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I made all these logos in a whim. I think at least 4 of them are better than the new logo.(BTW, if anyone at dA is looking at this, you can use any of the logos without paying or crediting me (even though a premium membership or just a couple of points would make me very happy)
Reply to the hater Winrry who apparently blocked me after the following rebuttal:
You seem to know nothing about logo design. Here are some of the things you missed:
- Those are a capital D and a lowercase A.
- They form a Venn diagram, signifying inclusion.
- To fit with deviantART's tagline "Turning the Art World Literally Upside Down", it is point-symmetrical.
- It's a sine wave, you uncultured [redacted]
- The wave and the middle line form the letters dA.
- The logo signifies that everyone is welcome, regardless of "wavelength".
- This is a (better) illustration of the logo makers' idea of "chopping the letters off".
- At first glance, it looks like an open sketchbook.
- However, if you put it in a square, you can see the letters "dA" more clearly.
- Congratulations! You got the imagery right for the first time!
- However, your look is way too shallow. When you rotate the logo 45° to the right, it forms a D.
- When you rotate the logo 45° to the left, however, it forms an A.
- It's a bell curve, you uncultured [redacted]
- The bell curve signifies a statistical distribution called "standard deviation". How's that for fitting?
- It also signifies that anyone, regardless of where your skill is on the bell curve, is welcome.
- This logo is a play on "thinking outside the box".
- The square is, obviously, the box. The sequence of circles are ideas, floating outside of the square. You know, like a bubble.
- It also looks like a checkbox or a canvas and pen if you look at it another way.
- Nothing much to say about that. It's a lowercase d overlaid by a lowercase a.
- It looks like a book from the side.
- Best of all, it's still better than the new one.
- That's a redesign of the one good dA logo we all know and love.
- However, instead of making the lines parallel, I made them into a check mark to signify approval.
- Unlike these alternate logos, the new logo looks like:
- Z
- X
- F
- T
- badly drawn cross
- badly drawn swastika
- percentage symbol
- inequality sign
- backwards dollar sign
- a twig
- a cactus
- a green blob
- a running green blob
- pharmacy symbol
- bamboo stick
- a browser error
- a weird unexplainable thing
- a gun
- a segment of a broken fence
- the result of an age-long art block
- a professional recreation of a crayon doodle of a 3 year old kid who just learned not to eat the green crayon
- the result of a bunch of designers going "f█k it"
- a bad inside joke that takes an entire essay to halfway explain
Whatever your branch of design is, my best guess would have to be clothes design or typography design, because it can't be about logo design.
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DatBoiAndSpongeGar1 [2019-09-14 20:20:09 +0000 UTC]
after reading your description you sound like an asshole. wether you like the design of a logo or not is a completely trivial opinion.
like seriously, it’s subjective, you have no right to go on multi-paragraph rant on how wrong it is that someone likes a different logo then you.
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typintypos [2019-05-20 11:24:19 +0000 UTC]
I really love the grass one coz it's dA instead of DA. Plus, that's some design! < 3
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Evejones6 [2016-07-20 03:04:49 +0000 UTC]
number 9 was very hilarious and true i couldn't stop laughing
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AxelHyacinth [2016-01-15 05:02:28 +0000 UTC]
Rebuttal:
1-8: Not going to even bother with these things. They certainly are not good enough for that.
9.1-9.2: Yes, but only at very small size and very low resolution.
9.3-9.4: Looks like no F or T used in any portion of the Latin alphabet used anywhere else on the site.
9.5-9.6: Have you ever actually seen either of those items? And anyways, the excuse of "badly drawn" is garbage, because you can say that anything is just a badly drawn version of something else; for example, you can say that a smiley face is just a badly drawn picture of the Mona Lisa. You're full of it, but you aren't necessarily wrong.
9.7: See 9.3
9.8: It doesn't. But even if it did, that is actually a good one. In mathematics, an equal sign is used to signify that two quantities (or variables or what have you) are the same. An inequality sign is used to signify the opposite, that two things are different, that they are unique, an idea that can certainly be applied to the deviantART community.
9.9: See 9.3, again
9.10: Perhaps, but so what? It's better than looking like a slug like the old one did.
