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I think it's very telling of you that you called it shit 4 times in your post. It could easily pass for a popular band logo, it's not bad at all.

The thing which makes it look so obviously from paint is the low resolution and lack of "aliasing". That's what gives you those hard curves which you don't really want in a logo. If you did the same design in a program like Photoshop or Illustrator (easily pirateable) you wouldn't have that problem.

Another thing to help it look polished is just it's presentation. The text is in a dark colour and you've put it on another dark coloured background. Throw it on some white.

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For your purposes you won't need more than a basic vector software package. You could use corelDraw or adobe Illustrator but I would recommend Affinity Designer if you're on windows as it's free and less of a hassle than pirating.

I would recommend the following changes

>>288619
tut
>https://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/team-awesome-from-hand-lettered-logotype-to-vector-in-adobe-illustrator--cms-23737

>/gd/ - consumer purchase advice
fuck off

>>288530
Isnt that model like 3 years old.

>>288530
I had a similar one but it didnt have pressure sensitivity. Just make sure it has all the features that you want out of a tablet. I would save up for and intous though.

>>287449
It's Pacman and Ms. Pacman doing a 69

>>287449
I think it's a beautiful yin/yang.

>>287449
This is a pretty good simple logo. Only thing I don't like about it is the typography.

>>287452
That's actually a really cool interpretation and I'm kinda disappointed in myself that I didn't see it before you mentioned it.

just count the dots in the image or something like that

>>288580
there's usually a pixel art general at ic
>>>/ic/2715672
also i made this rar with all the pixel art tutorials i found some were posted here years ago
http://www.mediafire.com/file/93ka9a4x6grdlvt/pxl.rar

I've been making pixel art in illustrator for a little while now. It's pretty comfy.

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>>288506

$30 ok? i have paypal

>>288508
CURRENT

>>287950
1960-72 is go tier.

Unfortunately, until phones triple in size, or phones start displaying directly in your retina, we will be stuck with ultra minimal flat over tones. So I guess give it 5 years.

>>287951
This

I keep trying to explain to my friends that 60s-70s gd is the literal golden age for design.
They just don't get it.

Fuck though, what a time that was. Fucking crazy art, architecture, film, music. Like they go from badly designing shit in the 50s (though some of it can look pretty good) to masterpieces of design. I'm honestly jealous of the people who got to live through that period. Shit must have been amazing. With the exception of 'Nam, I guess. Though the Cold War probably brought on a lot of what influenced the style. All that emerging technology, space exploration, all kinds of stuff.

Fuck I love it.
The era's design inspires me more than the shit nowadays. Some of the new stuff is cool, but it's hard for me to think we'll have anybody that'll become an instant classic, in any field. Like some of the great directors of the time. I mean fuck, movies probably will never be great again. It's just shit to get normies' money. "Hey guys, remember Tonka Trucks? Yer gonna love a movie imagining of it!". No real vision anymore. Fuckin memberberries.

>>287956
I would agree, but
>architecture
Fuck that. 60s-70s architecture was the worst.

I don't think I've ever seen a photographer use a shutter in their logo. Very creative and unique!

Also the polygon shutter clashes with the R's curved leg.

>>287312
I see flying pizza slices or paperplanes.. Also, looks kind of unfinished for some reason.

>>287312
Boring but inoffensive

Also, ridiculous use of bold/regular/light font for the tagline. Why?? These fuckers apparently have over 700 stores in the UK you'd think they could come up with some better shit than this

The spurs seem a bit sharp, but the general shape looks like it's communicating it's idea pretty well. Open strokes [welcoming], fairly geometric [reliable], non-offending.

Everything you want in a local store.

Why does it annoy you?

>>288408

The dividers seem unnecessary, especially for the tagline. As I said, using three different font weights for the tag too.

I think rounder spurs would definitely work better. It just looks cheap to me. Also, dislike the colour scheme

They have 700+ stores so obviously the paying public don't agree with me or give a shit

>>287851

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>>287851
I don't skate anymore, but Volcom's logo has always had a special place in my heart.

I'm a sucker for symmetry.

There's a lot of cool logos in skateboarding though.
Element is another good one that comes to mind.

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>>287861
for me it was adidas it's weird their products were twice as much as generic ones and i didn't usually mind paying that much just for having something made by them. nowadays i try to avoid any logos on clothing.

>>288311
I just want this flat design meme to die.

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Not me, Flat design is the future.

>>288313
It will. Its just s shitty trend.

It's mainly Indians.

India's population is high
But lack of jobs
So they go for jobs they can get from different markets
They try and self-teach photoshop
Don't have western taste
Don't understand western trends / standards
Don't understand western promotion

It's hard for them too, you can't really blame them. Definitely annoying though.

Behance's comment section is the same.

Non-Western people should be banned from designing

Sorry but they are just not visually or culturally informed enough. Have you seen some of the shit on spec/contest sites? I almost feel bad for then and for how unaware they are of even the most basic design principles.

I don't blame poor Indians for trying to hustle with some 90s PC and shitty freeware design package. But they simply don't have the skills, the technology or the taste to be designers. They should stick to washing Elephants

>website is a crazy full javascript presentation with advanced branding and visual direction designed specially for the font release
>font is literally a slightly tweaked Univers

Yikes, I thought only Neubau did this kind of shit

>>287864
>Yikes, I thought only Neubau did this kind of shit

Blind as fuck

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>>288284
top: Neubau's ocdonutsteel typeface AP Regular
bottom: Univers LT Medium with the letters A,m,n 5% condensed

Wow, two completely different typefaces !

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fuck off

>>287258
First reply by someone who's mad and jelly. Guess I'm on the right track, thanks.

>>287255

You need to attend to class, realize what design is, then try to sell something.
More importantly, if you don't trust our judgement try landing a job as a designer in any studio and see.

>>287259
This take on harsh criticism makes you look stupid. We now you are an amateur. Now we know that you're also clueless.

My take is that design isn't for you if you can't take honest critique. You are not made for the job.

Data -> Save

Export / Save for web /

CTRL+S, you imbecile

>>286938
CS6 was the last best of all the adobe products. I still run AE and Premiere on it. All I ever need. Fuck CC

>>286943
I actually think CS3 was the last of the good ones. Name a feature that you like after CS3.

>>286948
This isn't about features, but performance. CS6 still work smooth as butter in modern machines, but (for example) the newer After Effect versions have REMOVED features, I shit you not. And multiprocessing is gone too.

But yeah most of the new features are shit too. The GPU preview in AI is great though.