Sunday, March 28th, 2010
we realized that logo are a representation from company or something, then we should talk deeply about what the logo is, maybe this article could inspire you and add your knowledge on logo design.
I am not sure how many of you have noticed a hidden symbol in the Federal Express logo. Yeah, I am talking about the ‘arrow’ that you can see between the E and the x in this logo. The arrow was introduced to underscore speed and precision, which are part of the positioning of the company.
The SUN Microsystems logo is a wonderful example of symmetry and order. It was a brilliant observation that the letters u and n while arranged adjacent to each other look a lot like the letter S in a perpendicular direction. Spectacular.
The above logo is for an editing studio. I like the way the logo attempts to convey what they do.
The above are two magazines from the Readers Digest stable. Again, the attempt to communicate what it is about quite figuratively through the logo
catches my attention.
I liked this logo of a hair stylist for the cheeky humour it brings to the (dressing) table.
This was a logo created for a puzzle game called Cluenatic. This game involves unravelling four clues. The logo has the letters C, L, U and E arranged as a maze. and from a distance, the logo looks like a key.
This logo is too good. For the name Eight, they have used a font in which each letter is a minor adaptation of the number 8.
Eighty-20 is a small consulting company which does sophisticated financial modeling, as well as some solid database work. All their work is highly quantitative and relies on some serious computational power, and the logo is
meant to convey it.
People first guess that 20% of the squares are darkened, but that turns out to be false after counting them. The trick is to view the dark squares as 1′s and the light squares as 0′s. Then the top line reads 1010000 and the bottom line reads 0010100, which represent 80 and 20 in binary.
Kinda like the surreal green screen of The Matrix, they want us to read stuff in binary.
This was a logo designed in-house for some internal event at IBM. I like that they are quite relaxed about the logo, unlike certain other companies who do not like the logo to be tampered with in any way even for internal promotions.
You might think the arrow does nothing here. But it says that amazon.com has
everything from a to z and it also represents the smile brought to the customer’s face. Wow, that is quite deep.
I didn’t write this, but got it through a friend in email and though I should share.
sources : http://creativebits.org/logos_with_a_meaning
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Sunday, March 28th, 2010
here some useful tips about how to make a logo, you will find it interesting foe designer, i copy it from another website hope it will useful for you and you could make a simple logo with adobe photoshop after read this articles.
Introduction
Back when I began my ventures on computers in 98 on AOL, I was one of the many mesmerized by the world of AOL “proggies”. I began to code my own with VB and I remember one of the things I loved to focus on personally, was the whole intro art. I saw a few, I can’t remember the names now, but their amazing fire effects with their lightening bolts blew my mind away. Thus began my journey of design.
I’ve designed for approximately 9 years now and I’ve learned a lot. It has also helped me make money online. From mainstream corporate professional design, to fun gaming design, to adult design. The accumulative experience of all these avenues have really helped further my abilities when I confront each new project.
In this tutorial, I will start and finish a logo while documenting the entire process. I encourage you to open up photoshop and follow every step, it will help you learn a lot more than just reading it.
I’ve used the technique I will be teaching to develop a lot of logos. Here are just a few:
Adobe Photoshop
I will be using Adobe Photoshop CS2 to design this logo. Many swear by illustrator, but I believe for the purposes of making a tutorial, it’d be best to use photoshop as it will cater to a wider audience. More people have used photoshop than Illustrator. Besides, I’ve created 95% of all my logos in Photoshop, so take what you will.
Let’s Start : The Project
A buddy of mine runs a gaming website, bluelaguna.net, and he has wanted a new logo for some time, so I agreed to do it for this tutorial. So let’s take a look at the current logo:
(Note: The image above isn’t a logo, it’s an entire header. The actual name bluelaguna.net along with the slogan is the actual logo. I thought it would be a good idea to show the entire header though to see how it reacts with the overall design.)
One of the most important things this logo lacks is readability. When a user visits a web site, or visits any medium in which a logo is displayed, the first thing that hits them should be the logo. And for some reason or another, the first place us humans look is the upper left hand corner of a site. The current logo is placed in the middle of the header and the small font and the dark blue in “BLUE” is hard to read.
There’s also nothing exciting with this logo. For a logo to be effective, it has to “brand” an image, it needs to stick in your head. All this logo is is times new roman on caps lock.
Now that we’ve gone over why their current logo is not suitable, let’s begin with the actual tutorial.