9.11: I'm not sure you know what a cactus looks like, either.
9.12: Are you even trying here?
9.13: No, seriously, are you even trying?
9.14: Personally, I see neither an 'R' nor an 'x'.
9.15: So what's the difference between a bamboo piece of wood and a regular piece of wood?
9.16: What browser do you use that gives you errors that look like this?
9.17: You made a list of 22 different EXPLANATIONS of what it could be. Try something else.
9.18: Oh yeah! I know this type of gun, that uses two hands to wield and always fires to the right.
9.19: See 9.10, but if you really want this one, then fine. It's a symbol of how art breaks down the barriers between people.
9.20: Are you suggesting that the entire design team somehow developed artist's block at the same exact time?
9.21: I have yet to encounter a 3-year-old who can draw a straight line.
9.22: Most artists (who actually have talent) won't simply blow off a job, especially when they are getting paid for it.
9.23: It literally takes one sentence to explain the new logo. "The logo takes a back-to-back 'd' and 'A' and removes the outer edges."
These last four are just attacking and insulting the design team and aren't even about the logo itself.
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JapanYoshi In reply to AxelHyacinth [2016-01-15 05:05:39 +0000 UTC]
So what you're saying is, you don't understand anything I said, so you're just trying to dismiss everything like you're superior?
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AxelHyacinth In reply to JapanYoshi [2016-01-16 05:59:05 +0000 UTC]
Well, turnabout is fair play, is it not?
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JapanYoshi In reply to AxelHyacinth [2016-02-17 02:14:16 +0000 UTC]
They say that dismissal is an admission of defeat. You've lost.
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AxelHyacinth In reply to JapanYoshi [2016-02-20 16:35:52 +0000 UTC]
And you've been dismissing counter-arguments since before I even commented, so what does that mean about you?
Also, since when have people said that?
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JapanYoshi In reply to AxelHyacinth [2016-02-21 13:56:06 +0000 UTC]
Dismissal is not rebuttal. You can find the original comment written by Winrry in the comments before you, which you should have read already. And you want a point-by-point digest response of your squabble? Here it is:
1-8: What do you mean, "not good enough for that"? I assume that you meant that the logos weren't good enough for these explanationsin which case, I presume you could instantly see the meaning in the new one, without explanation?
9.1-4, 9.7, 9.9: The point in the entire 9th point was that the new logo is indecipherable and too simplistic that it looks like a letter from a long-forgotten runic alphabet that holds no meaning to any modern person whatsoever.
9.5-6: If you can't see the resemblance, I'm going to doubt the functionality of your eyes.
9.8: No, inequality is not a good idea to promote in general. Wage gaps. Discrimination. Prejudice. Ironically, that symbol is a good representation of the state of deviantART right now, with the rise of the CORE account and the nerfed Premium membership creating three different castes, the Free users being the Untouchables.
9.10: If you think the old dA logo looks like a "slug", I will doubt the functionality of your eyes again. Also, all you've done so far is say "I don't agree with what you said, but I'm not going to validate what I say, only toss aside everything you said without even considering it".
9.11: And I'm not sure you know what the more correct and accepted plural form of "cactus" is, either.
9.12: Yes. Are you even trying to validate your defense of the Sickeningly Green Blob?
9.13: Yup. I don't see YOU trying.
9.14: Do you even know what a pharmacy symbol looks like? Rx is the symbol for prescription .
9.15: A bamboo stick is made of bamboo, and not wood. Are you even trying with these "rebuttals"?
9.16: One that doesn't render images correctly occasionally. Also, are you even thinking?
9.17: The only thing unexplainable about what that new logo is is everything, at least at one's first view. I only have listed what I heard people have described the Twig as.
9.18: Don't know what you're trying to say, bud. All you're telling me here is that you don't have imagination.
9.19: Nope, that's too much of a stretch, like the inequality one. I'm starting to think you'd fail a middle school literature unit on imagery.
9.20: That new logo sure looks like they did. And so does the sketchbook photographed for "Boldly Facing the Future".
9.21: Wow, it's like you missed the phrase, "artist's rendition".
