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mescalineeyes
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Don't listen to my many incorrect tard-pinions
(Today, 05:35 PM)
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Seriously though?
onadesertedisland
Member
Why would it matter the expense of the font? There are many great freeware fonts, and many ugly commercial fonts.
mescalineeyes
Banned
That is so much better it's not even funny.
Snkfanatic
Banned
Lol....ok
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
I came to the next page to say something about the kerning on that text, Richie, but it looks like it was already addressed. I love the logo. The font looks like you have it a little extra italicized where it doesn't need to be, but that's really a personal choice.
Really?
I'm sorry but there are plenty of beautiful free type-faces out there:
FREE
IS
GOOD
Not saying ALL of these fonts are beautiful but there is some nice stuff in there. Thinking that the only useable fonts are ones you have to pay for is actually the amateur hour move. I don't know who put that crap in your head.
We can't all just slap Gotham on everything.
Just thought I'd start with a new logo.
How does this look guys?
I'm not a fan of the overall setup, I'm feeling the off-balance thing too. If this is a logo, I feel there's too much information on it. Name, date, 4 words tying to your job... I'm a simple man, I like simple neat things. The color scheme is good, the script font always works, so there's potential.
But I don't think it looks bad...
I have tweaked it a bit (cleaned it up) but it's working and I like it.
Yes, I have seen the logo that I wanted to use in different colors, and in different sizes as well and I feel that it works. No decrease in quality.
Also like I said before, I really liked the one you mentioned (the red one) but it doesn't fit in well with the show itself.
Ha, I wondered the same thing shortly after I posted it.
Here's the update:
Nice! I really like it. Definitely works better with the letters connected in my opinion.
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
Just to clear up a few things:
1. There's nothing wrong with free fonts under any circumstance. There are some utterly beautiful and free fonts that have formed the backbone of design for decades now. Don't listen to the schmuck with tard-pinions. He has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.
2. On the same fonty topic, script fonts were designed to be connected. That's why they have tails -- to make it look like someone was writing it with a pen/brush. I can't think of a time where I've seen (in a good design) script broken up to a greater-than-zero kerning, ever. I could be wrong.
1. There's nothing wrong with free fonts under any circumstance. There are some utterly beautiful and free fonts that have formed the backbone of design for decades now. Don't listen to the schmuck with tard-pinions. He has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.
2. On the same fonty topic, script fonts were designed to be connected. That's why they have tails -- to make it look like someone was writing it with a pen/brush. I can't think of a time where I've seen (in a good design) script broken up to a greater-than-zero kerning, ever. I could be wrong.
He's probably trolling ( I hope ) but that's like saying he wouldn't hire a designer who used a pc. I use free fonts all the time, clients like it better when their costs aren't so high.
R
Rösti
Unconfirmed Member
Adobe Indesign CS6, yeah. If you want the best possible value, go for Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design Standard. In case you haven't already got Illustrator and Photoshop anyway.
phillipgessert
Member
Yesand for any layout work, really.
BruceLeeRoy
Banned
Yeah.
Depending on how basic your needs are:
Basic: InDesign
Detail: InDesign + PS + Illustrator
On a side note how unbelievable is the new Adobe Subscription? I can't believe they finally wised up and released a option that finally makes sense.
onadesertedisland
Member
If I may chime in, I think the logo is great. I would drop the shadow, and straighten the cross stroke of the capital T. The wavy cross sorta makes it look like a cursive F.
NintendoGal
Member
Appreciate the thoughts and thought on quite a few of them. I decided to simply do it myself and this is what I did:
http://www.nintendogal.com/
I'm sure everyone can giggle at my own crap graphics, but eh, it's effective I guess.
DrAndonuts
Member
Business card I made for a movie I'm doing. Front is a VHS tape with my info, back is a VHS box. I'd love any feedback or tips on cleaning it up.
