Welcome back to another Reddit critique, where I critique
All your logo designs and everything that you post
On our Reddit that gets upvotes.
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I'm going to be going ahead.
I'm not just looking at the most top upvoted of the past week.
I'm going to look at the most top upvoted over the past year.
The ones that we haven't seen yet, the best work that
You guys have voted yourself on the subreddit.
Let's get straight into it.
So I'm going to have to do a bit of picking around to see
which ones we haven't seen before.
I'll do this over memory.
Okay, so this one with 166 upvote. "Cracked" logo concept.
Eggcellent.
Has anyone said that one yet?
This looks amazing. Very well Eggsecuted.
I like that. Eggcellent.
Yes.
Enough of the yolks.
Okay, so don't understand the context behind this design.
But it looks cool.
Very nice.
Works well. I guess it's for a kitchen or some sort of Diner.
I'm not too sure.
One thing I like is the playful nature of it.
Again, it's legible.
It's understandable.
I like the fact that the egg being cracked. One side of the
Egg being cracked to C, one side of its D. Really nicely placed.
It's very visually scalable as well.
You can read it.
It's legible. Works all the way around, playful.
I really like it.
Again, great inspiration.
for anyone else. Let's look at some more comments first
Before we go to the next one. Thought I'd give a little context.
This was a fun logo to work on as I wanted to capture
The energy of a cracking egg while still keeping the logotype clear and flexible.
I think this logo could be used for our modern fast food chain.
Which fits the snappy name. "Cracked"
We've seen that one, seen that one, seen that one, that one,
This next one that we haven't seen yet with 128 upvotes.
It's a Solar Drop logo.
I created this after watching Will's video on the Solar Drop brief.
If you don't know, a few months ago, maybe even a year ago
We created a brief around Solar Drop.
I'll link the video down below.
So you can see that one. The one that we paid 5 designers.
I think it's really fun video.
You'll enjoy it. Really like the brief, because of the futuristic and
space-themed Direction.
Yes, it's my favorite direction to go in.
I love....
the icon.
I don't like the type. Reason being the type looked a bit cheap.
It's a very fine balance. I think in past videos on Reddit
I explained that having the logotype be looking futuristic is quite important.
If it doesn't look futuristic, then it's kind of a looks cheap.
But when you go into the more futuristic style of typography,
It can look even more cheaper.
So it's a fine balance of like getting the right type, and
It's very hard to do without actually physically showing you.
Which hopefully, in the next few videos I will show you this.
And those videos are all about me going ahead and critiquing,
but also redesigning some of these logos.
So though, I love the icon. The icon works well.
Looks really nice.
I think the problem comes with the type.
I really love this modern mock-up that's happening here.
Look really nice.
It looks like something out of that game.... Apex Legend.
One of those loot boxes that you get. Nice spaceship.
The yellow color is cool.
I think it works well.
Again, I was wondering why it's not red, but not everything needs to be red.
That's really cool.
The space suits. Look at that, that is really nice.
Where did you get these mock-ups from?
I like to see a bit more texture on this one.
It kind of looks like, superimposed too much on these mock-ups.
You can do that in the blend mode options in Photoshop.
You can actually take that down.
It's like the ‘if’ function in the blend mode, really simple hack.
The next one with 119 upvotes, posted 6 months ago as well.
The Sloppy Bros - a Burger Joint logo that I did.
Let me know what you think.
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I love burger joints.
They're great. Don't have many of them in the UK.
I'd like to see more where I live.
First impressions, love the colors.
Very passionate there. You got the yellow.
You've got the kind of coral red in the background.
You see it, it's on my face. Makes me look even redder than I'm normally the video.
Number 1, it looks like a burger, that's great.
The creativity in the lettering, super good.
I like it.
It works really well.
It looks like the burger.
It's playful enough.
I'd be interesting to know how you did this as well.
I love the mock-ups here, that looks so cool.
You've even got the menus. Look at these menus, really easy to look at menus.
If you want to know if you got a good designer in a restaurant,
or in a burger joint or anything.
Just look at the menu.
See if they've gone all in. The branding is on point that cause anything.
Look at that.
I love the level of detail you've gone in on here.
You've used appropriate mock-ups to show how it works as well.
I like this as well.
You've got some imagery in there.
Nice.
The sloppy Bros works super well, the brothers there they are.
So apparently this started as a typeface called "Bouncy", but
had a lot of envelope distort and modification.
I mean, it looks really good for an envelope and distort. Looks really nice.
It kind of looks like, it's being custom done by actually hand-lettered, really like it.
Well done.
This next one is Space and it was posted 8 months ago.
110 upvotes. Space company offers co-working office spaces
For Freelancers and small start-up.
So co-working space.
Very nice.
So first Impressions
I love the actual logo of it.
You've got a hidden S in there within the negative space.
One thing you need to keep in mind is the kerning.
Again, I'll say this every time.
There's an issue between the P and the A
If you guys can't see it, it's because the experience level
That's not to say anyone's bad or anything like that.
I look at type all day.
I obsess over typography, I designed type and font, hand lettering logo design.
Yeah, it's very difficult to see.
But there is a little bit of a problem with the S and P
Move the S and P slightly to the right a few points.
Gotham is a great typeface and I know you're trying to be casual but I think
The S needs to be......
I don't know, capitalized. Controversial maybe.
But icon looks great.
I love the fact that you got the pink and the blue in there
Really functional design, but also really pleasing to the eye.
I really like this one.
Let's see what the comments say.
I like the colors, defo create version with maybe
A black and white, just to see how well it would work.
That's a good idea.
Showing a black and white version always shows the functionality.
Can tell it should work nicely on app too?
It would indeed. Yeah dude, you done a great job with this as well.
This next one is bit different.
It's a label design for a tea packaging.
And it looks interesting.
One thing that I really like about this is the color choice.
And the reason why it's with packaging design
You can actually make people understand what it is before you've even given it.
Before they even read anything.
The color means a lot. Because of the green packaging
This sort of really nice earthy, dark green. I can tell it's tea.
You can just tell it's tea.
I really love the details, very ornate.
It fits nicely throughout the whole package.
It's frames well because of the way that the packaging is elongated. It's quite long.
You have to fit a lot in there for it to look good, otherwise
it'd be too minimal.
And because you're going on an ornate sort of packaging
vintage hand lettered look, it works really nicely because
You fit it around all these ornate things without taking anything away.
It gives a certain vibe and a certain feel. Love the boat in there.
The type choice I think, could be a bit different.
I'm not the biggest fan of the type, maybe something a little
little less ornate with the amount of flourishes going on.
With the V, the A and the G.
The love mock-up, looks great.
Love the 3D elements that you've got going on here as well.
It makes it look less flat.
Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a big sucker for hand-lettered vintage type.
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