9.22: However, if you can get paid for a half-assed job, like if your boss thinks your bad work is good, you would. It's not outside the scope of possibliities.
9.23: No, it took the dA staff an entire Webpage that the users were practically forced to read, and I have found that many others have expressed dislike towards the new logo, describing it as a "stretch" or "a misshapen Z" or "unoriginal" or "uninspired". One of the most important rule, if not the first, of logo and pictogram design is for anyone to recognize what it is, which the Twig obviously fails.
10: You've only dissed me instead of defending the new Twig logo. Tell me, what makes that trainwreck of a logo worthwhile for the post of the new deviantART logo?
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AxelHyacinth In reply to JapanYoshi [2016-02-24 15:34:02 +0000 UTC]
1-8: What I mean is that they are worth the effort and time you put into them, i.e., nothing at all.
9.1-4, 9.7, 9.9: Except you didn't compare to an ancient alphabet, you compared it to the modern Latin alphabet.
9.5-6: Please refer to the text of this point past the first sentence.
9-8: When I said inequality, I meant, and explained as such, that two things are not equivalent, but that they are unique and different. And the application to the dA community is in the diversity of art types. There are: painters, writers, knitters, photographers, cosplayers, etc.
9-10: THAT IS ALMOST LITERALLY WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN SAYING TO ANYONE WHO DISAGREES WITH YOU!
9-11: I have no idea how pluralisms got involved, but the site you linked to states that all three are acceptable pluralizations of cactus.
9-12: I feel no no need to validate any such defense because the term "blob" is so ambiguous that you could drag on the argument indefinitely.
9-13: I'm not designing a new logo because I don't CARE that this is what it looks like now.
9-14: I am aware of what the pharmaceutical symbol looks like. My comment was of the nature that since there is neither a letter 'R' nor a letter 'x' present in the symbol, there way for a synthesis of the two to be present.
9-15: But are the two significantly different enough necessitate a distinction between the silhouettes of the two?
9-16: Well, if your browser isn't functioning properly, perhaps you should consider using a different one.
9-17: You can't call something inexplicable and then provide multiple explanations of that something. That's like calling a flying saucer a UFO, it's not unidentified because it has been identified as a flying saucer.
9-18: Oh, I see, it looks like an IMAGINARY gun. Of course, how could I have not seen it?
9-19: Symbolism, of which imagery is a subset, is the study and analysis of all possible interpretations of a symbol. I'm not too confident of your chances on that test, since you could only come up with one meaning.
9-20: The probability of every single member of the design team getting artist's block throughout the entire design process is so phenomenally low that it's pretty safe to say it's zero. Also, that's the point of a sketchbook, it's where you plan the concepts and designs of the final product, it's not supposed to BE the final product.
9-21: You didn't use the phrase "artist's rendition", but that phrase is much too vague to be considered a valid point.
9-22: Typically, people work in jobs that they enjoy doing and are significantly less likely to "half-ass" a job when it is something they enjoy doing.
9-23: I have no recollection of being "forced" to read anything on dA, outside of the Terms and Conditions when I initially created an account, and in the article to which you are referring (I am assuming "Boldly Facing The Future"), the explanation is one sentence and a 32 second video. And it doesn't fail in that function, if you see that logo anywhere, your first thought will be 'Oh, that's the dA logo'.
10: My defense of the new logo has been countering your claims and showing them to be either false or completely subjective. The new dA logo is worthy of being the new dA logo because that is what the company decided upon .
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JapanYoshi In reply to AxelHyacinth [2016-02-26 12:32:57 +0000 UTC]
1-8: I put more effort than what seems to be put into the new logo. Speaking of effort, you might want to lay off on yourself because I can feel the stress way over from here. Get some sleep, big guy, it's the weekend.
9.1-4, 9.7, 9.9: I did compare it to a modern alphabet, and it doesn't matter what alphabet I compare it to. The phrase "long-forgotten runic alphabet" was a simile to how indecipherable it is.
9.5-6: I did "refer to the text of this point past the first sentence" (Hyacinth 1). You're pretty pretentious, and your words are hollow.
9.8: The word "inequality" does not carry any of those meanings.
