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Cheers, I prefer the blue one too. Although it is simple I did actually put quite a bit of thought into to so that the angle of trailing x would point to the corner of the background and adjusted the positioning so that it looked good while doing so.
Can't claim to have any more insight than that but I am by no means a graphic designer, far from it (chemical engineering student). But it is always the little touches like that, that I put in. Perhaps i'm weird but I take a slight sense of pride when I hand in a report with these touches, even though I know that these little things will not get picked up on or even extra credit given.
I'll get round to it soon; there's no closing date. I like what I'm seeing so far from everyone, and I like seeing others join in too.
Don't forget; if you have suggestions for the 3rd assignment, to start on Apr 1st, please PM me with ideas.
I'm really glad no one has used Comic Sans, I really thought someone would have stolen my work in progress....
I actually choose that straight away just to see how bad it looks, it is good to remind yourself how bad it is from time to time.
Although my University own fonts (that they spent a huge amount of money on) aren't the greatest either, in fact I think they are shocking.
I've had a client hand me a logo all in comic sans, 3 lens flare, an ugly "not so subtle" drop shadow and with a very nice rainbow gradient fill....
It still makes me laugh because they ended up using that logo on their web site because the director of the company created it and was not willing to change it at all.
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The company a few years ago was bought out by a larger company so they are now using the parent company's branding. I'll look around my Mac at home and see if I can find the logo, it really was quality MS Paint at it's best.
Good type operates on an almost subconscious level. I've shown people the same page of a CV, essentially laid out identically, one in Word and one in InDesign
The only difference between the two was that the InDesign one had been given some typographical attention - ligatures, sympathetic leading, H&Js corrected manually, ugly kerning pairs fixed, and so on.
Without exception, people would pick the InDesign page, but no-one could ever articulate why.
Cheers
Jim
