Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Letterhead

The letterhead also has the secondary graphic, the type is in the same blue and font as the businesscard, and the copy is also Myriad Pro. I gave the text a large margin on the left to make a bit of space as the secondary image underneath comes from the left and is quite large.

Corporate Colours

After doing the presentaion, i found out that these four colours would be too difficult and expensive to print. I would change them to just pantone 2606C and pantone 3015C and have the other colours as transparencies of these.

Business Card

The first business card I made had the square version of the logo. It looked out of place and the logo image looks too big.



I changed to the long version of the logo which fits in well with the rest of the type. I made my secondary graphic at this point. I tried making the graphic out of the image i used for the logo but decided to go with something completely different and unique. To stick with the sci-fi theme but also with reference to book i made an alien hand holding a book. I wasn't exactly sure how to do it but think it turned out OK. For uniformity I used the same colours as the logo but added grey and black which make the secondary colours.

Logo go mobile

This is the logo i decided on for Rings of Saturn Publishing.
I wanted the logo image to suggest the name so it does look familiar to Saturn. The 'rings' of Saturn are incorporated with coloured bars in the circle (thats why I didn't choose to do a gradient). The rings I tried to make in the previous logo looked too large and were unsuitable so to make reference to Saturn I included just one ring around the circle. I initially chose green and purple colours because I the green reminds me of sci-fi but changed to blue and purple instead.


This is the logo that can be used when the longer version doesn't fit. E.g a square space.

Typography / Font

I looked at a number of fonts for the logo type...


And decided on century gothic bold for the logotype - i think it looks modern and fresh, it sits well next to the image and its easy to read. The way the text is arranged in different sizes and with 3 different colours the company could be recognised by the logotype as well as the image.

Myriad Pro is the corporate font - It is used for all things to do with Rings Of Saturn. Eg. Business card and letterhead. Regular and semi-bold variations can be used for plain text or headings. These fonts are an identity which runs through all products and merchandise so the company gains immediate recognition from the viewer / customer.

Logo Design

These are the first stages of my logo design. I tried to incorporate the ideas of some of the logos i found into my own designs. I actually found it really difficult and just wanted to pick up a pencil and paper and draw the logo instead of making it on the computer, so maybe instead of trying to make a certain shape that I liked in someone else's logo I should have just looked at them all as a whole for inspiration and then designed my own. These are the different logos i came up with at the start, i don't think any of them work too well but i guess that in the first stages experimenting leads on to a better design.


I think typography is really important and can set a logo apart from the rest. I liked the typography in this logo and tried to create something similar with the way the word saturn was written, i think it has a very sci-fi feel to it and would like to have used it in my final design but it doesn't really fit in with the image i made. I also tried something similar to the image here but don't like the way the shapes are restricted in a box.


I found this Zen logo interesting and tried to incorporate the handwritten font in my own. I wanted to create something modern and a bit different so I tried a brush technique to create the rings. I decided that both the rings and the font would lose their detail once reduced.


I tried to make a logo which had reference to the rings of saturn. The third image influenced my colour choices, i think purple and green work well together. I struggled trying to give the rings the shape i wanted and thought the logo was too large and out of place.

And a few more...