Creative Mascot Designs that Never Made the Cut

Creative Mascot Designs that Never Made the CutCreative Mascot Designs that Never Made the Cut

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Dario⚡️ Ferrando

max

• 10h

A few mascotte tests that sadly will never see the light of day. Client decided to stick to "normal" branding. 😭

Mascot Design Brand Design Illustration Adobe Illustrator

Last Monday Studio

• 3h

It is certainly their loss! This would've been such a memorable mark. Love it :D

Dario⚡️ Ferrando

max

• 3h

Sadly I am starting to feel that most of my best work never makes it live because some clients are not brave enough ;.; or i am bad at convincing people. probably both

Last Monday Studio

• 3h

Haha, I truly wish this was not relatable. x)

Miguel A Coelho

pro

• Mar 21

A brand identity system for a concrete manufacturer, pushing the raw material into a new visual language.

ASP Case Study

Adobe Photoshop Figma Brand Design

Trashu Vashisth

• Mar 22

Great!!

Alex Foxley

• Mar 20

Jumping into the weekend like 🍄 Been leaning more into character design lately and I’m kinda loving it! 😄

Illustration Adobe Illustrator

David Akinlosotu

• Mar 20

So clean and colourful 💯

Daniel G Bright

max

• Mar 20

I was on a client call today explaining why I went with a certain brand direction and halfway through I realized I wasn't explaining anything. I was figuring it out on the call.

Like.. the strategy doc exists and the rationale is in there. but the thing that came out was even better than what I had, and I think that's because I had to make it understandable for someone who's not in my head for 3 weeks.

Not sure if that's a bad thing or not? I think the reason presenting design work feels awful sometimes (at least for me) is because my thinking isn't done yet and I can feel myself finishing it in real time and there's nowhere to hide.

I've been trying to just... accept it? Like, stop treating the presentation as the thing after the work. It might be the work.

Still figuring that out tbh

Brand Design Brand Strategy Figma

Evan White

pro

• Mar 20

It's for sure really hard to present design decisions when we feel as if nothing is ever considered "done". I think designers index pretty high on the perfectionism scale which makes it so difficult to feel like anything is ever complete. I think putting ourselves in positions...