Thursday 14 March 2013

Storm Snowboarding

This week the word I decided to use was "Storm." I created a company profile for this word that I think works very well. The fictional company that I created is called "Storm Snowboarding" and is a company that makes snowboards, gear and clothing. The first thing I always do is sketch out some thumbnails.



I had another page of thumbnails but I lost them. From here I morphed two of these ideas and came up with a logo that looks like this. 


The lightning bolt through the "o" is quite effective especially because it is the centre letter. I was happy with the logo so I moved on to the card.


Personally I love this card. I put a stormy sky in the background that was semi transparent and I blew up the logo, cropped it and washed it out on the left side of the card. This card is attention grabbing and visually appealing. 
The last thing that was left to do was to create a website. I made a mock up website for this project. I used the same cloudy background motif for several elements of this design. 


I was very happy with the way that this turned out. I feel like the theme is consistent and the website shows a true passion for snowboarding.

Hope you enjoyed this blog,
Kris



Thursday 7 March 2013

Wing Aviation Technologies

This week the word that was chosen for Illustration Fridays was "Wing." I decided to create another company because I enjoy doing corporate branding type of design. The company I decided to create is called "Wing Aviation Technologies." This is a company that specializes in the design and production of high quality personal jets. My design process always begins with a logo. The logo is super important because it sets the tone for the rest of the design work.

First I began the thumbnails stage.



I decided that I liked one of these thumbnails so I redid it on Adobe Illustrator. This was the result.


After I made the logo I moved on the card. for the card I went with a fairly simple design that played off of the two toned elements of the logo.



The last step was the website. This was by far the most time consuming part of the whole project but the end result is very pleasing. I went with a simple setup and put all the links on the left side.

This is the final company profile that includes the card and the website




That is all I did for this company. I am very happy with the finished result. I hope you enjoyed this blog.

Thanks,
Kris