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milkminnie
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milkminnie
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ARRIVALS
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Getting closer with the latest set of designs, but not nailed yet. I like the simplicity of they yellow milk bottle, but you don't really want the B/M there, unless you're going to write it in full somewhere next to it. Then that'll take away from the simplicity.
The yellow uddered thing looks cool. Not sure if that was your plan but the udders look like the bottom ends of milk bottles with those shine marks, which works pretty well. I'd say they are are best so far.
The yellow uddered thing looks cool. Not sure if that was your plan but the udders look like the bottom ends of milk bottles with those shine marks, which works pretty well. I'd say they are are best so far.
Kev Clarke
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Have an attempt at the banana with the straw that sounds interesting, latest attempt to me looks like the fresh orange juice left by the milkman !
milkminnie
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Kev Clarke
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Dont like it personally looks like a balloon if your going with the udders try make them look more like bottles like Arrivals mentioned.
Tony Hardy
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For me, it was working before you changed it. The first udder one 
milkminnie
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was the 1st carton proper daft? is there any way I can salvage it? if so any pointers?
Kev Clarke
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The banana with the straw, yellow cows, udders on the banana, udders on the typography, CMYK coloured milk bottles depending if your strictly print, yellow spill of milk, udders could become pencils etc...
Try brainstorming again if its not working.
Personally i would try and be a bit more creative, you have got a slightly unusual name for a studio so push the boundaries a little...
Try brainstorming again if its not working.
Personally i would try and be a bit more creative, you have got a slightly unusual name for a studio so push the boundaries a little...
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Tony Hardy
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You could also look into Milk Bottle lids? They've got quite a nice aesthetic.
Like I said, that first udder one was working for me, but now that Dave mentioned condoms, that's all I see too. I think it would work if you formed the udders into bottle shapes.
Like I said, that first udder one was working for me, but now that Dave mentioned condoms, that's all I see too. I think it would work if you formed the udders into bottle shapes.
bigdave
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An issue you have with the carton design is that it could end up being very similar to the Design Milk logo (a very well established design blog).
What about looking more towards the banana?... perhaps a banana peel or a cow print banana?.. Although, using a banana, you'd have to be careful not to end up with an Andy Warhol replica.
What about looking more towards the banana?... perhaps a banana peel or a cow print banana?.. Although, using a banana, you'd have to be careful not to end up with an Andy Warhol replica.
milkminnie
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ok taking everything on board I cam up with this. I didnt want to do the obv banana or cow, to avoid cartoon aesthetics. So I looked deeper into the design of a cow i.e skeleton. I then made the horns out of bananas, and outlined it to make a versatile icon. I know its rough round the edges and I will polish it up if approved. What do we think?
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ARRIVALS
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Brilliant. Go with that. That's your USP. The milk is roughly the same colour and texture.
Kev Clarke
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Texas steak house!
Tony Hardy
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Indeed. The horns aren't quite "bannanary" enough. And, it does look a lot like a steak house. I think it's the black.
onesidezero
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I would say you are reading way too much into this. Keep it simple and go for a typographic approach or literal approach, use a banana. The icon approaches you are taking won't be understood by those you haven't explained the concept to.
Problem: You can't show the milk aspect of the name without a bottle / carton and the bottle deviates from the message since you aren't called bottled milk...etc. Solution: Try using the simple and instantly recognisable shape of a banana with the word milk written inside it in a nice typographical treatment, in white of course!
If you combined with a minimal yellow and white brand approach this could look quite nice. There's probably not going to be any application where you would use just the logo without the name and if you did the shape is suggestive enough to work even without colour. If you want further help with this get in touch, [email protected]
Cheers and good luck. Brett
Problem: You can't show the milk aspect of the name without a bottle / carton and the bottle deviates from the message since you aren't called bottled milk...etc. Solution: Try using the simple and instantly recognisable shape of a banana with the word milk written inside it in a nice typographical treatment, in white of course!
If you combined with a minimal yellow and white brand approach this could look quite nice. There's probably not going to be any application where you would use just the logo without the name and if you did the shape is suggestive enough to work even without colour. If you want further help with this get in touch, [email protected]
Cheers and good luck. Brett
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linziloop
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I'm not liking this version of the logo to be honest, I would go back to the drawing board, onesidezero has some really good advice there. This could also look like a sheep skull, or any other kind of animal skull, and a skull isn't associated with the milk part of the cow. I wouldn't agree that the carton is the only way of representing milk, there's always white splashy/udder images you can use, but definitely explore anything that comes to mind