It’s good to be back at college after two weeks of only watching TV and sleeping. I’m really enjoying the new assignment so far, even though when I first read the assignment sheet I had some doubts about whether or not I’d like it.
Reviewing the assignment with the class helped clear some issues I had with it and I’m glad Steve made us concentrate on the learning outcomes, because now we are going to work more from them, rather than the tasks that Steve’s sets.
The lecture on logos was very informative and finding out the history behind some logos was also interesting and now I’m starting to think if there’s any history behind some others I have in mind.
I really enjoyed the presentation from Jonny Haynes from Technophobia and wish he had brought more work in to show us because I very much enjoyed listening to him talk through his work. I could probably have sat there for ages listening to him talk about his work and what it’s like working for a design company. I was impressed by his work and how much knowledge he had about so many different languages.
After the presentation I started to sketch out some logo designs and am quite pleased with how many I did in the space of time. I mainly concentrated on text based logos but as I was just getting ideas on paper and doing them as they can to me, there are a few with both text and graphics in there. Below are the sketches I have done already, I’d be grateful for some feedback and if you could say if any have some potential:
I found the task to redesign the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament logo quite difficult and when it came to sketching some ideas I just had no idea were to start. I was very disappointed with myself for not preparing the presentation enough and should have made sure what to say before we did it.
The rest of Tuesday I carried on with the Emit logo design sketches, but started to find it hard to think of different designs, so now I think I’m going to move onto graphic and text logos.
Its good to see that you have done lots of logo designs. I think its a good idea if we design text and text with graphic logo. So we have a range of different logos to choose from.
Hi Greg
I think its great you like the logo creation and like some of your designs, however your designs seem to me more integrated via using text only, I would love to see a wider range of logos such as basic imagery graphics and so on.
So far from looking at your designs I think the 2nd screen shot on there shows a better verity of logos, I like the ones in the circles best as it’s a basic shape and looks more interesting with the font you have used. But I think maybe the font needs to be worked on a bit more or drawn back from the outer line of the circle to make it more readable.
Thanks, Martyn
Hi greg, i must admit, i was also dissapointed with our presentation, we really should had concetrated more on what we were goin to say rather than sketching more and more designs.
we’ll know better in future.
It looks like you’ve got a good few intial ideas down on paper, but you are still putting all your ideas around the same basic structure. Which is why alot of the word forms you’ve done so far look very similar. Instead of using text to show forms try sketching out actual font forms of letters to accurately convey the type of feelings your really putting forward for this logo.
I really enjoyed the CND task inclass, well apart from the presentation bit. I think we had a good idea and developed it well onto our final design.