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Topic: Branding

Is My Logo Impressive

Posted by Colette on 125 Points
I own a fitness and rehab program called the Barry Method.
My program is unique - therefore I tried to design a logo that would help reflect my concept.
Barry Method is blend of both yoga and Pilates on a gravity system.
Here are my questions.
Do you consider my logo impressive?
Does the image prompt you to investigate our services?
Does the logo look professional?
What can I do to improve?

To see my Barry Method logo. Please view from this link. The logo is at the top of this page.
https://yogatrends.org/barry-method-yoga/barry-method-rehab

Thank you!
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  • Posted by Jay Hamilton-Roth on Accepted
    The problem with your logo is that it needs to be too big to be understood. Try scaling down the logo 25% and then see how readable / recognizable it is. To improve it - work with a professional logo designer (or try using an online design contest like: https://99designs.com/).

    Also - a logo alone won't suddenly make me want to investigate a business. I'm personally looking for solutions to problems I face. Although you offer yoga / pilates, people sign up for classes to help them improve something, not simply take yoga for yoga's sake.
  • Posted by Gail@PUBLISIDE on Member
    I like the logo. However, as Jay suggested, it takes much more than a good logo to effectively communicate a business.
  • Posted by Gary Bloomer on Accepted
    I'm one of the few graphic designers on this forum. Here are a few observations:

    Your logo might benefit from being both smaller and less complex. The figure on the Pilates machine at an angle makes it look as if someone's falling overboard.

    Text set in all caps is less legible than text set in upper and lower case. Likewise, text set in capitals that's upside down is even harder to read.

    As things stand, the size of the logo (and its placement) are taking up valuable, above the fold real estate on your website—real estate that could serve you better by hosting your video or a piece of compelling, benefit-rich sales copy.

    If the most memorable thing about the Barry Method is the logo there's something wrong with your positioning strategy. No one's buying your logo (unless you're offering t-shirts and the like), they're buying the results of the Barry Method.

    So, consider simplify things, consider repositioning things, consider adjusting your typography, and ask yourself if the space the logo occupies is begin used to its best effect.
  • Posted by Gary Bloomer on Member
    P.S.

    A logo alone is NOT a brand and it is NOT branding.

    Read that again.

    A logo is "part" of a corporate identity (along with specific colors, typefaces, tag lines, uses of space and positioning, and so on) and a logo's role is to unify an ideal or sensation under a common flag, and to proclaim or signify that you're in the right place and looking at the right solution ... but alone, a logo is NOT a brand.

    Branding is the thing that takes place in people's minds as a result of having used or benefited from the thing being offered ... and even then, only once the use of the thing has been weighed against an established desire or emotion and when the use has created a result ... or an aspired or imagined result.
  • Posted by Colette on Author
    Ok. I've got it!
    Logo - not a tool for branding or representing my product, per se.
    I should have worded my above comment more carefully.

    I had a professional graphic artist design this logo.
    I appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts.

    I'll be making the adjustments as suggested above.

    Thank you again!
    Colette

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