Just messing

Getting burned out for today...so I decided to doodle for awhile. I might take tomorrow off and begin sunday with a fresh outlook. Feel like I've been staring at the logo too much lately.

Closer...

Still playing around with some new ideas/layouts. This set feels closer to the retro/vintage feel I want to achieve as far as color/texture/shapes. One of the problems I'm having with these is where to place the sub-type "Records". More to come...

The first design is obviously just for fun..wanted to see what it looked like layered over each other with depth.

Fantasyland in the Sky

Okay, so I lied in the previous post...here's one last wild idea I came up with tonight. Obviously I'd have to change the typeface a bit and take out all those white circular details that are in the records and replace them with curved lines or something of the sort. Who knows? I'm just trying to bust out as many ideas as my creativity will allow for so I'll know I've made the right decision in the end...

On a good note, if I did use this particular design and simplify it a bit, the shape of the records together could be applied in various ways when initiated in ads. They could make up clouds in the sky raining records, as exemplified here, or they could outline hills of a rollercoaster or ferriswheel in an ad where I create a themepark environment. Hmmm...I dunno...

As of now the whole logo seems very busy, but I'll change that later. Just laying it out there for now.

Logo Colors

So I'm sorta tired of coming up with logo ideas right now, so I'm Just playing around with some color schemes in between the time I'm working on my logo...Depending on a particular color I like, I may make a decision in regards to my logo design based off of this color choice...Note: The final logo will either be lino-cut or stamped, I want it to look vintage..no vectors allowed.

The Cosmic Sketch

So this is the sketch I did which led me to become interested in this new direction.

More Digital Drafts.

Still think I need to incorporate circular lines into the design (the lines found on a record's surface)...I was thinking maybe white or grey lines and wherever the white circles run into these lines, they would change color. Still not set on a typeface, I'll probably finalize the typography after I finish the logo design itself. Anyways, I can't sleep and my goal is to finalize my logo tomorrow so I can move on to more exciting escapades. We'll see....

Circular

Just getting an idea of some circle relationships I want to use in my logo as well as getting a sense of color for the brand identity.

Blah...

This design I'm working with is really not doing it for me...I'm throwing the previous post's design into the trash bin for now and working with some new ideas the rest of this week...my new inspirations include:

circular patterns
kaleidescope
radial patterns

From these, I am going to go back to the sketching board and come up with some new stuff. This is what happens when I leave my sketchbook laying dormant for a few days, I come up with....Blah

And another...

Print Draft No. 1

First print-out for class critique. Still haven't hit my mark yet...more to come.

...and Another

Another New Direction

Weekend Doodles

A couple of strange drawings done during random times this weekend. Just for fun, I inverted the colors. I used a circle stencil, various colored inks and a burnt out cigarette as a brush. It's possible that there are some fragments of Doritos in the mix somewhere as well.

Retro-type No. 3

After glancing at the typefaces I collected, these are some of the one's that caught my eye. Each of these has a certain characteristic that I found interesting and thought I could draw from for the typography in my logo.

Retro-type No. 2

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Retro Type No. 1

Now that I've got some ideas out on the table, I'm researching some different typefaces and creating layouts of various retro-type fonts. Here's the first. More to come.

Another Crazy Direction

So I thought it might be interesting to do the Fantasyland Logo in the style of an old motel/hotel/amusement park...for ads, the logo could be placed on a sign and in the background (which isn't seen here), there would be an explosion of records/rollercoasters/wildlife/etc..anywho, here's a sketch i did sortof pointing towards that direction, threw the sketch into photoshop and did a quick sloppy job of adding color/texture to the logo. still not satisfied, but i'm just trying out all the possibilities.

Inspiration from Graphic-Exchange