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I had the idea to use this slogan on a bumper sticker for ages now, but I only recently figured out how to pull it off, design-wise. Obviously it's a parody of those bumper stickers that say "Real love waits for marriage." Right now it's in scraps because at the moment I really hate the color scheme and I'm not too keen on how I did the lettering either. Figures. Two semesters of graphic design and I still can't make a simple bumper sticker work.
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I'd say "Mating Season" needs to be done in a different typeface. I take it you're equating mating season with marriage, here; it brings up the consideration that Mistral's overall mood seems more appropriate for a one-night stand or a summer fling than a lifetime of love. It's also a bit overused.
Is there a specific reason you're not using pink and blue for the pawprints? The use of green and orange suggests to me you might be trying to not suggest gender at all.
Is there a specific reason you're not using pink and blue for the pawprints? The use of green and orange suggests to me you might be trying to not suggest gender at all.
I actually had pink and blue originally—and a completely different color scheme in fact—and halfway through the submission process I suddenly realized "Aw crap! I just realized like half the people who'd want to use this are gay!" So I wound up creating this color scheme, which I hate even more. I don't think it could really be helped though.
It seems you've already done a pretty good job of reading your audience here.
What if you used two shades of an earth tone instead of the orange and green? That would be ambiguous enough to be read as male+female, same-gender partners, or even intergender+whatever. It would also solve the issue of the complementary-color battle of green and red going on in this composition.
I do like the overall design in regards to placement, though the text to the right of that black circle has uneven spacing above and below (made a bit more difficult by the angle of "mating season"). The circle-and-paw design looks fine right where it is, but the text seems crowded, especially on the bottom.
(Oh, in case you couldn't guess... I'm also in graphic design, though I wonder whether I'm really cut out for advertising, our professor's main interest; he's been in the business for 25 years. It feels way too rat-racey for my taste.)
What if you used two shades of an earth tone instead of the orange and green? That would be ambiguous enough to be read as male+female, same-gender partners, or even intergender+whatever. It would also solve the issue of the complementary-color battle of green and red going on in this composition.
I do like the overall design in regards to placement, though the text to the right of that black circle has uneven spacing above and below (made a bit more difficult by the angle of "mating season"). The circle-and-paw design looks fine right where it is, but the text seems crowded, especially on the bottom.
(Oh, in case you couldn't guess... I'm also in graphic design, though I wonder whether I'm really cut out for advertising, our professor's main interest; he's been in the business for 25 years. It feels way too rat-racey for my taste.)
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