Really lovely, Satya. Have you tried moving the S to the right a bit? Your N could be too wide.

thanks for the comment stephen..will try it for sure..

hello Satya

new i opened this forum i directly opened the picture without reading the text.
what i saw first was a S and a V, and then i saw a S and a Y. but i did not see S and N.

but later when i read the text i noticed that it must be S and N.

did you notice that?

ok
cheers

Pascal Zoghbi
MD type & Media

pascal ..i think you are right...what can i do?

Maybe letters are too thick? Have you tried with thinner letters? Or only one of them?

Here is the few of my initial explorations I tried while the course were going on...My teacher liked few of them and asked me to pick one and work on that further...and this(the one which i mentioned at the top) was my final result.

Satya,

Nice batch of sketches.

I agree with Pascal; I saw an S and V at first as well. I think it has to do with that bottom left piece. It might need a horizontal line (instead of a curve) on the bottom, to serve as the beginning of the N. You could try minimizing the S more. Make it thinner possibly. You've got to play with the form of that bottom piece so it conveys the N more instantly.

Otherwise, it's a pretty good integration. A few tweaks and you should have it.

The bottom left sketch is quite strong. I read Sn, right away.

If it helps, this sketch also reminds me of the typeface Futura Display

I saw "SN" in the first post immediately. I think it looks great.

- Lex

Lex you must have 3 eyes ;)
thanks for the comment....but most of people told me that they looks S and V at first sight. and i think its true. ..am working on the form.

I think it is a beautiful solution. Your design really works with me, as the black parts function as some mysterious letter sign on its own.

Puzzling and elegant.

(Nice sketches, too.)

Final integration From my side....
plz critique if there's any.

thank you all for the nice feedback.

:)
satya

It's wonderful, satya.

THanks stephen..its because of you guys only.

Kind of off topic but how come recently some people's avatars are about twice the size of everyone else's even though there's supposed to be a dimensions limit?

it happens with gif format i think.

Why the sketches we create are always better than the final?

because they are not finals.

Agreed, sim. When thoughts are originally portrayed by hand there's a certain quality that's lost when it's digitized. I remember when Tom Cannon posted his Aquaholic boat illustration, it was a prime example.

Satya: Weird cause mine's a GIF too!

OK david try this.
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make your avatar in photoshop...choose some bigger dimensions(like mine 110x68) and then save it as CompuServe GIF..It will work.

but dont make your avatar of size 1024x768 ;)

Ah, I thought typophile was resizing it. I don't mind the size constraints, just wondering really.

Satya, your design looks really nice. By the way, (this is a bit late) I immeditely saw S and N without a trace of doubt. And you had such useful tips from everyone too. The final one looks really good.

A bit late, but it looks nice. Although I too had difficulty seeing the N at first.

Just on a sidenote, you could also have traced one of your hand drawn sketches, and tweak it. Instead of using fonts I mean. With exisiting letterforms, you maybe are a bit more limited in the ways to solve the problem. Or is that what you did?

No it was not done with a font..i traced it from one of my drawing and then i took it forward...thank you.

looks great. the sketch of this concept is (in my opinion) much stronger.

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Paul Ducco
Graphic Design, Melbourne

I think I have to agree with Ratbaggy there!

:)

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Paul Ducco
Motion Design, Melbourne