Please Reconsider These Designs
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| Author | Content |
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| oilyfish Feb 15, 2006 11:41 AM EDT |
They are all uncomfortably reminiscent of the Nazi swastika and the German Iron Cross - both in shape and the use of the red and black colors - the first 8 particularly so. Perhaps more emphasis on the L and less on the X would help as well as a change of colors. Not trying to make trouble - just head it off. O.F. |
| bstadil Feb 15, 2006 11:45 AM EDT |
I just made same comment on another thread. I concur |
| tadelste Feb 15, 2006 11:46 AM EDT |
Me too. |
| devnet Feb 15, 2006 11:48 AM EDT |
Agreed, They all stink quite a bit. Make me feel a time warp back to World Wars. |
| mieses Feb 15, 2006 1:28 PM EDT |
it's strange that all variations would look so fascist. the typography is also quite poor. the current logo is better than all 12. why not just tweak and improve the existing logo? don't add any symbols. |
| cr Feb 15, 2006 1:32 PM EDT |
I was heading towards the same conclusion myself, and trying to find a polite way to put it. The title for #10 looks good, though, if you ignore the Iron Cross next to it. Dave, you might try playing with superimposing the L and X in various fonts and positions, like a bind-rune. The X might bisect the L's stem, or might produce an asterisk effect where the L's baseline is a horizontal strike through the X. For a less static effect, try using italics so there's an active-looking slant to the composite. If you push the letters over into a program that's got bezier curves, you can play with slightly deforming the superimposed letters from their standard font shapes to make them more agreeable with each other. Often that means elongating serifs and such; a little goes a long way. Then print out the initial batch and take a pencil to 'em and see what you get, and take those ideas back to the screen. Can you deform the bindrune's curves enough to suggest a penguin outline? Remember that fonts which have really thin elements don't reduce well; the thin elements tend to drop out. For a workable logo, the stroke differences might have to be really subtle. |
| The_Symposium Feb 15, 2006 2:39 PM EDT |
I was going to create a post saying exactly the same thing, when I found this one. I'm glad I'm not the only person who thinks that these logos are all too reminiscent of the Nazi swastika. Forgive me for saying so but, what the bloody hell were you guys thinking? |
| bstadil Feb 15, 2006 3:31 PM EDT |
what the bloody hell were you guys thinking? Nothing. I some ways this is a good thing. Not by itself but the fact that the emblems of that horrible time has faded from the newer generations consciousness. |
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