Wednesday, July 16, 2014

KonXions

This is a logo that I designed for a new Christian community that has started up in Western NY. The pastor (who happens to be married to my mother-in-law...) requested that I design a simple yet effective logo. This is what I came up with:


My goal with this logo was to make it have a much more modern and trendy feel. As opposed to the Cabin Creek Getaway one, this one is much more block-y, and gives the appearance of breaking out of itself. In order to make it less busy, but still get the point across, I chose to only partially fill the wall with bricks.  


Monday, July 14, 2014

Cabin Creek Getaway

So one awesome project that my in-laws have been working on is a cabin. They built a completely off-the-grid, self sustaining cabin complete with gravity fed water and propane stove and fridge. My husband and I stayed there, and Dad asked me to design him a logo. This is the result!



I'm rather pleased with how it turned out. Little bit of design information. I decided on the round shape to make it more "woodsy." The point was that it would clearly represent the cabin whie being simple enough to be a logo. This was all done by hand, and every part can be moved and changed.

The type was chosen in order to be able to sub-conciously read it (always important!). I think one of the most rookie mistakes in design is making the text unreadable or difficult. Our brains are wired to avoid difficult to read texts, and it automatically makes a logo less approachable.


Check out the website yourself! www.cabincreekgetaway.com

Friday, December 20, 2013

Magazine Cover

This was the final project for my Graphic Design class. We had to make a professional-quality magazine cover of our own life. The name, logo, and cover all had to be thought up and designed to fit the perception that we had of ourselves. I had gotten engaged over the summer and my perception of myself was slowly changing from a chic city girl to a laid back, shabby chic country girl. I tried to make this evident through the name of the magazine as well as the font used in the various body texts. Once again, there is so much that I would fix and tweak, but this is what was turned in.


Thursday, December 5, 2013

College work

One thing I always regretted in my major was the lack of a portfolio. I chose the "easy" path of Communications and Music rather than Fine Art. Since I don't want to freelance anymore, it still seems like a wise choice. However, almost every communications-related job has asked for proof of creativity, and so this blog. It's not my regular one (newlywedsinnashville.blogspot.com is the "regularly updated one") but I'll post whenever I create something new. For now, here are some things that I've done while in college.


This is a basic photoshop that I did for a Digital Imaging class. 

Obviously, this is one of my favorite designs ever.
This was our wedding invitation. It was printed on a think
piece of cardstock to try to capture the texture of the burlap.


Once again, a wedding-related design. This was the front of our programs.