I'm not a designer, but ...
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- albums0
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- feel0
can't recognize it as a napkin, i guess most people wont
try something different from a knife, that is a cliche for the cutdo a little research on what your client's competitors are doing, it gives you a good idea on what not to do or what you're competing with
- i_monk0
Needs blood spray.
- eoin0
"The Cut" refers to making the cut, as well as tying into a chef's cut, or a cut of meat. It also corresponds to a critic's cutting remarks ... perhaps. The book will be the top 100 restaurants in the city, i.e. The Cut presents Dublin's 100 Best Restaurants. Half will be voted on by diners, the rest by me and a panel of judges. One voting diner will win dinner for two in the Top 100 restaurants, to be used over a year.
The website will be daily food/restaurant reviews, news, events that I'm hosting, and so on, with room for commenting etc. I'm doing everything myself so it's a hard slog! But hopefully I can get a sponsor onboard and get the book moving at least.
- BaskerviIle0
So, of everything you've done. I like the bottom left in your options above. But how about doing something typographic with the words THE and CUT given the have quite similar forms, see below.
Or just something simple and typographic like albums has done above.
(BTW, the font I used on the previous page was Futura):- THE is can be read backwards as EHT, remove the crossbar of the E and the lower the one on the H and you have CUTBaskerviIle
- Beautiful, thanks.eoin
- you're getting there eoinsine
- @sine thanks!eoin
- I'm loving the Communist vibe here.qTime
- Still, move the dot over to the left and make it bigger, like a cleavermonospaced
- The dot is centered for the guillotine reference.MrNibs
- ZOOP0
Replace the knife/knives with a vegetable/vegetables partially cut into slices. Soften the edges of the ribbon, lose the red star and maybe replace with a wine cork. Less cutting and more cut. :D
- bumdrizzle0
i would keep the mark really simple. maybe just 'the cut' in a nice face with a dotted underline (it made the cut, below the line didn't). you could then take that dotted line device and use it on collateral in other ways. this being the obvious choice: http://www.list.co.uk/article/17… although personally I would keep it more abstract.
- < cool conceptsmonospaced
- Fantastic, intelligent advice, thank you ... er ... bumdrizzle ...eoin
- good advice!utopian
- qTime0
I would start by designing the logo in black and white, then when you have nailed the composition then think about rendering it in a particular style.
- cannonball19780
These logos where the "cut off part" is removed just makes the logo look like it is folded over or obscured. To tell the story about the cut, you need the parts on both sides of the cut.
- monospaced0
The neverending critique
- eoin0
- zaq0
- i_monk0
I was about to say pretty much what bumdrizzle did – use the "cuts of meat" diagram as a starting point, setting the word mark in a shape suggestive of one of those cuts.
- CALLES0
good name for a circumcision clinic
just saying
- detritus0
have you had a ‘sit down and sketch concepts on paper stage with these, eion?
Strikes me that these feel like they've been entirely thought about in-computer, which I've always found limits scope and makes one revolve around peripheral concepts without much thought to 'why'.
Regardless - you need to consider display sizes when rendering words like'the' so small - also, I'm not sure why you've gone the guillotine route. Seems a little macabre for a fooderie.
- restaurant reviews can destroy restaurantsmonospaced
- No, I haven't. Yes, they have. The reason it's a guillotine is it's about making the cut, if you don't make the cut your head gets chopped off ...eoin
- chopped off ... But really, I suppose it allows the site to eventually be opened up to other things. Not just restaurants.eoin
- Thanks for the pointers, much appreciated.eoin
- @mono that's true, it can also get people fired etc. With great power comes great responsibility ...eoin
- albums0
The type you're choosing lacks personality.
The name is too open to interpretation.
Not one of these logo concepts seems timeless.
Concentrate on a type only treatment in B&W.- I'm ugly.
My mother dresses me funny ... No really, I appreciate your comments. My issue with type-only treatments is where do I get nice typefaces that I can try out?eoin - doing type-only treatments is where do I get nice typefaces that I can try out?eoin
- And thanks for your input, much appreciated.eoin
- Take screen caps from font retailers for mock upsalbums
- Okay, thanks.eoin
- I'm ugly.