DogBoston’s Dog Blog

Form and Function

As a “little tiny business owner” I often struggle with balancing form and function. As you may have noticed, the new site is located at care.dogboston.com and looks and performs the way I want it to… all professional looking and such.

(tangent - the fastest way to get to dogboston is to go to where the website address is found, erase everything, then type dogboston, then hold down the CTRL button and press Enter. Voila!! This works with CNN, Boston, Flickr, and any of your other favorite sites - it automatically wraps the word you typed with the www. and a .com… cool.)

Anyway, I am not a great designer 

The problem I often face is that I try to rush out a logo for each of my site designs and well, I’ve never really liked any of them.  For kicks, I dug out a bunch of old logo designs I created while thinking of what the next look should be.  As you can see, I’m spending too much time on something I’m not very good at   Some are better than others.

Here’s my first logo followed by some experiments and such

 

The last one I did this weekend, and well…  I kinda like it… shows progress over time too, I think, but I am looking to see if anyone else can create something amazing for the site ?!   Perhaps some of these legendary designers happen to be reading this?  Would like something iconic, memorable.  Combining elements of Dog (paws, tails, head, etc) and Boston.  Personally I liked the SITGO sign idea above…
So I need help!

Do you know anyone that does excellent work for a fair price??  I’d love to get the word out to local dog business owners about your work if you can help me out…  Leave a comment below or contact me through the form here.

Thanks,

Brian