Job well done Scott. If the posters to this blog could see this design in action and on the field I believe they would agree it well represents the high school.

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You can always request to have color changes to these designs at no additional charge. Please note that we also do custom logo design if the designs here are not quite to your liking.

Kristina, obviously this logo is something that really bothers you. I’m sorry this has had such a traumatic effect on you to be writing a blog about it years later. I appreciate your opinion. What I don’t appreciate is the fabrication and exaggeration of our meeting. You were brought in with a group of students and administrators as a courtesy to show you the direction of where we were heading with the logo. I remember your comment about thinking it looked like a bird and that I thanked you for your opinion and calmly explained that there would certainly be some others who didn’t like it for one reason or another, but that our goal was to create a logo that would ultimately help with school spirit and morale, and that hopefully most would like. At no point did you say I was terrible and that the design was hideous. This I would remember. At no point did I explode into a tirade or insult you. This would be a foolish business idea and I would surely be thrown off campus and fired from the project if I ever did that in front of ANY client. You make me sound like an egotistical monster. Shame on you. Those who that were there or who know me, know what I’m talking about. That’s not my style. You really could have set up this blog without the lie and achieved the same result.

For the rest of you, thank you for your comments. Looks like some liked it, some didn’t and most hated the type treatment. That’s fair. I’m not the best nor the worst, I simply do my best. I was hired by principal Nancy Peterson, who had just seen my work for Mission Hills High School, so I agreed and discounted my fees to help the community. I think we’ve done what we wanted to, and you really have to see the before and after of the logo throughout the school to appreciate it’s impact. So many schools these days use clip art logos or steal from pro teams. We didn’t and I’m proud to say I was a part of it.

And for the record, I like Bingo’s comment.

Thank you all so much. Never stop caring or discussing the good and bad of design, it’s what makes us all better at what we do.

Scott

I like to climb on things. Give me a banana!

Eek Eek.

This creates a jarring effect rather than pleasing sense of movement.

The font neither matches (the curves of the letter differ from curves of the helmet) nor contrasts the graphic element leading to the “kinda, sorta but not really” feel.

“San Marcos” inherently carries more weight than “Knights” because it has more letters and takes up more space.

Therefore, making “Knights” darker is unnecessary and causes “Knights” to get lost because it is at the bottom of the logo.

Lastly, please don’t sweat the “bird”.

If a committee consisting of government workers and a high school “student representative” were to approve anything decent it would upset the order of the universe.