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  • Any suggestions for improving the layout please?

    Posted by Steve Broughton on 9 June 2003 at 14:59

    ooooh!! sweetie I think it looks abtholutely thstunning duckie 😆 😆 😆 😆 Gray the flourishes around the tourist board log rotate them a bit so you that they look straight ( 😉 ) and then put a thick black outline round both the flourishes and the logo so they look connected and try a black line between the dark burgundy and the (not) pink background. 😆

    eddie cotter replied 22 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Tim Shaw

    Member
    9 June 2003 at 16:22

    Did you try curving the Homelea text the other way around so it rises in the middle.

    I also think it may look moire balanced if the scroll was reduced in with a little so it is shorter than the Homelea text.

    I think the St, Helens text at the yop of the border, although it is following the radius of the top edge looks a little like it is following the round
    tourism guide logo. MAybe if the round logo was reduced slightly to the same height as the flourishes then the St. Helens text would ‘look’ like it is is following the top curve.

    Just tweaks to another wise sound, sign, layout.

    Tim

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    10 June 2003 at 18:08

    Hi Gray excellent design mate..

    My views on design may not be everyone’s cuppa tea, I know that.
    But ill give my general thoughts and changes I would make.

    Looking at the design, colours etc I would say that the general feel is to make it a bit more upmarket than the usual, run of the mill sign.
    I agree with the points Tim and Steve have suggested. The arc text and the outline etc.

    Looking at the complete design I would say that the vacancies at the bottom doesn’t look right..
    I think the font may need changed & dropped in height.
    The colour yellow is a bit too “in your face” I would think for this kind of sign. Although I know the customer probably wants it most noticed..
    What about a cream or mustard? (Eeek I hear you say) just a thought..
    If the text was cream the scrolling banner could be a gold.. With brown returns.

    The white text in the middle I would drop in height and open the kerning.. Its white on a dark background! The white should do its own job promoting what they offer as it is, without the need to overpower the space..

    Creams, white, maroon etc all sound plusher colours to me in contrast to the bright yellow etc..

    The small text for mobile etc.. Open the kerning also.. Its fine as it is but opening the text makes it easier read, & at a distance…

    The tick in the logo at the top.. Is that their actual tick? I would maybe opt for a sharper school book tick.. But obviously if its their logo then that’s that..

    Hope ive not offended in anyway… I think it’s a brill design as it is. (hot)

  • eddie cotter

    Member
    10 June 2003 at 22:12

    gray i think robert is right about the no vacancies bit, it seems to take
    from the design, other than that, its lovely, now you can tell me to get lost 😀 😀 😀 eddie

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