This Ultimate Merger assignment was really fun and interesting. We were suppose to take two businesses and merged them together to create one logo. The process to create this logo was not too challenging, I found a colorless logo and took that image and put it in the Color Splash app. From there I was able to color in the image with the any colors that I wanted. This process was very enjoyable, I felt like I was a young child coloring again.

When I saw this assignment, for me it was a very easy to decide on what I wanted to use. From many of the other assignments you can tell I am a Boston Celtics fan until I die, I bleed green. The Boston Celtics are the best organization in the NBA. Anyone who knows basketball, knows that the Boston Celtics and Los Angles Lakers are the biggest rivalry in the NBA and one of the biggest rivalries in all of sports. The Celtics and Lakers ruled the 80s in the NBA, and that was one of the most heated times in the rivalry. I became a fan of the Celtics when I was really young, watching the old games from the 80s. That was the first time I saw Larry Bird play, and became a huge fan of his and the Boston Celtics.

So I decided to combine the logos of both organizations. I took the Celtics logo and added the colors of the Lakers to it. As a fan, it was very difficult for me to color the gold and purple onto the Boston logo. But I did it for the class, I feel that it is the ultimate merger of two organizations and teams that really hate each other.

I did the assignment The Ultimate Merger, worth 3.5 stars. I wanted to make this Wire related since Proposition Joe and Stringer Bell are in a deal with each other now. So what I came up with is a “package” logo, featuring both of them. I found a package icon on The Noun Project, and I found pictures of Proposition Joe and Stringer Bell. I made the package icon cardboard color on Pixlr, and ran both the Proposition Joe and Stringer Bell pictures through a black and white filter on Pixlr. Then, I cut out Proposition Joe and Stringer Bell’s heads and free transformed them as well as free distorted them to make them go in the direction of the sides of the box. Then I added the text to the box. I wanted to keep their logo somewhat vague since that’s how they talk about their products. In a way Proposition Joe and Stringer Bell are the ultimate merger since they are both very powerful drug dealers in Baltimore with many connections to all kinds of people.

Image Citations:

Package designed by Mahmoud Bachir from the Noun Project

Stringer Bell by HBO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Wire_Stringer_Bell.jpg

Proposition Joe redright88.com/2013/01/18/rip-proposition-joe/

A combination of Walmart and Target. I choose Walmart and Target, because I wanted two well known corporations that people would recognize. I created it using GIMP  a free photo editing software. I overlapped the target symbol and put it on the end of the Walmart, creation a new name Walma, as well as made the red target yellow.

Worth 3.5 stars.

The Ultimate Merger

Another Design Assignment for the week is The Ultimate Merger. All of the design assignments seemed pretty interesting, but this was the first to catch my eye and I loved the idea of having to combine to companies logos together into one. Well deciding on the two logos to merge was THE hardest part. I obviously ended up using Weight Watchers and Subway. I initially copied the entire subway logo into MS Paint and cut out the “Subway Part” of it. In order to get the Weight Watchers words in the Subway font, I had to download their font from a website called 1001 Fonts. From there I saved it and downloaded the zip file to my computer and then imported it into all of my applications.

In MS PowerPoint, I used WordArt and wrote out Weight Watchers. I edited the words, to have a gradient effect from which the words would fade from white to yellow, left to right. After I had completed that, I outlined the words in the same dark green as the words “Eat Fresh.” are written in. I saved that artwork in PowerPoint and uploaded it in MS Paint. I arranged the words in the same effect that Subway originally had theirs. That is how I came up with this logo!

Reasons for choosing the two of these companies? First and foremost, I absolutely love Subway and not sure why anyone wouldn’t? Once I thought of that, I then thought of something that would work well with their slogan, and what is nothing better than a weight loss company? I mean, we all know Jarrod went to Subway to lose weight! The reasons may be a little cheesy, but I thought they worked perfectly together, and who knows, maybe they will one day team up together to help more people lose weight!

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3.5 stars

I am loving these design assignments! For this one I chose to do The Ultimate Merger, where you have to combine two logos from different companies into one, as if the two merged together to form the ultimate company. The hardest part about this assignment was probably just picking the two companies I wanted to merge together because there is just so many to choose from. I wanted something a little more logical like the two companies had to be from the same industry. After doing some googling of logos I noticed multiple internet browser logos were popping up. I said hey since this is a blog on the internet for the internet I might as well make this assignment about the internet. Since the only two internet browser that I think are worth anyone’s time are both Chrome and Firefox I decided to merge the two companies together. Thus I introduce to you….

First I just have to say I was able to get access to Photoshop on my own computer. I know it’s awesome, right? Also I didn’t have spend hundreds of dollars to do so either. I found out that if you are a student or teacher you can get the software for up to 60% off! There is thing called Adobe Creative Cloud, which is a subscription cloud based software application. As a student or teacher you can access to Photoshop for just $9.99/month, which is well worth the price if you ask me.

The creation process was rather simple and much like my other assignments I have completed and I can always revert back to my original Photoshop Selection Tutorial. There is no coloring involved in this process, but the selection process is just the same as in the video. However, here is another screencast for the process:

This here is what a logo of Dell and IBM could possibly look like if they had a merger. This is for the Ultimate Merger assignment from the DS106 Assignment Bank. To do this I actually used one of the tools found on this awesome website named Font Meme. They actually have a good set of generated fonts from popular logos all not free though. For good fun I did another one which as you can see would be what CNN and NBC would look like. I’m still working on the ABC-CBS logo.