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Please don't say 'last attempt'! It sounds like you're giving up. I like your design. The typeface is nice and clean, you got the kerning just right, and I really like the reversed-out 'e'. Also that it's in a different color and tilted, gives it a whimsical look that really works.
My feeling on reflections is it might give you a dated appearance in a short period of time as it's getting a little old. A logo should be legible at a very small size and suitable for use on all kinds of surfaces. The reflection would certainly be lost in that case. I'm also undecided about the fade-out on 'imagine'. It doesn't somehow look definitive enough, almost like it could be in error, but that might just be a personal thing. Maybe go more extreme with it? Since we tend to recognize letterforms more easily from the top it, if you went more extreme it would be better to fade it the opposite way.
Otherwise I think you've done a great job!
At first glance I red it as e-Magazine. That might be me but I wouldn't cut the E like that.
I can't say I like it.
Any reason why you choose the yellow?
Any reason why you choose the square?
Any reason you choose the reflection?
You might want to give it some more thoughts rather then trying to make a nice looking logo, unless it really looks nice. Right now, I feel there's no thought behind it, it doesn't say anything about your company and it doesn't do anything for me to remember it.
Try to look for things you can base your logo on. What is your product, what is your speciallity, what is your selling point, what does this name mean, etc.
Take a look at other logos, get inspired!
ps. Don't let this be your last attempt. Get a grip on yourself, it's for the sake of your company. If you're not motivated enought to continue why did you ask our critique on the first place? Also, if you don't even want to spend time to a logo, how are you going to run a company? Logo design takes time, but it's worth it.
Everyone can do this with software then I think we have nothing to judge.
Ronaldo! xD
Lets have a quick lesson in reflections!
1) Dont stretch the reflection. Why would it be stretched? It wouldnt.
2) Dont ignore the fact you reflected the lower case "g" wrong. If you know its wrong - change it! And you know what you have to do! The plane has to start below the "g". Push the reflection down - which makes it look crap. So lose the reflection. Or dont use letters with descenders.
Jack
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But...but...teacher! Aren't reflections and gradients supposed to make my logo look cool and futuristic???
Leaky Penny
www.leakypenny.com
We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or concentration camp I would be almighty in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell. - Pablo Picasso
Well son, if your logo isn't good, it's best to just start over again and forget about the reflections.
The "g" is wrong, but certainly a reflection can appear scrunched (not "stretched") like that. The closer eye level is to the plane level with the reflection - the shorter it will appear.
BS
Jack
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Oh Jack. He means foreshortening. That's a true fact :-)
However, it would apply uniformly to all the letters, bot just the one with the descender.
Mara
Think I was misunderstood before. The ENTIRE reflection is positioned wrong here (not just the g) - the artist reflected the g's descender from the baseline when it should have been descender reflecting from descender. Move the entire reflection down so it originates below the g's descender (iow). That is the only incorrect thing about this faux reflection.
The depth of the letters are determined by the (imaginary) viewer's line of sight. Foreshortening occurs depending on your eye level in comparison with the reflection plane level. In this case - the letters can be any length since the "viewer" is imaginary - the artist is determining the "eye level". This can be easily tested by looking at anything level to the ground - a puddle, a shadow, whatever and bending your knees. I'm sure reflections could be "stretched" as well depending on the qualities of the reflective surface (funhouse mirrors, anyone?).
Sorry for any confusion - I'll try to be clearer next time. :-)
Great strides from the original with the balloon thing. That should be stressed above everything else, because the first one truly was amateur hour and this one is executed in a professional manner. So good work on stepping up the quality.
I'm assuming the reflection is not actually part of the logo - just part of this particular presentation, so I won't comment on that. The way the letters fade at the top is interesting, but long term it's going to be more trouble than it's worth when it comes to reproduction on different materials, etc... Maybe you can take that idea and render it in another manner? Personally, I'd rather the "e" tilted the other way - to the left as opposed to the right - but that might just be me. The biggest problem is it's just not very memorable. A person who sees this for the first time would not have any idea what the company does. Even if you went the easy route and added a tagline it would help. Don't give up on it - just figure out what factor is missing to make this thing fly and add it. You're close imo.
Thank you so much. I've been making what all of you had told me. I'm learning so much from you 'cause I'm not a designer I'm an engineer. :D
No wonder you have such a hard time designing a simple logo.
Leaky Penny
www.leakypenny.com
We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or concentration camp I would be almighty in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell. - Pablo Picasso
yeah :(... thanks all of you :D
Keep your thanks, I want none of it.
Leaky Penny
www.leakypenny.com
We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or concentration camp I would be almighty in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell. - Pablo Picasso
Whoa. Harsh.
Mara
Reflections should not be part of a logo. For one thing, they limit how you can use the logo, and add to the cost when the medium is print, because you might need film for each color to make the gradient print really smoothly. I recommend that you lose the reflection.
There is no discernible reason for the gradient (fade) across the top of the logo, so my mind doesn't "excuse" its presence and I read it as uneven ink coverage.
Mara
I'm currently designing a piece that will need the professional touch of an engineer, but I will hire an engineer because I do not know how to do that end myself.
Good luck with your logo.
3dog
"Art -- the one achievement of Man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised." - James Thurber
I think that, given the fact you're an engineer and not a designer, you've done a pretty good job. I don't care for the typeface much, and as we've discussed the reflections are wrong and should be deleted. The gradient is striving for the "Web 2" look which might be a bit long in the tooth, but I still give it the thumbs up!