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.
(http://i.imgur.com/yiXLv.png)
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.
Too complicated for a logo, you need to condense the idea.
It has to be possible to print it on a t-shirt, this has too much detail.
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.
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.
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.
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).