New Logo..Thumbs Up Or Down?

What's the logo for?

Cycloptichorn

My duo I play acoustic he plays electric

Okay, good logo then. If you're looking for feedback, I'd say that it's not entirely clear that the guitar on the left is acoustic; if you could add in the circular cut-out where it would be on a regular guitar it would make it more obvious.

I guess that the electric pickups on the one on the right make that clearer if you know more about guitars...

Cycloptichorn

Actually those are exact drawings of my Ovation acoustic and Jay's Fender strat...that's where the soundholes are on the ovation acoustic....

I run any prospective logo through two initial tests:

If the logo doesn't look good in monochrome I think it fails the first test. Right now, if the banner were black, instead of red, it wouldn't look that good and a good logo should be simple enough that it can look good in monochrome.

Another test I like doing with logos is to make it much smaller and see if it still works. E.g. could you make a 16X16 pixel representation of it? Here you can't and there's not a small portion you could use for that either (e.g. the a2k logo doesn't look good very small either but you can use the question mark only in those scenarios).

I'm not a great logo designer (not much of one at all in fact, and have only done one logo in my life that I liked myself) but I do order logos a lot, and this one wouldn't be a favorite for me.

this is the guitar

I have it in plain black and white as well....and I've already shrunk it considerably in a couple of places and it still looks pretty good.

Are you sure there should be an apostrophe in TWOs?

The apostrophe has three uses: 1) to form possessives of nouns, 2) to show the omission of letters, and 3) to indicate plurals of letters

BBB

I like it. Great name for your duo too.

It falls under #2, it represents an "i".

contraction for two is a crowd...as Robert said

I like the larger version in grey scale. However, Robert does have a point about it losing quality when the image is scaled down. In these two thumbnail sizes the intricate detail gets lost.

Wow, what a beaut! I can see why you'd stick with that pic, I only mentioned it b/c I've never seen one of those before.

Cycloptichorn

Not to be a buzzkill, but I don't much like the name of the group. "Crowd" has a negative connotation to me, and "Two's a Crowd" doesn't shout "music combo ".

Papa Loves Combo?

Crowd.... as in drawing a crowd... has an extremely positive connotation to the people who write our checks

The combination of the red, the banner, the old fashioned font and the strings gives it a bit of a feeling of a country fair, or a circus - like baloons or a hot air baloon or whatnot...but that could be just me. I like the composition (though I agree that us lay people would see both guitars as electric - that's just what they look like to us not in the know). When the red is taken off, it has less of a country fair feel to me... Doesn't need much though...jus a little *something* to make it more sassy and less family friendly.

I think it's the type of the banner and font mostly.

it's a juggling act... we don't want to appear too "hard rockish" because we're searching out corporate work...this is a money making project..art for art's sake, money for god's sake....

sure, i know, made many logos myself. just giving an honest feedback.

ultimately, the name + logo must give a clear idea of why i should be excited and book you right away. if you have to explain, that means it's probably not clear to others as well. i would not get "two can draw a crowd" from your band title. i would think it means that the two of you have fun enough on your own and would expect a low key informal chamber settings - background music while there is a dinner, or such. could be what you're aiming for though, in which case it works.