Gathering Information
It’s important to always know the specifics of what you or the client is looking for before you start. Generally for most projects, I only need to ask the client 5 questions:
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1. Name of the service/product: |
BlueLaguna.Net |
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2. Any slogans to use?: |
“Your #1 Source for RPG Media” |
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3. Any specific color schemes in mind?: |
Match the current design |
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4. What are you trying to convey through the logo?: |
Serious game-related site. |
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5. Any other specifics: |
You don’t have to use the current header design. Get crackin’ |
Pretty straight forward, now we know what we have to work with.
1. Setting up your Document in Photoshop
- Once you have photoshop open, go to File -> New. Then specify the name of the logo, and a width of 600 and a height of 500.
- Then click “OK“ (Refer to the screenshot below).
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After you click “OK” Your setup should look like this:
(I’m on a 1600×1200 resolution.) For the menus on the left, I have the layers view, and the Characters in view.)
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2. Experiment with Font Selections
As a starting point, I always experiment with a font that I think will work well with the logo. You have to develop an eye for what font will or will not work, with the specifics of the project in mind. Since for bluelaguna we’re trying to focus on a serious yet gamer’ish feel, a serious font selection might be the best bet. Having yourself an arsenal of fonts is very important. I have several thousand myself.
- Select the Text Tool on the left menu: (As shown on the image to the right)
- Adjust the settings on the Text Properties at the top to match these settings:
- In the character window to the right, set AV to -60 as shown below: (This simply shortens the space between each separate character, I like starting out with this setting, I don’t know why
- Type “BLUE LAGUNA” in the document space (First, be sure that the background is white, you can use the fill tool for this. And I’ve decided to go with all caps to start out with, since all caps is generally deemed more serious).
- With the type tool selected, and layer 1 selected, select the font list menu (where it says Arial):
You can do this next section in either three ways.
- Hit the “Down” arrow to change the font view of “BLUE LAGUNA”.
- Hit the Down Arrow of the Font List to see the list of available fonts with a tiny preview of the font.
- Download a font viewing program.
I personally just use the first method, although I sometimes use a font viewing program. Our goal here is to find fonts that might work with the logo.
- Once you come across a font that looks like it could work, you should Duplicate the layer in the Layers Window to the right, and then hide the previous layer (The layer you right clicked and selected “Duplicate” from. This way, you’ve saved that font selection (the hidden layer), and you have a new layer to find more fonts from):
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3. Good and Bad Font Selections
Since our goal with this particular logo is to be serious, we need serious looking fonts. It simply takes time to develop an eye for what is serious and what isn’t.
| Here are a few examples of bad font selections for this project:
The first logo (the top), has a very laid back, fun / unprofessional tone to it.
The second logo is simply “goofy” looking, and it’s generally always bad to select a logo that has an inherent shadow.
The third logo is way too “ragged” with its frills all over the place, definitely a no go.
Calligraphy logos are generally outdated, especially ones with weird “drops” coming from them.
The last logo you can hardly even read. Remember, a logo should be easily readable. |
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| Here are a few examples of good font selections for this project:
All of these logos with the exception of 4 and 6 are pretty much similar.
#1, 2, 3 & 5 are all very simplistic and serious in appearance.
Logo 4 still appears “serious” even though it is significantly different from the rest. I chose this just in case I want to experiment with piecing together fonts for the word “Blue” and “Laguna”.
Logo 6 is a very bold / italicized logo that says nothing but serious. |
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4. Finalizing a Font Selection
Once you have some possible font selections, each in their own layer, you further analyze them and see which works. With logos that have more than one word, most of the time it is good to separate the appearance of the words from each other. Since this particular project has two words, “Blue” and “Laguna”, we’re going to want to separate them by possibly choosing two different fonts. You can also separate words from each other by keeping the same font, but changing the color. So I’m going to experiment with the 6 good font selections above.
| This is what I’ve come up with:
Although I didn’t use one of the 6 fonts I selected initially for the word “blue”, I simply used an unboldened version of “LAGUNA”, which keeps a consistent feel but also allows for separation of the two words.
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5. Adding in a symbol
Sometimes logos work well with only the use of fonts, but most times adding in a relevant symbol of some sort will really make a logo stand out. When I say “symbol”, I mean any part of the logo which isn’t actual text. So let’s start with the first font selection from above:
Now here is where having an eye for design and experience is a really big help. We need to begin contemplating ideas of what exactly we can add to this logo to make it awesome. So, the first thing I do is just sit there and stare at the font selection and think of what exactly the product/service/site is all about. Well, BlueLaguna.Net is about gaming, more specifically speaking, it’s a site that offers RPG media (Role Playing Game) media. Therefore, we have two things to work with: RPG and Media. What exactly can we associate with both RPG and Media? Well, we don’t necessarily have to convey both RPG and Media through the logo (if you try to get too complex, the logo will become cluttered). We can choose one or the other if we want. I think it’d be most logical to focus on the whole RPG aspect, as you can find media all over the place and it isn’t an entirely unique concept.