Thanks for all of the feedback. Ended up getting the cards printed, yellow logo and all - I thought the yellow gave a nice contrast the drab colors of the tape. Turned out better than I expected:
layzie1989
Member
I absolutely love it, but i think it might be even better if the label on the VHS tape was hand written with a sharpie to make it more personal
DrAndonuts
Member
Ah, that is a great idea. If I ever get them reprinted, I'll definitely try a batch with a handwritten label.
Just started working on a business card for myself. I was thinking of making two cards, one that's more whimsical (this one) and one that would be more appropriate for corporate-leaning clients. Ignore my website, I'm about to give it a major overhaul so it'll be ready for future clients.
One of my desires is to do a few more things to the front. Perhaps add some subtle texture (though I am hoping the paper would provide that). Another thought is that I was going for a sort of carnival vibe but that got kinda lost to a world of old fashioned candy bars and outer space. Perhaps it works? I'm not sure. But I will probably play around with developing a uniformed feel to it, either outer space or carnival.
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One of my desires is to do a few more things to the front. Perhaps add some subtle texture (though I am hoping the paper would provide that). Another thought is that I was going for a sort of carnival vibe but that got kinda lost to a world of old fashioned candy bars and outer space. Perhaps it works? I'm not sure. But I will probably play around with developing a uniformed feel to it, either outer space or carnival.
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travisbickle
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phillipgessert
Member
Just started working on a business card for myself. I was thinking of making two cards, one that's more whimsical (this one) and one that would be more appropriate for corporate-leaning clients. Ignore my website, I'm about to give it a major overhaul so it'll be ready for future clients.
One of my desires is to do a few more things to the front. Perhaps add some subtle texture (though I am hoping the paper would provide that). Another thought is that I was going for a sort of carnival vibe but that got kinda lost to a world of old fashioned candy bars and outer space. Perhaps it works? I'm not sure. But I will probably play around with developing a uniformed feel to it, either outer space or carnival.
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I would say yes to trying to let the paper provide the texture, for sure.
Couple technical notes: Your border is quite close to the trim edge, and this will make the little variances in the trim more noticeable. Depending on where you have them printed, the result could range from 'barely noticeable' to 'holy crap the whole thing is skewed'.
Another printing note has to do with your colorif you want it to look pretty close to what you've got here, you'd probably end up printing this on white. But because the color of the substrate is kind of 'faked' as cream, that trimmed edge may look a little funky from the side, where the white will show.
Also, when I read the email/phone bit, where a pipe separates both the word 'email' from the actual email address and also separates the email section from the phone sectionit kind of makes me do a double take for a second. Like I don't intuitively understand the structure of that section without reading it a couple times.
I actually think the words 'email' and 'phone' are possibly unnecessary, since most people can identify an email address or phone number as such on sight.
Yeah, I'll be getting rid of the drop shadow.
Also I'll experiment a bit further with the T, but I personally don't mind the T as it is.
It is a joke, yes.
I just thought it would be a nice way to add a bit of colour.
BertramCooper
Banned
Overall, I love my new job. But they do all of their page layout in Quark, and it drives me nuts. I haven't used Quark since high school, and I can't even remember the last time I encountered someone who still uses it.
Thankfully, they have InDesign installed in all the computers, so when I'm doing my own solo projects, I can use it. But on weeks like this, when one of my co-workers is out and I have to fill in on a Quark project, I want to fucking kill myself.
Thankfully, they have InDesign installed in all the computers, so when I'm doing my own solo projects, I can use it. But on weeks like this, when one of my co-workers is out and I have to fill in on a Quark project, I want to fucking kill myself.
Spring-Loaded
Member
What font is this?:
phillipgessert
Member
What font is this?:
I always have a tough time identifying one geometric sans from another, but regardless—the British connection means it is almost certainly meant to at least recall Johnston.
Edit: just to clarify, it's not Johnston. But I guarantee that when they made the ad, they were thinking 'use something a little like the London Underground typeface'.
