How to make a professional looking logo?

**Intbel** · 13 December 2006, 01:49 AM

Originally Posted by teo

Thank you Intbel. I'd rather drop the background out. The original is 3D, but maybe 2D is better suited for logo. What is your opinion?

Here there is another idea. It is pretty simple, perhaps too simple to be "professional".

You're welcome and as to my opinuon - what do I know?

Except that the best logos are simple and say a lot.

A good logo will give you the flavour of a company and the nature of its business in a just few lines.

**Intbel** · 13 December 2006, 02:18 AM

Here is the basis of an idea ...

**Egg Bramhill** · 13 December 2006, 06:02 AM

Raymond,

That just looks like a Flashers Convention

**stlewis** · 13 December 2006, 07:17 AM

Teo

I like your circles! With a good tagline this would be enough. You can play with the size of the circles, the spacing and the outlines - thick/thin/none.

**salaam** · 13 December 2006, 09:35 AM

Hi Teo,
I thought about a compromise, so I just simplified the image and reduced the colours.

Anas

**Intbel** · 13 December 2006, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Raymond,
That just looks like a Flashers Convention

Never having attended such a convention I wouldn't know ... I bow to your experience as always

**Ross Macintosh** · 13 December 2006, 01:19 PM

"Professional design" can be thought of as a kind of problem solving method. The "method" or way of thinking can be very foreign to those not taught as designers. While it may be foreign, it isn't necessarily difficult. If you approach any design problem in a similar way you'll likely find it quite manageable.

Gary Priester - a professional designer, a moderator here, and the guy behind the XaraXone, wrote a excellent series of articles about logo design. Reading through them you will get a great overview of his design method and hopefully you'll learn lots. You can find them here: http://www.unleash.com/gary/logo/ They are a true gem!

Regards, Ross

**Intbel** · 13 December 2006, 03:12 PM

Thank you Ross - that is most useful.
Some good tips in there ...

**teo** · 13 December 2006, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by stlewis

Teo

I like your circles! With a good tagline this would be enough. You can play with the size of the circles, the spacing and the outlines - thick/thin/none.

Thank you. Here there is another variant. These colors are more warm. How do you like the shapes and outline?

**teo** · 13 December 2006, 09:52 PM

Originally Posted by salaam

Hi Teo,
I thought about a compromise, so I just simplified the image and reduced the colours.

Anas

I like the idea, but I do not know how to achieve that. How did you do this color reduction?

I like the logo on the right on first line. I thought also about some gel-looking circles, which I might try to implement, but I simply need time for that.