Your Urban PadLogo Design Contest

#7 - Really liking your design, could try putting in Canary Wharf, the gherkin and the London Eye in there as purple aswell please. Something similar to this skyline.

http://hero.fangirling.net/pictures/london-skyline.png

sure thing, glad you liked my direction. will work on that.

I've updated it, you can leave each designer comments on his own entry page by pressing on the entry page itself of each designer. Also, it would be useful if you started ranking the entries and discarding those you don't like too.

Thanks,

Kareem

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Hi,
I just wanted to make a point here that if I draw the london eye in corel draw (which is very easy to do using just 2 big circles and some small circles duplicated using the rotation tool and a upside down v) how do i make it look different from the london eye. It's like drawing a maple leaf but no making it look like one. If the client has asked for elements from the london skyline no matter what a designer does they will end up looking like the millions of references available all over the world. Moderators please suggest, after all we are all here to please the client's request and give him what he wants in the logo.
Regards,
RBC Design

RBC,

Using simple shapes to construct the London Eye is not the issue at question here. There were designs before that had exact copies of the buildings. Copies where you could see every angle and shape of each corner on the buildings. Which I do admit is possible if you are going to spend hours and hours looking at reference photos and building your desing from there.

If you are simply using shapes to give the illusion of the structure that is fine, but there are some designers, and I know that I am at fault for this in one of my first competitions here, that are using the illustrator trace options to get their skylines. This is not allowed unless you actually took the photo that you are using.

Hope this helps to clear it up for you.

any feedback would be greatly appreciated thanx!