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Last post: 1 year, 11 months ago | Thread started: Mar 5, 10, 4:35 a.m.

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• kalkal

  ok, I'm not a designer and I'm trying to design a logo, it's a nightmare.

  It's for a little business I want to start "distraction photography"

  After much hell, I eventually stopped trying to make something that was intelligent, quirky or even smart and went with developing the "dp" from distraction photography.

  I've ended up with something thats perhaps a bit too simple.

  I went from developing this:
  

  

  Into this:
  

  

  

  But I can't help but think it's not quite "there"

  Thoughts?

  Mar 5, 10, 4:35 a.m. – Permalink

• typist

  

  • I see. Damn it– kalkal

  

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  Dog-earMar 5, 10, 4:38 a.m. – Permalink

• kalkal

  I did notice the resemblance to
  

  

  After making it and I was happy to live with that one resemblance but that has pretty much damned all my efforts now...

  

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  Dog-earMar 5, 10, 4:41 a.m. – Permalink

• Jimbo82

  Sorry dude, but that shape is massively common, I think every designer has sketched it at some point. Maybe steer away from the dp side of things and think more abstractly around photographic elements, equipment, processes etc etc. Good luck though!

  

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  Dog-earMar 5, 10, 4:52 a.m. – Permalink

• lukus_W

  Think about concepts first.

  Why are you calling your business 'distraction photography'?

  

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  Dog-earMar 5, 10, 5:04 a.m. – Permalink

• kalkal

  The idea that photos are a distraction?

  

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  Dog-earMar 5, 10, 5:06 a.m. – Permalink

• kult

  A distraction from what?

  • lol– JazX

  

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  Dog-earMar 5, 10, 5:11 a.m. – Permalink

• kalkal

  From your current environment, they take you to the past.

  My god, this sounds pretentious.

  

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  Dog-earMar 5, 10, 5:12 a.m. – Permalink

• kalkal

  I'd go with my name but I'd probably end up unknowingly ripping off Marks and Spencer in that case.

  

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  Dog-earMar 5, 10, 5:14 a.m. – Permalink

• d_rek

  http://www.qbn.com/topics/623796…

  • Excellent suggestion.– kalkal

  

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  Dog-earMar 5, 10, 5:31 a.m. – Permalink

• Ruffian

  Not feeling the name at all, go with your name - it's yours.

  

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  Dog-earMar 5, 10, 5:34 a.m. – Permalink

• i_monk

  It's a bad shape.

  • no, it's just misunderstood– scarabin

  

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  Dog-earMar 5, 10, 6:36 a.m. – Permalink

• d_rek

  i think the name itself is more interesting than the icon you have developed. As shown it's a pretty ubiquitous and played-out form. My suggestion would be to refine the wordmark further and ditch the shape. If you're insistent on developing an icon try to find some associations to your related profession, the word distraction or some other line of thought completely unexpected.

  

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  Dog-earMar 5, 10, 6:49 a.m. – Permalink

• 74LEO

  Teh first 3 are nice...

  eol.

  

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  Dog-earMar 5, 10, 7:21 a.m. – Permalink

• camer

  I'm surprised no one has said this yet, but hire a designer?

  Anyway, now that that is out of the way :)
  It's easy to see that the shape you have chosen is pleasing and easy to like. Look at how it's used everywhere. That said, I like what you've done, colors, shape and all but since it's like a lot of other logos in those respects, you could push it a bit further.

  That shape reminded me of my old camera with the manual countdown self-timer switch thing next to or on the lens. Maybe you could work in that direction and find a play with time since you mentioned the distraction of taking you away to another time.

  

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  Dog-earMar 5, 10, 8:25 a.m. – Permalink

• mg33

  Ahhhh.... memories....

  

  http://web.archive.org/web/20050…

  

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  Dog-earMar 5, 10, 9:02 a.m. – Permalink