Mariya's Final Logo

In order to finalize my logo, I was constantly going back and forth with which best represents the HVAC company that I was asked to brand. It was difficult to make a final decision on which color schemes, fonts, and which visual overall best represents the company since I was not provided with much information. The top logo was the final product that I will submit for my final. The rest at the bottom are the ideas that I came up with that I thought would best symbolize the company's mission. Of course, all of the others are unfinished products but hoping his will give you a good idea as to what I was thinking.

Just as a little side note - I was trying to incorporate the effective or creative use of white space (last example on the page),  however, the company's mission become more confusing when I tried to utilize this strategy to create my logo. Somehow, all of the components that were asked for me to incorporate into one logo could not be effectively represented while using just the white space in the visual. I am curious to see what everyone else thinks.

Amanda Leech's Final Logo

I actually did not make any changes to my final logo decision and went with the mixed up blocks version. I decided on this because I thought the blocks being tilted went more with the idea of it being a fun daycare. The colors are gender neutral and appeal to both parents and children. I am hoping to present this to the woman who runs my daycare so she can actually use it on her Facebook page.

Lauren's Logo Final

So I tried to take everyones advice and this is the final product!  I definitely think the blue is fun and kid friendly.  The words are still divided like a fraction and the blue circle is a half circle, like the pizzas they will use within the game.  Thanks everyone!

Leisha's Final Logo

I'm posting this now because this weekend I am running a camp for kids from military families, and I might not be done early enough on Sunday to post this.

I decided to keep the two logos so I could use them for different purposes.  I took some advice and made the symbols a little bigger and moved the pencil so that it is pointing inward. (I tried to fiddle around with Lauren's idea and I just couldn't make it look good.) I also made my name larger, relative to the symbols on the first image.  I'm excited to use these images in the future!

Ashley Caudill Final Logo

I am turning in my final logo tonight, because starting tomorrow at 10am I will be on a cruise to the Bahamas for the next 8 days.  The top logo is the one that I choose as my final one, I tried to remove the yellow image on the right like someone suggested, but I felt like it was missing something.  I decided to keep the yellow symbol because I think it brings color to the logo as well as drawn you in and directs the eye to look to the right.  

Logo Prototype

Here is the development process for my logo design as it stands now, which I plan on using for a media production idea I have been playing around with.  I do not have a font or text worked out yet, but this is my rough idea.  I started with a quick little tablet sketch (the part at the top) and built something with shapes and Illustrator.  Tried to incorporate a use of white space and keep all the shapes pretty simple.  The name, in case you can't read it in my sketchy handwriting, is "Gracewind Productions." Being an audio person, I decided to use a speaker and the sound given off to make the "wind" for a sailboat.  Any feedback would be appreciated!

Learning GIMP/Shameless Planetarium Plug

I have been teaching myself GIMP through tutorials on Lynda.com and by using it as a tool for some of our assignments in class.  What is really cool is I am starting to understand how an image should be processed efficiently in GIMP.  I can come up with an idea and within 10 minutes have a solid draft done.  To prove my point, here is a comical banner I made for a FB post dealing with the science talk happening tonight (BTW if you don't have plans you should totally come out and see this, IT'S FREE):

Christy's Logo Draft

Here's the best version of my first draft of the logo, which I decided to work on for the Educational Leadership program. I support this program in my Graduate Assistantship, so I tried to use this knowledge while making design decisions. I know that the program aims to produce educational leaders, which translates most often as principals for K-12 schools. I chose a photo of professional-looking men and women to represent future principals (or members of other leadership positions in education) and cut out the white spaces and background using Sumo Paint. I also built the school building in Sumo Paint, which was meant to look like a schoolhouse. Somewhat ironically, it also looks a lot like Memorial Hall (even though many Ed. Leadership students do not actually ever meet in Memorial for their courses). I recolored both of these images, although I was originally planning to make the Logo black and white. I also saved the logo as a PNG file so that it could be easily added to documents, webpages, or program materials in the future (without the ugly white box in the background).