So let’s do some research on Role Playing Games. We need to figure out a symbol which can really represent RPG. The current BlueLaguna.Net features a 3d female, perhaps that has something to do with RPG? Well, let me do a search on images.google.com for “RPG”. The results turn back a few different female characters, Hmm! The first few results, keeping in mind the 3d female character on the current header of bluelaguna.net, seem to suggest that depicting a female in the logo might be the best bet. It also seems that weaponry / mystical environments are associated with RPG as well.
Now that I know what I can associate with RPG, I can come up with some possible ideas for a symbol. I think maybe featuring a face of one of these RPG’ish females with maybe a hint of mysticism.
The Pen Tool is your Friend
The most important tool when it comes to logo design is the pen tool. If there is one tool to thoroughly understand, it should be the pen tool. The pen tool allows you to create any shape(s) you want, and maintain vector format (which is very important if you ever want to size your logo up n’ down (for professional print or whatever.)
It’s always good to draw your logo by hand without copying over a picture (vector tracing), but if you aren’t very talented and don’t have much experience, it might be your only option. So for the sake of making the biggest impact on this tutorial, I will teach you all an awesome technique for creating great looking symbols for you logos.
Finding a suitable picture
If you’re going to trace, I always suggest using a site like istockphoto.com to find the image and pay for it. This way you won’t be using copyrighted images to trace over. Or taking your own picture to trace over. Unfortunately though, istockphoto has nothing with RPG or “anime”. So I just went on images.google.com and found a picture which I think is suitable, here it is:
| When I came across this picture, I got the idea that I can vector trace over her face and hair to create what I want, and then integrate it along with the font selection in some unique way.
So once you’ve found the picture you want to trace (if not the same one), save it to your hard drive, open it up in photoshop, CTRL-A, CTRL-C to select it and copy it, and go back to your main logo document and CTRL-V.
Now you’ve imported this picture into your logo document. Once you’ve imported it, with her layer selected, you can cut off the bottom half of her body. (Select the first tool in the upper left corner of the tools menu, Rectangular Marquee Tool), select the bottom half of her body and hit the delete key. Your screen should look something like this by now (You can hide the text layers behind it).
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Vector Tracing
Now select the magnifying glass in the tools menu and select around the girl, it will look like this zoomed up to about 400%:
| Now select the pen tool in the tools menu:
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Make sure that the foreground color (the black square at the bottom of the pic to the upper right —^) is the same dark blue color of the text we specified.
In the layers window to the right, select the little round circular > icon on the upper right corner of the window, and click on “Create New Layer” in the window that comes up. Hit “OK” and then in the layers window, with the new layer selected, change the Opacity to 0%. We do this because once we start tracing over the image, we don’t want the dark blue color hiding the picture of the girl below.
And with the pen tool selected, click a point somewhere on the outline of the hair (at the top), and then click to make another point somewhere on the hairline where the line will begin to form. You can hold down and “direction” the angle of the line to create a certain type of curve. It takes awhile to get the hang of, but it’s very easy once you get the hang of it. After plotting points of an entire section of hair, yours should look similar to this: (Note: I’ve lightened the opacity of the girl to illustrate what your lines should look like so far)
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It’s not perfect, but for now it’s a good start.
Now I’m simply going to continue creating more shapes, like the facial features. After 15-20 minutes or so of creating the different facial features and the face itself, here is what I have come up with:
| As you can see, I specified a different color for the face (light blue). And by now I have around 15 different layers. There’s a separate layer for the top portion of each eye, the bottom portion of each eye, the middle, and the small glare. There’s also a layer for the face background, and the ear.
So let us continue and add some shading… |
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| After about 20 more minutes of shading, this is what I’ve come up with:
There are a total of 3 different layers for the hair. It’s somewhat of a tedious process to do hair shading simply because there’s a lot of strands of hair! But you have to just condense them and get the general idea of the shading and it will work out well.
Then I did some light shading work on the face and the neck.
Now I consider the actual draft of the symbol complete. Let’s make our initial text layer visible and see what we can do to integrate the symbol with the text. |
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First, you will want to select the very last to the very first vector layer that you created (you’ll have a couple dozen or more), hold down the shift so you can select them all. Then in the layers window click the little circular round button and select “New Group From Layers”. This will put all of the layers of the girl, into one easily manageable layer group. This way, you can move around the one group and it will keep all of their positions together so it won’t break up her face.
