May 16, 2012

Iconic

So I'm finally taking Advanced Illustrator, a class that primarily focuses on visual type and identity- aka- getting serious about logo-makin' skills. I personally don't feel as confident creating logos, so I'm excited to learn and have some solid pieces ready to add to my portfolio.

I wanted to share this really interesting class exercise we did the other night. I'm sure it's pretty common in graphic design... the idea was to take 6 words and express them using only 4 black squares.

Wanna see mine? :)

Which one grabs your attention?

So simple... yet so creatively challenging! I love exercises like this because it gets me sketching and thinking outside the box. Our next big assignment is coming up with a set of iconsso excited! I've been wanting to create a special set of GDS-style icons for you guys to use, so stay tuned!


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8 comments:

  1. I personally love your "Bold" design!

    I hope you're having fun! =)

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  2. My top three are bold, tension, and playful.
    Such awesome idea's to go with their words :)

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  3. We did a similar exercise in one of my classes... except it was timed, so we had to force our minds to think rapidly - it was difficult!

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  4. Ah I would love so much to learn illustrator. I played with it some in HS on yearbooks taff but never had any clue what I was doing

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  5. Tension grabs my eye immediately. You are giving me some great ideas - we have to create a logo using our initials and my mind is completely blank. Lol.

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  6. Those are all fantastic! I personally love "bold" and "playful"!

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  7. I love the increase one, cleaner, has movement! interesting!

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  8. this is interesting I did something similar but with type here: http://shanice-connor.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/simple-type-experementation.html

    The exercise I did, was focusing on the composition of the letters within a word to communicate the words meaning.

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