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[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let me curse in Church for a bit:

I like the AI image more. Why? Because this "flat and colorless" trend of Windows 8 going forward has been a fucking curse. Everything is flat and colorless now :(

I've read some comments here, and I can agree that the generated image is too complex, but the original design has gone too bland for my liking.

/cursing

Eh, I mean... Boo! AI Bad!

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 points 23 hours ago
[–] Vytle@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

I would NOT support a business that has an AI generated image.

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ai did a shit job.

-Ex graphic designer

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe your trained eye can tell better than me but it looks to me that the homecraft name in the AI one isn't even centered properly.

[–] NoFun4You@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It's the style lol

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Did you seriously think the freelancer isn't capable of creating something like that? Like, do you think that FedEx uses their name with a hidden arrow in the "Ex" because they couldn't hire anyone to draw them a photorealistic delivery truck with a box on it or whatever? Microsoft can't figure out how to make a window with reflections so they use the squares?

The simplicity isn't an accident.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Right?!? I wonder what happens when the business with the AI logo has to pay for full-color printing for all of their materials because their logo is so visually complex.

This isn't an issue if you solely operate digitally, but a storefront needs signage. Advertising becomes much more expensive in process color than 1 or 2 spot colors. Most physical businesses need things like business cards, invoices, purchase orders, packaging, ...

A professional designer will usually create a 1-color or 2-color logo to use for some of those things even when you have a full-color logo design to use on the most "important" materials. AI won't give that level of service, for sure.

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[–] tobis@lemm.ee 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Considering they probably fed the left image into the ai to make the right image, it’s rather silly.

“I made this logo with only an ai model, and can-do attitude, and a logo.”

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I wonder if a fucker like this has commissioned a logo, fed an initial design through AI, and then refused to pay the initial designer.

[–] grayautumnday@leminal.space 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Especially since the magicsh*t ai version will be SO identifiable as a favicon

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I see an old-timey ghost inside a house silhouette.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is the modern-day equivalent of Frontpage/clipart

[–] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 day ago

I get what you're saying (esp low-quality clip-art), though lots of clipart was actually vector art (like autotraced from physical art, giving some prominent styles) so would probably make for a better logo than what they generated here.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago

"Guys I turned your Nike logo from a swoosh to wind blowing dust in a vague swoosh like shape also there's a foot there so you know where it came from and we'll stitch that on AAAAAAALLLL your products and guys... Guys? What do you mean I'm fired?"

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 42 points 2 days ago

Looks like they are missing the plot. Logos are supposed to be simple...

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago

MagicShot.ai - Al Logo Geneator

Geat work

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

anyone with a year of design training will know why the right "logo" is a pile of shit.

anyone with a month of experience printing will know why the right "logo" is a pile of shit.

anyone who has had 5 minutes with genAI will think they're a design master when they create the "logo" on the right.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 2 days ago

I disagree.

Anyone who has spent a few minutes thinking about what a logo is and what it's used for will be able to tell you that one of these is a logo and the other is... a picture.

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[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 229 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Lol try printing that on merch, dumb dumb. That’s an awful logo. It’s really not even a logo, it’s a scene.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 158 points 2 days ago (18 children)

Reminds me of the very first Apple Computer logo:

They dropped that for a simpler logo, and then dropped the simpler logo for an even simpler one.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Morebranding than logo. Looks like a label from an old bottle of tonic.

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I would love to see a parallel world where all tech companies logos were all this detailed and old looking

[–] cazssiew@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

IBM's wasn't nearly as detailed but I really like it too

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I've seen so many commercials where a realistic scene fades into the stylized logo that that's what my mind went to.

The left is a better logo, fewer fine details, easy to silk screen, easy to laser print, hell you could make a branding iron and burn it into wood.

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[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 122 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (19 children)

I work in an industry that deals with customer logos almost exclusively. I now get at least one person a week bringing in garbage-tier art they made in Canva or whatever that isn’t made to any standard at all, so they have tons of thin lines, gradients, blurring, etc. Shocker, AI only thinks about making it visually appealing when it won’t translate to a one-color, doesn’t have PMS tones to base it on, no simplified version, etc.

People think making a logo is just that. Just the image itself. They don’t think past what’s in front of them.

[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 59 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In my experience, most people have simply never thought about it before. If someone decides they want to open a bakery and they have never had a business before, they haven't thought about everywhere their new logo will be used unless they get that expertise from someone. I've gotten pretty good at explaining these concepts to people and they typically respect my expertise and take my advice, but not everyone 😆

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[–] tomjuggler@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I legit thought Lemmy just got ads when I saw this post

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Surprise, dear user! We're upgrading your experience to bring you only the best ads. Aren't you glad for us?

[–] ZDL@ttrpg.network 58 points 2 days ago

Someone doesn't know what a logo is for, I see.

[–] notarobot@lemm.ee 30 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The one on the right is prettier (not necessarily better. I've read some comments by people that know more than I do with some valid points). However, to create the image on the right, they probably fed the AI the image from the left, made by a designer.

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Honestly I was confused on AI made whicu one. Guess I am overestimating AI, in some sense & I need to improve my AI literacy.

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[–] natecox@programming.dev 69 points 2 days ago

That logo is terrible.

Like, a core component of a good logo is that it’s easily identifiable at a glance at all shapes and sizes and on various backgrounds… complicated photorealistic logos basically lack all of these criteria by default.

This is why you need someone experienced not some ai slop.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 26 points 2 days ago

I don't like either, but the left one at least scales better for various applications across platforms and media.

[–] scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Imagine the printing costs of putting variations of the right on all your products? Just the color variety alone would add to the production costs.

[–] phneutral@feddit.org 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Reminds me of German Designer Kurt Weidemann who redesigned the Logo of German train company Deutsche Bahn in the 90s. He inverted the colors, got rid of one outline — and still saves the company millions over the years because of the paint that is saved putting the logo on all trains. All while modernising the typography, but remaining true to the brand.

This is what design is about — everything else is decoration.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"I created" and "with AI" is the newest oxymoron.

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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 days ago

Logo on the right is what you give a marketing team so they can tell you the 600 ways it won't print right, cost too much to display, and ultimately rework it into logo on the left.

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