A friend and I finally designed a logo for my detailing business. It's been months since I've started the idea of a design, and with many people helping, we finally knocked it down.

I'll be using it on flyers, website, vinyl window decals, etc. etc.

Please be critical and let me know what you think, if anything should be altered or changed.

 

Looks good. Clean and simple, easy for people to remember.

 

Simple I like it but i'd like to see a symbol of some sort either in that or replace the oval with the symbol something unique.

 

I agree with Ice on that. It looks like "Hart's Auto Detailing" has just been put/written over top of a white oval. While I understand that's the point of the design, I think that "Hart's Auto Detailing" put/written over top of a symbol or design, would be more effective.

Don't get me wrong. I like the one you have come with. It is very clean. It is very simple. It is very straightforward. To my own personal tastes though, I'd lose the oval.

BTW, good luck with the business.

 

What I'm going to try and do is give the oval a more 3D look. More of a tube, round kind of feel.

 

yup... had a feling I'd scroll down and see a cool logo from Evan...

thats MUCH better

 

I think the second one that Evan posted catches the best ideas from both; You still have your basic oval design, but it's now both more eye catching and pleasing.

 

I'm going to be tinkering with my original design a little more. I'm going to try and round the edges (oval) a little more to make a much more smooth look.

 

Business cards done for the most part:

Front:


Back:

 

damn, nice baners guys

i like them all!

 

i like your business card. a lot.

 

Well as a Marketing Manager for a Fortune 500 company, I may know something (lol).

Anyway, if your name is Hart why not play on the "Heart" theme??? Instead of an oval, use a Heart shape. Make the connection between how your are gonna "love" their cars as much as the owners do. You could have a lot of fun with this if you pull it off the right way.

 

That is what I told him. I mean it makes perfect since and it would be the smart thing to do. Here was the original logo I made for him that nobody liked too much.

 

I like the idea and concept of the heart, and I might throw a few things together.

I have about 25 days left for my free trial version for photoshop.

The more I think about it, I think I'm going to go with something very simple. I at least know for sure the fonts I plan on using. I put together a very nice flyer today on Word. I plan on getting some White Gloss flyer paper for the paper.

 

For a free detailing this summer ill pass out your business cards to everyone i see with a car in northeast ohio, my offer stands.........get back to me

 

Too bad you weren't closer to Dayton!!! If for some reason you ever head down this way, let me know, I'll still hook you for a fellow board member/mustang owner!

 

****....that is awesome! That is pretty much just what I would have had in mind. Why did nobody like this?

 

alrite ill see whats goin on this summer


O and i dig the logo slither made, it catches the eye and still looks classy

 

I think he/they wanted to see something a little more edgier and new age looking. Wanted to see a different type car on there, etc. But what do I know..I am just a graphic designer lol

 

i like!

 

I thought slithers was one of the best

 

I too like the one with the heart better....

 

the one Slither made is way too cartoony, large, can not minimize it and still have it look good with details. I want simple. Think of any well known, successful business and their logo's are simple and to the point.

I don't want people to look at a logo and remember, O that's the one with the car, or that's the one with many colors, etc. etc.. Someone should be able to look at a logo and remember the name, not the stuff around it.

 

Blue, red, and a heart with a car is not simple? And not all businesses are simple and to the point. You want people to remember who you are and I think it would be pretty damn stupid not to put a heart somewhere in your logo considering you are caring for people's rides. I would sure remember something like that more than an oval with a name in the middle. I would be like..hmm what was the name of that company with the oval? Or I would be like hmm what was the name with that company with the heart? OH YES Harts! But whatever floats your boat. Not bitching or anything. I don't care if you use my logo or other logo's or some other logo with a heart in it..just be smart because this is YOUR business and you will really only get one shot at this. just not sure some of the reasoning behind some of your idea's. This is coming from someone that is in Graphic Design, Advertising, and Marketing. Like I said..what do I know about this stuff?

 

Now this is a quick business card I threw together (Actual size) Tell me how downsizing this logo would not be possible with details?










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turn the oval into a heart. Don't make it cartoony. Use effects similar to what WNRacing did with the Oval. Keep my current font's I'm using and similar effects.
Baskerville font for Hart's and Brush Script MT for Auto Detailing. Also only use colors red and black. That's what I want. Any takers?

 

Change the fonts to what I said in my above post. Use Red instead of Orange for the outlining. Then we'll see what it looks like.