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love the design. my only comment is on content - at this point we're all reasonably educated enough to parse a phone number and an email address from a body of text, let alone when it's on a business card. my advice would be to lose the Phone: and Email: descriptor before it, which also cleans up the messiness of having email duplicated on the front. simplicity!
okay, i lied. instead of the heavy vertical line to separate your phone number and email, how about a bullet? , or if you're set on the line, perhaps make it a lighter weight?
Spring-Loaded
Member
Thanks. I'll check that one out. I should be able to check around for one similar.
I'm not digging the little strips on the gold bands. I'm guessing you wanted them to look like a sort of foil stripe or something? I honestly thought an error had happened with the picture at first.
Jzero
Member
Yea they definitely look like a glitch
Just started working on a business card for myself. I was thinking of making two cards, one that's more whimsical (this one) and one that would be more appropriate for corporate-leaning clients. Ignore my website, I'm about to give it a major overhaul so it'll be ready for future clients.
One of my desires is to do a few more things to the front. Perhaps add some subtle texture (though I am hoping the paper would provide that). Another thought is that I was going for a sort of carnival vibe but that got kinda lost to a world of old fashioned candy bars and outer space. Perhaps it works? I'm not sure. But I will probably play around with developing a uniformed feel to it, either outer space or carnival.
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Really like these designs, but getting an accurate cut on them could be difficult, and that'd cause it to look wonky which would really ruin the aesthetic imo
Yeah it was supposed to look like a foil lining, but do you think it looks bad on both bands? I just feel they look a little plain without the gold foil thing going on, especially on the navigation ribbon thing.
I suggest if you're gonna make it look like a gold strip... make it look like a gold strip. Like others have said, it looks odd.
Threw this up as an example. In something like a nav bar, you never want an element that distracts from your nav items, in your case it's the first thing I saw.
I'd also avoid using the free vector swooshes and floral elements. All 3 of your content blocks don't follow the grid, ex . Your images, text and content blocks are all at different grid levels. Make coding the site easier by aligning them all. Also, logo soups are usually smaller in size and all one colour. Grey perhaps that would overlay to a colour version when you hover over.
Just some food for though, I'm not trying to be harsh
Threw this up as an example. In something like a nav bar, you never want an element that distracts from your nav items, in your case it's the first thing I saw.
I'd also avoid using the free vector swooshes and floral elements. All 3 of your content blocks don't follow the grid, ex . Your images, text and content blocks are all at different grid levels. Make coding the site easier by aligning them all. Also, logo soups are usually smaller in size and all one colour. Grey perhaps that would overlay to a colour version when you hover over.
Just some food for though, I'm not trying to be harsh
Pretty sure it's this: Brandon Grotesque BlackWhat font is this?:
PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
I suggest if you're gonna make it look like a gold strip... make it look like a gold strip. Like others have said, it looks odd.
Threw this up as an example. In something like a nav bar, you never want an element that distracts from your nav items, in your case it's the first thing I saw.
I'd also avoid using the free vector swooshes and floral elements. All 3 of your content blocks don't follow the grid, ex . Your images, text and content blocks are all at different grid levels. Make coding the site easier by aligning them all. Also, logo soups are usually smaller in size and all one colour. Grey perhaps that would overlay to a colour version when you hover over.
Just some food for though, I'm not trying to be harsh
This is good feedback.
I'd remove the texture from the ribbon completely. You might note that pretty much everybody is using a ribbon right now, which means this will look really dated in a year or several. The logo is horrendous, but you know that. And barring further comments not already mentioned above, I'd strongly consider custom social buttons to take advantage of your color theme (of which there isn't really one).
Other than that, it looks like a web page!
Hey Design GAF. Any motion graphic designers around? Just wondering if there are any specific resources people have found handy for an introduction to time-based work - I'm starting time-based this fall in my program and was thinking of getting a bit of a head start.
Also going to be printing business cards soon but there's an overwhelming number of options out there. Any preferred websites?
Also going to be printing business cards soon but there's an overwhelming number of options out there. Any preferred websites?
Adam Scott Aukerman
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cgtextures.com often proves invaluable to me.