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Originally Posted by djsFlames
Come again? 
Sorry if you don't like to hear what I have to say. I never straight out said it sucked, or anything along those lines. I was strictly speaking towards the logo, not even at you. I think that's what you're not understanding here. But sometimes, if you're into designing things that is, you have to take responses/criticism in all their forms, even ones you may perceive as ignorant or offensive at first. But be assured, it's not meant that way. Others here seem to get what I'm saying. Your first couple iterations in the first 5 pages of this thread seemed to put out the greatest versions of the logo, it was fine. But then it kept coming up for a while, and now again with this McGrattan version, all of which versions haven't really brought anything else to it, and with the McGrattan thing perhaps took a step back. People seem to be of that view as well. I'm interested in seeing what others have to offer, and I think you've done about as much as you can do with that one. It's fine, but let's move along. Perhaps you can put the remaining time into another idea or two? I'd be interested in seeing that. Put in as many entries as you can, rather than spending your time getting upset with me. It's not worth it.
As for the positive constructive feedback thing, I agree to some extent, let's work at improving these ideas. But wouldn't you rather hear what people really think, rather than filtered comments that try not to make you feel bad? You have to keep in mind it's not a reflection on you, just the logo/idea. If people honestly think my ideas suck, then great, I want to know. It'll tell me that I need to go in another direction now, rather than continue to fiddle around with something that's not working. People are never going to cater to your feelings in the real world, so it's better to get used to it and learn to take it like a professional, or someone doing it simply for leisure would. In this case it's all fun and for a good cause anyways.
I'm actually not a jerk in real life. I'm just very opinionated and blunt about things I enjoy/am passionate about, as others here have probably picked up on. But sometimes that can put a person in dickhole territory in others' eyes when it's misunderstood over the very easily convoluted medium that is the internet. |
Apologies for the poor wording, but as I mentioned above the 'that sucks' was in reference to another post.
And the Grats was something I did last week. I've been busy all week so just got around to posting that now in response to a few people requesting I do so. An action I obviously now regret. But most of the fiddling around came from requests or another idea to further a design I enjoyed. That is the point of design iterations, and I would hate to be discouraging that.
Honestly, my intentions with addressing these posts were to keep this thread fun and creative. The two specific posts I quoted I found to be counter to that whole idea. I'm seeing now that a PM would have been far more productive.
And honestly, I don't know how many times I can repeat over and over that I appreciate and can more than handle criticism. The many iterations of the same logo should really stand as evidence of that. I'm just commenting that a few of the points made were more negative than they needed to be. I've never said that we should be posting happy thoughts, I'm pointing out that there are far better and respectful ways to make your request.
Carry on, I was hoping to do the opposite of derail the thread. Just let's all be more mindful from here on out. Cool?