[tomsel]

Currently working to re-brand a local hair salon, part of which is to design a new logo.

This is what I've come up with. Is it obvious it's supposed to be a scissors? Can you tell it says "t h c"? Those two areas can be tweaked, but is the idea itself a good one? What does it say to you?

They're trying to change their image to market themselves better toward women aged 25-40 and want a classier image. Their current logo and colours used are very saturated pinks and oranges, which to me seems more oriented with a younger market, hence the redesign.

Be interesting to read your feedback, thanks

Tom

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[adeptusmagos]

I really like the T+H scissors (even though the "T" is not so immediate), while the "C" is a little bit anonymous: maybe move it up or down and make it look like a curl or whatever? I would also try something different for the "thehaircentre" tag.
Bye!

[smoothonline]

It looks like 'the hair centre' is one word.

I really like it, it does give an air of being aimed at the markets you mention.

I do think the t could be clearer...

Charlotte

[Renaissance-Design]

Hi Tom.

I'd separate the words slightly and kern them manually.

[roothost]

As mentioned above, seperate the words 'the hair centre' slightly as currently all one word is a tad hard to read.

Love the logo concept, although not sold on the font for the h and c

[oakleaves]

roothost, on 28 September 2011 - 08:56 PM, said:

Love the logo concept

I'd agree with that.

"Is it obvious it's supposed to be a scissors?"

yes I believe so, although for a split second it was reminiscent of a small dog with big ears.

"Can you tell it says "t h c"? "

not quite, this may need tweaking.

This is in addition to the other suggestions. Some slight tweaks required overall and you should be ok. But again, like the concept.

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[Frazer56]

Like the logo, not sure on the font used for "the hair centre".

[smoothonline]

yes, i wasn't entirely sure think that may be more to do with spacing though.

[tomsel]

Just an update, thanks for all the advice.

After talking to a few other people, it seemed everyone agrees the 't' isn't that obvious, so I've addressed that (I think) and altered the h and the c, too.

I'm still not 100% convinced and I think it needs further tweaking, but what do you think?

Thanks

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[zed]

it looks like tnc to me. Have you thought of making the scissor part come off the h upper bit only?

[smoothonline]

me thinks the h is wrong too.... can you not reduce the curve on the n part of the h and make the h length taller.


sorry that description was poor

[brightonmike]

I don't like it. It's overdone, overkill. This is a hair salon, nobody is gonna go there because of the logo.

The best logo for a hair salon would surely be a logo that will look best on their shop front. I can't really picture this tacked onto a shop front looking particularly great.

Why not just keep it simple? A simple logo will look much, much better and professional on a shop front.

Example: http://g.co/maps/5k7x7

[smoothonline]

thats a good example mike.

[oakleaves]

Mike I hear what you say about the simple approach and you make a valid point, but that example you showed us is what I would expect to see on a shop selling bathrooms, power showers and jacuzzi's.

I actually don't think it fit's the subject matter very well.

[brightonmike]

You're actually illustrating my point further. It doesn't really matter what the logo is because hair salons trade on reputation, customer satisfaction etc - not their branding.

That's why I think keeping it simple is the better idea, because it will be easier to recreate on a shop front, and easier for people to see when they walk down the street.

But beyond keeping it incredibly simple, I don't think the logo actually matters a tremendous amount for businesses like these.

Here's an example below. Took me all of 2 minutes.

I guarantee you it will:

• Work just as well for the business
  
• Be painless and cheap to produce for the store signage
  
• Scale for any application. Work in black and white.
  
• Be locally instantly more recognisable than the OP's logo.

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[Renaissance-Design]

Beats the usual run of Herr Kutts, Curl Up & Dye etc.

[Shabu]

Suprb.. I really like it

[LogoSafari]

I think scissors are kinda overused for hair salons.

[Gibson]

Renaissance-Design, on 03 October 2011 - 11:11 AM, said:

Curl Up & Dye

Personally I think "THC" is funny enough.... let's not go down that road though.

[Reverie]

I liked very much this logo, it's great and professional.
I think the "h" looks pretty much like a "n" too, and the "t" is not well definite.
The scissor remembers me a rabbit sometimes too.
But besides that, I really liked the logo, and I think with a slighty bigger approach it will be perfect.

[Hava]

i like the idea, it's quiet interesting but personally i don't like scisors on logos, they scare me (not only on your logo of course)

[oakleaves]

I remember reading this thread when I was about 6yrs old. Nice to see it's still going strong.

I think the OP will have made the logo, shop sign, brochures, business cards, flyers and pavement sign by now..

I did hear I rumour the business folded last century but I'm not 100% on that