Feedback needed - irish dance logo project
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@oana Glad it could help!
Yeah that's the struggle sometimes with client work; they'll override sensible decisions and really there's nothing you can do about it. What I've done in the past is have them look at it both ways, explain from a design perspective why you want to avoid x or y, but ultimately leave it in their hands to make the final decision.
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I kind of like it. I think once you get it digitized and rendered, you can play with the value contrast to really make the dancer pop off the page. Nice work
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After one more day of moving things around I got to this version:
The large/small caps will stay , though it does unbalance the composition a bit to the right and I don’t know what to do about it. but I unified the fonts more and got the “school of Irish Dance” in one line wich is definetely much better. I showed it to the teacher and she likes it very much, but she had an unexpected observation - to her the cat looks naked and she wants me to add some detail so it is clothed
I think I might add a separation at the waistline, that might suggest pants?
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@oana Aren't cats normally naked?
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@jdubz lol I thought so but maybe not when they start dancing
Until I figure out how to dress the cat I tried a little something to balance the right side. I would appreciate an opinion on this, especially from not-into-irish-dance people!
Or I could always go this way
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@oana I like it but I'd like to see it without the curl coming off the dancer's back/bottom. It's kind of cool but it also looks like a monkey's tail. I find myself staring at it, even from across the room. You can also slide it up higher on the dancer so it looks like a skirt instead of a tail. Just try it and see how it looks.
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@kim-hunter That's an interesting observation I didn't get before, thanks. I will consider it when working on the final shilouette, the dancer is a cat so the tail stays but I will try to shift it higher. Actually I noticed it looked like the tail of a monkey but the circled shape looked better in the design to me.
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@oana I don't think you need to balance it on the right side with extra objects. The shoe is funny though.
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@jenn After I read that it's a cat I wondered if you added a second ear then maybe it would read as a cat better. Maybe try a more paw-like hand?
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Update on the cat after some time spent in vector land:
What do you think?
Still working on the letters, painfull process....
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@kim-hunter You were right, a second ear seems to work and it's not cartoonish as I feared!
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@oana agreed, the 2nd ear makes it much more recognizable as a cat
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One more step... It's a vector now! I just still feel like readjusting every point a 100 times... and I still need tomake some color variants, this is the red scheme the school already had, I'm not sure which other way to go... Opinions welcome, your previous input was very helpfull!
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@oana This is very nice and professional looking… Great Job
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@oana I agree with @DoodleMick very pro! I really like the twisty ribbon effect, it adds drama and flair
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Hi there, Late comment coming in. I've been watching the progress and I think it's coming together well. My one issue is that I think you're losing the readability of the "s" in shay. If I hadn't known it was an "s " I could have read it as an r,n, or s.
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@larue Good point and you are right, I'll have to go over that once more! Ugh letters are so difficult!
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@jenn Thank you! I tried to incorporate the twisty effect as a celtic element, it's much used in dance dress designs
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Sorry for the late comment - the latest version looks amazing. My comment - and only because reading it as a cat was discussed so much - is on the legs of the cat. They are human-like at the moment, and it might be worth trying to do an indication of feline leg anatomy, even if very subtle. If you have completely straight legs, it's fine due to simplification, but once you add a bend (especially the knee, like you have) or anatomical curve/muscle, then you're kind of committing to a species at that point. May be worth sketching out quick. (If I didn't catch that it's supposed to be this way, I'm sorry)
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@oana I think it looks great, especially with the two colors.
