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I’ve probably made ~20 different logo’s now for myself, whether it be the brand name I thought of (a design lab) or just my name (phil macedo).  I’m never completely satisfied as it is “My” logo…  I think I’m getting somewhere and wanted to see what all the great EE designers here think!  Then I can actually make the EE site for my identity!  Which will be much much easier…

I was toying with idea #3 till I realized to kiddy & looked like Nickelodeon…  My favorite is #2, as it’s simple, strong, but fun to.  As a person I like to have fun, and that normally shows in what I design, but I can also be very simple with designs.  So I think it shows a bit of both?  Idea #1 I think would be if the “splat” doesn’t fit at all

There all still a bit rough, I still need to do some tweaking on the Macedo.  I just need to go to bed, it’s 1am!

Oddly, I’m in Tokyo at the moment, so on idea 3 I toyed with my name in Japanese.  I almost wonder if that can be used as a logo by itself, the characters actually look really neat together.  It’s abnormally balanced, in Japanese context I mean.

Side Question: Anyone ever look back, 3-5 years, maybe even a year ago and find what you were designing back then horrible?  Maybe it’s just me…  :shut:

Side Question: Anyone ever look back, 3-5 years, maybe even a year ago and find what you were designing back then horrible?  Maybe it’s just me…  :shut:

It’s not just you. I’m constantly tweaking the look of my website, so that how it looks now is an evolution of what it looked like the first time I designed it—but if I look back at how it looked more than a year or so ago, I know why I kept tweaking it.

Sometimes I may see something I used then discarded that I think might work better now than it did then, but that doesn’t happen very often. Once I designed a nostalgic alternate template to resemble a very old site theme, but I really couldn’t bear to look at it very much and it’s gone now.

It is possible to worry it to death.  Not to say that anything is perfect; but, there has to be a point where you say I’m done.  The objective of a logo is to be unique and memorable.  With a quick glance you know what you’re looking at.  Take ee’s logo for an example.

I think what you are hung up on is that you haven’t defined what the logo is supposed to convey.  Just your name?  Or is there something else there? What are you trying to convey with the katakana?

Answer these questions and I’m sure you’ll know what is the right choice. 😊

It is possible to worry it to death.  Not to say that anything is perfect; but, there has to be a point where you say I’m done.  The objective of a logo is to be unique and memorable.  With a quick glance you know what you’re looking at.  Take ee’s logo for an example.

I think what you are hung up on is that you haven’t defined what the logo is supposed to convey.  Just your name?  Or is there something else there? What are you trying to convey with the katakana?

Answer these questions and I’m sure you’ll know what is the right choice. 😊

I think you hit the nail on the head…  Only thing is I really don’t know.  I’ve on multiple occasions toyed with the idea of almost doing nothing; just “Hi I’m Phil, Let me make you something intriguing” In big, sans-serif font :lol: .  I have some fresher ideas I’ll take a stab at, I just find it silly that I’m so terrible at coming up with something for myself but not others!  As I love to get into the symbolism and first glance recognition, but I can’t think of anything that would work for me.  Thought of an airplane, but it looks way to much of a aerospace company on first glance…

Maybe a spoof of an airline ticket… hmm…

What do you think?  Does a Designer need a logo, or stylistic name?  Is our name in a non-discreet font simply enough, but let the “whole picture” talk for itself instead. The layout, portfolio, word’s, typography, etc?  As my biggest concern with a logo is your preemptively getting a specific impression, when you might be very broad capabilities…

The whole idea of a logo is to make it identifiable, right? So it can stand on its own as a form of communication—one look and you know what it is, who it’s about, what it stands for.

Few companies, and fewer people have the ability to create a logo which is instantly identifiable by the masses, therefore, it makes more sense, especially for ‘personal’ logos, to make them easily identifiable. So, a name in text in an unique but identifiable font is probably a good thing.