I would especially appreciate feedback on the colors, because I think they need to be tweaked (maybe more muted?). I also think I need a different font type, and I'm not sure I like the placement of the words at all. I put them above the people because I wanted them to look like they were stepping forward (to convey leadership) against the backdrop of the school building. I am also concerned that there is too much detail in the silhouettes of the people for a logo assignment. Any ideas would be appreciated! I am a really detail-oriented person, so the simplicity of logos is particularly difficult for me.

Katie Bowser - Logo Draft

     These are all ideas for the Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA) District 8 for orchestra and band.  The image is suppose to be an "8" with the upper circle outlining the top of a violin (for the orchestra) and the bottom being the bell of a trombone (for band).  I re-vamping their website.

Amanda Leech Logo Draft

Here are my logo drafts. I created this for my daughter's daycare, Tara's Tots, and wanted it to be fun and colorful to appeal to parents with children. First, I googled some other daycare logos to get some ideas and come up with the first one- the shapes look like blocks which aligned with the daycare feel. I wanted to use a fun font, so I ended up downloading a new one on my computer and also chose some fun, but gender neutral colors. I took the first logo and played around with skewing the blocks, which was something new for me. I liked the dimension the skewing gave the blocks in the second one as well. Lastly, I wanted to try something more conceptual so I created the third logo. I used three circle because the daycare only takes kids for three years, and I put some fun triangles (I got the idea for triangles from the frog powerpoint!) around the outside to represent the 12 children that attend the daycare. After I made that one, I thought that conceptual might not be the best thing for a daycare logo, since it needs to appeal to children and their parents, but I liked it so I kept it in. 

Logo Help?

So, here are a bunch of my ideas that I sketched out first and then put together. I have no idea which I like best or if I should completely rebrand it instead of using these. I am thinking of changing color schemes or something to make it more consistent. It would be super helpful if anyone could comment on which they find more appealing or useful for the company. It is basically a heating and air conditioning company that I wanted to help someone out with. If you would prefer more information, please just let me know. Thanks!! 

RET - Logo Draft

The John C. Wells Planetarium has a task board.  It is a modified SCRUM board that keeps track of student projects as well as general tasks to be done for the planetarium.  On the board has been a task for weeks now to redo the logo.  This assignment gave me a REALLY good excuse to do that.  Here is my first draft.  Hope everyone likes it.

To draw this I had to go to LYNDA.com and get some training on using GIMP.  I use GIMP over Photoshop because it is free and already installed on my home computer.  Lynda.com had some excellent tutorials.  The paths, text with paths, and painting with paths was particularly useful for this project.

Amanda Loeser Logo

I decided to use Mindforge Fractions for the logo assignment. I messed around with a couple of things before deciding on a bunch of boxes as my background for the logo. For some reason when I think of math computer games, I think of boxes like the one below that kind of jump out at you and you'd have to click on something to answer. And then for another reason that I'm unaware of, I always relate blue as being math related. My notebooks and folders in school have always been blue to represent math and so I picked something that was relatable to me. I think it look like a calming game. I changed the font color a little and for the middle one I added a line in between to represent fractions, just like Lauren did in her draft. I'm not a hundred percent positive I like this. I usually like things that are a little busy, but is this too busy? I feel a little lost with this assignment, but I'm hoping I did an okay job. I like this last one best! Let me know what ya think.

Rob Morgan Logo Design

I will admit I am well outside of my area of expertise with an assignment such as this but I am giving it my best shot.

I decided to try updating the logo for my department at JMU (IT Training) I knew that I wanted something simple that had text saying what our department was since it is unlikely we would ever become popular enough to be recognized by symbol alone. I then got out a piece of paper and a pencil and started writing down what I thought IT Training (ITT) represented. Once I had some ideas written down I tried drawing a few things but my lack of artistic ability quickly overwhelmed my most enthusiastic efforts. So...I turned to google and looked for sites that could help me turn my ideas into reality. I found a site called logo garden that did just that.

