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<p>[QUOTE="messydesk, post: 3603542, member: 1765"]This. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the shield being boring, you're comparing it with two stark, very geometric wheat stalks surrounding a bunch of lettering and a rectangular building with columns on it. What makes the wheat reverse work is the fact that it's artistically coherent. The shield reverse is not. The shield itself implies curvature that is not matched by the way EPU is set. The colors of the shield are not represented correctly with heraldic hatching (horizontal stripes for blue, vertical for red, plain for white). The banner looks too stiff, and the boldface computer font reinforces that. The font for USA doesn't go with any of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="messydesk, post: 3603542, member: 1765"]This. As for the shield being boring, you're comparing it with two stark, very geometric wheat stalks surrounding a bunch of lettering and a rectangular building with columns on it. What makes the wheat reverse work is the fact that it's artistically coherent. The shield reverse is not. The shield itself implies curvature that is not matched by the way EPU is set. The colors of the shield are not represented correctly with heraldic hatching (horizontal stripes for blue, vertical for red, plain for white). The banner looks too stiff, and the boldface computer font reinforces that. The font for USA doesn't go with any of it.[/QUOTE]
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