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This afternoon I was starting some design work on a panel I'd like to bring to the Moncton meet... and the idea I had suddenly seemed like a good one to incorporate into the new logo we've been working on for our new company... some may remember how that developed here online as I worked on it a while back...
I took elements from the old logo and incorporated them into the new idea...
The same brush/rocket survived as did the lettering... pretty much intact. The exclamation mark is now gone and the 'rocket plume' now starts from Yarrow and then circles the globe symbolizing the far reaching market we enjoy for our work...
I like it better than anything we've come up with so far... but we'll see how it feels in the morning...
Dreaming of a new finished logo in Yarrow...
-grampa dan
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Somehow my mind is telling me that a sign made from this art would NOT be a normal, run of the mill 2D sign. For some reason I'm picturing LOTS of MulitCam time involved......
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You have to have a chicken riding the rocket! AND trailing a banner reading " Hardly Normal Sign Co."
I'm sure my fellow Directors (Dawgie & Sarge) would welcome you onto the staff.
You have to become an honourary Aussie ... so repeat after me:
"Under the Blue Gum Tree I stand, a sprig of wattle in my hand, a tribute to my native land ... Australia ... shoot thru Blue yer bloody beaut!"
You will recieve from Duncan the standard Company outfit ... fedora hat, monogramed t-shirt and a pack of company stickers of various sizes to be placed in strategic places.
(I currently hold the record putting one on the back of the drivers seat of a Canadian Police Car)
Just remember: The Company motto is we can turn the regular to unusual and chaos in seconds!
I have never been 100% happy with my own logo...which is why I've had about 17 of them over the years. If for no other reason, I get bored with one and change it. Heck, last year I changed the company name and already have burned thru 3 logo designs.
Curse of the creative I guess.
And with all the creativity you posses, there's no way it'll last forever. Rapid
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I like it Dan, except where you have the exhaust casting a shadow on the globe, the rocket needs to cast a curved one reaching down to the O of imagination, I think, to emphasise the 'heading off into space away from the globe' idea a bit more- just a thought.
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"... we can turn the regular to unusual and chaos in seconds!" That sounds like our shop pretty much any day of the week...
As Ray states... nothing lasts forever... especially the logos of creative people it seems.
I like your suggestion Ian... and will incorporate it into the flat version of the logo. On the sign out on the road ithe shadows will form by themselves because it will be done in 3D of course.... and on the MultiCam as it should be. The plasma cutter will get a workout... along with lots of hand painting.
I think we have finally arrived... at least for now.
Blasting off in Yarrow...
-grampa dan
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Looks way cool Dan. Two things you might try. Make the red outline around Sawatsky's a little lighter and move Sawatsky's up a little away from "Imagination". Just a thought. Nice job.
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Yep, you yankees are all the same, all heading down to Florida, LOL. By your trajectory it looks like you're going to Key West! Another great job Dan-O.
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Now, on the sign, can you make it so the globe is rotating while the text and the rocket stay put. You would lose the Yarrow reference, but add some activity with a slowly revoloving earth. My brain is trying to figure out how the rocket, plume and text would be supported though...
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quote:Originally posted by Philip Steffen: ...make it so the globe is rotating... My brain is trying to figure out how the rocket, plume... would be supported though...
chemistry & combustion of course... you weren't thinking of fake smoke were you?
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Well... nothings final 'til its final as they say.
We second guessed the logo one more day. Revisions spawned more revisions... and in the end we went back to our previous ideas but rearranged them one last time.
We still liked the explanation point... as it is an upside down 'i' which stands for imagination of course. The rocket/brush survived once more and the white smoke also lived on.
Now its actually going into production... no more second guessing... business cards to be ordered tomorrow... first segments of sign on the router first thing in the morning...
This baby is DONE at last!
Sorry Jon... no chicken.
-grampa dan
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That would be Janis peeking out of the porthole... along for the wild ride!
-grampa dan
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Dan I like it a lot, best yet, just a thought, just wondering if the explanation mark shouldn't be a different colour than the forground colour of your name, like say ivory. In any case it more you than the others I've seen...Just my 2 cents....Pat
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It would be an Honor if I could get a card sent to me with Yours and the Staffs signatures on the back. (If the back is blank.)
If not blank maybe sent taped to a letterhead with all signed. Thanks! in advance.
Sam
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Last night Janis weighed in on some minor tweaks and then a good night's sleep... and then a couple more minor tweaks this morning... including Pat's suggestion of making the ! a ivory color... its finally done... for real this time... I think.
No, really done this time!
The excercise has been a fun one and I truly appreciate all the helpful comments and suggestions on this project. Those who have followed from start to finish have seen just how my brain works on design.
When I'm in search of an idea I simply start drawing... the path is twisty, with many false ideas,,, but these ideas lead to new ones... which are twisted back into the old ideas, combined with new thoughts, simplified, adjusted, added to again... until eventually the final idea is refined. A little more adjusting generally brings it to a conclusion.
Our own logos are without a doubt the very hardest projects we tackle... for we are personally involved and have much at stake.
Its off to the printer now...
Contented in Yarrow...
-grampa dan
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So that means you're not going to Florida after all? I love it because it doesn't look like it's straight off the computer. Another home run Dan!
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...will it always be trapped into that space? I'm pretty sure it won't.. on cards, maybe the space goes to the entire edge of the card... but on letterhead, would it be on a white background with white "space" keeping it from looking trapped? As long as there is a little grey shading at the edges of your smoke trail, I suspect it still loooks good on white... like for t-shirts too... it won't have that square will it?
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The artwork as shown here is only the beginning Doug... the business card will be a full bleed... vertical format. On the truck doors and eventual T-shirts I will have a few surprises... likewise on the sign out front which is now in progress.
I'll post pics of the projects as they progress... after Moncton!
NOT doin' square in Yarrow...
-grampa dan
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But what I want to know is... if you are having second thoughts, again, aren't they THIRD thoughts!?
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