Logo for myself as a Web Developer
zeckdude (5 points) | Tue, 2009-11-03 12:25
I just came up with my branding for myself as a Front and Back-end Web Developer, which means I code and program websites.
The branding I came up with is Dynamic Palette.
The word Dynamic displays my ability to adapt to various situations as well as a reference to web programming.
The word Palette reflects my rounded upbringing and multiple jobs ive had in various industries which is experience i can draw from, like a palette provides multiple colors for an artist to draw from.
The top logo was the first design I came up with.
I'm still in college, so my class critiqued it and they thought it is not dynamic enough if I am going to brand myself as such.
The bottom logo is the second design I came up with after they critiqued me.
Do you have any ideas how I can make the logo seem more "dynamic" either through changing them somehow or substituting the colors perhaps?
I like the last one. Colours are nice and it shows movement =)
Might want to make some more variations on that one. I'm not too crazy about the DP square. For paint there should be better ways to visualise it with logo's, rather then DP.
The use of the word "palette" means paint to me. But then, I'm an artist. I'm afraid that the second logo reinforces the paint (as in household wall paint) more than anything in your brief. The shapes of the d and p in the mark have a droplet look to them, which, again, says more about paint than electronic communication. I'm not sure if you're chosen the right name for your company, but if you stay with it, be careful not to steer clueless clients to the wrong impression about what you do y using something that's too painterly.
Mara
I actually quite like the box you've created there. Its strong enough to stand on its own, but I would explore ways to incorporate the color/wave that will translate well to b/w. I would move away from using the same font for the name as well. You want something that will last, and this style says 'early 2000s' to me.
Good news bad news... Like the font, but agree with Mara that the droplet look of the round letters reinforces the idea of paint - not web. Love the "a" in that font especially - but you need to either adjust it somehow or find a new font. I think this font is borderline dated too - this is the kind of face that has a 5 minute shelf life. Things to consider before getting married to it in a logo.
The mark is almost working in my book. The two letters need either more space between them, or they need to be connected somehow - that space is way too thin. The wave is out imo. It doesn't add anything (except - again - reinforcing the "paint" perception) and it will be trouble trapping since the blue and red have no overlapping process colors in common. Better to go in another direction now.
My advice would be to rebuild this idea using another font.
> cheap color combo
> cheap dafont font
> the rounded square need to be refined: now it seems deformed like a sunbathed candy.
Ronaldo! xD