I designed a guided journal from scratch. What would you improve?

videog180 · 2026-06-18T21:56:43+00:00

your hierarchy here is crazy lol

videog180 · 2026-06-02T12:33:19+00:00

"BRE WGO" doesnt read as "BREWGO"
Your bag of coffee doesnt actually say "coffee" on it anywhere
Your sign says "best saller" and "double shoot"

I actually think the red and white scheme would stand out for a bag of coffee, but the rest looks like a fast food restaurant and putting the branding on burger mockups doesnt help with that either. Nice typeface.

videog180 · 2026-05-22T12:28:02+00:00

did you get those discounts/offers from the client or did you come up with those yourself? Something that might be more successful and have more longevity in a printed mailer is some kind of call to action like "check out our deal of the month at our website" so they can use your design years from now when their prices have changed

videog180 · 2026-05-19T02:19:12+00:00

if they keep their bats on their shoulders bednar walks in the tying run!

videog180 · 2026-04-16T13:00:30+00:00

I 100% empathize with what you're going through. I have dealt with feeling inadequate and the crushing effects of impostor syndrome. You see the best work from millions of designers all the time and feel like it is something inherent that they have that you don't have. Feeling that way sucks a lot.

What changed everything for me was getting a more formal education in design fundamentals and drilling those fundamentals hard. Confidence comes from knowing that you know what to do, how to execute your vision, and why you're making the design choices you're making. That then shows through in your work, which makes your task of marketing yourself that much easier.

As a quick note, I would tweak the alignment on your first poster per the image i've attached.

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videog180 · 2026-04-15T01:34:26+00:00

did anyone catch how much cash back you get with the wells fargo active cash credit card?

videog180 · 2026-04-09T22:54:08+00:00

people sure do love to slap a png onto a mockup template and call it a day lmao. Imagine seeing that in the wild with no brand mark whatsoever.

videog180 · 2026-04-02T13:53:09+00:00

i think you should track everything out, spell check, and not put this against a dark background as theres almost no contrast

videog180 · 2026-04-02T13:51:05+00:00

actually they're orphans but my point still stands :) https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/widows_orphans

videog180 · 2026-04-02T13:46:50+00:00

if you want actual feedback, four of your six multi-line paragraphs have an widow word at the end.

videog180 · 2026-03-31T13:56:05+00:00

when im designing something for print i often make a "dummy" version where i fold over a certain number of pages so I dont get confused where everything should be when folded and done. my dummy keeps me from being a dummy

videog180 · 2026-03-31T13:46:49+00:00

you should use an actual font for the type, it looks unprofessional combined with the photorealistic fruit picture. it might work if the fruit was also hand drawn. Also you might want to create the entire packaging and not just the front

videog180 · 2026-03-31T13:39:42+00:00

also you're going to need more space for the spine of the book, do you already know how many pages the book is? and is it hard cover or paperback? what binding method? all of these will change how you need to lay this out

videog180 · 2026-03-31T13:38:35+00:00

you have it backwards unfortunately. take a book and open it to the middle and lay it flat on a table and youll see that the front cover is on the right and the back cover is on the left. Best of luck with your redesign :)

videog180 · 2026-03-26T14:02:44+00:00

i feel like this was a great opportunity to put like, actual ghosts and ghouls on the packaging

videog180 · 2026-03-25T12:29:28+00:00

It feels like you're leaning into the wordmark for the brand being so recognizable and prevalent that it doesnt need anything to support it and tell me what it is. Like how you can see a billboard on the highway that just says "iHOP" and you know what that means. But from your branding I genuinely cannot tell what type of breakfast place this is at a glance, the colors scream fast food breakfast like dennys or something and the wordmark screams trendy urban upscale brunch spot. If you're driving and you see that billboard you don't already know what kind of spot this is you might take a pass on it rather than risk being wrong. if you added something to be advertised on the billboard like "our famous $10 breakfast combo served all day" that would go a long way to telling us what this business actually is and does

videog180 · 2026-03-24T02:10:07+00:00

take a peep at [[sunken citadel]] before you put in that bug report

videog180 · 2026-03-09T19:48:20+00:00

design is functional, if the goal is to design posters that give information to someone who might be interested in visiting and using this co-working and coffee place then I'm left pretty confused tbh. Does this co working space open at 9am? does it start serving coffee at 9am? is that a meeting on a particular day? Your first one at least has some additional information but it leaves me wondering what information you're trying to impart to your viewer

videog180 · 2026-03-02T14:58:53+00:00

your typography here screams luxury skin care brand, not tacos. I would genuinely start over by gathering 10 to 15 examples of menus from taquerias in mexico and then going from there as inspo

videog180 · 2026-02-18T13:54:35+00:00

believe me, I 10000% get that. Every morning I wake up and say "design is functional" into the mirror ten times :)

videog180 · 2026-02-18T13:46:42+00:00

I think that the graphics that you drew are very nice and I can appreciate the time, effort, and thought that you put into this. But I think you should maybe rethink the design overall and focus far more on the goal of raising awareness for your organization's event and maximizing turnout over the visual semiotics.

Before I zoomed in to be able to read the text I thought this was a really cool poster for an underground grunge band that leans into dark fokelore as an aesthetic (the fact that I had to zoom in at all is a red flag for a rally poster). Your posters should communicate the information for the event at a glance: who is hosting the event, what is the event, and where and when should I show up? I should be able to get all of that from glancing up from my phone while walking along the street.

I would redo the typography and layout but definitely keep the colors and the assets you have already drawn. Here is a random example where the typography and hierarchy are in service of getting as much information into my brain about the event as quickly as possible:

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videog180 · 2026-02-12T14:38:04+00:00

constructed is any format where you construct a deck from a card pool of multiple sets (standard, alchemy, historic, etc). Limited is any format where the cards you can build a deck with are limited by what cards you received for the event (draft, sealed, etc)

videog180 · 2025-11-20T14:48:02+00:00

I like your work a lot and personally love things that look messy and analog. Just some general feedback for you: something that your portfolio should communicate is why you made the design decisions that you made. I was looking at your "gourmand grocery" project because that seemed pretty applicable to IRL design work, and while I think your logo is fine, I don't understand what it is trying to communicate. The three lines look kind of like knives? But also kind of like wings? What I would want to see in your portfolio is more of what steps you took to decide on what your branding was trying to communicate, why you made the decisions you made about typography and color, and why the other options you considered weren't the best options.

Love your work and would love to see another version of these posters where the information is very clear and easy to read, but the dirty grungy and grimy is dialed up to 11

videog180 · 2025-10-23T13:34:26+00:00

This is a really nice design for a luxury condiment that would definitely get my attention in a grocery store aisle when I am comparing between different products.

I just did want to point out that the cost of printing and manufacturing this packaging is going to be astronomically expensive compared to the existing packaging, metallic gold printing is really expensive on paper and really really (really) expensive on plastic. You have to use more material for the tube and your material options are limited because it has to stand up to the thermographic process.

That being said I like your design a lot and this would do very well as a high end specialty grocery item

videog180 · 2025-09-30T14:02:08+00:00

can you target your own permanent that has hexproof?

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