A Good Logo Design Idea For A Design And Print Broker?
Its crazy but we are stuck with our own logo. Would glady consider ideas and input.
Name of company is Hott Ticket.
Designs & Print Brokers
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Dan Roberts Said,
July 30, 2009 @ 2:32 pm
Why don’t you search existing logo sites to get ideas?
Here are some to try -
Logo Search - http://www.logo-search.com
LogoMaid - http://www.logomaid.com
Web Design Elements - http://www.webdesign-elements.com
Here is a good summary of What to Look for in a Logo - http://www.developer-resource.com/what-t…
This is a more in depth article -
What Makes a Good Logo - http://www.logo-search.com/what-makes-go…
And Building an Image with a Logo - http://www.logo-search.com/building-an-i…
Bring Your Product to Life with Personality - http://www.logo-search.com/bring-your-pr…
jplatt39 Said,
July 30, 2009 @ 2:32 pm
The first thing that comes to mind when I read what you do is scrolls. Not the image of a long sheet wrapped around two poles,but the old illustrative motif of a long sheet of paper which descends over a pile of books in wavy contours suggesting it has been rolled up. You don’t need to put the books in, but scrolls and scrollwork can be nice.
And yes, the name Hott Ticket sounds contemporary. Presumably though you want to convince people you are balanced. Not formal, but balanced. One thing I find lately is the place I see Gothic and Blackletter styles most often these days is lettering books and websites, not logos. There are a few but Gothic and Blackletter styles are very varied — my Calligraphy teacher spent a lot of time on them. I would research those styles as a fairly easy way to find something which is yours and which expresses your corporate visual point of view.
Usually when looking at a problem like that, the solution which works best for me going in (as a sometime freelancer) is to take a symbolic image, take an approach to text, take a concrete image of something people will see when they visit you, throw them all together then start editing. Your building or a corner of your office — or whatever may just suggest a color scheme. Alternatively if you were to use a scroll, it could become just a wavy line which defines the borders between two hues in your background.
Edit: the thing about incorporating a literal depiction of the environment in thinking is this: style has been defined as how we cope with the limits of our competence. Thus if you push it you get better, if you don’t you can get worse. At the same time, when you are doing commercial work, the customer has reason to expect something predictable. Since we also tend towards the same approaches when looking at ANY visual approach, such as choice of a building or organization of a room even when these are constrained by others, the environment can create or suggest a texture, whether any trace of a literal representation remains or not, as well as color which will present your customers with a design solution — in other words, the trick I mentioned above is for one meeting or discussion and editing should begin as soon as you’ve looked at — possibly an a4 or 8 1/2 x 11which incorporates the three motifs if you even do look at them.
Hope these ideas help.