Captain_Obvious wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 9:10 am
MiqW7394 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 06, 2022 12:34 pm
"Flat" & "simple" = HORRIBLE. Yeeuch.
I must be stuck in a time warp, but as a long-time graphic designer, I much prefer the Windoze Vista era; detailed, 3D appearance, shadows, etc.....
What IS it about this current generation that everything has to be "dumbed-down" to the nth degree, hmm..? Same as the determination that everybody has the right to be made to feel good about themselves, even if their output is complete crap.
It doesn't get my vote, I'm afraid.
Mike.
I absolutely agree! It's like they're giving uncreative flunkies who barely passed their classes with a D- a participation trophy. It's lazy, looks terrible, zero effort, and is the antithesis to everything graphic design is supposed to be. I hope SlimJet never changes their logo, and especially to something as horrible as the garbage OP posted.
Ah, here's someone who obviously hasn't kept up with the branding and graphic design world in recent years.
You don't think the big companies that hire graphic designers and design/branding specialists for create new brandings are "uncreative flunkies who barely passed their courses with a D-" (or 4/20 in French equivalent), do you?
FYI: the logo had a mostly positive reception, with 71% of those surveyed in favor of my logo replacing the current Slimjet logo. The developer didn't follow my proposal and I respect that, BTW I've passed on the logo and source file to the developer if he ever changes his mind.
Why did I suggest this logo? For a very simple reason: the current logo is too detailed and not at all adaptable to multiple media, (as a browser icon it's too detailed, on communication media it's not adaptable enough).
By proposing this logo, I'm also proposing a much more flexible choice in terms of communication media, and then this logo has the possibility of being accompanied by a real and uniform graphic charter (something that many people forget when they find today's logos sad, no longer original, etc.), a graphic charter that can be based on the logo's colors, on the logo's font, shapes, etc... and then the current logo is more memorable than something that's too detailed.
So yes, my proposal may offend a small segment of the Slimjet community, the problem being that if we only listen to this segment, the browser won't gain any market share (because the average Internet user will find the logo too old-fashioned).
So you can criticize my logo for being creatively empty. But if I made this logo, it's for good reasons.
P-S: I love the Windows Vista graphic environment (Aero), but I know it's no longer up to date, so I don't make proposals that are totally disconnected from current trends.
