Thought id give the Air/water look one more try:



- Griffin

Very nice, maybe try them with a diffrent font?

Yeah I thought so too, but the problem is Im kinda short with "simple fonts"...
but Ill give it a go...

Originally had a diferent idea, but I think these two are not bad either...

First try-


Sized down-

Well. now Im out.. going to make mor ehopefully get back in again.. Phew.. :/

Heres is a new one.

Bubble!


uhh you can use either bubble look on either design.. or take out the last bubble if you want don't matter..

Thought I would give it a try...

Heres another:



Attempting a more modern'ish look

- Griffin

loke home improvement/martha stewart kinda look? looks great

New one.

try some simpler stuff too for a wider verity?

Here's my latest entry... available in Scalable AI and PSD



edit: and here's the rst of my stuff (I'll use this one as a place holder)

I think this one is better than my others:


I'll attempt more later.

Hi Everyone,

How much feedback do you want me to give? There are lots of things I like about lots of designs, but nothing is quite there yet. Do you want more direction? More constructive criticism (or just criticism?). I'm not much good at providing encouragement without finding fault - a legacy of my last job possibly!

Alternatively, I can show the client the thread and ask for their feedback!

let me know what you think

John

That would probably be the best bet imho. As otherwise you're going to end up with about 800 designs to choose from. Myself I have a full layout with the logo I made that I can post somewhere if they would like, but since this was just for the logo I'll leave mine as is.

direction? color themes you would like?

also do you have a link to the site I think we could match it much better if I knew what I was designing for.. lol

I would like any form of critisim, just so I know where to go... all I know is sans-serif, fresh natural colors, logo and text that go together well, and spa like. That's what I've been trying (I think it came out perfectly for those specs on the last one)

However, on the sites you asked us to look at, the logos were just boring text. Likely for spacing purposes

Okay.

This site is a re-launch of www.airandwater.co.uk. It's being completely redesigned, from the ground up (using the same shopping cart software though). So if you want to show off your logo in a screenmock, feel free. The layout will be functionally similar to www.simplyhottubs.co.uk

Some of the better industry sites are:

http://www.susanciminelli.com/

https://www.eve-taylor.com/Index.aspx

http://www.timetospa.co.uk/

http://www.espaonline.com/products/

http://www.silverleafspa.com/products.htm

http://www.willowbeautyproducts.co.uk/

http://www.simplysoaps.com/uk/http://www.skinhealthspa.co.uk/ (not great, admittedly)

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I think two of the key things here are: colour schemes

Monochromatic or Analogous colours preferred, or use a colour + hue/tint/shade. (look at tertiary colours)

Sticking away from primary/secondays colours and complementary/triadic colour schemes will help.

Typography and image are king. MattyK, your tree is good (ie. an integral part of the logo) but doesn't say 'spa' enough to me, it says 'blue forest' a more delicate (ie leaf, flower, water drop) emblem would work better for the client. d4rkst0n3, lovely simplicity, colours too heavily saturated but i like that the green and blue sat well together.

fonts used in submissions are generally either too masculine or slightly clumsy attempts at femininity - in many ways Bronya's logo achieved a cohesiveness I admired, what it was lacking in shape (dimensions) and typography, it made up in colours (nice loamy tones). MattyK, your cucumber designs were nice, but didn't have enough oomph and were slightly willowy - the tree went too far the other way

reflections, images 'around' the text etc simply aren't necessary, some of them are nice decoratively but rarely reinforce a brand.

hope this helps!

Please do PM me if you want anything cleared up, or use messenger/email in the OP.

John.

(edited for weird line spacing!)

Well...If I had read those post earlier ...

Anyways...

i can see you went to a lot of effort with this - the underlying concept and the mental idea of 'spa' are right on. it's nice and cohesive (it hangs together well as a whole, that is, and has a theme flowing through it that works. i'd say for my own tastes (and probably those of the client) that although it reflects the middle-aged market very well, i don't like the white/outline font, it uses a colour scheme i'm not quite happy with, and there's too much vertical heigh (see pm), maybe not quite bold enough. but



1) Fairly Feminine

2) It says 'spa'!

3) It hangs together well

4) It's not a been there, done that logo



d4rkst0n3 - you're right about your last logo design, it is nicer . The typography/colour is very male though, you might want to try a change of fonts (lowercase sans generally works well for this type of logo), and drop some saturation out of the colours.



I've decided I should give feedback at this point, stops people shooting in the dark. Remember, if I criticise less than five things, I'm fairly happy . You'll get used to me! I'll be running, as I said, a few more comptetions after this one - in many ways this is a test case for you. Mostly I want one of you to confirm he/she got paid before running more logo design jobs. (if you want a preview, look at www.webshop365.net - needs a new logo/scheme)



thanks to all the people who've replied and shown work up so far.

For a man who criticizes that much, you even gave me few compliments , thanks...
Believe it or not, Im using photoshop for 3 months now ...

Here are some different color versions of this simple logo I made recently....

New ones..

What about sth like this...?

More concepts:



Do you prefer shapes to actually be something like a droplet/leaf or something more abstract like Bronya's?

- Griffin

i'll be posting mines

first one: vivid fresh colors


edited: another one
even MORE fresh

Here's my newest entry, a take on the bonsai tree one...

Please let me know if I should even bother to continue...

woah, why the whole layout?

combo pack


ps: is the comp finished???

ends on the 26th

like the last one btw

Another batch...



Nice job matty

- Griffin

again like the last one

yea, the .co.uk just fits very well

Added a logo sheet to my first post.

- Griffin

Lol..wow.. you and matty are completely killing the comp here

nice ones griffin

My latest one...



And I'm following griffin and putting a link to all my logos on my first post

very nice mattyK! how long you guys been making logos?

p2l v3 contest and my own site logos are my first lol plus this one.. those are just amazing though

A thought...

I've made very few corporate or website logos, but I've been making logos for teams on a game called hattrick (Online Soccer Manager) for years... I do them for free there

Awesome.. I hope I can get as good as you soon lol. seems stuff like this pays off in these kinda comps lol.. 180 for an image phew..

All it takes is practice... the good thing about doing logos in some sort of online game is that each customer has a different taste, so you can practice making a logo that suits them. I've made at least 1000 logos on hattrick. Plus, I still plan on going to art school after highschool.

Yea.. In a few days I will be taking colledge level courses that will certify me in
php & mysql
computer programming
C/c++
webdesign
photoshop
flash

But they arnt like art school just helps me get a job better when I have a few certificates and such quilifacations under my belt. :/

Just experimenting some more.....jeeze ive made way too many of these



- Griffin

are you sure on the first one the white is supposed to be over the grass too? lol

Meh, if he likes them at all I can always change it

- Griffin

yeah I think I should say, discontinuity, that if you see something you like, but want to see a few things changed, you should pm the person who made it and ask them to try it out.

Quick Reply: I will - I've been worried about doing that and then picking someone else's though! Must say I'm very happy with the way everyone has responded to my suggestions. Quick post after I've had breakfast proper - 11.30am here!

That's understandable, just let them know if there's something you think they should try perhaps.

You don't have to, I just think you'd get better results.