I started going through my list of ideas as to what training is and trying to connect that with images. My first idea was that ITT was a piece of the puzzle so I looked for an abstract puzzle as an image.

It worked but I thought it looked a little too boring and 1980's.

My next idea was that ITT helps guide you down the right path or "partners" with you on your journey. So I looked for images that fit that idea and came up with this.

Not terrible but I didn't think it was too exciting either.

My next idea was that ITT is a bridge between where you are and where you are going. There are a lot of training organizations that have this same idea so there is no lack of Training logos with bridges on them in the world. I thought I would try to go a little more abstract with the bridge though and got this.

This was my favorite so far but I still was not satisfied. I thought it was a little to "star trek" not sure why but every time I looked at it I thought of star trek. So I moved on.

My next though was to just go obvious and since we train on technology I should use a logo that showed technology. I played with some computers, tablets, circuits, etc. And finally landed on this mouse.

Unfortunately, this is just too obvious for me. I think the only thing worse would be having a picture of a train since we do "train"ing. I was not a fan of the obvious clip art like logo so I tried again.

The last thing I had written down was that we "present ideas" "share ideas" "explore new options" when I thought of the word explore or idea I thought of a light bulb. So I looked for some light bulb images and found this one.

This was the first logo I looked at and thought had potential. So I stuck to this one and started playing around with color. I added the JMU purple to the light bulb.

I decided to start playing around with colors and fonts and I also decided to try making the light bulb a little smaller so that your attention was drawn to IT Training since that should be the focus.

I felt like making the light bulb smaller and the lighter color helped make IT Training stand out in the logo. Here is the final version of the logo. I added some shadow effects to the text and went with a Serif font since I thought it made the "I" in IT stand out a little bit better.

Kara Martinez's Logo Draft

My current research focuses on the multiracial student population here at JMU, and Dr. Noorie and I are in the midst of trying to start a group/organization for the multiracial student population here. So, I thought it would be nice to create some type of logo for the group to really try and make it somewhat official/organized. I thought it would be good to incorporate a variety of colors being that the students are of many different backgrounds, and I liked the idea of using hands/raising of hands (something along those lines) as if to say, "Here I am" or "I am part of the multiracial student population here at JMU." In discovering a nice clip art version of raised hands, I thought that it would be cool to turn them upside down so that the fingers created an "M" shape for the "Multiracial" part of the logo. I'm not 100% sure about the font. I definitely want something that flows. Here are a couple of drafts using different fonts even though they are somewhat similar. Is it too busy? Should I get rid of some of the hands? What are you guys' thoughts?

Leisha's Logo Draft

I used Canva to work on my logo.  I know in the Middle Ed department we have had several professors suggest we design our own classroom website, which I think is a great idea.  I am hoping to use these assignments to help me design a very professional and cohesive portfolio where I can sort of 'brand' and 'market' myself as a teacher. 

I liked the idea of using primary colors since I think that really screams 'education'.  My concentrations are Science and History, so I wanted to incorporate some symbols that demonstrated that as well as the book and pencil to kind of tie in other general education ideas.  On some of the designs I included text using two fonts (Sacramento for my name and Josephia Sans for the word 'classroom').  I would generally stay away from script, but because it is my name, I felt I could take a little creative liberty there. 

I played around with basically the same concept, but moved items around to try some different alignment styles.  Please critique me!

I think this one could act as a stand alone sort of logo. 

Logos: HELP!

For another course, I am conducting a Needs Assessment for my company and attempting to provide simple solutions to their perceived issues. Above are some logos I have been playing around with and can't decide what idea I like best! Please, any feedback is appreciated.

Lauren's Logo Drafts

I don't have an organization that needs a logo, so I just stuck with Mindforge Fractions.  These are the logos I came up with... Let me know which one you think best convey's the message!  I wanted to use red because it is youthful and exciting.  I think it will really catch kid's attention.  Any suggestions would be very appreciated :)

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