Ahhh, what was the question?... Is this a good logo image?

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Too late, really. It's on my biz cards and the website I'm building (offline). Which is why I've been not here... t

I've lost my cheat sheet, I hope I coded this right.

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), August 04, 2000

Answers

Tom, I'm sorry, but I don't like this. It seems to combine notions of voyeurism, claustrophobia and asphyxiation. The lack of symmetry in the eyes/brows doesn't help either.

-- fw (finneganswake@altavista.net), August 04, 2000.

It's good, but in a disturbing kind of way. Someone is sizing me up through a keyhole. They're beautiful, but with a strangely large forehead. Spooky.

What are you selling, and to whom? I can see photographically and artistically literate people liking it, but not the average bride.

Graphically it's great. Simple, original, recognisable, easy to iconise, and it will look good on everything from photocopies to quadtone inks on glossy stock.

-- Struan Gray (struan.gray@sljus.lu.se), August 04, 2000.


imaginative, powerful, disturbing. kinda depends on your market, imo. some folks might find it indicative of an aggressive, intelligent source. others may just have the shit scared out of them by anyone who would be so daring. either way, it will be ...noticed.

-- wayne harrison (wayno@netmcr.com), August 04, 2000.

tom i like this for the abstract qualities it has as well as for "just how it looks" both graphically and emotionally. there is something...Solar...in it for me. a yin-yang type of sun-moon thing too, with the two extremes of goodness and evil.

sorry tom--i read way too much into things sometimes...shawn

-- shawn (seeinsideforever@yahoo.com), August 04, 2000.


This:"indicative of an aggressive, intelligent source. others may just have the shit scared out of them"

this:"there is something...Solar...in it"

And this:"see photographically and artistically literate people liking it, but not the average bride. Graphically it's great. Simple, original, recognisable, easy to iconise, and it will look good on everything from photocopies to quadtone inks on glossy stock"

are the responses I hope for and frequently get. I really don't like working with visual or emotional wimps, unless they pay well and quickly.(haha)

However... Since the text that goes with the image is an obscure quote from Shakespeare "Were beauty under Twenty Locks kept fast...", I also get this puzzled look and have even received e- mail messages and phone calls days later asking "what the **** does this mean?" Some times the thing left unsaid and the controversial (Iguess) nature of the card, lead to a continuation of a conversation, rather than the card (and it's recipient) just disappearing.

This I consider all to be very good. People definately never just take the card, and put it away. There's always that pause of 7-10 seconds while it sort of pokes them in the eye.

Twenty Locks is in bold text and is the "official" name of my bidness. I'll see if I can convert the biz card art to a jpeg and post it here, for a complete critique... t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), August 04, 2000.



If I had to choose a one-word impression, it would be intriguing. I think it definitely works for its intended purpose.

-- Mike Dixon (burmashave@compuserve.com), August 04, 2000.

Truly weird. Spooky and mysterious. Head shop symbol. Incense and candle stick sales. A still from the Blair Witch Project. Simplification of details into line and form produces a lunar -- moon/star- image. The logo of a Tarot card reader. A good pinhole photography sign. A business card made of hemp. Remember patchouli?

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), August 04, 2000.

Well, that's the point - it is a head trapped in a small space under twenty locks of water - disturbing, to be sure, but I'm not sure that it actually achieves what is conveyed in the original context from Venus and Adonis ;

What though the rose have prickles, yet 'tis pluck'd:

Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,

Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.

Sorry to swim against the fawning tide.........

-- fw (finneganswake@altavista.net), August 04, 2000.


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