How do you say suck?
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- 187LockDown
How do I tell my co-worker (someone I have been doing some freelance work with) that his logo blows huge donkey tail? I am going to post a link to it. He said "That kind of logo with the spinney things is in right now". This just after he tells me that we need to make some fake websites with WordPress to put up on his portfolio page. Is it me or am I a dick for being blunt and telling him NO it's not cool. I love WordPress, but... and I'm sorry, but when someone makes a logo like this, and they want to be in the web design industry. You gotta say something.
- sublocked0
You say it in the most matter of fact way possible.
Explain to him why it looks like a rave flyer from 1998, and let him know design has evolved a lot since then?
Although I'm not sure any way you put it is going to be accepted. People either have developed good taste for design, or haven't - and most likely he's going to take anything you say as an attack on his design sensibilities :p
- dbloc0
Horrible™
- sublocked0
PS: wow that logo is bad
- vaxorcist0
Not to be too weird about it, but is it for clients who really, really can use this sort of "bad taste" design?!? This might be true....
There was an ad agency study somewhere that determined that people remember really good ads and really bad ads but almost nothing in the middle-quality range of boring-tasteful averageness... so being middle quality is worse than being bad(!)
- set0
stern but true words must be had
- 187LockDown0
lol. He was asking me for help on his WordPress site and most of the sites on his portfolio would be sites I made. For this reason I was very blunt. I didn't even get into the fact that he wants to use website I built on his portfolio. He immediately said, Forget it, I'll do the site myself. I texted him and let him know that I felt bad if I hurt his feelings but I'm blunt sometimes and what I said was honest and I felt he could do better. To tell you the truth it surprised me, But I'm just starting to realize that I don't know his style. everything we have worked on has been mine. Wow, I didn't even know. lol
- jtb260
I would break it down to it's elements. The typeface looks kind of like something you might have found on a site for free fonts. The gradients are overdone, make the type illegible and don't seem to have a purpose. The Spinney things, regardless of how 'in' they are what ever graphic elements a logo has they should have some kind of meaning, these don't.
Alternately, you could try to expose him to brand criticism outside what he may have seen otherwise. Plenty of good things here; http://www.underconsideration.co…
- detritus0
tbh, i think its time has come back again.
Fresh.
- 187LockDown0
dbloc, I dont follow?
- 187LockDown0
Great site JTB!
- cannonball19780
"duuuh how we do gug desine ??" "add galaxy"
- identity0
take it back to basics. ask to see it in black and white - point out the formal issues with the current design. Once you have his ear/trust, point out other things on a FORMAL level. Get him agreeing - then say something like "ya know what, what if we took a look at the word celestial and different ways that could be represented?"
I don't know - hard to know when you've never met the guy. Maybe this is just where he's at with things right now?
- capn_ron0
is this guy a little bit older? Like in his 40's or late 40's? I only ask because I worked for someone like this and it was very difficult to get through to him that some of the design he did was a bit dated.
- dbloc0
less is more....there's a lot goin on with that logo.
- dbloc0
give me $5 and I'll redesign it for you.
- GeorgesIV0
I like it, I has the balance, the perfect weight, the futurism
those gradients represent modernity, they're blue and violet because it's what you look at, when you're walking in a field of lavender while looking at the sky,
the oval is the egg, meaning the incubation of ideas, the three circles are the insde of it but on the outside,
the shell, the yolk, the trinity9/10 would hire him on the spot
- 187LockDown0
Yes he is almost 40
- I"m older than that. I don't consider it an excuse or reason. He's complacent and needs inspiration and to work at it.CyBrainX