Hey I wanted to let you know I do like these logos. Can you look at the Nick Gaetano work (see link in brief) and see if you can work that style into it (with the character on entry #7)? The colors, gradients, and styles of his work are what I'm really looking for. Factoring that in may give your entries some real potential. The way 'The BOOK PLACE' is laid out looks great!
Hey, I've been thinking... I would like to see this logo done in the following way: leave the text as is. Design the 'Atlas Shrugged' character holding up books (maybe similar to how they are now, but turned clockwise a bit). Add color. Work in the rising sun with the rays styled like the Nick Gaetano page. I may be interested in going this route. I am just torn right now. My fiance loved this one and after thinking up some potential revisions I am seriously considering it. Thanks!
Thanks so much! Here are my critiques. It looks like Atlas has clothes on but I'd prefer him to look like this instead: http://www.cordair.com/gaetano/atlas.php For that matter, I'd like to see the sun, rays, sky, etc. colorized the same way or similarly to that pic, although the blue you chose is awesome... Atlas at least needs to be colorized. Since that part of the logo is so small, I didn't know if the sun and its rays being so close to the background color would work. Perhaps just a bit more contrast... or perhaps just more thickness and gradient on the ray lines to make them stand out? Also, sorry for the confusion... I meant for you to turn the books the other direction, where more of their spine is showing.
Here is the design again with the changes you wanted.
Yes, the person has clothes since it's based on the image I included on my 2nd design. I can't make the design the same as the image that you wanted since it will be considered copying and for sure that I will be thrown out of the contest. But I made the color theme as near as I can.
Hi Gray. Looking good. What about making 'The', 'Book', and 'Place' all on their own line so that the actual logo part can be larger. Also, I understand about copyright infringement, but don't forget that the 'naked Atlas' is public domain. :-) ...as long as he isn't identical to that link I posted, I suppose. Still, you know more about that than me! :-) One other idea, you could put each word in 'The', 'Book', and 'Place' on it's own book in the three-book stack Atlas is holding. That might look really good! The more detail on the books, the better. Here is a link to a book stack where the books angles go back and forth. This might be more fitting: *** http://cdashnaw.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/stack-of-books.jpg *** Thanks so much for working with me!
Gray, looking good! Yeah, I meant each word on its own line, like #34. Thanks for #35, too, that’s what I was looking for with that particular idea. Let's stick with #34 now that I got #35 out of my system. Needed to see it, but 'The Book Place' just won't show up as much with it like that. So on #34 can you try making the top and bottom books a straight-on view of the spine (no view of pages) and have the middle book turned about as much as the bottom one is now? Hope that's not too confusing. More detail on the books would help, too.