Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Stationary Package

BUSINESS CARD
  • The printed pieces that a company utilizes for communication purposes
  • When establishing a business, is very important that all communications are well coordinated and that the message of the organization is presented consistently
  • BUSINESS CARD, LETTERHEAD, AND ENVELOPE
  • Business card:  immediate opinion, goals, colors, fonts
  • Logo, name, employee name, title, phone number, fax number, email, address, web address
  • 2X3.5 to fit into a wallet
LETTERHEAD
  • typically includes:  logo, company name, company address, phone number, fax number, web address
  • 8X11, vertical orientation, leave room to write the letter and memo, accuracy, unity with other pieces
ENVELOPE
  • standard #10 envelope
  • logo, company name, company address
  • 9.5 X 4 1/8
  • Leave room for recipients address and stamp
  • well coordinated between all pieces

Research and Inspiration #18


I like the use of the flower in the letter it stands out and makes the logo more interesting

I really like this flower and how it stands taller than the letters. 

I like how there is a flower coming off the curly part of the letter and how the bigger flower becomes part of the B.

Research and Inspiration #17

This one is unique
I like the toothbrush
I like the use of 2 colors

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Logotype

  • Logotype:  a graphic mark or emblem commonly used by commercial enterprises, organizations and even individuals to aid and promote instant public recognition.... AKA:  LOGO
  • A logographic language is Egyptian Hieroglyphics
  • As the industrial revolution developed in the 18th and 19th centuries photography, and lithography contributed to the boom of an advertising industry that integrated typography and imagery together on the page
  • Consultancies and trade-groups in the commercial arts were growing and organizing; by 1890 the US had 700 lithographic printing firms employing more than 8,000 people
  • As printing cost decreased, literacy rated increased, and visual styles changed, the Victorian decorative art lead to an expansion of typographic styles and methods of representing businesses
  • By the 1950s, modernism had shed its roots as an avant-garde artistic movement in Europe to become an international, commercialized movement in the US and elsewhere
  • LESS IS MORE; simplicity, difficult to perfect
  • Real life people do not analyze logos
  • Simple:  Easily recognizable, LESS IS MORE
  • Memorable:  Based on simplicity
  • Timeless: Last for many years and still be effective
  • Versatile:  Works on tv, billboards, printed shirts, vector format
  • Appropriate:  Should appeal for intended audience
  • Four Color Process:  CMYK; technique when printing in full color
  • Spot Color:  Method of specifying and printing colors in which each color is printed with its own color; effective when the printed matter only contains 1-3 colors
  • Pantone Matching System:  Everyone uses these colors only when you are trying to design with spot color, books with swatched
  • Combination Mark:  combining text of company name and visual together 
  • Iconic/Symbolic:  Just a symol, very simplifies
  • Wordmark:  whole name of the company
  • The grid:  way of organizing content on a page