Our last assignment for the Illustration Communication class was to design logos for ourselves!
イラストコミュニケーションのクラスでの最後の課題は、自分のロゴのデザインです。
Since I already have my logo, I decided to design a logo for my husband Dave, a.k.a. the Daver.
自分のロゴはもうあるので、夫のデーブのロゴをデザインすることにしました!
He is a Permaculture designer/educator/author and currently runs a company called Terra Phoenix Design. I choose to do a branding and logo design for him as an individual because…why not?
Because this is for him as an individual rather than his company, I designed a logo that reflected his friendliness and approachability.
これは会社ではなく、個人のロゴなので、彼のフレンドリーな性格が伝わるようなデザインにしました!
Here are my three concepts! こちらが3つのデザインです!
The Portrait!The Name!The Acorn!
My favorite is definitely the portrait. He has such a cute smile 🙂 I modified the portrait and made his facebook profile picture! It is a lot warmer and shows his personality well, I think.
My assignment for the Illustration Communication class this week was to create an illustration for Bumbershoot event T-shirt! Bumbershoot is a festival of music and art that happens over the labor day weekend in Seattle. Their event posters are amazing, by the way.
My favorite is this one with a kitty (of course) by Jerry Freiberg created in 2002.
For this assignment, I wanted the focus to be on the beauty of individual flowers, rather than the landscape. Not only do I LOVE flowers, I felt it would better showcase my line art style.
I had some ideas for composition for the poster, so I did a rough comp on Photoshop just to see…
まずはポスターの構図を見るために、フォトショップで大体の構成をチェック。
I actually liked the simple line drawings and one spot color for background, but for this assignment it made sense for the flowers to have more colors. When there is a bunch of black & white line drawings, it is hard to tell what’s going on especially if you’re not looking at it closely.
At first, I made tulips with green stems like real flowers. But then when I put a bunch of them together, it seemed too busy with the background color. And they just didn’t look very interesting to me…
Earlier in the design process even before I started drawing the tulips, I was thinking of designing a poster that looked kind of like a stained glass art. I also really enjoyed my black & white illustrations from the last assignment, so I decided to experiment…
After hours of trying out different layouts and spacing, I landed on this final design.
何時間もかかってレイアウトを考えた挙句、このデザインになりました!
The poster!
Since the focus of our assignment was the illustration itself, I didn’t spend too much time with the typography. I chose “Learning Curve”, which is the typeface for my company, Honeyberry Studios’ logo 🙂 I think it fits the feminine and flowy style of this poster very well, though!
Extra credit – this is another version of the design. I decided not to go for it for the poster project, but I made a cover photo for my facebook page 🙂