Band Logo

[Atelier]

Hi guys, this isn't game-related but I hope you can help me anyway.

Somebody asked me to design a logo for their band, smurf. They produce house/club dance music.



This was the design I thought of. Quite simply I like the idea but it turned out really crap. It seems too cartoony.

Any advice on how to make it more professional will be appreciated.

[Anian]

Too complicated for a logo, you need to condense the idea.

[cat]

It has to be possible to print it on a t-shirt, this has too much detail.

[Moresco]

Is it supposed to be printed on a shirt?  There's no reason you can't do a full-color version for album artwork and a low-color version for a t-shirt.   I like it...not sure about the band name though. ha.   Maybe draw up a low-key version in a different style and see how that looks.  But you could definitely keep that version, it's kinda nice.

[steptoe]

With a name like Smurf...

A lot depends if the band name is a kind of 'take' on the Smurfs or not..

I was once in a band named barefoot and we used to have a foot print on our t-shirts.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

I like the equalizer effect.  One thing I'd suggest is have the letters in Smurf follow the pattern of the equalizer levels, so if you have the equalizer produce a more 'wavy' pulse you can vary the height of the letters to match.

[Snarky]

To simplify it, I think you should have just one band per for each segment of the letters (so, 2 for s, 3 for m, 3 for u, 2 for r, 2 for f).