Posts by Steve Barnes
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Wonderful design Angus. Shall we say "Minimalist"?
I have to agree with most of what Bart said for this main reason.
Design is about the balance between form and function, there is nothing good about a great looking machine that is awkward to use or functions badly for the sake of its looks. The utilitarian school of design had its place when utilitarianism was the fashion, PoMo is the current "Rasin De Turd" as they say in confused and pretentious circles of jerks, hence the Cat's Bum of Telecom.
And that is the problem, fashion dictates taste, a self fulfilling disaster. As soon as we get used to identifying an entity by its symbol or logo we have some smart arse telling us that PoPoMo is De Rigueur and we are "falling behind in terms of current thinking and practice" squillions of megabucks later we are reintroduced to Neo-Clasicism and are forced to reinvent the wheel of fortune cookies or whatever.
All we really need, as has been said before, is "Auckland Council" in a simple, readable and memorable font but if we want to play around here is an idea I think our resident Lizard would love.
Nu Council Lack Ad -
SHORT BIO David Walker
Architect /designer
David Walker trained as an architect in the UK at the University of Bristol. He practiced architecture for ten years mainly in the realm of social housing.And the architecture of "Social Housing" in 70's UK was stunning, in its ugliness.
Mr Walker, you can bury your head back in the sand now. -
Is that a big Blue "A"
I bet that Council has a good Logo. -
See how easy this design stuff is.
Here's another one -
There, I fixed it...
Auckland's new Logo -
Just to fill the Vacuum...
Does anybody remember that "Hoover" that floated on a cushion of air, like a hovercraft"?
Bloody useless piece of design, stupid thing just blew the dust all over the place.
Designers, pah!.
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Two at once, more often and more carriages. Will park up between Kingsland and Morningside ready for rapid exit towards town after the game.
So, not so handy if you want to get back out to Henderson then?.
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Seen Melbourne's logo lately? That's the competition.
Yeah, er, right. So I can choose to have my sewerage treated by Melbourne? or was your point that we visit cities because we are soo impressed by their Logo?
The key to a good logo is "Simple, Meaningful and Memorable"
the other parameter worth consideration is "Do We Need a Logo?"
Geez folks am I the only one old enough to remember when the closest thing to a logo we ever saw was a coat of ams or a flag? What was that famous vacuum cleaner companies logo? oh yes HOOVER. -
Edit: To clarify, the penises were going to be my entry into the competition for Auckland's logo. I wasn't drawing them for fun.
Shame it wasn't for Vodafone. Think about it.
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"It is a widely held public perception, 'anyone can do design'. To create a logo that is successful and workable takes talent, training and experience." Fail. One word Postmodernism. Oh OK, two words.
The fact is we don't need a Logo for the Council, we don't need to "Advertise" the Council. Do we have a choice of which Council we pay our rates to?.
Here's a Logo for you "Auckland City Council" 20 letters and 2 spaces, I don't even care which font you use as long as it's readable. Do we really need pictures for the illiterate? "I'm sorry, I thought this was Auckland City Council, why don't you have a professionally designed abstraction so that I know who you are?"
Just another "Empire Building" piece of crap so the Council can pretend it is a Business.
And yes, I have designed a logo or two and none of them looked like a cat's asshole.