Saturday, 20 September 2014

Contrast - reseach (paintings)

Hi guys! Today I am going to talk about two paintings that include contrast.  One of them has bad contrast overall but does include good contrast too, and then the other painting has good contrast. I am going to talk about the colours in each painting and what contrast is shown in the painting.


Mona Lisa





The painting to the left of this paragraph was painted by Leonardo Da Vici in 1503/06. This painting is roughly 511 years old.


The colours on Mona Lisa's dress are mostly dark which makes the painting less eye-catching than other paintings.  So this means that the contrast isn't that good.

However, the background is a lot more colourful than the dress.  The background includes the colours green and blue which are a lot brighter than dark brown. 

The green/blue background contrasts against Mono Lisa's dress because the background stands out a lot more than the dark dress.













Girl with a Pearl Earring






This painting to the left was painted by Jan Vermeer in 1665, this was painted around 349 years ago.


This painting includes a mixture of colours, this is because the hand-band the girl is wearing includes bright blue and yellow. The blue and yellow contrasts the black background.  


The girl's skin in the painting is very pale so this makes her skin very bright and also her red lipstick stand out a lot.

Logo designing using contrast (CE)

Hi guys! I'm back and today I am going to talk about using contrast to the final image (CE logo). Below this paragraph is the logo I am going to change and experiment with contrast.


CE logo before I added contrast


When I was adding contrast to my logo, I thought I would change the colour of the letters slightly to make them brighter and bolder.  I really like the shade of pink and blue I chose for the updated logo design.  The background contrasts with the letters because the background is a brighter shade of green and blue.  This makes the letters stand out more.  I also really like the background because the two colours mix together and this makes it look really creative.  Colour is an example of contrast.  

Another example of contrast is font.  I changed the font in my updated logo because I think this logo is bolder and also it is clearer.  This makes the logo stand out more and grabs people's attention to my logo.

Here is the final image, I decided to remove the numbers above because I feel they are a distraction. 

Logo with contrast added to it

Friday, 19 September 2014

Logo designing using contrast (CRE)

Hi guys! I'm back and today I am going to talk about using contrast to one of my final images. I decided to use the scrabble inspired logo.  Below this paragraph is the logo I am going to change and experiment with contrast.


        
            Before experimenting with contrast

Contrast


Contrast means the state of being strikingly different from something else in juxtaposition or close association. 

Different types of contrast...

  1. Size
  2. Brightness
  3. Colour
  4. Font
  5. Shape

For my logo I decided to experiment with colour and size.  For colour I wanted to make it very funky and eye-catching, this is because it will grab people's attention.

I changed the colour of 'C, R and E' because I wanted them to be brighter so they can stand out more.  The rest of the letters in my logo are still black.
Another example of colour contrast is changing the colour of the background, I changed mine to yellow.  This is because yellow is also a very bright colour so it makes it very eye-catching.  Size is also an type of contrast and I used it in my updated logo. I increased the size for letters C, R and E because they are my initials and I want to make my initials eye-catching and powerful.  I kept the other letters in my logo the same size but at least the size is average so you can still read it clearly.


Below this statement is how I developed my logo using contrast.  I used Adobe PhotoShop for editing my logo, I screenshotted every step I did (in total there was 44 steps) and then finally I saved them into a folder and added all the sccreenshots to Movie Maker and made an animate movie.









Below this paragraph is my finish logo using contrast. I think the contrast logo looks a lot better and brighter. I'm very happy with this contrast version of my logo design. XD


Logo after developing it with contrast

Monday, 15 September 2014

Final logo designs

Hi guys!! Today I am showing you my 2 final logo designs and I will do an explanation why I chose them.

Design 1


















I chose this logo as one of my final designs because I think it is very different and a funky way of presenting my full name.  I decided to add colour to my initials (C.R.E) because it make them stand out more, and also it lets the logo be more colourful instead of all black.  I really like the font I chose because it is very similar to the font they used for Calvin Klein.  When I saw the logo I thought the font made it stand out more and it is a very cool font.  I got my inspiration from the board game ‘Scrabble’.  This is because I really like how each word, you can form another word within the first word.  

Design 2

















I chose this logo as my other final design.  This is because I really like the idea and also using scrabble pieces as my inspiration I thought it looked very funky.  I also added colour just to the letters C and E but not the numbers above.  I changed the colour of my initials to my favourite colours (pink and blue).  It was also good that pink and blue go together so that makes my 2nd final design stand out a lot.  I got my inspiration from the board game ‘Scrabble’.  However, I decided to use the idea of using the scrabble letters and adding the numbers above the letter too.



Logo design

Hi guys!! Today's blog is all about me designing different logo designs and then once I found one I really like, I will develop it more.  I developed some by adding colour, or just purely changing the font to make it more interesting.
Hope you enjoy looking at some of my designs


CRE logo ideas
Developing CRE logo 



CE logo idea
Developing CE logos

logo designing - reseach

Hi guys, today I am talking about some existing logos and I am going to describe what I like about the logo, and some features I might want to add to my own logo design.

Logo designing - research



Chanel


I really like this logo because I find it clever that the letter ‘C’ is in the logo twice, but it is just flipped round.  It is like a mirror image of the letter ‘C’. It is very creative but unusual at the same time - that is why I like it.






EA sports




I love the font in this logo because it is very bold and ‘in your face’. I also like how the letters join up. I also like how the letter E looks different than normal, which makes this logo very unique and creative.






Calvin Klein 











I think this logo is really clever and really interesting.  This is because the ‘C’ is small and then the ‘K’ is bigger, so the letters aren’t different size – I find this a very clever idea so I might have a go at a logo like this using my initials.  




Louis Vuitton 






This Louis Vuitton logo is also very fascinating because I love the idea that both letters over-lap each other.  I really like the font in this logo, it is the same to the 'Calvin Klein' font, I am thinking of using a font like this in my own logo.