Monday 26 March 2012

Font

I have been researching font that I think look visually pleasing that are pixelated I didn't find that many as I think there is a thin line between a good font and a bad font when it comes to pixelated fonts, I discovered the pixels used the better it looks and I van pretty much use as many pixels as I like but I'd need to make it match the hand that I have as the official logo!

This shouldnt be too hard, the hard part is Trying to perfect the lettering on fontstruct on each letter in the alphabet to make it all similar, it's more time consuming that anything but I will have this done soon and then my logo will be completed!


Some research I undertook, I have attached below these are all different types of ways that pixelated fonts work, by looking at these I have understood how I need to do my font and also how I can differ mine to others to make my font unique, this will help the branding for the company also because it helps make the identity it's own having it's own font such as Disney and numerous other well known companies.


After using fontstruct and looking at the different ways i can use pixelated type, I have put together and example of how the type would look for the logo.
this was my first attempt to use the font i had designed, i am overall pleased with this font but I am not satisfied with the 'N' and will have to go back and change it but due to the dimensions of every other letter i will have to make it work using the same width because the font is quite squeezed together and the 'N' seems to make it look very uneven and unattractive.

After putting my font in with the logo design i had in mind, i wasnt pleased with the outcome so i went back to designing the logo and looked at sites such as :



Tuesday 20 March 2012

Type Logo's

 Due to the nature of the company name i'd like to look to basing the logo simply on type.

These three logo's above are based on type and are very effective.
the above logo's have a symbol attached to the side of the type, this could work well aslong as the type is related to the symbol.
this shows a good way of using negative space within type.

Fingerprints

Being that out companies called hand to hand I thought of the idea of putting a fingerprint in the logo, I got some finger prints off google first and will be experimenting with more on my own.
my initials thoughts were this is a bit complicated to put on a logo so i will attempt to simplify it as much s i can!

I found a few interesting designs on the website below, that showed many differnt types of design to use for logos using fingerprints.

http://www.thelogomix.com/blog/cool-fingerprint-logo-designs-10120348.html

Negative Space in Logo's

I was looking into incorporating negative space into my logo, this can be a task some times because if its too basic then it can be hard to understand but if its too complicated its not very visually pleasing, I have done an internet search and pulled together some of the piece's I like and think look good.








These logo examples gave me the idea to try and connect two hands using negative space, I will do research into negative space images and hands and how they could possibly connect, using all if hear thoughts together could produce a nice outcome by possibly using the pixelated idea connected with negative space, going back to my rough sketchbook I will try scamp somebodeas of how they could connect? But what I will need to figure out is because I was going to have different hand signs for each part of the company such as a different hand sign on the bike than the van and also a different hand on delivery boxes than letters etc whether I would have to continue the negative space throughout all of them and in the long run it could possibly limit the amount I'd be able to do creatively!? I will have the answer to this question once I have scamper a couple ideas and completed my research into how this logo could work!

Friday 2 March 2012

Perfume Box

couple parts of research into perfume box's and my thoughts.

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above are a couple images of perfume box that i looked at prior to designing mine, the colour used on all of them all have brilliant relation to the name of the product. 

This has 'eau de toilette' below which I thought would make sense to input into the 'paris' perfume since its french.



I chose to do the perfume box on the names poison & paris, through researching them through the internet (below) I decided to base some designs off typography which could further my knowledge.





I also researched the word paris and the main images that came in were of the eiffel tower and i didn't want to put these images on to the perfume box because I felt it was very simple minded and wouldn't get the message across that I wanted.


after researching paris and realising that I would mainly look to make text the main front for the perfume box I decided that I would have to find a good text to place on the front for both of the designs, instead of simply looking through dafont or similar sites I took a book out in the library and thought Id attempt looking at not only font but ways to place lettering etc.