Sorry Floe. I was never taught to be "sensitive". I was taught to be honest and blunt in critiques. It helps others see what people do not like and better themselves and give them art direction.
I agree that Floe's looks like an earthquake radius map. It's also not a logo that will reproduce well. You have color overlays on the state/text/under text that makes this virtually impossible to flip into various formats. The design needs a bit of work as well. Your earthquake radius lines do not fully encompass the logo. So What you get is your eye rotating around the "UR Con" area. ( Which, text speech isn't my idea of a good logo.) State shape use is tired and old, not very creative.
My advice? Study the work of bauhaus/bauhaus typography. It will teach you a lot.
The bcokami design reminds me of the ads for the movie, " North" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_(1994_film)
It does look like a bomb however, I agree to that as well. I think that could be defused by perhaps changing the shiny orb appearance to something more earth like.
Makes me wonder why Floe's and Bcokami's logos were not the 2nd and 3rd choice. I honestly would have selected them along with Reapers as my choices out of the lot. Yes, they could use some modifications... but not down right scrap-able like the other two.
Sorry Floe. I was never taught to be "sensitive". I was taught to be honest and blunt in critiques. It helps others see what people do not like and better themselves and give them art direction.
I agree that Floe's looks like an earthquake radius map. It's also not a logo that will reproduce well. You have color overlays on the state/text/under text that makes this virtually impossible to flip into various formats. The design needs a bit of work as well. Your earthquake radius lines do not fully encompass the logo. So What you get is your eye rotating around the "UR Con" area. ( Which, text speech isn't my idea of a good logo.) State shape use is tired and old, not very creative.
My advice? Study the work of bauhaus/bauhaus typography. It will teach you a lot.
The bcokami design reminds me of the ads for the movie, " North" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_(1994_film)
It does look like a bomb however, I agree to that as well. I think that could be defused by perhaps changing the shiny orb appearance to something more earth like.
Makes me wonder why Floe's and Bcokami's logos were not the 2nd and 3rd choice. I honestly would have selected them along with Reapers as my choices out of the lot. Yes, they could use some modifications... but not down right scrap-able like the other two.