Spaceship crapping sausages
functioncreep (135 pencils) | Thu, 2009-04-02 05:01
That is how my client broker described the logo this group wanted. The "sausage links" are the floatation rings they use to contain oil spills on water (oil floats, you see). it normally craps out of boats, but they are Port Canaveral people and you know how they are about their spaceships. The ship, by the way, is the x-33 - the future NASA space shuttle.
It may be that the only people looking at this logo will know (or soon know) what the links are all about. All i know is they have to be in there somewhere.
I have a tech question though - i used a dashed line to create the 'links'. is there a way to fill the gaps with color? i couldn't find a way without creating another line as a 'cheat'
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Awww. Time out for nostalgia. I lived near there as a little kid, on Patrick AFB in quarters right on the ocean, before the whole area got all built up. What a great playground that was!
Oh, but we were talking about your logo. I wouldn't worry about colors between the dashes; in fact, what you've done helps them to stand out more. As you anticipated, I would never in a million light years have figured out the connection between the dashes and those floating things they use to contain oil spills, but if you feel the people who need to "get it" will indeed get it, that's all that counts.
I think this is overall a very good-looking piece, though the gradient on the shuttle won't work for some kinds of things, if that's going to be an issue. Will there be patches for uniforms, or wall plaques or something? If so, why not incorporate the text into an overall label shape, like USAF unit patches? Civilians might get a kick out of that.
Mara
you know, a patch may be what they want after all. i haven't heard back from them yet.
traffic is down. this isn't what it used to be. no one told me to pick a new font! this is not the CB it used to be. i need to find another critique site.
thanks for the memories
I think people are intimidated by the description. I feel awkward reading something I don't understand and then trying to give feedback.
Waaahhh!!!! I'd write to the board and demand a refund at once. :)
I had a thing typed out the first day you submitted it and really didn't see much worth mentioning besides the typeface. I don't care for the illustration either (looks like a logo geared towards children) but didn't know what to suggest so didn't suggest anything.
I think the logo is too complicated. It's almost like a little story in there. Just keep it really simple.
pick another font. :P
don't "fake" smallcaps. the weights of the true caps are heavier than the weights of the small caps. something that always jumps out at me (like double spaces, double dashes, etc).
as ivan said, it's too complicated. there are far too many elements, both in the logomark itself, as well as *WAY* too much text for a "logo."