9.10: You're the first person ever, I think even in history, that thought that the dA logo "looks like a slug". I validate what I say, in case you missed it, and you're the one who's tossing aside everything I said without thinking.
Also, lay off on your Caps Lock light, buddy.
9.11: When did pluralism, a condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist, get involved in this conversation?
9.12: I'm now also doubting your ability to read. What I asked you if you're trying to defend was your defense of the Green Twig, the Broken Cross, the ZeviantFart logo, the Italic Swastica, all names for the new deviantART logo.
9.13: Of course not, designing a new logo is not necessary at all to defend your logo. If you can't find a better way to support yourself, you should just shut up.
9.14: Wow, what I said just flew over your head, huh? Read it again. "Rx is the symbol for prescription."
9.15: All I was saying is that I've heard people described it both as a wooden stick and a bamboo stick. The Twig still looks like a stick, whether or not you pin down if it's wooden or bamboo.
9.16: There's no browser that displays the logo correctly—the dA logo never shows up anywhere anymore, and it's replaced with that thing that looks like a cactus.
9.17: Your UFO comparison makes no sense, and makes me think you're one of the UFO quacks. The whole point of UFOs is that it's unidentified. "Flying saucers" do not exist.
9.18: You might be suffering from aphantasia. Consult your doctor if it sounds familiar.
9.19: You're stretching too much, while my symbolism is more obvious to identify unaided, which is ideal for a logo. The Twig is pretty much literally impossible to identify its meaning unaided by the makers of the logo. Upon seeing it, your first thought isn't "Oh, that looks like a lowercase d and a capital A side by side and cropped in the middle so that it looks the same upsidedown and you can tile it." Rather, it's most likely "What the fuck is that? It looks ugly."
9.20: Again, I'm not talking about the actual design team literally getting artist's block when making the logo, but it sure looks like they did, judging from the sketchbook and the unpolished final product, which is still the point that I was making.
9.21: I wrote "professional recreation", and that's close enough to the phrase that I tried to remember while writing and not being able to scroll up. That's valid, but I don't know what your duller thinking thinks.
9.22: The point is that the people who made the new logo seem to hate their own jobs judging by its final result.
9.23: Didn't this terribly-written article show up in your inbox one time? You could never have understood the logo's meaning without reading that, so I'm sure you have. How did you forget about this thing that we were all forced to read?
10: Your defense doesn't work very well, as it's been observed. And just because the Twig had been chosen by the dA company, it doesn't mean it's good or worthy. You could name your child "Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxclmnckssqlbb11116" and read it "Albin", but that spelling is unfitting for that name.
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star-dream [2015-11-15 22:02:04 +0000 UTC]
the grass is really good to me and it would have more sense then this Z thing.
a sprout of grass as in growth, creation, and also looks like sketchbook observed from it's side and, less important to me but certainly a plus, a D and an A when shown inside a square. forfills the simplicity term if thats what was really aimed for. forfills the complexity of meaningfulness as well.
i understand the Z logo too, but i don't see any artistic value in it.. it looks like a bandage patch to me or something. i was long gone from deviantart and when i returned i can't say i liked this change. but it doesn't matter to me, if owners of deviant art want it like that, ok. deviantart still allows posting our own art unrestricted, its a great friendly place with great people and great possibilities that promote art and creativity and in the future some of us can just as well design our own sites and express our own style in our logos and our pages, whatever those sites do to make the world a better place and anyhow we want them to look like.
i think i'd use blue rather then green for da logo because i find blue beautyfull, but not navy blue or something business, a slight light saturated blue. glowing blue like twinkling night starry sky and the blue of the night, associates on magic, particles, imagination, dream, dreamer.. orange is also a nice color to clash with this blue, but maybe hard to make it right on an 24x24 icon display, for example.. it would show in practice, trial and error, what would be the best way to compose these colors in.
