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Re: Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker

#71

Yes, UI is a wreck. In addition, services like this demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding as to what logos are for and how they function. You can't communicate your brand's identity effectively by clicking some buttons and going on your "gut." Do yourself a favor: pay for a professional.

Now you assume that logo's are only for businesses. I'm looking for a few logo's for an open source project of mine and I think tools like this are suiteble to create logo's for this purpose.

Re: Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker

#72

Yes, UI is a wreck. In addition, services like this demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding as to what logos are for and how they function. You can't communicate your brand's identity effectively by clicking some buttons and going on your "gut." Do yourself a favor: pay for a professional.

How do you go about finding a good professional logo designer? Is there a marketplace for designers?

For smaller (or leaner) projects I had good experiences with top rated logo designers on Fiverr for around ~$100.

For more serious projects, you should probably go with a trusted designer recommended from your personal network, where a logo is part of a complete brand package.

Re: Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker

#74
I agree that this sort of sucks for real designers but this is the sort of crap we are going to be dealing with more and more as proponents of AI and machine learning get their way.

This tool is not useful for generating a great logo, yet. But it does produce a bunch of random ideas that might allow a human to come up with an awesome idea.

For example I worked with a designer I found on craiglist for my logo for Remarkbox (https://www.remarkbox.com)

Her versions were everything up to the purple version: http://www.foxhop.net/remarkbox-logo

I was very happy with her work and help coming up with the idea, I paid her in full and ended up creating my own version which is the one I'm using today.

I think this sort of program could be marketed to real designers to help them get the creative juices flowing.

LogoFox is a very cool idea, basically hot or not or tinder of design, something I was talking to the founders of hatchwise about.

Re: Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker

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post #74

I agree that this sort of sucks for real designers but this is the sort of crap we are going to be dealing with more and more as proponents of AI and machine learning get their way. This tool is not useful for generating a great logo, yet. But it does produce a bunch of random ideas that might allow a human to come up with an awesome idea. For example I worked with a designer I found on craiglist for my logo for Rema…

Quick side note, noticed a small typo on your website: "Ad networks on free comment systems do more then hurt your brand, they also track, spy, and slow down your pages", that "then" should be "than", just fyi :-)

https://writingexplained.org/more-than-or-more-then-differen... if of any interest

Re: Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker

#76

Yes, UI is a wreck. In addition, services like this demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding as to what logos are for and how they function. You can't communicate your brand's identity effectively by clicking some buttons and going on your "gut." Do yourself a favor: pay for a professional.

I'd be really interested in seeing a double blind test, to check if people really can tell the difference between the two.

Re: Show HN: LogoFox – fast logo maker

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post #74

I agree that this sort of sucks for real designers but this is the sort of crap we are going to be dealing with more and more as proponents of AI and machine learning get their way. This tool is not useful for generating a great logo, yet. But it does produce a bunch of random ideas that might allow a human to come up with an awesome idea. For example I worked with a designer I found on craiglist for my logo for Rema…

Quick side note, noticed a small typo on your website: "Ad networks on free comment systems do more then hurt your brand, they also track, spy, and slow down your pages", that "then" should be "than", just fyi :-) https://writingexplained.org/more-than-or-more-then-differen... if of any interest

Thank you, I have been struggling my whole life with this mistake.
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