Well, I am going to beg for your help yet again, hopefully for the last time on this topic (hint, hint, wink, wink). Last week, I presented a couple of logo designs for my website and the response was fairly unanimous: get back to the drawing board. Whether that is a good thing or a bad thing remains to be seen. So, with no further ado, here are a couple more designs that I have come up with. The two are actually a mirror of each other based on the same design, with only variation in color. I’d love to hear what you think. I am looking for something that is both classic/elegant and bold/distinctive. A logo you would recognise and remember.
This one is completely different…last minute inspiration
Do they work for you? Anyone you prefer? Your opinions are highly valued.
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Younes: my preference is #3. It is different and has an unique appeal. The rest are better than the last week’s but are not better than 3 IMHO.
I agree that 3 is the best of the bunch so far. My only concern with it is that the text may be hard to read at a smaller size. You may want to consider making it a big larger and/or not smooshing (technical term) it so much.
Hi Younes, for a big logo #3 (maybe a bigger font?). For a small one #1 (I use something similar, sometimes black on white, sometimes viceversa…)
I like No. 1. I like the classic black and white. That’s why I don’t prefer 3. I like 1 better than 2, because black on white is typical, while white on black is unique in a way.
The 3rd one has some potential, though I agree the text might be too hard to read at a smaller size. Perhaps in a bigger font have your name curved on the left side and photography curved on the right, without the repetition?
Younes, any other options? Sorry to be the voice of dissent but these don’t differentiate you from the crowd – they’re (and I say this with love
– boring. You can’t build a brand around these, they say nothing about you, and they don’t reflect your professionalism. Aim higher.
Hi Younes;
I had a closer look at your services and about page and the logos leave me wondering what you are trying to brand. I think name recognition is your goal and that kills #1 and #3. Not to mention the font in #1 is very ‘guerilla’ which I don’t think is your style at all in even your personal work. #3 is going to be difficult when scaling, it is too vague and looks like a legal brief and stamp.
You have something with the bottom part of #2 and that same element appears in the others from last time – so clearly it is important to you. It is clean and your name is prominent. The question is do you need or want a symbol logo at all? Or just the logotype? If you do want symbol, it should point more directly to your brand. The cleverest symbols say everything with very little.
Some very successful wedding photographers I know use a symbol that makes you think of high class victorian scroll framing and include their initials allowing the scrollwork to move with the shape of the letter pattern. You see their name and ‘photography’, but you are left feeling ‘wedding’ too. It is very elegant.
Your name is distinctive and sticks with me, now you might want a symbolic element that says corporate photography – effective enough it stands alone on proofs. One of the photos you have cycling on your service page keeps reappearing in my mind…
#3 is best of these. Text may not scale very well in the smaller size range.
I agree with Michelle. None of them say anything about your services. Or you. And I think that the bottom of #1 and #2 are great.
Your name and your art speak for themselves. I like the simplicity (which in my mind says classic/elegant) and the contrast of the black on white (distinctive/bold).
You have a unique name which says who you are and it looks good over the word photography, which says what you do.
Honestly, I’d stick to just the bottom of #1 and #2.
As for #3. I think it looks kind of like an olive on a ring. I like it, but not as a logo.
Vote for #1: more of an “emblem”, catches the eye and easier to remember from a marketing point of view… also fits your image more as far as I have gathered this short time… #3 is too small print to read and I believe there’s more “circle” type logo’s out on the marketplace it could be mixed up with. Less unique.
I like all of these – but I think #3 is my favourite. Great design job.
I vote for #3 , I think it’s cleaner in many ways even though it has more text and is circular. The others are so stylized they don’t really reflect your photography which is full of clean lines and open spaces.