Typophile

Logo Design for Photographer

tearsforsappho

I am working on this logo, and I am having a bit of a hard time. I looked at fonts for inspiration, and Alleghieri had some interesting swashes, that inspired the box look. I used that font for the first three, but it looks too amateurish and dirty to me, especially for a photographer (since one would hope to convey crisp clean imagery).

I still liked the idea of the “L” and “k” making a box, so I modified Bernhard Fashion. I started to really like where it was going at that point. This is a chronologically numbered grid of where I am currently at, with the last one being my final attempt thus far.

To add insult to injury, the client likes the first three, which I now can’t stand.

Ugh. Any helpful comments appreciated.

I like the echo in #3, but even more I like the “very simple thoughts” below #’s 7,8,9. Any way you can go after a more photographic crop gesture with those? Maybe running the info side or bottom. As they are I am seeing matting.

Michael

What about this?

I like it better. Maybe the L looks a bit like a T. Possibly do not cross them.

Now, can you resolve the disparity in weight for me, no I am not the mean old art director, see if the same weight for the type works and reverse the colors. Or just pump the weight of ST DIOS.

Anyone else?

Michael

horrible im afraid.

Too contrived. Your making the letters do things thier not supposed to do.

See if you can make that frame in a simpler way without distorting the letters

find fonts that naturally lend themselves

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