So here is the second installment of my delayed updates on my designing. This post will be showing some of the other designing that I have done thus far in the semester. The first stuff I would like to show here is a self logo that I had to do using my initials. It was made a lot harder because we had to use a figure and ground relationship, so that was a twist. (For those who don't know figure and ground relationships are basically using black and white or light and dark to define 2 seperate areas, so one letter needed to be black and the other white.) My first attempt is sad.
So as you can see it was less than ideal. but I gave the entire thing an over haul during one of my never ending grave shifts and I think that the new and improved version is much better!
So that went better. Then I started working on doing a new wordmark of a band. I decided that since Taking Back Sunday felt that with their new CD that they have been reinventing themselves that it would be good to redo their wordmark. I looked all over the place for inspiration and read a lot on their web site to get a good feel for how they felt about this reinventing business. Then I printed a big sheet full of their name "taking back sunday" in all sort of fonts and sizes and caps and not caps and drew on them and traced the crap out of some changing the font its self most of the time as can be seen in this small example.
Then after much heartache and work I started to load and change the fonts in Illustrator and in the end i came up with 2 possibilities. Then after standing back I decided on the best one and there I was. So here are both of those with the beter one second. And I decided that the second one was better based on the colored parts being spaced apart properly, and that is a good thing, it just looks better!
So there is the other design update and I will try better to keep up on to date on this blog, but life is busy and as such I make no guarantees, sorry for passing out false hope.
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