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For the final design assignment of this week, I decided to make a logo for my site. I’m a fan of more minimalist design, so I may not necessary use this logo on the site, but it’s a good skill to have.

Secret confession: I love making logos. I’ve done a lot of blog header designs, including the logos for Literally, Darling and the Blue & Gray Press. You could say it’s a little bit of an obsession.

For this logo, I tried to take it in a bit more of a fun direction. I pulled the bun image that I made in the first week for a Daily Create, and applied new text using photoshop. It’s a little girly for me, but I like it! I would probably use this on my site at some point, as I feel like it is an accurate representation of me. I already rambled nonstop about how much I love wearing my hair in a bun, and my twitter handle is even @bigbundarling. Fitting, right?

This brings me up to the required 15 stars for this week, and currently I’m feeling really good about my design projects. It’s something I enjoy doing, so I feel like that is reflected in my work a lot more this week.

For this assignment I was very nervous. The assignment itself was easy enough but for me finding any type of editing software normally takes me hours. Fortunately, this time, it took me less than a half hour. I used this very simple and neat site called Hipster Logo(link). All you have to do is type in your logo/ name and you are able to pick the font, image, and how you want your logo displayed. The options are limited but for me it is exactly what I wanted. I personally do not care for anything loud or obnoxious. My favorite logos are simple and sleek with a neutral image. That is what I created for myself. Black and white never goes out of style, and I wanted a elegant font that people could still read. I got all of those things with this logo. I also was able to add an image to make it a little more exciting while still retaining its simplicity.

Assignment: http://assignments.ds106.us/assignments/website-logo/

 For the first assignment of the week I decided to create a new logo for my site. After this class I have thought about making this blog into something more than just a school assignment. If I were to have a blog in the future I would want to name it “Apartment 1A” or “Apt. 1A” for short.

I had fun including some personal touches to the top of my blog. I am obsessed with flowers and floral prints so this really makes my blog more personal. I like the light and airy colors. For the design I used a simple online design program. Making designs on the website is even more simple than Photoshop. Below is a picture of what my design looked like in the program.

I tried to use good color in this design. When I was designing it I tried to keep in my mind my audience. If I were to continue this blog my audience would probably be more women. I used pinks, green, and blue to pull the design together. I think that the pink I chose for the logo is a good fit because it compliments the logo while still popping and allowing you to see the contrast in the foreground and background.

Assignment:

For one of the assignments on the ds106 page I decided to create a banner for my web page. I loved this assignment. I think all of the colors flow and everything comes together nicely.

For  my second assignment of the week, I created a new logo for the top image for my blog. This was an assignment that I had wanted to do anyways because I was using one of the wordpress pictures, which was boring. I picked one of my favorite colors, but hopefully kept it with the general warm color scheme of the blog. I also learned how to draw guinea pigs on photoshop, and I colored him in to look like one of my guineas, Arthur.