Logo Final Image

Here is the final logo design. I haven't changed much from the previous pass but have remade the logo having had a bit more practice with Illustrator, I had found there were some better ways to get more precise results with the shapes. 

I started the logo from a square that I then applied filters to to get the rounded bloated edge shape and from there  I was copying and resizing the shapes and using the pathfinder tool to merge and subtract them to create the G and W as opposed to trying to specifically place vertices/anchor points precisely with the pen tool as I had done previously.  The result is much cleaner with the curves being mirrored precisely.

I will take this further next semester and include the image on a website and business cards.

InDesign

Part of our brief this semester is to practice with Adobe InDesign in preparation for using InDesign to compile our major projects for printing at the end of Semester 3.

Being already familiar with adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and other Adobe apps, I found that InDesign was quite easy to pick up and get started with. Much of the functions and tools operate similarly and are located in similar places in the menus and tool bars.

I've worked through the tutorial we had from class to create pages to the anthology print specifications and dropped in placeholder text and images.

I decided to use this as an opportunity to prepare the final print file for my major project so have set the InDesign file up to have master pages and a relevant page count. For now I have dropped in some place holder artwork from 'The Lost Legionnaire' .

Previously I would have used Clip Studio for the whole process (As I did with The Lost Legionnaire) however, InDesign seems to have far more functionality and generally seems better suited for the task. The ability to export directly to PDF for printing is a plus and optionally can include the printing guides.

For the major project I will create the artwork digitally in Clip Studio, letter the project in Adobe Illustrator and prepare for print in InDesign.

One thing I realised is that I will have to match the page specifications and bleed settings with InDesign and Clip Studio. The pages presented above here were taken from Clip Studio trimmed with the bleed cut off and so don't exactly appear in InDesign as they should. When exporting from InDesign it looks like it adds the bleed to the PDF file back on again. I will bear this in mind when transferring the files between Apps.

I've exported out the pages I put together to test the exporting functions. The pdf can be viewed at the following link.

InDesignTest

Logo 2

I've spent the evening working up the logo in Illustrator. Here's the image with a few different fonts.

Not keen on either of these. The first font I think doesn't match well with the logo, the second I think is too cartoonish.

I like the overall look of the first one here but the font is sort of hand made by me and it doesn't look great. The one on the right is one of my two favs. I think the font works nice with the logo.

Both of these I quite like as well. The one on the right is a bit simpler but easier to read and the one on the left fits well with the image.

A couple of things are bothering me about the image. I think I will have one last pass at remaking it and try to get the cutaway shapes looking more precise.

Logo Design

The main brief for this semester was to come up with an ident or logo/branding for ourselves. I decided to keep going with this blog rather than start a new one because let's face it, I am the lost legionnaire and these projects are my demons.

Here's what I have been working on for it and what I settled on. I worked at first with markers on paper creating variations of a couple of ideas I had.

Following feedback I pursued the more triangular design ideas further, the typed ones seemed a bit obvious.

I liked the addition of the curves to the G and W so I did a little more tweaking in Photoshop. I also dropped the left side of the W and experimented with the style of the logo and font.

I like both of these but I think the blocky one looks sharper. I'm going to take that one into Illustrator and turn it into the final logo next.

The plan is to use this on business cards and a portfolio website and possibly drop the comics artist text in future and use the ident as a signature stamp.