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01/26/2006, 9:05am, EST

Thursday, January 26th

macware debuts Logo Design Studio

macware today announced logo design software for Mac users. Logo Design Studio is a new suite of creative design tools includes over 300 customizable logo templates, 1200 unique logo objects, a slogan/tagline library, and other object and text tools. "A good logo creates and maintains your identity," states Bruce Lowry, Summitsoft's President and CEO. "Logo Design Studio takes this critical design process away from the hands of outsiders, giving users the creative tools needed to produce unmatched professional results." Users can modify or import images, graphics and text in a variety of formats as well as add or create using shape drawing tools, organize layouts with multiple layers, and use grids and rulers for easy alignment. It export of logos at 600 dpi resolution and supports BMP, PNG, TIF, JPG, PSD and more. Logo Design Studio is now available for $40.


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sorry... poor designs
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01/26, 9:36am, EST
I'm no design snob, but I do know the importance of good design and I'm aware of basic design principles. The designs created by this program fall short of the "professional" level they aspire to. Basic things like legibility, effective color schemes, and meaningful shapes are not anywhere near what a professional designer would provide. Even a rookie professional designer.

"A good logo creates and maintains your identity..." Yes, and a bad logo creates and maintains your identity as well, just not in a desirable fashion.

"Logo Design Studio takes this critical design process away from the hands of outsiders..." and puts it into the hands of absolute amateurs.

"...giving users the creative tools needed to produce unmatched professional results." They're unmatched, perhaps, but hardly professional.

Sorry to be so harsh, but this program could have been much more useful... there's no reason to have such lackluster templates. Then again, for $40, you get what you pay for.
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for the marketing guys...
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01/26, 9:57am, EST
another reasong for the marketin guys to to wonder why they are spending money on "artists"...for every marketing guy who thought they can get cred by kissin gthe bosses ass and telling them they can create a whole website using frontpage themselves(jim you b*tch im talking to you) this is yet another tool in their arsenal to make designers extinct.

nothing personal, but F*$%3K THIS SOFTWARE

let a designer get paid dammit

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is not that bad, thoug...
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01/27, 7:59am, EST
I'm a graphic designer for 16 years now, and let me tell you something, it's not the software or the knowledge you got after that college degree, I know for my own experience that a great designer born from the inside out, I think that any good artist with a great creativity can make the best logos with this type of "do it yourself software". I will never get rid of PSCS2, or ILLCS2 or even FHMX, for my logo designs, but it may be a good start using this software for someone with talent and creativity but with a limited pocket.
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