11 Smart Logos.

One of my favorite area of graphic design are logos. It is often the first impression you give to the client of your company. A good logo needs to be memorable and unique. It needs to be smart and simple yet sophisticated at the same time. I've seen many logos in my researched since a year a ago. These are some of my favorite, you maybe not see classic logos like coca-cola and others here because I am focusing on smart logo that uses the type form to tell you about the company.


This one uses the U and the P to form the umbrella. I don't know about you guys, but I remember this logo just by glancing at it.



So obvious, yet would you have come up with it? Just one element added. The beak of the bird. Simple amazing. Some of these logos just make you say why didn't I come up with that?



The N is replaced by the number 2. Smart!



Not much to explain here, I think I would have come to the same conclusion I think. So simple that it couldn't be any other way.



This one is smart. Again, same as the logo above, playing with the idea of a helium balloon. So simple. But did you see the merge between the U and M? I think there's an element there that I might have never consider.



One of my all time favorite. It's a food critics guild's logo. Where it's the ink well pen tip where the middle is a spoon. Every time I look at this logo I get blown away by its simplicity and effectiveness.


This one probably over post, but oh well. I think it's just too smart and probably accidental. I wonder how much of logo designing is luck and how much is skills?



This is a smart concept. Where they form the who logo with the form on the number 8. I would have never think twice about this idea. This is simply skills.



A smart simple design. The C and S in creative sweet are represented by their lowest recognizable form.



This one is just beautiful. Very memorable.

My recent work: Literacy is Power + Human

The power of literacy if often overlooked in third world countries. Often these people have too much to focus on to worry about literacy. They are often too hungry and poor to even worry about books and education. My literacy projects aim inform these people about literacy and its power. This is a sketch of designs I plan of executing. Please let me know what you think. I am alway open for discussion.

This piece is my commentary on the grid chapter in the Higgin book about the grid system. Since everything in our lives revolve around the grid and the cubes, my comment was that... even though our thinking is based on logic and order, the moment emotions are introduced, it overrides all logic.

So frustrated today.

I just feel so frustrated today. I just feel so unorganized, and I hate that feeling. I love to know exactly what I have to do ALL THE TIME! Everything is just not going right this week. It all started with my little fender bender last week. Then everything just went down hill. Hope fully..

this little rant/blog will put in all in perspective for me. So lets start and see what is exactly bothering me...

1) I feel so disorganized as of right.
2) I feel so am broke!
3) I haven't been satisfied with my work lately.


Solving problem #1:

What I have to do for classes.
All Classes: Process Book
Production 356: 1. Machine and presentation
Design 351: 1. Research, 2. Wall Design, 3. Edit Facebook Map, 4. Higgin Project, 5. Choice
Design 400: 1. Book, 2. Bitmap Typography, 3. Postcard, 4. Edit Resume, 5. Kerning

Order of importance
0. Process Book
1. Machine and presentation for Can's Class tomorrow.
2. Research and visual for library project
3. Postcard printing
4. Kerning
5. Book
6. Edit Resume
7. Bitmap Font
8. Edit facebook map
9. Higgin Project
10. Choice Project

What I have to do for my life.
Clean my laptop.
Clean my room.
Do laundry.
Focus.



Solving #2:

Get a job ASAP.



Sovling #3:

Make better work!

Commentary on "Paranormal Activity"

Overall Photography Tips

Self-reflecting

Hola Festival!

Here are some photos I took at the Hola Festival, in Knoxville, TN. It's was a while back but I finally found time to upload them. Let me know what you think.

I'm in Memphis!

A photo-shoot at Shelby Farm with my friend Carly. So there you have it, when you feel stale, new location helps...

So as for finding my creativity again, I decided to travel down here to visit my brother and some of my friends. I think the new environment and people is very refreshing and will affect my work. We'll see though... I'll keep you posted.



We were driving around to find some building to shoot at, I was hesitating to go in at first. Carly a cool camper she was, told me "lets just walk around and you'll find something interesting to shoot." She was right, there was a perfect shooting location on the roof of the garage.




more photos from this shoot can be found on my flickr.

self potrait: hard like rocks

Who do we see when we look in the mirror?


Winter Skin

Losing inspiration.

When I woke up today, I've lost all motivation and all inspiration. I don't how it had happened but it has. Every designer's fear. Someday we just wake up and it's all gone. A scary thought in indeed, but what can we do to bounce back? Today I will be set out to do just this. Answer a few questions for myself, and hopefully ask a few more.

I have three...


projects I have to finish by tomorrow, yet none of them are done. On top of that, a new assignment have been given out today in Can's (Jon) class. That's 5 projects I haven't done yet, and nothing to motivate me to do so.

Places I looked today...
Things to do when you're feeling stale

3eb concert

I recently went to the Third Eye Blind concert in Knoxville. I have to say, they put up a great show. I love their old stuff, always remind of the 90's if you can remember all the way back then.



Here are some photos I took at the concert. I will post more later, I am actually in the process of making my first stop motion video using photography so keep an eye out for that. These three photos I took with slow shutter speed around 65 and f/5.6. I set the ISO pretty high since it was dark in there. I think the results came out pretty nice. Let me know what you think.