Hello, welcome back to the channel.
I'm Will. I'm graphic designer.
Today, I'm going to be critiquing your work over on our subreddit.
Let's get right into it.
First one has 82 upvotes, posted 5 days ago.
Brand identity for a fictional company, Hangry.
The aggressive fast food. First impressions of the design
really like it, it works super well.
It is not clean.
That's the word I can give it, but that's a good thing.
Not every design should be clean. We're currently working here on a design.
That shouldn't be too clean. Has have that more human organic feel
and more companies now are going for that.
So no, it works really well.
I love this little monster that you've got popped in here.
Works super nicely.
We've got the burger.
I like it. Very good.
Angry facial expression.
And not only that, you've got some really good compositions here.
Not mad, just hangry.
That is really nice. For branding in general
it's super important to have like, tag lines and stuff.
So you've done a cracking job with this. The H, very different.
I love the font here and I love the pink.
It's like an innocent pink with a angry design.
And so it works really nice.
Bit of a juxtaposition there, but works super well.
Let's see what people have said in this. Sarah says, really love this.
The typeface is brilliant.
What is it? I think you made the typeface to be fair.
I absolutely love this and would totally eat here, LOL.
I love ghe colours
and the way you use the H as the mascots mouth.
It's perfect. Very nice job.
Nice.
The next one with 80 upvotes, which I have already upvoted.
Is the Deadly Sins, a design for a hypothetical Esports team.
Really nice. With this Esport teams you want to have something that's more illustrative, because
Games are naturally more illustrative and they've got a certain style to them.
It's more like a GFX style.
If you know what that means, like this video because then
that means you're OG in the design industry.
Again, you got the two-tone colour palette here.
Really like this presentation, really nicely done.
Deadly Sins very well-composed.
I really, really like that.
It kind of looks like it album cover artwork there.
Really nicely done, pattern works well.
Wouldn't use the pattern, to be fair.
Is this Pestily? I'm pretty sure
this is Pestily. His thing in Escape from Tarkov.
I'm a huge gamer myself.
So Pestily, if he's watching this, this is a cool logo to have.
There's a few areas in the design that I would clean up.
I would make a cleaner version because you got clean lines in here.
It might be beneficial to have it in
just one clean thing and go ahead and make it grunge.
That's what we do.
So, if I'm creating like an organic feeling design, I'll create it.
And design it really cleanly with the pen tool.
Then I'll add post-processing effects to it, to make it more grungy
and more hand-drawn, more human.
Yeah, really nicely done, though.
Really like it.
You've done a great job.
Let's see what people thought.
I'm a sucker for plague doctor aesthetic.
So I very biasedly love this but on the design aspect
I don't know 100% that I will be able to tell what the image was in the 3rd slide.
If I hadn't already seen the image in color.
There's a lot of details, so maybe try simplifying it.
I disagree.
I don't think this needs any simplification.
Yes, there is a lot going on.
This doesn't make sense having it like this.
Don't present it like this.
You're cutting half a logo, doesn't work.
This works super well, very bright, illustrative.
Nice two-tone colour.
Kind of looks like a, you got a mask on in there as well.
So it's not like a Pestily, or like one of those plague doctor masks.
It looks like a armor, which is pretty cool.
It's very gamerish.
So I like it.
The next one is this one, with two days, 65 upvotes.
This is my take on a made-up ice cream shop named Creamies.
That was inspired from everyone's designs on this subreddit and the channel.
I would love to hear everyone's opinion.
Okay first of all, love the bright colours.
If it's for ice cream, you've gone all above and beyond.
The logotype itself, it's nice and playful.
It's not scalable, but that doesn't matter.
I like it in its negative space here.
Where you've cut it out the background, and I like it.
In the positive way you've added the stroke.
The mock-ups and everything sell it really well.
You've got a nice brand here.
There's not much else I can say
other than this is really good.
You've done a great job.
The branding is there, the typography is correct.
