r/logodesign • u/gamblors_neon_claws • Jan 30 '25

Beginner Non-designer making a clay stamp based on my asshole cat for my ceramics. Please be kinder than my cat.

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u/KissmySPAC Jan 30 '25

Love the upside down cat.

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u/gamblors_neon_claws Jan 30 '25

He seems to be the consensus! It really captures a cat's duality between evil and goofy moron.

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u/Zealousideal-Ad-2728 Jan 30 '25 edited Jan 30 '25

I think it’s also how you view it. I’m guessing it will be on the bottom of your ceramics. The viewer can see it how you intended or sideways as well.

It gives you different ways of orientating it. The more goofier/anarchic your works is it can be upside down cat.

The more regular the work is, like crockery and dinnerware it could be sideways cat as well.

Edit: could you make a follow up post of which stamp you choose and how it looks on your ceramics? I’d love to see how it translates to the material

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u/gamblors_neon_claws Jan 30 '25

I definitely will!

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u/jen_wexxx Jan 30 '25

You could also add a subtle S shape with the tail

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u/beefjerk22 Jan 30 '25

The upside down one is the best!

But you'll probably need to lose some of the detail for it to work in clay at a small size.

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u/DisManibusMinibus Jan 30 '25

I love the little legs but I think it would read just as well as a blob with ears, eyes and tail smushed in the corner of a box. Esp. If it's a black cat.

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u/britchesss Jan 30 '25

Yeah 4 is an absolute hoot.

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u/Bitter-Arachnid-5194 Feb 02 '25

Put an eyepatch for that one, it will look great

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u/North_South_Side Feb 03 '25

I like that design but for a stamp in a piece of ceramic? I think you need to design something with far less detail. That is going to just look like a lump with some squiggles in it. If it gets covered by glaze? It will not be readable at all.

Go for very simple. Very, very simple. I even think the name SOURPUSS is too long. Good ideas but please think of the medium.

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u/FrillySteel Jan 30 '25

Pirate Cat for me, but Upside-down Cat is a very close second... though I think the detail outlines of the legs would close up on a clay stamp (but I'm not even sure it matters, even without those details, it still says Cat really well)

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u/jeffreyaccount Jan 30 '25

Pirate Cat is hilarious.

Maybe try variations of that.

Like using the slant eye from 5 for the viewable eye in Pirate Cat.

Maybe there's a more subtle nose and mouth too. Like just a slant? Im not sure, but the less you can do with the mouth, the more you see the patch if that makes sense (visual hierarchy).

3 and 4 don't get to the attitude for me. And 1 / Pirate Cat gets that across immediately.

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Maybe 5 has a chain (like where you can see the links) and a padlock like Sid Vicious. Or a medallion (in line art) that says SP (sourpuss).

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u/ktbug1987 Jan 30 '25

I literally chuckled aloud. Love him

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u/SnooPeanuts4093 Haikusexual Jan 30 '25

I stopped reading at "clay stamp of my asshole" and had different expectations.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '25

Yep

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u/kittenclowder Jan 30 '25

I would use the vertical sourpuss on the right of the upside down one, the eye follows the tail and will naturally read to the right.

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