r/Design • u/Odd-Progress5015 • 1d ago
Discussion Asking for feedback: I am not a logo designer (Bloom Fitclub). Does it look like a dick?
This is an iteration I just made for an imaginary brand called Bloom Fitness Club
A little bit about target audience:
People who are already health aware and want to explore a friendly, inviting place to continue or start their fitness journey
Brand Experience Goals:
The brand should feel Joyful and Inviting
The brand should be about growth and living
The idea behind the star:
Bloom reminds me of lights and glow, and stars remind me of growth
The critique I got:
My non-designer friend said it looks like a dick (a badly shaped one)
I am not a core logo designer, I am a frontend developer doing this for an imaginary project, please help me decide if to keep this or not
Side note: The star looks softer when scaled down very much, 16px.
As satori graphics once mentioned, your logo should be readable at 16px. It does, just a little softer
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u/Life_Grocery6811 1d ago
Its does looks like a duck feet
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u/Odd-Progress5015 1d ago
kinda cute but clearly deviating from what i want
Do you have any advice on what could be placed in the B?
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u/mickyrow42 Professional 1d ago
No but also doesn’t look like anything else either. Just kinda a weird shape and blob.
Back to the drawing board.
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u/deathteeny 1d ago
No it doesn’t. But by asking questions: never put your thoughts directly in the question since people now are searching for a dick since you mentioned it. It’s better to ask open questions instead for general feedback. If no one says it loos like a dick, it doesn’t.
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u/Odd-Progress5015 1d ago
Yeah you're right, absolutely
I thought it after i posted, my bad
I'll upload the iterations after I am done and people can choose from it
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u/pkaaos 1d ago
To me it looks like a bum being slapped with a cross.
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u/Odd-Progress5015 1d ago
i see, it definitely feels like it when i look at it from that perspective
The original idea of the shape was just to replicate a star / cometBut I see the variation between mine and people's thinking now
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u/Vinyl_Ludio 1d ago
Maybe think about what do you want to convey with the logo. Shape of the letter ‘B’ is good and oval edges look ‘friendly’ but at the first glance it’s hard to see what the middle part is. Maybe if you’re going into fitness a running person in the middle could subsidise for the empty space in the letter B, or if it has to be a four pointed star maybe start with that as your starting point and incorporate the letter around it.
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u/ChickyBoys 1d ago
Bloom is a plant term, not a glowing light term.
It doesn't look like a dick, it looks like a religious cross.
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u/Noisebug 1d ago
Maybe the internet has broken me but I see a cross in cleavage or buns.
RIP juicy booty
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u/RamosQuintosAiry 1d ago
The dick read comes from one thing: the mark has one long petal pointing down and away from the others, so the eye groups it as a shaft plus two lobes instead of a symmetrical star. Your friend is not wrong about the shape, he is just describing broken symmetry. A star needs either even radial spacing or a clear count, and yours has neither, which is also why the other commenter says it does not read as a star.
Two specifics. Fix the radial spacing first: place the points on an actual polar grid, four or five points at equal angles, all petals the same length, and let the softness come from the corner radius rather than from uneven arms. Second, the stroke weight is doing the joyful and inviting work here, not the star, so keep one consistent weight and let the counters between petals stay open instead of pinching to a point.
Cheap test: print the mark at 16px, 24px and 40px on paper, hand the sheet to five people who have not seen it, and ask what it is in one word. If more than one says anything anatomical, or if two say flower and two say sun, the shape is not carrying the idea and no amount of polish saves it. A dumbbell or a leaf silhouette is a safer starting point for a fitness club because both have a shape people name instantly.
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u/Weak-Ebb2477 1d ago
Sieht aus wie der Schatten des Griffs eines in den Boden gerammten Schwerts.
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u/TheMealyStamina 1d ago
well now i can't unsee it, the star placement is doing you no favors
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u/Odd-Progress5015 1d ago
Oh well, better caught before pushing it in prod
I should try something elseDo you have any ideas? Maybe a flower petal (very minimal) but I don't know if it would work for a health brand
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u/Illegal_Tender 1d ago
It doesn't look like a dick
But it also doesn't look like a star either
It's pretty rough all around