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Branding A Science-Fiction Bookshop
I love the creative process and today I’m going to share the development stages I went through while designing the logo for a science-fiction bookshop. Think Forbidden Planet or something similar. If you haven’t seen the first part of this post go here. Where I explain how I started working on this brand identity by creating a recognisable shape to act as a logo. BRANDING A SCIENCE-FICTION BOOKSHOP Along with creating the logo for my science-fiction bookshop. I had to show how it would be displayed on various marketing materials. So I used graphicburger to place the logo on various sign and bag mockups. But I also wanted to design items that you…
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Designing A Science-Fiction Bookshop Logo
Our final project was a self directed project, basically we could do whatever we wanted. I decided to design a bookshop logo along with other branded items. This was because out of all the projects we did over the year. I found the corporate identity ones to be most enjoyable. Also books. RESEARCHING LOGOS One thing I really wanted to learn from this project was if bookshops really needed a book in their logo. Almost all independent bookshops have some sort of book or page motif. But when you look at the larger bookshops (Waterstones, Foyles, Borders etc) they don’t. These larger bookshops don’t have a logo at all. Their ‘logo’ is just the…
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I Designed A Logo For A Creative Arts Festival
This post should really be called ‘how to win £100 without really trying’ because thats basically what happened with this project. My latest project at college was all about corporate identity, specifically for a creative arts festival. I had to create a logo and branding for this festival. If you have a blog you probably know what I’m talking about. Designing a logo is really hard because it’s so simple, think of the Twitter logo, or Facebook or Instagram. They are super simple shapes but are also instantly recognisable. I DESIGNED A LOGO FOR A CREATIVE ARTS FESTIVAL This branding project was a live project. We were working with a…
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I Designed A Logo For A Nursery
This was the first part of my corporate identity project which I ended up doing last because I missed a few days. Basically this was a practice run at designing a logo for a child’s play group. I started off by doing a little research into play groups and had a look at their logos. Logos are something which can be really complicated because of how important they are. Its the most recognisable thing you see on most websites. This logo was specifically for children so I wanted something that was fun and happy. Maybe almost looking like a child had actually drawn it. So I started off by drawing…
