only but do not translate to print. Look at "uniquecorals.com" it cleanly gets the point across and works with many forms of media. The mad scientist is a mascot not a logo but there is nothing wrong with that as well if it can portray the image you are going for. Most good logos are short and to the point If you make it too literal and/or too complicated you loose the effect and then you loose your audience. Good luck hope this was helpful.
Crazy Mad Corals Logo
- Thread starter Dace
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- New York
Number three is interesting
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- New York
thats pretty cool rick
- Location
- New York
Well as we no nothing of branding Logo's we will leave it up to you experts. Looking foward to seeing what the end result will be.
Two good things to keep in mind when designing a good logo:
1. A logo has the same purpose as your name and mine; it tells you apart from someone else. A good logo needs to stand out from a very occupied and competitive landscape (see below). As you can see, slabbing a funky font on a colorful image is nothing new.
2. A logo needs to portray a specific message. The words crazy and mad has both positive and negative connotations. I would want my goods and services from CMC to be excellent and awesome, but not deranged and unpredictable. I believe CMC wants to come across as providing quality, high-end, and exotic marine life.
On a side note, a good logo takes time and avoids the obvious solutions. FedEx took close to 4 years to create their logo; who here have ever notice the secret arrow in the FedEx logo?
Great observation... You must be keen on graphics and corporate logo design. Trade mark names last forever such as the secret arrow imbedded inside between the 'E' and 'x' in FedEx.
Dave,
What would you like to see? Photos on top of fancy fonts (type) or fonts and symbols combined in a hybrid form?
- Location
- Saratoga Springs, NY
I have a B.S. in Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication. EMAC for short =D
- Location
- New York
This guy is extremely tanlented in what he does.
Thats cool but if it had something to do with corals that would be awesome!
- Location
- Saratoga Springs, NY
Be careful of using web stock graphic as it's quite illegal without paid licensing and work poorly in print. Another downside of stock art is that anyone can buy and use them without alterations. We're aiming for originality and distinction.
Don't forget to provide you opinions on the original 5! It seems that 5 is gaining in popularity.
Don't forget to provide you opinions on the original 5! It seems that 5 is gaining in popularity.
- Location
- Staten Island
Definetly 2 just to keep a crazy mad logo that stays in peoples minds..
Psycho graphic
Trouble Maker!
- Location
- Somewhere on the East Coast
This is going to sound harsh, but I see this all the time and it's a pet peeve of mine.
There is only one drawing so far that is close to looking professional and unfortunately, that one has a cheap looking font and clipart written all over it.
Using untrained people to do a job like this IMO, is poor judgement. This is how your company is represented and should be something that is researched between the client and designer in more depth than a posting on a forum followed by some people throwing quick designs at you. Will this logo be used for a website, business cards/fliers and or vehicle graphics? These are all things that need to be considered when designing your logo. A logo designed for a business card might not and usually won't work for letttering the side of a van, just as the design on a menu at a restaurant usually makes a horrible design for the sign of the same establishment.
Would you trust just anyone to fix your car or remodel your house? If the answer is no, why would you let just anyone design your logo?
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There is only one drawing so far that is close to looking professional and unfortunately, that one has a cheap looking font and clipart written all over it.
Using untrained people to do a job like this IMO, is poor judgement. This is how your company is represented and should be something that is researched between the client and designer in more depth than a posting on a forum followed by some people throwing quick designs at you. Will this logo be used for a website, business cards/fliers and or vehicle graphics? These are all things that need to be considered when designing your logo. A logo designed for a business card might not and usually won't work for letttering the side of a van, just as the design on a menu at a restaurant usually makes a horrible design for the sign of the same establishment.
Would you trust just anyone to fix your car or remodel your house? If the answer is no, why would you let just anyone design your logo?
PM sent.
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