Now this actually doesn’t look too bad, in and of itself. But the proportion of the anime head is too big, in relation to BLUELAGUNA. So we will want to scale down the head. Let’s try moving it over to the left, and adding the slogan + the “.net” text. This is what it looks like:
Now it looks pretty damn good eh? The only other thing I did, was with the pen tool, I added a white shape over the “B” in “BLUE” so that the face doesn’t collide with the B.
Unfortunately I messed up and didn’t design this over the dark blue’ish background that the bluelaguna.net has. So I’m going to change the colors of the logo to fit a background of an appropriate header for the site.
As you can see, simply changing colors around can really change the look and feel of a logo. I’d consider this logo a winner.
6. Conclusion
I can pretty much guarantee you that if you’re a first time user of the pen tool or photoshop for that matter, it won’t turn out so pretty like mine did. It takes some time and patience to really get the hang of it. It’s all about getting a little creative and working at it for awhile.
sources : www.garysimon.net
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Suave is a national monthly magazine which supports all activities in the creative community in general. Suave record all the fashion trends, culture and creativity of young people with a lighter style, entertaining but still look smart.
Since its first publication in April 2004 and after 4-year journey from Suave Suave evolved into Suave FREE CATALOG MAGAZINE. With more articles, coverage, photos and features a creative, Suave will surely meet the thirst for information note of cultural trends that develop young people in Indonesia.
With an average of more than 120 pages, Suave present in the first week of every month in 3 versions namely:
1. free print version can be obtained free of charge at the pickup point (distribution or places to hang out).
2. printable version sold with a bonus cd containing a digital version of Suave.
3. digital version can be free in dirunduh www.suavecatalogue.com.
So, keep in touch with Suave and stay tuned at www.suavecatalogue.com, because Suave will always display the creativity and beauty of a youth culture trend most recent.
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Affter 13th years, now UNKL347 is a 7-part project that holds not only a clothing line, but also skateboarding up to interior household stuff. Founded by art school music junkie in 1996, these represent trademark of UNKL347 personal perspective, lifestyle and attitude. Affter 13th years, now UNKL347 is a 7-part project that holds not only a clothing line, but also skateboarding up to interior household stuff. Founded by art school music junkie in 1996, these represent trademark of UNKL347 personal perspective, lifestyle and attitude.
Based on their love towards skateboarding, surfing and design, in 1996, these music junkies gathered and decide to create their own “Playground”. They started by selling stuffs through special orders and catalogues, it didn’t take long until they opened their own store in 1999. Shortly they became the pioneer of Indonesia’s own label called 347boardrider.co with their initial designs that described about the way of life they were living. Back in the earlier days they had no one but themselves to please. They were making things that they want to wear and need to wear. Later on 347boardrider.co grown as its owners’ life continued, music, nightlife, art, and with avant-garde nuance that made them where they are today. Then the name changed into “347”.
A lot of things happen in between 2000-2005. I guess the same thing happens to you too, am I right? I mean, the “a lot of things” not the same thing “same thing” (do you get me?)
By the end of 2006, 347 evolved into UNKL347 and made a tagline of “after ten years, friends call us unkle” which tried to explain about what happened inside the company.
Sense, Design, Memories, Create, and Play. These five elements increasingly will guide our lives and shape our world. Organizing youth movements, innovating a new form of creativity, supporting any kind of sub-culture evolution. Good design, now more accessible and affordable than ever, also offers us a chance to bring pleasure, meaning, and beauty to our lives. But, the most important thing, cultivating a design sensibility can make our city a better place for us all.
Up until today, UNKL347 is still trying new things and smiling at the back of your head!
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Screamous® – acronym of Scream of Us- is a clothing retail company that officially started on May 29th, 2004 with big expectations to give extraordinary choices in fashion industry.
Along with Screamous taglines “Screamous is culture”, our vast market ranged from adolescence to everyone that open-minded, independent, and modern people. We try to put every aspect of human culture and behavior in our products. Any form you could think of, because ’culture’ is a vast universe to explore. Anything you do, feel, hear, or see everyday is a ‘culture’. This is not just a fashion-statement, it is being who you really are, it is being a part of your own culture, it is being extraordinary!
Products variety that offered to consumers both male or female are t-shirt, shirt, denim pants, shorts, sweater, jacket, hat, belt, sandal and many more. Besides that, we produced every detail of our products with the best quality and released every product in exclusive amount and supply with affordable price.
Until now, Screamous have 2 Official Shophouses:
#1 Shophouse: Jalan Trunojoyo No.23 Bandung 40115, West Java, Indonesia. Phone: +6222 426 51 33.
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Our products can be found almost everywhere in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Furthermore, since May 2007, people are able to on-line shopping through our official website www.screamous.com.
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