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My Favourite Art and Design Books of 2018
Today I am going to share some of my favourite art and design books from 2018. In past years these posts have been more broad, focusing on fiction and non-fiction books. However this year I’ve found myself having less time for reading because of university. Coincidentally I have also bought myself more art books this year for that same reason. MY FAVOURITE ART AND DESIGN BOOKS OF 2018 Hand Drawn Maps by Helen Cain This is a book I was given for Christmas last year and I love it. Hand Drawn Maps is a ‘how to’ guide on hand-drawn cartography. It starts out with a brief history of maps and…
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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…
