Blog Logo Final
“Rock, Rave, Rev.” was chosen very carefully when I decided on the theme of my blog. Even the order has significance. I was raised on rock and roll. Yellow Submarine was my first love. Secondly, electronic music has taken over my earphones and has morphed into something very important to me. Lastly, my love of cars is something I wanted to share so badly that I could not pass up this opportunity to do so. On the other hand I believe that music is life. Therefore I did music and cars. Rock, Rave, Rev.
The doodles on the corners of my notes in class and while studying the week or so before this logo was due were not the usual guitar or bear but rather ideas for how I could visually connect Rock, Rave, and Rev. I always found myself going back to the letter R. Mainly because of my poor drawing skills that made a record and piston look so strange. But also I thought of other logos and decided that I wanted something simpler.
The R’s are not text, but rather creations using either the brush tool and different brushes or using the rectangle and pen tools. Originally I had each R a different color but thought that it would look better more uniform and consistent.
The first R is a brush that looks cut up or almost sloppy. When I drew the first R representing Rock I went for a cool and almost ripped feeling. The second R represents Rave. There was a font called “virtual DJ” that I liked but wanted to make the letter myself rather than simply use text. Squares and generated triangles make up the sides of the R. This gives the middle R an electronic or futuristic look that I think goes well with the idea of electronic music. Finally, the last R was something that I actually got just how I wanted on the first try with a unique brush. I wanted to go for a race track sort of look because the last R represents Rev, meaning my love of cars.
Just by experimenting with the different styles of strokes on the ellipse I made I found a shape that I liked and surrounded the R’s. The two different gradient patters on the ellipses gives the logo a sort of curved shape which was something I honestly came about simply by accident. A drop shadow effect is the last piece in my logo.
To update the final draft of the logo I brought out the Rs and made them a little bit larger as well as tweaked with the gradient. I had ideas to make a more bold shadow of the whole logo but ended up not being able to make what I saw in my head a reality. I am still satisfied with my final piece.
Samwise The Bold 