Today logos surround us everywhere. Every product has a logo. Every website has a logo. Every sports team has a logo. So how can you make your logo stand out? Well one idea is to keep your logo simple that relates to your product.

An example of this is the Bitcoin logo:

The bitcoin logo is simple and it is easily recognizable. The designers of it understand the importance of a simple logo. The next time you are looking at different logos or creating logos think, keep it simple.

SO.  For this assignment I thought it would be cool to make a logo for the club that I am in here.  I haven’t been dancing for too long but I thought I would see what would become of this internet shout out to the squad.  I first went to the the tailorbrand.com website and typed in what I would want on my logo.  From there I took a small test to determine the font that would be used for it.  I had the option to change the colors and make edits but I thought this was the perfect look.

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Second assignment time! This time it’s also about space (in fact, it’s in the same world). This time I’m creating a simple but detailed logo for a fictional company. I decided to make the logo of a major company in the sci-fi world I mentioned in my last post. The company’s called Hypatia, named after the Greek astronomer/mathematician/philosopher. She was pretty much the first documented woman mathematician. Mary’s the one who came up with most of the stuff about the company and she chose the name.

Anyways, Hypatia is also considered by many to be the inventor of the astrolabe, which was an important tool used to navigate using the stars through much of history. As Hypatia was the inventor, and the company Hypatia is a space exploration contractor, I figured it’d make sense to put an astrolabe in the logo. I used an astrolabe quadrant as the image that I based the logo on. I ended up with this:

I went through several drafts of the logo that didn’t look too great before I got to this one. I’m not 100% happy with it (I think it could use a better font), but I still think it turned out pretty well! I’ll have to go searching around to see if I can find a font that fits a bit better, and I might tweak the location of the text, but the logo itself looks pretty good.

As you might’ve picked up in my last pretty much every post, I use Inkscape a lot. As might be expected, I used Inkscape to make this. Oh, and the design of the astrolabe is inspired by this astrolabe quadrant:

This class is really getting me to make more art for my worldbuilding projects.

For this assignment I was supposed to design a logo using the KISS (keep it simple, stupid) formula. I decided to create a logo for my imaginary brewery business. First, I had to decide whether I wanted an icon in my logo. I didn’t want to choose something that overwhelmed the entire logo. I decided to go ahead and look around for possible images. Then an idea popped into my head: what if I used the molecular formula for yeast, an essential ingredient for any beer. A molecular formula is pretty bare-boned, no extravagant details, which is why I decided to go ahead and use it. I found an image that displayed the structure in its simplest form and as a bonus has two little red circles in the structure that adds a little pop to the overall look. Next, I had to decide what my company was going to be named. Again, in keeping it simple I went ahead with a pretty straightforward name “Daniel’s Brewery Company”. Now that I had a name, I had to choose a font that went well with the overall image and what it represented. I went through almost all the fonts available on Pixlr and finally decided on one, Agency FB. I really liked the simple, slightly blocky image it gave the the letters. It also brought out the beginning of each word nicely. Once I had all that set, I had to decide on the layout. Since the name was pretty long, I chose to write one word per line to make it look shorter. I then placed it beside the yeast molecular structure image. Borrowing an idea from an example I saw somewhere (I can’t recall), I decided to add a simple line between the name and image, which I think brought it all together nicely. I did all this on Pixlr.

For this design assignment we had to create a simple, but detailed logo. I saw this as the perfect opportunity to create a logo for my website.  I just put my domain name in pristina font with my slogan in Segoe. I added the lightning bolt to make it interesting and to symbolize my slogan. Plus, paint.net doesn’t leave many options for pre-made shapes.