Friday, November 20, 2015

Logo notes

What is a Brand?

  • Brand is the "perceived" emotional corporate image as a whole,it is the reputation both claimed and perceived.
What is Branding?

  • An organization brand or branding is essentially their public image
  • A designer can create the framework for a brand, colors, fonts, artwork, style
Branding Example

  • Apple is an IT company that projects a humanist image, positive corporate ethics, and support of good causes
  • When people use the products they connect the brand emotionally
What is Identity

  • Corporate Identity is comprised of the visual aspects that form the brand
  • Close attention is paid to executing a consistent experience for the viewer 
What is Identity Design?

  • The corporate identity includes strict usage of colors, font families, graphic elements and other guidelines, usually detailed in a corporate identity guide
  • The identity can include the logo, logo variations, business cards, labels, envelops, letterhead stationary, advertisements, tv commercials, packaging, etc.

What is a Logo?

  • A logo is for identification
  • A logo is the simplest way a company or organization can represent itself, through the use of a mark or icon.
Summary

  • Brand-The perceived emotional corporate image as a whole
  • Identity- The visual aspects that form part of the overall brand
  • Logo- Identifies a business in its simplest form via the use of a mark or icon
Logo Design

Why Vector Art?

  • We create logo's as vector art because it is flexible, power and easily edited, this is important when clients what to makes changes
  • Vector art can be scaled up infinitely without losing quality!
Pencil to Vector

  • Creating a logo design required many phases
  • Many meetings and review sessions are required to arrive at a design that work
  • Converting a simple pencil sketch to vector art requires establishing graphic style, color, line shape and typography
Final Art: Graphic Style
  • Decide what your "graphic style" will be
  • Will it be bold, simple
  • Will it be sleek, technical and sedate?
  • Will it be cartoony, fin and cool?
  • Will it be high tech and 3D?
  • There is a wide range of style to choose
  • Choose what fits your concept and market
Final Art: Line Quality
  • Line Quality refers to the smoothness and precise nature of your lines
  • We use the pen tool to create perfect smooth lines
  • Take your time with this part, if it doesn't look right try again!
  • If you have line art in your logo your line shape is important!
  • Do you want an artistic look to your line? 
  • Try a custom "Art Brush" from the Brush Library in AI
  • These line shapes are all created with the Stroke Palette in AI

Final Art: Line Shape

  • If you have line art in your logo your line shape is important!
  • Do your want an artistic look to your line? Try a custom "Art Brush" form the Brush Library
Color Matters!
  • Color makes a huge difference, use color that are appropriate for your design 
Logo Design 
  • General Rules and Styles for Designing Logo's
Logo Design Rules
  • Describable
  • Effective without color
  • Memorable
  • Scalable
Design Style
  • Style 1: Typeface Focused. This style relies on typeface to create the logo design, creativity is utilized in the proximity, contrast, color, customization of the letter forms
  • Style 2: Mixing typeface. This style uses 2 different type faces to create the logo design. Strive to create to the logo design. Strive to create a balanced design, typeface that are too similar will lack contrast in style.
  • Style 3: Typeface plus graphic elements. This style uses simple graphic elements in addition to the typeface to create an emphasized and balanced design. Graphic elements remain abstract.
  • Style 4: Typeface plus shapes/symbols. An even balance between art and typography is achieved in this style.
  • Style 5: Graphic focused design. In this design the graphic elements are the focus or dominants aspect of the design, the typeface plays a supporting role.

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