Colour Experiments.

Posted by Lauren Chandler

In todays workshop we were focusing on colour play. This included learning the difference about RGB and CMYK. We then went off to experiment ourselves. I went straight onto Pinterest and looked onto images that I was drawn too specifically for their colour schemes. I then downloaded these into Indesign and with using the eyedropper tool I was able to select the images and it came up with the strongest colours that it could pick up. I then put these into a presentation pdf:

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My favourite one out of all of these experiments was the last one of ‘The Wanderer’ which I have included already in my research for my logo. I really like the major contrast in the colours, however they work really well with each other. I placed these colours into Illustrator and experimented with Shades, Tints, Complimentary Colours and Saturation / Desaturation.

I really like this colour scheme and I am going to experiment with this one when creating more content for ‘High Seas Ink’. I will also develop another a colour scheme I like for a back up.

Logo Development.

Posted by Lauren Chandler

I looked back into my influences and took this image:

I really like this image and decided to created my own version on this on graph paper:

I then scanned my sketch into illustrator and used the line, curvature and pen tool to create this digitally, I really like this design and I want to develop this further. I am considering adding ink splatters to this design, and adding colours that I would like to be the companies colour palette.

Further Development on Font

Posted by Lauren Chandler

I spent last night drawing each type separately to develop the companies name further. I kept it similar to my previous styles, however I combined the two:

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I then took this font and compared it to an updated font draft I also drew, to see if it went well with the style. I do feel like the font is too fancy compared to the theme of pirates. I also am not completely satisfied with the logo design as there’s too many elements and I feel like the logo should be kept simple for it to be successful.

I want to re-design this and combine the anchor and a ship together, inspired by an image I saw on Pinterest earlier last week. I am also going to experiment with drawing the font in a rope style.

Developing A Font and Logo

Posted by Lauren Chandler

I have been researching into popular tattoo fonts and also looking more into the possibly logo inspirations. I started drawing this weekend what my font and logo could look like, I decided I’m going to go for an anchor as my main base but somehow include elements of a 1800’s HMS Ship. This was my rough first idea:

I then started thinking in more depth about my typography that I wanted to use for the companies name. I looked on dafont.com and searched for ‘script’ types. I found two tattoo inspired fonts and then combined the two, this was my first sketch:

I really liked this style, however I was a bit too fancy for what I needed. I drew it again, with less curves and made sure the capital letters joined up to each other

I like the boldness of the font and the different thickness in the form of each letter. I like the fact it keeps in the ‘tattoo script’ style but strays away from it through the spacing and the different parts of thicker line. I plan on developing this more, focusing on each letter separately.

FINAL POSTER.

Posted by Lauren Chandler

After some feedback from Chris in the workshop, I decided to add the colour scheme and the ‘noise’ style from my web design to make sure each design relates to each other. I also changed the annotation lines to make them darker and more symmetrical. I am very happy with my end result, I feel its simple yet very aesthetically pleasing. From a 14 years old opinion I think it doesn’t go into too much detail and it’s not over complicated. I tried to design it so it could go in a physics text book, or equally in a text book on Einstein as well as being related to my ‘website’. I also made it to be more of a ‘fun fact’ about Einstein, but also keeping it educational. I created all the icons and the timeline in Illustrator. I then added the text through InDesign, using the SpaceCard and Space of Time font that I downloaded from dafont.com. I then had to place the text back into Illustrator to create the background and colour scheme.

A higher quality pdf can be found using this link: FINAL A2 POSTER