The first one in the second row is the most compelling - it's clean and sharp and will adapt well to any application. You could use the jv on its own as a graphic device too if you wanted.

The first row has that difficulty with the kerning of 'vi' which is quite distracting. The other two look unbalanced to me - the rounded join in the third row looks forced, and awkward!

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Aegir

That's the trouble with the initials J and V. They just don't sit well together.

#8 sort of looks like ’dv’.

or 'W'.

I'd stay away from the slab serifs in row 2 - they bring to mind collegiate sports, where 'JV' = junior varsity.

I like row three, because the letters wind up looking a bit like a scribble, which fits with creative design. Though I keep seeing an N or M in the V.

The logos in rows 3 and 4 seem so different in personality: which one is more like you?!

I vote row 2, or row 4 with some tweaking to make the letters more legible.

- Lex

wanted to post the image in the thread to make critiques a bit easier.
good group of logos so far. Some slight nitpicking:

row 1: The j and t need to be narrowed at the loop maybe? Or maybe eliminate the loop on the t
or cut it?
Optically, the t feels like it's too high, like it's tiptoeing on the baseline.

row 2: classy, could work. Or people might perceive Junior Varsity, as mentioned.

row 3: the V feels wide in relation to the J ... and seems to rise too high to the right.
difficult to decipher JV at first glance

row 4: snazzy work on this row, but maybe too close to Walden Media?

last pair is by far the most original of the four. But change the top of J if you don't want it to read d. You're removing the circle to differentiate it from Walden Media. Good. But just removing maybe won't work. Show us the results.

Great work anyway.
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Robert Koritnik

Second one is better but it could still be emphasized a bit more on top of J to make it more distinctive. And Maybe loosen up the line weight at the end of v.

But it's nice. I can see how you're going to push it into the edge.
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Robert Koritnik

you might even solve the ambiguity by placing the "dot" atop the 'j'...

"maybe if you gave the ’j’ more of a beginning stroke to serve as a ’point of entry’ into the mark"

Any chance you could explain a little bit what you mean here? I don't think I'll be dotting the J as I like the simple continuos line and wouldn't want to add to it.

As for the Clash - yup, I like them, and I play guitar too and like Hendrix, hence the spelling. It was a nickname given to me by some mates years ago and it stuck!

Well I've updated my site and portfolio (www.jamesianvincent.com) - what do you reckon?

How would you change it? I don't want to make it too angular and I can't seem to get it looking more like a "J" without doing that!

it looks more like "dv" to me.

penn

have you thought of making the j lowercase with a dot to emphasize that it's a j ?

like so:

I don't like the geometric dot that gerald added. Different style. Could be better if it was more ungeometric.
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Robert Koritnik

Hmm... apart from the fact that it's too late (my business cards turned up the other day, lacking a dot!) I'm not 100% sold on the dot. I agree it might work, but I don't think it works without changing the shape of the J, and I like the shape of the J :-)

Great work James.