Six66Mike
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My wife got a logo design done for her business, she does face & body painting, and also pregnant bellies.
http://facetastic.net
She's made her own site and couldn't get a logo so a dude I went to high school with has done her up one. (http://www.angelobeltran.com/)
 
Looking for feedback on the design. I don't think it represents the whole business. It covers face painting & kids parties but ignores body/belly
art and I don't think it really covers corporate or professional as the description says.
Thoughts?
A lot of people ask me what kind of music I like. I love "soul music". My "soul music" isn’t a style, genre or niche. It’s music that is genuine. It’s
a painful lyric, a dirty bassline, it’s a harrowing vocal, it’s feedback, it’s an anthem, it’s a love song, it’s anarchy. I’ve got my personal
favourites but in the end it doesn’t matter who or where it comes from... so long as it’s good and it's real.
- Paul Morris, music director at 97.7 HTZ-FM
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Jason the Magnificent
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Think the multitude of floaty stuff above the text is overkill. Something simpler...even w/ a tagline below or woven into the design somehow would
better explain what that means. When i see that logo I don't think kids parties or face painting specifically...
Logos are really hard...but when it's right you'll know it. And that business doesn't lend itself to an easily done logo.
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The logo doesn't even suggest face painting or anything else really. Could maybe change one of the smiley faces to look painted up.
The site itself is good. Lots of example pictures, very bright and colourful, what one might expect from such a service.
‘Do you know what a love letter is? It’s a bullet from a fucking gun. Straight through your heart.’
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The name doesn't say Body art. It's tough to get that in the logo unless it's a tagline.
Facetastic.
Face Painting. Body Art and More.
I like the design of the logo in black and white, but there are too many colors in the color version, also, no need for dropshadows. Simpler is
definitely better.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by ShawnRefuse
I like the design of the logo in black and white, but there are too many colors in the color version. |
That is what I weas thinking. Too light with the fading which makes it unreadable
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Mrs R83 and I agree. It just doesn't grab us and it leaves you guessing as to what th business is. The business is a really cute idea too. I would
think if you could incorporate a painted face above "facetastic" you might be on a clearer path.
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Six66Mike
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He's done a revision on it for some of the things she wanted changed:
We can't change the overall concept since it was 1 concept 2 revisions.
This is the original one she drew on paper:
A lot of people ask me what kind of music I like. I love "soul music". My "soul music" isn’t a style, genre or niche. It’s music that is genuine. It’s
a painful lyric, a dirty bassline, it’s a harrowing vocal, it’s feedback, it’s an anthem, it’s a love song, it’s anarchy. I’ve got my personal
favourites but in the end it doesn’t matter who or where it comes from... so long as it’s good and it's real.
- Paul Morris, music director at 97.7 HTZ-FM
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Jason the Magnificent
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I'd say the one she drew is leaps and bounds a better logo for her business if you're looking for recognition of what it actually is.
Both are hard to read: one because those different colored letters don't really pull the eyes across the logo and those ballon things are very
distracting and the OG because it's almost death metally in the sense you have to stop to figure out what it actually says. Hers at least engages you
and makes you think of face painting. It is an arts and craftsy type logo...but it's face painting so why not. Maybe cleaning the linework up and
doing the color job in photoshop would help to make it more "professional".
That first one feels almost evil/Troma-esque in comparison.
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Don't have multiple colors on the font. You already have them in the bubbles (or call them paint blobs for the people who need a literal reference).
While the original logo was more literal, the new one will be more accepted in the corporate/consumer world.
You don't have to be literal in a logo. The happy faces represent the fun to be had. My biggest complaint is that the typeface chosen is very fluid
when one color and falls apart as multiple colors.
Also the drop shadows on the bubbles make them feel weighted instead of free.
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Jason the Magnificent
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I don't necessarily know how corporate face painting is though...
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He mentioned the word in his first post.
And, I could see, if marketed correctly, company parties and outings to keep the kids busy while their parents get drunk and hit on co-workers in
front of their spouses.
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Six66Mike
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Looks like another revision went through.
A lot of people ask me what kind of music I like. I love "soul music". My "soul music" isn’t a style, genre or niche. It’s music that is genuine. It’s
a painful lyric, a dirty bassline, it’s a harrowing vocal, it’s feedback, it’s an anthem, it’s a love song, it’s anarchy. I’ve got my personal
favourites but in the end it doesn’t matter who or where it comes from... so long as it’s good and it's real.
- Paul Morris, music director at 97.7 HTZ-FM
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Six66Mike
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Got the final package today, includes .ase .eps and .pdf copies of this stuff.
Dig the side by side more than the image over the font. Like how there's just the image or just the font too.
A lot of people ask me what kind of music I like. I love "soul music". My "soul music" isn’t a style, genre or niche. It’s music that is genuine. It’s
a painful lyric, a dirty bassline, it’s a harrowing vocal, it’s feedback, it’s an anthem, it’s a love song, it’s anarchy. I’ve got my personal
favourites but in the end it doesn’t matter who or where it comes from... so long as it’s good and it's real.
- Paul Morris, music director at 97.7 HTZ-FM
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