Critique: Better Cook, covers, logos... oh my!

I've been quite a busy little designer lately. I've been working on Better Cook pages and also Vox covers for the next week's issue about Dynamic Duos. I only made slight changes with my Better Cook designs so they're not too drastically different, but I'm really happy with how they magazine is turning out!

My favorite is the garnish department spread, "Four Ways to Spice Up Your Kitchen Now." The only change I really made was making the wine connoisseur image/story more dominant. I'm excited to see our finished product!

Now for Dynamic Duo covers:

Along with the rest of Vox staff, my favorite is the first cover. It has the "dynamic" look to it which I thought was fitting! I'll be working more on that tonight to have as my final draft for tomorrow's critique session. For the second cover, I was playing around with a dynamic duo. Who's more of a dynamic duo than a couple power rangers?! My thoughts exactly. I also worked with Illustrator more than I usually do since I'm trying to get more familiar with it. For the last cover, I was playing around with the idea of a bunch of different pieces fitting together to work/function as one, just like what a dynamic duo does.

Shifting gears, I've also been working on my online portfolio. So I've been working on some different ideas as far as logos go. And I'm learning I LOVE designing logos! So here's my first page of ideas...

I started out with the black and white ones then started playing around with color. I like both the blueish/periwinkle color but also love the green, so I wanted to incorporate both somehow. My biggest problem I had making these was that it looks like "low" instead of "bw". So I played around with some different fonts, and it still looked like low. So here's what my final logo is!

I'm really happy with how it turned out. I think since I put the green circle inside the "b" that it looks less like "low" and more like my initials. Now to finish my portfolio!