Design Studies Assignment #2

This is the culture jam logo I created, I mixed Google Chrome with a compass and made it "Google Chrome Compass". I was trying to show that you could find anything with Google, so yea in other words, my logo represents Google finder.

This is the business card I made for my culture jam logo. Not too flashy which in my opinion is better, but it's straight forward with the "company" I'm representing. Nice and simple.

Design Studies Assignment 1

Design Studies 10

Assignment #1

By: Chester Guieb

    1.  LOGO definition: a graphic representation or symbol of a company name, trademark, abbreviation, etc., often uniquely designed for ready recognition.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/logo?s=t

    2.   Iconic/Symbolic: Instantaneously recognizable, memorable, clarity when reproduced in small sizes and can be illustrative in nature, either concrete or abstract.

Logotype/Wordmark: Uses words so that the logo easily represents the company, organization, etc. The thing that makes each logotype/wordmark logo unique is the font, style, shape and color of the logo. Images can also be integrated into the logotype/wordmark, to add a good visual effect on it.

Combination Marks: Uses both words and a symbol/icon to represent the company, organization, etc.

http://www.logodesignsource.com/types.html

3.   #1. Drawing the Logo Yourself: This is a mistake because when people create their own logo, they usually rush it, leading to a poor logo. With a poor logo, customers won’t take your company seriously.

#2. Forgetting About Your Customers: When creating a logo, you must not forget that our trying to appeal customers, not yourself. You must figure out who your customers are, male or female, single or married, young or old, these are a few things about customers that could give you an idea of what would appeal to them.

#3. Looking Too Much Like Your Competitors: If your logo looks similar to another, than it won’t attract much people. Making your logo unique will give people the idea that you are different than your competition, have something different to offer.

#4: Thinking That Colors and Fonts Don’t Matter: Colors can represent you’re companies greatly, such as green for freshness or maybe red for power, strength and excitement. Fonts are a very important aspect as well, you want to make sure your logo is readable, but original.

#5 Trying to Communicate Too Much With Your Logo: Make sure that your make your logo clean, simple and original. Those aspects are very important for a logo, adding too much in a logo can create miscommunications to what you’re trying to get the customer to interpret. But you also have to make sure that you make your logo unique and memorable, if it’s to simple, then people won’t really care for it.

http://articles.bplans.com/business/5-critical-mistakes-to-avoid-when-creating-your-logo/306

4.Fast Food Restaurant: I chose Burger King because the logo is pretty straightforward with what they offer. Also, the creativity of making the logo a combination mark is a nice touch to it. Anyone who is in the mood for fast food will know that this is a good joint to be in.

 

Sports Team: I chose this logo because it caught my eye. It’s very creative the way they incorporated two images into one. This logo shows both which sport it is for and what country it represents without the text needed.

 

Favorite Soft Drink: Besides the fact that I chose my favorite drink, the logo is very nice for it too. The logo cover the whole can and is very appealing to the eye. Nice and simple, but very original.

 

Real Estate Company: I chose this logo because it attracted my eye. The smplicity is very nice but the image itself is appealing.

Shoes: This logo is very cool. The way they connected the letters together to make an image was very creative and smart.

 

Favorite Chocolate Bar: The logo is this is simple enough, but if you look closely, the mountain has a bear figure inside of it. I think they did that to represent where the chocolate’s origin.

Favorite Bottled Water: This bottled water logo is well created. I’m guessing that the mountains imply that the water comes from glaciers.

Favorite Car Manufacturer: Thos logo caught my eye. I like how they used text as the logo, it’s simple, but I like the look of it. It’s the Volkswagen logo.

Cloths: I’ve never seen this logo before so no bias, but it was probably the best clothing brand I’ve seen. I love the way they made a cloth hanger into a duck.

Favorite Bag of Chips: Most of the logos of bag of chips weren’t really that interesting and the same for this one, but I chose it because the name of the chips is straight up ad they incorporated the sun into it.

Oil or Gas Company: I chose this gap company logo because I still remember it from the first time I’ve seen it, and logos are suppose to be like that.

Computer Company: I chose this logo because practically the whole world knows this logo, as do I. It’s very famous and is easily recognizable when you see it.

5. Quest Crew Logo-

a.      I chose this logo mainly because I like what they do. It’s a logo for a dance company, and though I might have a bit of I bias I do like the way the logo looks.

b.     http://s442.photobucket.com/albums/qq143/CJ_Allen_24/Court_Liiv3/?action=view&current=OuestCrewLogo.jpg&sort=ascending

c.      Keeping the logo clean, simple and original.

d.     The solid shape of the logo and the two primary colors.

e.      Originality.

f.       I haven’t seen any other dance crew/company logo close to this one.

6.

 

·      What is included with a “Logo Package?’

·      Who would you choose to create a logo for your business? WHY?

·      What information is critical for you to give to that company to ensure that they create something you want?

Final Project Photoshop

What I did for my final project was make an attractive girl into a zombie. This is the girl I chose and here she is before I start photoshopping.

I used this photo for her eyes and parts of her body.

I used this photo as a background.

I used this for her skin.

I used this just for a finishing touch, a scar on her face.

And this is the final product of my work. Not the best I have to admit, mostly because it doesn't resemble the original girl much, but with the time I had, I can't complain to much.

Final Project Illustrator

 

This is my rough sketch of my final project. It's called the sharingan, which comes from the anime Naruto. It says betrayal because to gain the full power of the sharingan, you must kill the person you love most.

This was about half way to my finished project. Originally I wanted to keep the essence f the original sharingan by making the prime colours red and black, but I also wanted to put a bit of my own twist on it. At this point it sort of resembles an eye, but there was still much editing to do.

This is the final product for what I've been working on. I added a few tweaks to the eye to make it more appealing and more realistic (or at least as much as I could). I say I did a acceptable job with making my sharingan and it was quite fun to make.

Adobe Illustrator CS5 Five Things I've Learned

Five things I've learned:
- To use gradient, press the box at the right that says gradient, click the box inside of the gradient window, and then you can move the gradient around to your liking when you press the gradient button on the left.
- You can reverse the gradient with the gradient reverse button inside of the gradient window.
- You can change the colour by selecting the object your that is gradient, and then using the swatches to change the colour to your liking.
- Using the grid inside of the gradient, you can alter the gradient to make it look more appealing. Just move around some points and the gradient will morph depending on how you control the grid.

CS5 Five Things I've Learned

5 things I've learned:
- To draw things such as a triangle, click the three spots where the edge will be to create it, and then click it in by click the edges again.
- To create curves, click, hold and drag the handles to do so, to take them away click the starting point of your line.
- If you want to make an object or something, if you can apply it, you could use the reflect tool to save time, Just draw half of the object, and reflect it to the other side of it.

CS5 5 Things I've Learned

 Five things I've learned:
- You care able to create a perfect square and circle if you hold shift while expanding the shape, you can also move it if you hold spacebar.
- If you use the arrow keys can change the type of shape (such as a 3 or 4 pointed star). This also works if you want to create bigger swirls and with the gird making.

First 5 things learned in CS5

CS5 in my opinion seems like an easier program to get your projects done, rather than photoshop.
- not pixel based so everything looks clear no matter the magnification.
- you can do many things on one layer compared to doing many different thing to each layer then adding them in.

CS4 to CS5 Comparison

CS5 contains much more features, but the two I'm going to talk about is the multiple art board enhancements. Each art has its own ruler and you can now organize your art work with the art board tab/window.  The other is the new web design features. This gives you a pixel grid where you can adjust the pixels of your image with the grid to make it more sharp.