First logo designs thoughts and advice needed.

[CL3]

First go at designing so logos done some research about the whole design process and different types. I did not go over the top tried to keep things as simple as possible sometimes that is key. Any comments or thoughts welcome thanks .. and any mistakes you find .....please don't find any !

Made this on photoshop as well BTW I have read that illustrator i better for this type of work as PS works in pixels that is a programme to learn in the future.

https://www.behance.net/clgraphics

 

[ibclare]

HI, nice work. I don't think the middle one is a logo, maybe part of a website header. The third looks like part of a business PowerPoint presentation, but nicely done colors.

The first is a logo. What I don't care for is that you have the effects on the text but not on the headphones. To have the effects on all of them would be too repetitive however, so I wouldn't consider that a solution. I would suggest trying all the text in the outer ring, with the special fx. Put the headphones in the center and larger, in the simple mode that they are now. Or leave the phones out altogether.

I'm not sure the font works at all. It doesn't seem representative of graphic art in general. The simpler a logo is, the better.

Another style that might work is using an oval instead of a circle.

Here's what I have in mind if you want to stay with the overall design idea.



Here is a rearrangement - not to my liking - of the original circle.



Your thoughts?

 

[ibclare]

By the way, what is the relevance of the headphones?

Just noticed, the oval design I made, looks like a sticker for my car's back window . . .

 

[CL3]

Hi Clare thanks for your feedback appreciate your time.

on the first logo I had the original as the CL in the middle and the GD text where it was with no headphones I added the headphones to fill the gap at the bottom plus i wanted to add a small icon. The relevance of the headphones is for my love and passion for music Im constantly buying new CDS and am also in the process of getting back into production. And I get alot of inspiration from it and hope to make alot more music related designs in the future (posters, flyers, album covers ...)

The 2nd I fully agree with it being used more as a header maybe if i bought the text slightly closer and changed the grungy texture to a black gradient background it would be more suited to that ?.

And the 3rd also is quite plain but that was the idea to make something that was text based and looked business like as this was my first attempt i wanted to try different styles.