Please critique: Frost Heaves banner

[LMNO]

Not my design, so not offended.

[Juana]

I'd change the background color to a light blue or green. Other than that, looks fine to me.

[Triple Zero]

it's a littlebit blurry and I recognize the weird font in the second line. which would not be so bad, except that it's a fairly unique font. as well as that the swirly curl bits of the 'n' and the 't' are repeating.

apart from that, I just think it's a bit boring.

there you wanted critique

positive note: I like the text

[Roaring Biscuit!]

good fun in poor taste is pretty lulzy   

I think I prefer "Frost Heaves" to "The Frost Heaves", but that don't really matter.

Apart from that I pretty much agree with Trip, if you have some ideas imagery wise I could draw you something (for free an everything)

x

edd

[Richter]

Someone in marketing courss once told me how FAMOUS the "DAve Dinger For in Braintree...In Braintreeeeee." song was.  It clashed, it was dissonant, it cause pain that stuck with you

The combination of the sepia tone and the font in teh 2nd line is a bit pseudo victorian, and the first font screams TRON.  It's like someone steampunked an 80's electronica advert.  This clash affronts my headachy under- caffeinated state, but I have no doubt I'll remember this.

It works well, tweaking optional, IMHO.  

[notathing]

first off, gradients suck.  they'e boring and annoying.  and pretty much this whole banner is a big ugly gradient box with some blurry text.

the text should be bigger in relation to the entire size of the banner and sharper too.

[LMNO]

What's a gradient?


Also, fuzzy text due to horrible translations in graphic programs.

Original is sharper, promise.

[Nast]

A gradient's when one color blends into another.

[LMNO]

Gotcha.

Lady Soul:  Willing to hear suggestions to pass on to those who created this thing.

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There's some visual competition between the name of the band and the slogan. One should clearly dominate—I'd suggest using the slogan as a headline.

I agree about the gradient, kill it. It doesn't really support the main idea because it's not tacky enough to read as "poor taste" and just looks like an afterthought.

Also, the space could be filled in a more dynamic way. Angling one line very approximately 10° might be more interesting. And finally, couldn't someone whip together some low-fi imagery to illustrate or suggest what kind of poor taste they're referring to? Or even a picture of the band/important band member?

[notathing]

I would definitely make one of the lines of text the central focus, make it bigger in scale than the other.

either the band name or the slogan could be enlarged and it would work.  the slogan might be cooler. then the other bit of text would be kinda a little informative footnote explaining who's responsible for this good fun and poor taste.

I'd say make some really shitty and lewd WOMP and incorporate it into the banner. yeah.

no gradients, maybe some more special looking customized text would be good, the fonts for the two bits of text should be somewhat homogeneous.

if they have a logo maybe incorporate that.  if they don't have a logo, they should make one.

[Pariah]

I'm not a fan of the font on the second line.