there is nothing wrong with more complex logos. but complexity can sometimes stray from the focus on the logo's idea, impact, clarity.. on the other hand, over simplifying devalues a logo wasting some potencial. sometimes complicating is unecessery and simple things work, but at other times, adding more details is exactly what the logo needs to shine. as for saving ink for printing, i suppose one can always make more then one logo, a complex full detail version and a simplified, sign like capturing the full detail version with very low demand both in color and detail, and print that out to represent the full version.. reducing all imagination and expression to minimal strict gray is not the way to save the environment. we would save a lot of paper and ink if we never wrote any book, ever, but saving one thing, we would be destroying another. i believe though, both can be saved. it only takes a little more complex thinking which is a nice and fun challenge and might result in ENRICHENING the world even more ( :
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Enchanted-Feline [2015-04-18 02:45:46 +0000 UTC]
i think the new logo looks like a slanted cactus with one arm low and the other high up.
i miss the old logo, but i would go with "Copy of Channel". Simple, yet recogniseable. it would be perfect for DA!
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TeddyDemon In reply to Enchanted-Feline [2015-08-04 18:41:55 +0000 UTC]
Actually the new logo of DeviantART is a stolen one... An russian site has a logo that looks like this one thought the russian site uses the logo since 2006
the russian site: platzkart.ru/
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Enchanted-Feline In reply to TeddyDemon [2015-08-05 11:01:12 +0000 UTC]
At this point DA is going down hill...
First, the stolen Russian logo, now core ;-;
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TeddyDemon In reply to Enchanted-Feline [2015-08-05 11:49:41 +0000 UTC]
I know right? I think deviantART is actually running out of ideas...
Noone ever questioned themself.... "What if they can't raise more money? Does it means the website has to be shut down?" But I hope they actually face it that people don't want Core they need a new concept.
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Pogiforce-14 [2015-04-14 00:19:16 +0000 UTC]
I would go with the "Bubble Factory" one, as it's been dubbed. As it has the name of the site clearly spelled out, and is a visually understandable representation of a common concept, it makes it approachable, relatable, and most importantly recognizable. People will see that and go "Oh, that's DA." instead of what the current logo does, people go "Oh, that's a Z."
What's more it's design is concise and contained, making it highly usable on things such as letterheads, newsletters, business cards, what have you, being highly adaptable, but because of the way the 'bubbles' escape the box it doesn't feel constrained. It's not limited.
Another note you could use as a pro-argument for that design is that, yes, it's a square and circles. Because DA is an art site, and geometric shapes are one of the most basic, fundamental elements to art and design. Could even take it further to say that whether your skill is basic, like circles and squares, or highly complex and realistic, all are welcome.
If we were ever given an option to VOTE for the site's logo, I'd put a vote in for our little "bubble factory". Thinking outside the box done right.
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gothrockangel [2015-03-05 00:02:21 +0000 UTC]
All of those logos look SOOOOO much better!
I was actually concerned when I saw the new logo. I literally thought they were changing the name, not just the logo. But even after I found out it was just the logo, I was even more disappointed. I know this all happened months ago, I'm still not happy with it, and I know there are many others who aren't either.
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Inurantchan [2015-03-01 03:23:03 +0000 UTC]
I love "HUGE Bell o.o", and "Bubble Factory"!
Huge bell is a little too silly looking for those who wouldn't get it right away (I understood it was standard deviation right away, but I love math soo...).
But that thinking out of the box logo is something else! Man is it perfect. Not only does it look modern, sleek, and cool, but it also perfectly describes deviantart's name. And for the outsiders, there is the name in the title. It's absolutely perfect, and I am now even more disappointed in our current twig than before after seeing it. ;_;
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Antharius1337 [2015-02-20 08:32:49 +0000 UTC]
If you put the twig beside another twig, you would see a wave pattern.
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JapanYoshi In reply to Antharius1337 [2015-05-25 10:37:36 +0000 UTC]
See, the problem is most people will NOT do that.
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JapanYoshi In reply to Antharius1337 [2015-02-20 10:41:35 +0000 UTC]
≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠≠
wut
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ynne-black [2015-02-17 03:14:35 +0000 UTC]
It's saddening but I like half of your logos much better. (Well done, btw. Good thoughts behind it.)
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HopeSwings777 [2015-01-28 06:04:35 +0000 UTC]
It looks like a creeping vine that's being stretched out. It looks militant too. Not stylish, but strict or rigid.
