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This is one of the corporate images I’m suggesting for my ex-co-worker, he is opening a design company, and hopefully I may possibly be one of the future associates of his company.The translation of the company name: Distinct
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I agree with all ElenaSham comments about spacing from the edges, gradient and "design solutions" being wider than the name (also it's not aligned on the left). Now I have a few of my own...
Why the water drop? What's it saying about the company? Why brown? For a company that is named distinct the design is rather bland. (Not to sound too harsh). The design could really use more personality including the type. Think about your layouts and how the pieces interact.
Envelope: The logo is too small and the contact info is placed oddly. All you need is the address not the phone, email, or name. Enlarge and fade watermark...it looks like a mistake
Business card: The front is ok I personally think you landscape it. As for the back what is all that copy? It's not necessary. Here you should have name, title, email, address, phone and website. In that order (you can leave out one or more of those).
Letterhead: Again think about the layout. The logo is too small, lose the name, try and bring the contact info and the logo near each other. Maybe some sort of containing device or something.
Just some suggestions.
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First of all thanks for the great comment 
Well the drop is more of an ink drop, and design lives on printings (colour drops )
brown... well I was just tired of the colours that my partner was suggesting me so I just start trying crazy colours, guess brown wasn’t the smartest choice, but at list I made my partner change the original red colour that he wanted.
And yes, the thing isn't so much distinct, the distinct proposals were eliminated on the beginning... don’t ask…
Lettering: belongs to my partner, don’t like much of it too, would small case all the letters and probably get another type
Envelope: I made it rushy, didn’t pay attention to it, it was just made for being there, I know it haves to much unnecessary shit
business card: well this one you have to complain to my partner, he was the one who wanted all those things, in part he is right, ppl are stupid and don’t know what we do, so that is a list of our products.
Letterhead: logo too small??? I wanted it more small
Resuming, this was a fast and stupid work, lots of mistakes, it's what appends when we rush things, in the end I just wanted help my partner that was having a blank, this helped him freeing his mind from those ideas he wasn’t liking and couldn’t let go.
But I probably will change the stuff in here, there’s lots of things that really aren’t working well.
Hey, really, truly thanks for all the critics, and next time be harsh as you please, don’t mind at all
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Gostei do design, mas a logomaraca está meio estranha na min ha opnião.
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obrigado.
pois tens razao, realmente este n era o melhor logosimbolo para a coisa. n é o k comunica melhor, por isso eu e o meu colega ja alteramos a coisa.
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well.. i like it. But as long as it's for design company, it should follow the rules of design. And the first mistake that i notices, is that the writing under the name of the company is wider than the name of the company, wich is not right in that case. So i can suggest you to fix that - and it's gona look much better.
Second - dont use gradient on the logo. It's good enough to look fine even without gradient. It'll make it look solid
Then space from the edges of businesscard should be bigger.
Well.. i got some more suggestions, but they are small, but keep up good work! )
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About the writing under the name of the company, I don’t have my degree yet but, I worked about one year and half on a design company, and that was never a problem, and much more I find it hard to follow such a strict rule as that one, gosh it’s like the rules and laws that I had when projecting architecture... and that’s bad, such harsh things restricting our imagination and freeness of composition.
About the gradient, I’m a very colour solid and verctorial kind of designer, were I used to work, we couldn’t use gradients (because of the price), but in this logo I found a way to go around my problems. Still you are right, because in the end this isn’t the best logo for the company.
About the space from the edges of the business card, totally right, I should give it more space.
If you like, please continue the critic, I like you already, love ppl that we can really speak freely about design
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aw thank you ))
well.. about the rules. Can i suggest you one book that will change your way of looking at design as a "set imagination free" thing?
There's great saying in this book: Break the rules of design only in case, if you know how to use those breaks. So the same applyes to this design (and writing) Just try it - and u will see that it gives a better look to the logo.
Well, i got 2 years of expirience, and it's not that much, but still im conserned that books (any books, even tutorials) are the best source of information. And other people's work - the best source of inspiration. Btw, i hate to read, but this book itself it's not really about reading. It's more about pictures that speak for themselfs. So the book is Design Basics Index by Jim Krause. You can find it at Ebay, or Amazon.com etc...
After reading this book i've changed my way of doing loooads of things.
And all my knowledge of design is from reading, spotting some stuff etc. Again there's a thread about it in this book.
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Awesome, I researched about the book, and find out an index series collection.
Now I can wait to get them, I’m really exited with the idea of reading them.
I already had some good design books, but never one with rules, I wonder what they invented. Looks like extreme. But I’m keeping my self open minded, after all I realized that they are rules in design, but I’ve learn them naturally, not by reading books or having a list of rules in my front.
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believe me i hate rules too, but when u'll apply them - u ll see how your designs will improve straight after.
btw, do all the exercises that are in book, really handy tool for understanding, i just loved them.
and make sure you let me know what you think of it after u read it))) kk?
thanx for friends, i'll add u aswell -)
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I sure will see and try the exercises to see how good the stuff is.
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you have a gift..make things simple and great
use the force grims
bom trabalho miudo..gosto mt dos teus trabalhos de design
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obrigado
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obrigado
epa tens de me mostrar os teus projectos meu. ja andas ai a produzir bues cenas mas n mostras nada.
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hey man
how things going?
thanks for the comment
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hey man 
thanks for the comment
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Muito obrigado, maior parte do IC já é uma formula minha que eu inventei há já algum tempo, quando estou mais enrascado de tempo recorro a ela, nem sempre dá para perder imenso tempo a inovar, mas o bom desta forma é que é simples e resulta bem.
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Obrigado, o meu colega n acha k está distinto o suficiente, e acho k já começo a dar-lhe razão.
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Espero bem que o teu colega seja uma pessoa sensata. xD
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é sensato, aprendi muito sobre design com ele, eu e ele sempre conseguimos ver os erros um do outro e fazer com k o trabalho suba mais um nível ate chegar a perfeiçao
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Obrigado, mesmo assim já estou na dúvida sobre o trabalho, n sei se será o melhor logosímbolo para a cena.
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Hmmm....eu, particularmente, não vi problema algum...mas vou olhar com mais cautela...
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pois, eu e o o meu colega chegamos a conclusao k secalhar este nao é mesmo a melhor cena. ele fez mais um redesign, agora a coisa tem outro aspecto.
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Thanks, its kind of the second time I try to make a logo like this, but I always had a pantone managing problem, that suddenly I resolved it very easily
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Really liek the logo...and the earthy browns.
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Thanks, I still don’t know if that is the best colour, the original concept logo was red, but I really didn’t like it, and brown is more unusual, so its stays kind of cool.
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I think its better than the red would be.
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Thank you, I also like it, but my co-worker wants something different… It’s up to him now.
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Thanks, for me it always haves to be minimal, even thought sometimes I want to make the thing more complex I always tend to simplify it.
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Thank you, I’m glad that I accomplished so fast, still I think I could had choose some better colour.
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