Hi, I'm Will Paterson, and this week I'm bringing you
another reddit critique.
I'm going to critique the top voted designs on our subreddit.
Some will be logos.
In fact, most of them will be. Some will be other designs.
The first one has got 90 upvotes.
I built a brand identity around
the random sketch I did whilst on the phone the other day.
Here's the final logo.
I don't know any context around this, but I think it's a cool mark.
I like the fact that it's got kind of like an impossible
shape feeling going on.
See this?
It kind of sticks out in the middle here.
You've chosen the name Zeno as the thing, and I kind of like it.
I don't like this at all.
That just seems really weird. It kind of to me
It looks like a banking logo, maybe because it's blue and
a lot of banking logos like to go blue.
But yeah, it works well.
It's definitely a Z.
It's very intricate.
It's really balanced because it is symmetrical.
There's not much else I can say other than I think it's an interesting mark.
But again, there's no context to it, so I can't really
critique how well it works in the real world.
You saw how it functions properly when it's being used.
The next one has 85 upvotes.
I always thought the Polo logo is complicated and hard to
understand at first look.
I wanted to redesign it.
What do you think?
What I really like about this is the fact that the horse and
the rider is in such simplistic shapes, but you can instantly recognize it.
The original logo is very complicated.
It's old school, but it's designed to be like that.
I believe. I will say though, is that your design is really nice.
It's really minimal.
It's got a bit of a different vibe to it.
I like the type face.
I don't think it, it changes very much at all, really.
I think it's pretty similar.
It's not alienating at all.
It kind of looks like a complete rebrand or just like a
bit more of a modern take on it, which is what I like. A lot of the time
when you're doing a rebrand, what you don't want to do is alienate.
By that I mean change everything, like the colour,
like absolutely everything.
Kind of like what Facebook did with Meta.
They kind of alienated in certain areas with the name change.
But they also kept the brand colours the same.
And I think in this situation with the Polo logo, it works.
It's just really simple and it's really clever.
The next one was 76 upvotes. Logo for a sportswear outfit
store called Kitman.
I tried to use the running reference in sport and the K letter
from the name of the store.
You can see a K in there, but it's also very difficult.
It kind of looks like a cross, which to me, in subtle design
language or in design psychology, would mean do not go
but it also is green.
So it kind of means go.
The X means stop or X mark to a spot but then the green means go
red stop, green go, either way.
So I don't have anything to basis of apart from it being a sportswear.
And to me this doesn't really seem like a sportswear logo.
I'll be honest, I think it is very simple and works.
This actually does help, this image here.
This does help a lot.
This is what I talk about all the time.
Perfect as it should be.
I'd suggest use a more athletic typeface and make the sports
wear a little bit smaller with a bit more spacing all of the among characters.
Let's have a look.
The actual typeface here isn't very sporty.
There are actual typefaces that insinuate speed, movement and athleticism.
Athleticism, here we go again.
I can't speak, athleticism.
Athletic.
And this one doesn't.
This kind of looks like, I don't know, like a boring
office supply company.
In a word, it's not appropriate.
I like the running aspect of it.
That's really cool.
But again, I think you could do some work.
There's some actual balance issues here.
So if I go in, you can see right there between this part
of the green and this, there's some balancing issues because
there's a lot of space in this geometric rectangle here and
it's not the same space as the rectangles used here.
So that kind of freaks me out and I think if you just changed
that ever so slightly, it would look a lot better.
The next one was 70 upvotes. Logo design for a sample pack and sounds website.
Would love to hear your thoughts and I know about these websites.
In the off time of my life, not my life, but I like to create
music and produce music for a bit of fun.
So I use sample packs all the time.
Cool.
So, MusicCreator.
Okay, first impressions.
It kind of looks like a bro fist.
Kind of like a really minimal boring PewDiePie bro fist logo.
How is that funny?
It's not funny.
You're just being an idiot.
On the other hand, it looks like a keyboard, obviously with
M for MusicCreator.
It's got an M and a C in there.
So it is very clever.
Now there's a point in life or in a designer's life where they
have to choose between being clever and being effective.
I think if you try to be clever too much, you will lack
effectiveness in the design.
And here is a good situation to explain it because I don't
really know whether this would affect it.
Oh wait, here we go.
This logo here looks a lot better in the black and white.
It makes more sense because obviously the black keys are
shown a bit more.
I like the way you've done this.
I think the logo itself works really nicely.
The typeface is perfectly kerned from what I can see and also,
it just fits.
This is a great favicon.
This is a great logo design that you can fit on the website
so it hits all the markers for uses.
I'm not sure about these colours. Good job.
I really liked it.
I would space out music and creator a bit more from each other though.
Yeah, I guess you could do that.
It is very centered and very close together.
Problem with it being so close together is you would have some
eligibility issues there.
So I agree.
PJ, our video editor, has commented, I must admit
on scrolling past the colour scheme and text made me think of a
certain adult website
I would like to know.
I don't know which one you're talking about.
Oh, this colour there.
I see.
We're going to just slide into the next one.
Save plant logo mark for the portfolio.
So this is something to save in plants, I'm assuming.
Let's see.
There's no context.
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Savplant.
Okay, so I guess it's like something savvy plant.
First of all, I really like the colour scheme that you go in here.
It seems really obvious, but I like this off white that you've brought in.
The off white with the perfect green is really good.
It makes it feel modern.
It's flat.
And I like that.
I kind of like flat design.
But what I will say is the icon is it looks like a number two or a five.
I don't think it works very well.
To me, it looks more coffee bean logo or coffee logo more than a plant one.
I think the green is the only one that's making it a plant one.
In fact, this here would be a cool, interesting idea for an
actual logo design personally.
Although I love the colours and the way that
you presented this, the actual design, it kind of seems very
amateur to me because of the spacing irregularities.
You can see here that you've got one part of this cut off
and this one isn't balanced with that cut off.
I understand that you're trying to make it look organic, but
there's also elements of symmetry that you need to have.
Like, you look in these plants, everything is perfectly
symmetrical or appears to be perfectly symmetrical and balanced.
So I'm going to leave this one for you guys to critique in the
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