Typophile

LOGO TO LOOK AT (i'm not a designer / trying to help a friend)

seventyone

putting together a logo / wordmark for an industry blog site — name is Golf News Now —he comes from a news background and wants to ’eventually’ truncate to GNN — need to establish the wordmark / brand identity first — i suggested just a wordmark, but seeing as it is a Canadian site, there is a flag (maple leaf) as well (nothing golf — figured it was self explanatory in the name and imagery could be used eleswhere

could also use an idea for a typeface for seventyone (it’s a craetive agency)

great forum

I’m not a professional designer but I have some suggestions.

The “Canada’s trusted source...” part is way too tiny. Also even if you make it larger that amount of text would look better in a cleaner, easier to read font. You might even want to come up with a more concise tagline if you truly intend to make it part of the logo.

I really like the Flag/Leaf concept.
Here’s my attempt at making it more flag-like:

The main typeface (Serpentine) looks dated so you might want to experiment with one that gives a more modern appearance...

Here’s two that might work better...

——————-House Gothic————————————Stainless——————-

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