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  • Can anyone advise on a better way to lay out this car?

    Posted by Marcella Ross on 27 March 2007 at 13:18

    I’ve got to do a layout for this Renault Clio. Nice car ……………… shame about the appalling logo 😮 How on EARTH do I put this logo on this car and make it look OK? Or am I asking an impossibilty.

    Why do people insist on using their own ‘great’ artwork. I cannot change his logo at all, but I’m struggling to transfer this onto this car 🙁
    I’ve attached the logo separately as an ai.

    Any ideas here would be most welcome………. any miracle workers out there?

    Marcella


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    Martin Pearson replied 18 years, 6 months ago 9 Members · 16 Replies
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  • Benno

    Member
    27 March 2007 at 13:49

    So if I’m right you may only use the logo as a group and not like what i attached?

    In my experience, if I had something like this i showed the customer a fast preview like mine to convince them that it’s much better then using the logo as a group.


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  • Marcella Ross

    Member
    27 March 2007 at 14:00

    I could get away with breaking it up like that ………….. but it still looks naff doesn’t it. 😕 I always apply text straight and don’t follow lines on a car………… but it’s just not working with this Clio.

  • Dave Harrison

    Member
    27 March 2007 at 17:56

    Hi Marcella

    Not the best logo I agree 🙄 but I’ve had customers with worse 😀 New clios are a little bit like astra vans in that you have to angle the livery a degree or two. If you put them dead level the moulding strips and window lines give the optical illusion that the whole things pi$$ed !

    Good luck with it

  • Marcella Ross

    Member
    27 March 2007 at 18:34
    quote Dave Harrison:

    Hi Marcella

    Not the best logo I agree 🙄
    Good luck with it

    thanks Dave! :lol1: ………….. it seems like every job I’ve had lately has been like this ………. cr@p! 😕

  • David Rogers

    Member
    27 March 2007 at 20:11

    Oh, bit of a horrible one eh!

    Just exercised some ‘creative license’….still nothing great though

    Dave


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  • Marcella Ross

    Member
    27 March 2007 at 20:16

    thanks Dave …………. you know the only thing to make this Clio look good is to leave the vinyls off isn’t it!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol1:

    I’m just gonna have to show him something …………… he’ll probably like it!
    I’ll need to do it undercover so no one can see me. 😳

  • Tim Painter

    Member
    16 April 2007 at 13:59

    Sorry to highjack your post Marcella.

    Can anyone tell me how much the 2007 Clio van differs from the car?????

    Just had a look on Renault site and the roof looks higher than the cars is it?

    Thanks guys.

    Tim.

  • Marcella Ross

    Member
    16 April 2007 at 14:24

    can’t answer that one for you Tim ……….. the latest Impact disc doesn’t have a 2007 Clio van on it. 🙁

  • Tim Painter

    Member
    16 April 2007 at 14:37

    I know 🙁

    Was why I asked, cuz I know your cleva n all M 🙂

  • Marcella Ross

    Member
    16 April 2007 at 14:42

    not that cleva cos I don’t know this time 🙁 :lol1:

  • autosign

    Member
    16 April 2007 at 18:07

    It’s not a nice logo at all.

    Here’s another variation anyway.


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  • Andrew Bennett

    Member
    16 April 2007 at 18:55

    I always have trouble with adding attachments but I have had a little go.
    Probably the worst of the bunch but …..


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  • Andrew Bennett

    Member
    16 April 2007 at 19:00

    I meant to add, sometimes small is beautiful

  • Marcella Ross

    Member
    16 April 2007 at 19:04

    thanks guys ………… I’ve got it sorted now ……….. Andrew it’s not too dissimilar to what you’ve just put up 😀 Customer was very particular…. so I didn’t have much scope. But he did add a red curve into his logo ……. just to make it worse 😮 😕

    fitting it this week ……. NOT putting my name to. :lol1:

  • John Childs

    Member
    16 April 2007 at 19:38

    Well, we all get these difficult ones, and they can be a pig, but I would just like to add my fourpennorth……

    We never put graphics on straight.

    As a general principle, I find it usually looks better if we work with the shape of the vehicle rather than try to fight it.

  • Martin Pearson

    Member
    17 April 2007 at 14:42

    Marcella, hope you got it sorted OK, as long as the customer is happy with it then thats all that really matters, I don’t know if I am a bit strange but sometimes with difficult vehicles like astra’s I put the graphics on straight and sometimes I don’t, what I normally do is explain the difficulties to the customer before I even design anything for the vehicle and when the time comes to apply them I will tack them in place straight on one side and how I think they look best on the other and then get the customer to decide which way they would prefer them. Takes a little longer but at least I don’t have customers complaining I have put them on wrong.

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