Logo Design Class

I will post this thread, with tips and such, feel free to ask and answer questions that i post, this is in the effort to educating, the gd section on logo design.

In some time, i shall host a comp and see what you have learned, feel free to tag along.

Example 1 is a bad logo design, allthough it looks nice, it has one major problem, can you tell me what this problem is?

Example 1:

centered?
iunno, nice thread tho

This is what I was gonna say, or that it is alinged improperly. Lol, went out on a limb.

It has more than 1 problem but the main one is that it can't be used on documents as header due to it's heigth - if you resize it down the under text will become hard to read.
Other than that I don't see the connection between "OPAL" and this random ring.



This post was edited by xHanzx on Nov 9 2009 02:46pm

Opals are round and often different colors.

ya im going not centered or the coloring?

E: do something with this?

Protip: Trackingmakes a huge diffrence to text.

top is default tracking
below is tracked text

I think it's the text.

This post was edited by Iceey_912 on Nov 9 2009 02:47pm

It's not black.

question what does that have to do with the logo? logo's can be any and many colors

Main thing is, the logo is a O, and the name also begins with a O and that doesn't balance. ~Right?

Doesn't look like anything as bw.

Gradient on text

White bg


Damn I love you.
If I get anything out of this thread, Ill don8 u





THE SPACES BETWEEN LETTERS I CANNOT REMEMBER WHAT IT IS CALLED

ALLALALALA

This post was edited by mxO on Nov 9 2009 02:57pm