There is not much I would change. It screams brand to me.
I would recognize that and remember that for days.
The one next with 63 upvotes.
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The next one is Knitten, and I've seen this before, I don't know where.
But it's good.
Kitten or Knitten - personal logo and branding project.
So here this the context, this is my first Reddit post.
Sorry if I messed anything up. You have not.
Knitten is personal logo and branding project
for a fictional children's clothes and accessories store.
Below is the brief I wrote up before starting the project.
I won't read all the brief, but I can sort of understand it.
So, you're targeting millennial parents.
You've done a really good job there with having you know, the cute cat.
I like the fact that you've gone for the name Knitten.
Because obviously if you're doing this, it's not just a logo design project.
It's brandings, it's brand identities.
You have chosen great name, really easily readable.
Also the typeface on there is easily readable.
It's legible, which means that parents will see it, but also
it's appropriate because it looks like you know, you're knitting something.
One point that I would suggest though is get that animation a bit nicer.
It's not...
It looks a bit linear, a bit flat.
I would add some motion blur into it, speed it up a little bit.
Even the paths of where you've animated, the typography don't really match
to what it would be like when written.
But again, really cute, innocent.
Chosen the right colors there.
You can even maybe choose a different type of color to see what happens.
Great job overall.
Hi, I'm Moshiur Rahman Adib.
Apologies if I just butchered your name. I'm 10 years old.
This is my first redesign and my first post.
I tried to redesign the Reddit logo.
I hope you like it.
Wow, you're 10 years old. You're 10!
And you designed that, that's crazy.
First of all, I like what you've done.
You've actually made the circle geometric.
If you didn't notice, the Reddit circle border isn't geometric as such.
One thing that I liked that you've done as well in this
is you've added that border around it.
Now, that border around that can be seen in two different ways.
It could be seen as highlighting it and and making it easier to view from your angle.
Or it could be seen as adding more to it.
Now, this is a difficult one for me, because it depends on the situation.
What I do like is the fact that it's easier to see.
What I don't like is the fact that it's more circular, but
can I just say you've done an amazing job. If you are 10 years old.
If you are actually 10 years old, then you've done a cracking job.
Look at this.
There are designers twice your age
who wouldn't do this, and I'm not kidding. Check out other video I've done
you will see that. This next one with 47 upvotes is, Hello everyone.
This is a hypothetical brief to create an electric scooter brand.
I tried to create a short memorable name with soft colors.
I appreciate any feedback. Thanks.
These scooter brands are popping up everywhere now.
These electric ones, in London and in Leeds
you can just like pick them up with your phone.
I'm petty sure it's like that in other cities around the world.
But I think that's pretty cool.
We've got a kerning issue right off the back.
I can't ignore this.
It's something that is just sticking out to me.
I'll give you two seconds to work out this kerning issue.
Correct.
It's the D to the O. This space here.
There's a kerning issue.
Move that O and T closer to that D. First impressions, it works.
I don't think
you even need to like go further illustrative inside of here.
I understand what it means, but you just have dot in this typeface.
It would be just as effective, because
you're not using this icon in these promotionals.
Oh actually, you are. You are you using it there, just there.
In my opinion, I think you should have chosen the D for dot.
It's the first thing that people remember, it's the first letter of the word.
Again, it works well.
You've chosen strange colours, red.
Not too sure why. I'd have chosen like some blue, green, purple
something like that, but you've done a good job.
You've kept it nice and friendly, works super nicely.
I like the business card here with this track at the back.
That's a nice explanation of visual cue for what you do.
But other than that, I would, you know, make those changes
that I suggested, and it would be better, in my opinion.
Other people are probably said similar. Great work.
I could see that those other electric scooters out there and
I'm not the fan of the mock-up on slide 4. It's really good
but why the negative space breaking up the O?
Feels slightly location/travel esq.
Yes, that's essentially what I was trying to say.
If I could speak correctly. So we got some amazing work
being posted on this subreddit.
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