Logo critisizing
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- ants0
What's it for?
Can you explain a little more about what the business is? That might help people to work out what to crit. :)
- Teeuwen0
B3
- ********0
less mouse lead please...
- feel0
Coach IT Solutions? so it might be a logo of a company that train IT people or something right?
well, I don't get what that stepped grey line means
and I would try to do a less complex drawing of the mouse, right now it has enought details to disapear in smaller formats, and it takes a little while to read as a mouse.
try using less lines or shapes possible, and try giving a more clear idea of what that grey line means
and about the typography, you can see now that this size its already hard to read, it's blurred.
I mean, if this logo will be displayed in digital formats (portable devices, internal network, website, etc..) the type should be good to read in this size.if you're used to do logos for print, this is a common mistake
good work so far
- rasko40
it's one concept toyed around with, I would expect to see three independent concepts if I was a client.
- jonnyquest0
Mouse Style B #4 is your strongest.
It seems more dynamic than the rest. It has a flow. The Coach IT Solutions isn't complementing it very well though... If you maybe put the Coach into the mountain and the IT Solutions on the other side it would probably help family it up a bit... Kinda Make the Coach and the Mountain/Mouse more of the actual logo and the IT Solutions the service...
Just my two penneth... :/
- maky0
Bring the elements in tighter in my opinion because the overall color/weight is pretty light.
The previous suggestions of less "cord" and simpler illustration of the mouse will help. I'm not sure that in the gray color that font is heavy enough.
looks like its starting to get close.
I don't get what the cord is doing either.
- Gucci0
that drawing will get lost at a small size in print and on the web too. try doing something with it that will beef it up a bit, but i like your direction.
try breaking your mountain-mouse away from the word and creating a seperate element of it and maybe that will help.
or perhaps use the tip of two super-digitized mouse pointers to create a silhouette of the mountain tips.. or more literally: use two masked out mouse pointers in a dot that create the shape)
(He's posted before... it's an IT firm that wants to show their roots in a city with a mountain setting... or something... I'm kind of clueless as I read the post and then had a wank and went to bed)
- Louno0
Ok sorry,
here are some clarification.CoachIT Solution is a company that provides somekind of IT solution to Skiing Coaches.
The target audiance of the company is very limited to these coaches.
I did a few different logos but the concept that was liked most by the client was moutain linked to mousecord/mouse , it represent the link between IT and sky coaches, also the way some of the mouse cord are drawn , its kinda like a snow print of a trajectory of a person skying down
I know the color arent fixed, i need to work on the colors , but he wants some silver ink.
- Louno0
uh
- ********0
What's a mouse cord?
- Gucci0
did you choose to ignore all of the comments posted before? If you're looking for someone to blow sunshine up your arse, you're barking up the wrong tree.
- bunka0
still looks like a logo for "Coors Online"
- -sputnik-0
grey "coach" and "solutions" colour is too pale
- nocomply0
I like the bottom-right logo best. It looks better with the line getting skinnier at the end. However, the mountains look a lot like the letter "M" to me. Might want to change that up somehow. Also the text and the graphic part seem to be floating like 2 separate entities. May want to work on bringing them both together a little better.
Looks like you are on the right track. Nice work so far!
- DeviceUnseen0
To me the concept is so confusing that it translates into the logo.
The name, the root of the problem, tries to be descriptive but fails to comminucate the essence/value of the brand. It has nothing with sking. It's definately more about training.
That being said, "IT" and "Solutions" drives home the technology aspect of the brand so the mouse concept might be overkill. Why not try for a mark that embodies a passion for skiing. The trail could represent a students development.
Hope that is constructive.
- Louno0
Hey gucci, relax man, im gratefull for all the comments, i got some good tips, its really helpfull , ill make some changes to the logo when i work on it again, have to give the final friday soo, working on other things .
- Louno0
bunka i just check the logo of coors on goolge that ure talking about, it sucks the mountain are kinda similar, but the style is different enough with the mouse n everything.
The thing is, im doing this logo for free, and the guy already loves the ideal of moutain / mouse linked , so im not gonna try completely new approach here, even tho it may not be the best i agree, also im doing this for like 50$ , i spent way too much time on this already.
But i like tweaking stuff up so ill probably work more on it to make some changes that arent too time consuming but can improve what is already done.
thx !