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unfinished

After many revisions i decided to go with the flat sides on the letters of the ahp logo. It looks cleaner and the straight lines offer a steady foundation which serves as a good metaphor. The round edges give the logo a wobbly feel that doesn't represent the stability that the foster homes provide.

So the further i am good with the "ahp" portion of the logo, the more i want to change the "half heart." I realize there are hundreds of possible styles and i'm trying to narrow it down to the best one. If anyone can provide some feedback as to which of the below may be working or not working, i appreciate it.

Free textures

I'm not sure if anyone needs textures for their designing, but this seems like a good resource. I need to create a distressed look in illustrator to give my Big Bad Wolf logo some legitimacy. I think I'll find what I need here to get started. It's intended for Maya users, but who cares?

Project 2 DVD Packaging Design

So I am just trying to decide which DVD box to redesign for the second project. Two movies boxes in terrible need of a redesign are Children of Men and Last King of Scotland. I am particularly draw to these two movies not only because the current designs are so unremarkable but more importantly they're very misleading. The Children of Men cover doesn't tell you anything about the movie, except that you can imply it's a Clive Owen action movie and it is. But if you've ever seen the film, its real focus are the deeper political and sociological themes (hope and hopelessness, immigration, the global wealth gap, etc). As for the Last King of Scotland, it misses the mark entirely. I honestly find this box to be comical. It looks like the movie is this inspiring, feelgood Forest Whitaker biopic, and it's most definitely not that. Last Kind of Scotland is a challenging and at time frightening depiction of a cruel but complicated dictator.

Anyone seen either of these?...

iStock to Sell Logos

On the lookout for inspiration for project one, I stumbled across a blog post on Logo Design Love, which also touches on Kristin's theme of policing copyright. Apparently, iStock plans on selling stock logo designs in 2010 and to make the practice even more deplorable, they are advertising that they will pay designers $5 for every logo uploaded to their site.

With designers in an uproar, iStock went on to make this guarantee:

“Files purchased and used in accordance with the iStock license, will not breach any trademark, copyright or other intellectual property rights or rights of privacy. We’re calling it the iStock Legal Guarantee and if a customer does get a claim, iStock will cover the customer’s legal costs and direct damages to a combined total of $10,000. Here’s the best part: it’s on us. Starting Wednesday, every iStockphoto file automatically comes with a free Legal Guarantee.”

Read more: http://www.thelogofactory.com/logo_blog/index.php/istock-photo-to-sell-stock-logos/#ixzz0SPZkpobl

With $5 logos, I will be interested to see how many copyright lawsuits are filed next year.

Popular Logos with Hidden Symbolisms

Relevant stuff/inspiration

http://sixrevisions.com/graphics-design/popular-logos-with-hidden-symbolisms/

Random musings

Kristin: Great post. I had no idea about these new font rules, but then again I haven't been doing alot of web stuff either. That obviously will open up a world of possibilities for companies making typeface decisions in their web design. One thing you can always count on staying the same in business: things change and evolve.

2nd project idea: Well, it was Brew magazine, but I did some additional research and found an existing "Brew" magazine, but is has suspended publication of the magazine, pending it's sale.... to me (okay, just kidding). It is actually being sold, but I don't know when their website was last updated, so who knows if that is still accurate. It may as well be defunct. Anyway, their tagline is (er... was): "Traveling America's Brewpubs and Microbreweries" which is pretty much indicates the same audience I was targeting. Looks like it's back to the drawing board...

Here are the pepsi logos (2 of many) I brought up in class. I was wrong. The circle on the diet pepsi isn't skinnier, it's the line in the circle that's skinnier...like "hey, the line got skinnier just by being on this diet pepsi can":