Hi, thank you so much for entering the contest! I really admire your work. Of your entries, I especially liked your #62 (currently ranked 12th). Could I see it with some other palette options? I find that the contrast of the black with the red in the circle logo is a little bit too stark. I like the red and black, but the interplay between the two, in the circle itself, is too much of a contrast, but I like the way it looks in the wordmark. Play around with red-and-black treatments, and with entirely different palettes, and see what you think. Thank you very much again for your creativity, and I look forward to hearing from you again. All the best, Anne
And again... greatly appreciate the ranking! Here are two updates on the existing design #107 / #108 Both have a tweaked symbol (spacing and wight) and one has customized typography #107.
Any feedback you may have would be greatly appreciated. Deux
Thanks for the updates! I find I still love #105 the best, though. :-) I would like to see the ampersand & be a little bit bigger/fatter. It may technically be proportionally correct, but it just looks a little bit lonely / lost in space to me.
Here is another idea. You see how some of the entries have horizontal borders around the wordmark? (Some of have top and bottom borders; others just bottom.)
I am wondering if it would be possible to incorporate in your #105 a bottom border that is, very subtly, a fountain pen that ends with the nib. I am not sure whether the nib should point left towards the round symbol, or right, away from it. It may not even be a practical or desirable idea. But various friends and colleagues have said that they prefer designs that incorporate the pen nib. It may make for a visually cluttered product -- the last thing I want! -- and it may be too literal. But people are missing the nib, both because they thought it was cool and because they thought it was important to have a symbolic representation of what it is I actually do.
Greetings from Greece Anne :) Will do on all the above even though the fountain pen is a little over the top, but none the less will have a draft for you in no time.
Agreed that the fountain pen idea just doesn't work. I understand my colleagues' point of view, but I want to move away from the literal-ness of the fountain pen anyway . . . partly because it is as you say over the top, and partly because we do more than writing and editing only. The fountain pen image is good positioning . . . for somebody else, maybe.
Would still like to see the & ampersand symbol be bigger, so that it is more visible and closer to the "A" in the word "Associates." Possible?
Thanks, Michael.
Best, Anne
PS Where in Greece are you based? I went to a wedding in Hydra in 1999 and still remember how beautiful it was.
Good morning Anne... Here is the update with the bolder and tighter ampersand that you are requesting #118. I am based in Northern Greece, Thessaloniki to be exact... the second largest city after Athens.
Hi again -- no I am referring to your #118, currently ranked in first place. I don't want a circle-around-the-circle (that is, I do not want trapped white space between the circle and the circle that surrounds it). Rather, I just want a little tiny bit of additional color added, so that the letters are comfortably inside the circle. Does that make sense?
Like this #184 My preference is still on #118... the negative space is what gives it its spice... and the edges where the black meets the red is... um, how can i put this correctly.... wrong? A solid color would look best for this design. But that is just my humble opinion.
Hi, Michael -- I see what you are saying, both about the negative space giving it spice and about the solid color. Let me see it just in red, but I am kind of in love with the contrast between the red and the black. What can I tell you, if loving #184 is wrong, I don't want to be right.
For the font of the wordmark, what do you think about moving to a sans serif font? (Just for the wordmark not for the symbol.) I like very much the way this guy displays his name -- the cleanness of the font and the way the weight of the first name is much heavier than the last.
I was thinking we could do my name that way, the ampersand in red, to give the wordmark a little pop, and then the associates the same weight as the Folan.
Am in love with #185. Really just like it so much, especially with the new font. We are now into the final minutiae. Something about the ampersand is bugging me. If it were a teensy tad bigger, or bold, or red, or bigger AND bold AND red . . .
It just looks lost in space to me, somehow.
If that can be made to pop without throwing off the justification of the "associates" with the "Anne Folan" -- I think we can wrap this up pretty quickly.