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Superveloz [2015-01-18 19:29:36 +0000 UTC]
to me it looks like Ferb with a backwards cap .-.
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MKBrony [2015-01-12 16:04:16 +0000 UTC]
Can I suggest a #24 looks like for the New Twig?
#24: A badly, half-drawn railway station symbol
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Ailithir [2015-01-05 14:58:14 +0000 UTC]
I'm studying as graphic designer for commercials and logos and when I first saw the logo I was like "wth am I on the wrong site?", but when my teacher saw it said "well it's innovative and of impact". Still he couldn't explain it to me =V
I find it too aggressive, it doesn't make me feel at ease. :/
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SeverusBlackpaw [2014-12-15 20:25:46 +0000 UTC]
they just have let the DA design like it was because that was the DA design TM
i still was not able to read the DA out of the new logo... even if people allready said how its been read... did not see it. X_X
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ajaxtorbin [2014-12-13 18:46:23 +0000 UTC]
Check out my new GreenDot icon . . it shall inspire a new generation to create art!
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RessurectedNightmare [2014-12-13 15:12:01 +0000 UTC]
also, they stole it.
platzkart.ru/
i dont even know what that website is for, but thoose poor designers got their logo stolen by an art site usually filled to the brim with furries, ponies, rainbow wolves and homestuck.
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SongOfDiscord [2014-12-12 10:45:33 +0000 UTC]
Making the new logo using only the Letter A. Some assembly required.
\-/
/-\
(Two A's tip to tip) Becomes (Two A's that are both missing half) Remove the top \ and the bottom /
-/
/-
Bang. The new logo made using two A's
OR you can cut a single A in half and line up the two 'long' sides. Like so:
*A*
Becomes
/- -\
then rotate the -\ 180 degrees so it looks like -/ and shift sideways
-//- Just perfectly line up the two // parts and you get:
-/-
Bang. The new logo made out of one A
End result? Ama ing logo that is mistaken for a Z.
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MayoDerg [2014-12-12 10:12:15 +0000 UTC]
"Copy of Chanel" and "Half a Clock" are the only other two to even take into consideration. The others have little to no association to the DeviantArt brand as a whole, and don't represent what Deviantart stands for. Also, DA was largely going for flexibility in their design, so they could stem multiple possibilities from it's design.
And if it were just about looks, the 'twig' would still win out, as the others have too many unnecessary detail added in. Killing any form of simplistic and modern design.
Again, out of any of those designs, "Copy of Chanel" and "Half a Clock" are the only others that came close. The Box with circles is over-used and over-abundant in mediocre businesses, the lowercase 'a' with the cross through it seems too much like an "anti" symbol, potentially being linked to hate or prejudice, and the others just plain aren't noticeable.
With the new logo, the lines are thick and bold, the font is beautifully presented and original, and it fits within a clean grid, allowing use in mediums from the website, to posters and prints.
So basically: TLDR:
Don't be a twat.
Also; I'm currently in a specialized Media design course.
I know a shitty design when I see one, and the laziness in your designs is evident.
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JapanYoshi In reply to MayoDerg [2014-12-12 10:27:41 +0000 UTC]
Thanks for commenting, but what you're saying is just another carbon copy of the Twig Shillers™.
There is no such logo as an "'a' with a cross", and besides, even if it was an A with a cross, the new twig looks like an inequality symbol, so there's that. Also, your evaluation of the logos are admittedly all about looks. And the new dA logo has "little to no association to the deviantART brand as a whole" as well (unless you've read the patronizing 25-page lengthy journal that does a great job at slightly explaining the logo). Besides, who are you to dictate that logos need to be simplistic and modern?
As for the boldness of the lines, they are unpolished and all the same thickness because they are drafts. All of the logos presented here fit within a clean grid unless you're saying something as counterintuitive as the new twig.
"The font is beautifully presented and original"? Beautifully presented is up to perspective, but original? I feel like I've seen sliced corners many times in the past, the most prominent being the Need for Speed: Most Wanted logotype.
Summary: I've heard everything you said before, and you're mostly wrong.
