Coyote Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 I decided to make a personal logo using my initials, DK. When sketching out some designs for my logo, I realized that my initials make an emoticon. I previously tried to use both uppercase letters to make a face, but it did not work out as I planned. As you can see in the image below, the missing middle portion does create an angry sad emoticon, but it looks like it spells out "DiK".Unfortunately for me, I don't have an "i" in my initials. So instead, I decided to interlock a lower case "d" with an upper case "K" and take out the middle portion of the "K" to make a face with the tongue sticking out. However I ran into the issue where the remnants of the K look like "slanted eyes". Although I am indeed Asian American, I don't want my logo to personify my ethnicity. Especially with a racist thing such as "slanted eyes". I tried a colon to represent eyes to the second logo, but I feel that adding the circles would disrupt the flow of the negative space creating the "K". Anybody have any suggestions on fixing this problem?I do not wish to scrap this "emoticon" themed personal logo, as I really like the simplicity of the logo. But if I have to then I'll go back to the drawing board.Thanks in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oddball Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 I'm not saying ditch this idea, but try other things. I think part of your problem is you are set on trying to make this work. Instead of trying to make one idea work, sketch out a bunch of ideas and within those you should have a logo. To me it's not working, because when I first saw the image my mind filled in the i-c between the D-K, and that my friend is not good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdougfresh Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 I got stuck on an idea with my first personal logo -- and now I laugh at it.oddball's right, don't try to shoehorn your idea into something that isn't working. Get a blank piece of paper, and just scribble/sketch ideas that come to mind. Play with the letterforms (and different representations of them) -- you'll come up with something a lot nicer, and something you'll be more proud of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coyote Posted February 27, 2013 Author Share Posted February 27, 2013 Yeah you guys are right. I thought it was pretty clever to have an emoticon as my personal logo, but I guess it does no one any good if the initial idea was forced. Thanks for the advice though! I hope I can come up with something else soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdougfresh Posted February 27, 2013 Share Posted February 27, 2013 Here, check this article out (oldie but goodie). Shows the importance of sketching and how his ideas evolved throughout the process: http://www.davidairey.com/personal-logo-design-sketches/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coyote Posted February 27, 2013 Author Share Posted February 27, 2013 Here, check this article out (oldie but goodie). Shows the importance of sketching and how his ideas evolved throughout the process: http://www.davidaire...esign-sketches/Hey thanks! I just read most David Airey's "Logo Design Love" book so I'll definitely check that out. I feel like I should just practice sketching more and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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