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Hold up a minute, was the arrow intentional?

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Good lord, folks... of COURSE it was intentional.

And negative space is often a wonderous design charachter that brings depth and life to design. If it can be acheived without being forced, it is marvelous.

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Negative space can also have drawbacks. It can incorporate clutter that's not constructive. I've struggled with this often in my designs.

Case in point, my revised Houston Rockets design:

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The shapes created by the white space, especially in the top of the R (with the H combination), generate confusion and make the design less clear than it could be.

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it's good if you could see the logo every day for a full year without noticing it... like fedex, or the hartford whalers.

but the big 10 thing is just annoying. everyone can see it, and it's not really all that clever...

I don't know--I saw the Whalers' "H" right away...

But that doesn't mean it wasn't a cool logo--because it's one of my all time favorites...

i didn't say you HAD to see it a full year before noticing :)

if it's subtle enough that you could not notice a negative-space element, without being considered retarded or blind, then it's a great thing to have.

but if it starts to interfere with the actual logo (like taking a chunk out of the letter T), i think it's best to forget about it.

Okay--I get your point--and I concur...

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How 'bout this one...

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There are two extra "B"'s in the logo. Kinda cool.

It's called an outline! <_<

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Utah Jazz Retired Number's

#1 - Frank Layden - #7 Pete Maravich - #12 John Stockton - #14 Jeff Hornacek - #35 Darrell Griffith - #53 Mark Eaton

Retired Number's To Come

#00 The Bear (Best Mascot In NBA) - #4 Adrian Dantley - #32 Karl "The Mailman" Malone

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