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MayoDerg In reply to JapanYoshi [2014-12-12 10:45:39 +0000 UTC]
You do realize that you're using misinterpretations to bash a logo, correct? You're summarizing what the logo "looks like" Rather than looking at what it is.
Logos must fit a particular style for the brand they're developed for. They're not there simply to be a long-thought about symbol of something else, they're there to define the BRAND. Also, I find it idiotic that you didn't include the actual type with the 'twig' logo. As the DeviantArt type is as much part of the logo as the emblem itself. The two go together as a matching pair, complimenting each other and strengthening the feel of the logo and brand. The way the two go together in itself is the part that's original. Not the typeface itself.
You also have to take into account that there is a thought process behind using the negative space to convey the message they wanted to get across. Which happened to be the double 'A'. Or as they said "Deviated A". They made it as though the 'A' was trapped within a square boundery, while allowing there to be very limited blank space by slicing the A, and fitting both halves in said boundery. So there is plenty of critical thinking involved.
Another focus to point out is the fact that the "drafts" you compared the DA logo to are just that; Drafts. And it shows. You attempted to compare a design created by professional Designers to your drafts that are amateurish at best.
Another thing you didn't take into account is 'intuitive' design. As in how your designs would look in different mediums. The twig, because of it's simple design, using little amounts of lines and curves, can be seen and interpreted at all reasonable sizes, can be implemented into all kinds of mediums, including 3 Dimensional and sculpting mediums. Whereas literally every single design of yours is hard to interpret and even view from different sizes except for perhaps your "Copy of Chanel" design, if it's refined to be bolder, cleaner, and sharper. But even then, it can not be put into other mediums of design.
Your flaws are not in interpretation of design- but in functionality and implemetation.
You need to think about HOW it's going to be used, rather than what is in front of your face.
It's about business and branding, not 'looking pretty'
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Ailithir In reply to MayoDerg [2015-01-05 15:12:59 +0000 UTC]
Sorry to butt in, but about the functionality and the use you gotta think that a logo has to be understood by the mass and not just the ones who made it and a few others or you won't be able to convey any message at all -and it looks clear to me that "the mass" liked the old logo better and find this one hard to understand. I would have never thought of the "Deviated A" thing till I read about it, the inequality symbol is for me too what came into mind first and before that, my first thought has been "It feels hostile" and from what I know this isn't the kind of feeling that deviantART would want to convey to the others; if I didn't know the site from years before doing this account I would have never decided to join.
I don't doubt about the process and intention of the designer behind the logo, still I'd call it a fail as from what I recall having been taught a simple and immediate logo is better than an obscure one being it equally minimal on the design.
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JapanYoshi In reply to MayoDerg [2014-12-12 11:11:41 +0000 UTC]
tl;dr because it's just another pompous carbon copy. See description for rebuttal.
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MayoDerg In reply to JapanYoshi [2014-12-12 18:28:51 +0000 UTC]
You don't seem to know much of anything about Graphic design. I'll leave it at that.
Good to know that you're so overly emotionally attached to your art that you won't even give a proper reply to those who supply feedback or give counterarguments.
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JapanYoshi In reply to MayoDerg [2014-12-13 03:46:48 +0000 UTC]
Like I said, I'm not a professional graphic designer. What else do you expect from a high-schooler? Besides, the feedback you gave me isn't exactly constructive or original.
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MayoDerg In reply to JapanYoshi [2014-12-13 03:48:58 +0000 UTC]
I've not once seen you claim that you were in high school or a designer. So I didn't assume anything of the sort.
As well, if it's not original, perhaps think about what's being said rather than tossing it away as being useless. What's more likely- that many are wrong, or that you're biased?
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JapanYoshi In reply to MayoDerg [2014-12-13 03:57:53 +0000 UTC]
Maybe you can talk to the guy who blocked me for talking back.
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MayoDerg In reply to JapanYoshi [2014-12-13 03:59:45 +0000 UTC]
You mean the person who's second language was English, so they had less knowledge on how to interpret and communicate properly?
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JapanYoshi In reply to MayoDerg [2014-12-13 04:15:04 +0000 UTC]
My second language is English as well, and you could stop talking right about.....now.
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