Comments on: I Need Your Help…

By: Chris Mills

Chris Mills — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:30:35 +0000

Oh yeah, it most definitely looks “churchy.” I wish Danny didn’t call me out though, I really wanted to continue slamming my work in a public forum …don’t think that’s ever been done before.?

Well, I’m going to give it another go. Maybe over the weekend.

I sure hope the criticism continues. Bring it on. I’d return the favor in a heartbeat!

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:23:45 +0000

I have to agree with Ben. My first reaction was that it looked like a logo for a bible study group. Back to the drawing board. Sorry!

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:10:07 +0000

A LITTLE CLARIFICATION:
Someone wrote to be chiding me a bit for deriding the work of my designer a few comments above with this little exchange:

># Chris on October 30th
>It looks like your designer
>friend slapped this together
>in 5 minutes.

># Danny on October 30th
>Chris: In all fairness, he
>did. And I’m pretty sure
>he’d been drinking heavily
>at the time.

To clarify, this “Chris” IS the aforementioned “designer friend.” And this was by no means to be the finished logo design.

It was, quite literally, slapped together in about five minutes (give or take) while we were talking casually about the re-design.

Before we went any further with it, I though “hey, let’s take to to the readers and see what they think.” And that brings us pretty much up to date.

So…that’s one vote for an “outdoors/adventure” style overhaul (and many, many votes against the above design, including some…interesting..ones I’ve gotten via email, which I will share here shortly).

So keep it coming! I still wanna hear what YOU think.

By: Danny

Danny — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:00:18 +0000

Pat: Thanks for the feedback (and the research on the fonts…I really appreciate that). I actually like the outdoors-y/adventure angle, and it plays into the earlier posts more directly than in the more recent entries.

Thanks again for chiming in!

By: Pat Wallace

Pat Wallace — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:07:45 +0000

It’s a good first stab(pardon my pun),but it definitely looks church-y and would interfere with the message you’re trying to convey.

Why not go with a more literal interpretation? The outdoors, wilderness, where the adventure-loving free lance copywriter goes to find his bread and butter, clients. Play with the idea of the SAK as a pen, you know, maybe your tagline carved into a tree.

Here are some fonts I looked up on my computer that might work well with the survivor theme: Stencil Std., Rockwell Extra Bold, Resevoir Grunge, Juniper Normal, Impact, Franklin Gothic. Good luck!

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:48:41 +0000

Chris: In all fairness, he did. And I’m pretty sure he’d been drinking heavily at the time.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:03:15 +0000

It looks like your designer friend slapped this together in 5 minutes.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:52:40 +0000

Thanks Ben…but this is just a rough-up of an idea…and it’s not the full-sized graphic (http://copywritersurvivalguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/logo-2-300×230.jpg). More of a starting point.

And I asked for your opinion. You’re not going to offend me by giving it

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:23:54 +0000

Like the overall look. Book does look a bit bible-ly with the plus or cross. When I think of survival guide I first think of large friendly letters for some reason…think that would be a good idea, large(r) friendlier letters. Just my opinion so don’t read too much into it.