How to liven up my bubbles?

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Nov 17, 2004
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I’m looking for some (graphic design) advice on how to make look more professional and exciting, my cel phone speech bubbles at:

http://www.geocities.com/simonclarke/bubbles1.jpg

and

http://www.geocities.com/simonclarke/bubbles2.jpg

Any suggestions?

A website designer commented to me:

"…the bubbles around the people looking at their phones could be made a bit better, it looks a bit rushed, and could do with another font and maybe a more interesting bubble around it."

The bubbles have to stay (kind of) rectangular, because they are depicting what is displayed on the phone’s screen – though they could perhaps be slanted/warped.

Here are some (oval) bubbles, that to me look well designed:

http://www.geocities.com/simonclarke/bubbles3.gif

From my observations of these bubbles, it seems the drop shadow/outline color is a darker variant of the balloon background color, the font is more suitable and of a contrasting color to the background.

I also see that the "pointy bits" are not made of straight lines (as mine are), but have a slight curve to them as they move towards the main body of the balloon.

Maybe I should incorporate some of these elements just described – though any additional advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance, Simon.
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C
Corey
Nov 17, 2004
You might try a more exciting font, use thought bubbles when appropriate, fill the bubbles with a semi-transparent color so you can see through them, or look at comic books for ideas on overlapping bubbles.

Peadge 🙂

"SimonC" wrote in message
I’m looking for some (graphic design) advice on how to make look more professional and exciting, my cel phone speech bubbles at:
http://www.geocities.com/simonclarke/bubbles1.jpg

and

http://www.geocities.com/simonclarke/bubbles2.jpg

Any suggestions?

A website designer commented to me:

"…the bubbles around the people looking at their phones could be made a bit better, it looks a bit rushed, and could do with another font and maybe a more interesting bubble around it."
The bubbles have to stay (kind of) rectangular, because they are depicting what is displayed on the phone’s screen – though they could perhaps be slanted/warped.

Here are some (oval) bubbles, that to me look well designed:
http://www.geocities.com/simonclarke/bubbles3.gif

From my observations of these bubbles, it seems the drop shadow/outline color is a darker variant of the balloon background color, the font is more suitable and of a contrasting color to the background.

I also see that the "pointy bits" are not made of straight lines (as mine are), but have a slight curve to them as they move towards the main body of the balloon.

Maybe I should incorporate some of these elements just described – though any additional advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance, Simon.

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