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[sputnik23]

Here is the livery for GoJet (I used a lot of imangination...) :  gojet.png   100.03KB   13 downloads

[lvan]

No words at all.


The colour choice is horrid, the colours don't go with each other. Is that seaweed I see on the plane? The wing is blurred.

[badaboom121]

I'm no expert - others will certainly give you much better advice. But some thoughts from a fellow newbie to the design world;

Keep it simple. Unless your creating a special livery, in most cases simple liveries speak loudest. Not necessarily just some colorful lines thrown onto the plane or something like that, rather you want something that will 'evoke' a feeling towards the airline or connote something that you want the airline to connote.

Consider the airlines 'ethos'. What mood does the airline want to set? In that, what does the airline want their customers to feel when they step aboard, and how do they want them to feel when they see that airline on the tarmac sitting next to the airline they're flying now. What feelings do they want to evoke so as to convince passengers to switch to that airline? Seeing the airline's livery may not convince someone to switch, but it does set a certain mood towards that airline.

For example - the dark blue and gold on the Singapore Airlines livery evokes elegance, luxury, and almost some regality. Appropriately, Singapore airlines is a full service airline which provides many amenities, and caters primarily to people in the business world with plenty of money - their product (and obviously fares) reflects this. On the other hand, there is mango airlines. It is a low cost subsidiary of South African Airways, and there livery and branding reflects that. They have a bright orange color which is light hearted and I would say evokes happiness. It is play ful and fun, but not luxurious. Likewise, they cater to a demographic seeking lower cost air travel to South Africa's vacation destinations such as cape town.

A livery is sort of like a first impression to me. Would you rather have a conversation with someone with scruffled hair, a green shirt, orange pants and a black eye? Or woud you rather have a conversation with someone with someone groomed and dressed smartly?

I don't mean to be a prude, but in using your imagination on this livery, it doesn't appear you considered the 'ethos' of the airline, if you will, but simply slapped some things on the plane. I have no problem with this, we are all at different designing levels. I myself am not exactly artistically inclined as porter, or speedbird, or agre, or any of the other designers are, but I thought I would just give you these thoughts for future consideration. Perhaps some other designers can give you some more constructive criticism.

Happy painting

[QK Flight Industries]

Everything that badaboom said.

Here's my personal take: that kind of livery is too complicated to survive in the wild.... tone it down a lot.

[Ioh]

Theres all sorts going on it way too complicated, you should have just settled for the logo on the front and tail, that would have been better than all that clutter.