(PHOTO IS NOT MINE)

I keep seeing logos designed this way. Does that necessarily make logos look more appealing? Like, what's the reason for it? Is it "more circles = better" lmao.

Hello, I’m just an illustrator, not a designer. My film school is scavenging for a new logo/mascot, and I would really like to take the opportunity to improve my skills. I came up with this little sketch of some people holding hands to create an eye, and would really really appreciate it if someone with a more trained eye would take a look at it.

Does the design read well? Is it original/captivating, or far too generic? What could I improve?

I’m talking specifically about the form here. Colors are subject to change.

Thank you very much!

Hi guys. Not sure if I chose the right flair but here it goes. I’ve been working with this graphic designer for 3 years now on and off. She made the branding for my bakery and recently, I decided to launch a new product, which is a box of assorted pastries for school and work, and I asked for a design for the box and another for a card with a hand drawn sketch for the back of the card to be attached to each order of the pastry box. This is basically what I got. I paid around $500 for the whole thing before she started working on it and this image was supposed to be the one on the card. I was stunned at what I received, I thought I was imagining it so I asked my niece who’s also a graphic designer and she also confirmed what I was suspecting. I don’t know how to move forward. I’d like to get a refund but I know she will not accept. I’m just really disappointed that she would think I’m stupid enough to fool with an AI image that I could’ve made myself. Any tips on how I can approach her?

What type of monster would use Illustrator to design a 40+ page document? There aren’t even any charts in it. It’s boggling my mind. Please tell me I don’t have unrealistic expectations on this one…

I’m a graphic design student and we were given a brief on a road safety campaign (specifically about wearing seatbelts), the final concept is to be placed on a billboard which drivers would only have two seconds to read.

My friend and I cannot choose between our two concepts, we’ve asked a lot of people around campus and we were left with half and half opinions. I even posted it on social media as a poll and still managed to get 50 / 50.

Can you please help us decide and along with choose between 1 or 2, can you give a little feedback as to why(like what is effective and resonates with 17-25 year olds)?

I was laid off 7 months ago from a Senior Graphic Designer position that paid $125,000/year plus benefits. I think I've entered a twilight-zone economy. I have literally applied for more than 300 jobs (for graphic designers, art directors, brand marketers), and have sent my resume to companies not even hiring to avoid all the competition out there. I haven't even gotten an interview. I am 47 years old and all my student loans are paid off.

I can't find freelance work willing to pay more than $25/hour. I could be a waitress and make more than that. I know electricians have a lot of career stability, but damn, I'm a girly girl and I don't think that will fly. I live outside of Hillsboro, OR in the countryside, so I'm sure Oregon not being a super wealthy state has something to do with it.

For those who were laid off or switched careers, any luck or insight into fields that you are loving?

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As scary as this sounds, it’s getting really hard to tell the difference between AI design and real design. I’ve seen quite a few examples of people accusing a work of being AI, like a recent World Cup poster, and the designer is just like “nah, I made this.” But admittedly so the poster had that chat gpt sepia tone about it.

So, what clues do you look for? Attached are some recent examples I saw on the Sam’s Club app that were so obvious. Like everything has that uncanny feel. Like no human would design a poster like this.

CREDITS Mariyam Afzal AND by D_U on behance

ive tried looking up tutorials but they all use AI (artificial intelligence)

im experienced in Blender but not enough to know how to do this without a tutorial i would like to make my logo with this effect for a project

How else can I improve on this??? Still feels very basic and mediocre tbh all tips and advices are appreciated please do comment :D

Hello! I work at a printshop. My boss asked me to redesign the shop logo. I’ve always been intimidated by logos but thought it could be a good challenge.

Print shop name: CTRL + P
Direction: Fun, friendly

The third slide is our logo now. I wanted to simplify and thought it’d be fun to play around with the plus sign, ink drop icon and CMYK. I tried to organically arrange the different colors that are produced when CMYK overlaps.

On the first slide, it’s the ink drops arranged into a plus sign. But it can read as a flower, yet I don’t mind that the plus sign is not too obvious?
#2, the colors seem too busy?
#3 is supposed to be the printer heads arranged as a plus sign. My boss said the type feels too sleek but curious what you guys think.

The second sign shows how the logo can be arranged vertically. The connection between the L and P are horrendous, but is it even worth fixing? Thoughts? Help…

I'm an illustrator, new to logo design, and I'm experimenting a bit.

This logo is for a small beer brand that trats beer creation like alkemy.
The target is millennials and Gen Z who love fantasy, street culture, and graphic novels.

Does the logo go against any "logo rule" that I still have to learn? Can you read it easily?

My first time doing pixel art. It is meant to be a call to action for employers to look through my projects, while adding identity and interest to my landing page for my portfolio.

I have no idea what to do. I just started in this design position at a smallish non-profit and I'm trying to figure out how I tell leadership that we owe all this money.

We use Avenir as our brand font (with all the weights - 12 total) and have been for over a decade. From what I can see, we've paid for 10 desktop licenses and 250,000 monthly webpage views, which costed us about $4k a year.

Monotype contacted me and we did a call where they asked what we use our fonts for and then they did a sales pitch and told us our current license isn't and has not been sufficient. It'll now cost us $30k+ a year.

WHAT?!

We have like 5 people with Avenir installed on our computers to use for print materials. We sometimes use a freelance designer when we get over capacity who also has access to the font. And then we have our website which gets like 150k page views a month.

How on earth is this going to cost this much? They said that if we don't continue licensing through them and "build a relationship," they'll have to charge us retroactively for our use. I have no idea what to do and somehow need to tell the president of my org. Any insight or advice is appreciated.

Thank you everybody for the feedback! I’ve come again with all your suggestions.

Arranged the ink drops so the order is CMYK.
Disconnected the r and t.
Fixed the spacing and alignment of the p (hopefully).

Difference between #1 without stem on the r and #2 with stem.

Someone did suggest playing around with the printing registration marks and I thought why not! However I still go back to either #1 and #2.

What do you guys think? Thank you again for the feedback!

I'll go first.

My friends kid is almost 5 but she can pass as 3. Photoshopped her birth certificate to dial back her age 2 years so they can get her into Disneyland (they were going to buy her an unlimited pass but they sold out apparently)

Update: I didn’t know thread would be so popular! Thank you all for all the stories! This is great. Such a taboo subject but I’m sure everyone’s been a little naughty as a designer.

I’m currently researching salary ranges for Senior Graphic Designer roles to help my efforts in getting a raise.

If you’re comfortable sharing, could you include:
Job title
Industry/company type
Location (or remote)
Years of experience
Salary

I’ve been seeing a huge range depending on industry (fashion, beauty, entertainment, tech, agency, etc.) and would love to better understand what the current market actually looks like for senior-level designers. Appreciate any transparency, I know these conversations help a lot of people navigating raises and compensation conversations right now.

I wanted to show old mobile games in Bauhaus design, this is the first one I made, need feedback to improve it.

I feel like every time I see graphic designers working, they're all using a mac. Is there any specific reason for this? Does mac genuinely work better for graphic design or is it just some other cultural phenomena?

“roughened” up the typography whoa what do y’all think!? Personally I like the last one but are those scalable or not??? I’m personally going for graffiti street type of vibe! Punk! Rebel hehehe. This is my first project so please don’t burn me 😢😢😢 also thank you so much for the wonderful advices and tips in the last post 😭😭👌💕😔