Advice needed on landscaping logo

[flatyre]

cheers for the advice folks, I should play it safe and just go with a more traditional logo, name below a tree, leaf, you know, but I want something a bit different, trouble is not making it too complicated or vague. The top design is a bit builder/estate agent, the bottom one was a spur of the moment thing. Any idea how to make a logo interesting, intriguing, memorable without being too complex, after all there's no one as dumb as joe public.

[northman]

Both me and the wife agree on the bottom one.maybe drop those little coloured squares though.

[flatyre]

what about this? bit more traditional

 

[flatyre]

or this....

[aitch]

That looks great. Impressed your doing it yourself. I wouldn't know where to start. What software do you use?

[Gary Prentice]

Think it looks better when its all in the box.

 

What about something like:

[daltontrees]

or this....

 

Nicely done but everyone's got one like that. Just my opinion but you won't stand ot at all witha logo like that.

 

I thought you were on to something with your original logo. I agreed with the comment about the garden looking like railway sleepers (concrete ones!) but I muucked about with it a bit (see below) and if you're design ethos is to integrate vegetation, fencing and other garden furniture and the building materials of the clietn's house in a pallette of colours, this might say it, as it hints at decking, lawn, paths or slabbing and whatever black is (could be the street). I skewed the perspective sideways because straight-on did look a bit Habitat Homes-ish. I widened the H and L in the building to make the proportions look a little more relaistic, but I thought it was clever to use the spaces as you did to get 3 windows and a door. My version is a bit rough, I spent 5 minutes on it, but if I was you I'd work on that idea.

 

Just my opinion, good luck with it. If your logo shows imagination, people wioll seek you out. Unimaginative logo, unimaginative landscaper.

[stihlmadasever]

Daltontrees design is marginally better but im still not sold on all the lines.Perhaps remove the red lines along the right and replace with some sort of arty minimalistic row of trees.just a suggestion-keep at it though its improving

[Gary Prentice]

Jules! Five minutes? I don't believe ya, I took twenty in 'Paint' eating my lunch. I wish I hadn't bothered now:001_tt2:

[easy-lift guy]

Your 1st design was to generic. The 2nd design was juvenile. Is the name of your company habitat landscaping?. If so may I suggest using some existing landscape designs with a combination elevation and plan view perspective. When customers ask for a business card why not give them a taste of your own work instead of something off the shelf. I would place the company name Habitat Landscaping on the card design, like this:

 

Habitat Landscaping

 

Insert graphics of your work

 

 

 

Name and contact information

easy-lift guy

ps. The name and contact info would appear in the lower right hand corner

of this design, not on the left as shown on this reply.

Edited November 6, 2015 by easy-lift guy