Day 14 Thur Oct 14th

 Bring your printed movie posters to class. ready to hang on the wall!

Help with commenting for Critiques

Things to comment on:

- How the 'Color' is affecting your understanding of the logo.

- How composition (the placement of visual elements in 2d space/positive and negative space/ rule of thirds) is affecting your understanding of the logo

- Image - subject matter

- Image - style

- Font - literal reading

- Font - style 

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Design Thinking for Problem Solving

Design Thinking can be used to solve problems across all disciplines and is currently being used by the Promise Committee to understand how to update and change the college education experience. We have been using it in the last couple of projects as a way to make better Movie Posters and now Logos for the FabLab

Design Thinking is a process much like Analytical Thinking (used in scientific experiments) and Systems Thinking (used for understanding in psychology and sociology). 

Design Thinking uses a 4 step non linear process shown below 

--Understand - Ideate - Prototype - Test--

How does this work for Project 4:

Our current problem:

* To create a logo that tells a story through visual aesthetics to attract and inform our customers. Our customers are people who want a pet, people who want to rescue animals and people who want to get rid of their pets

 


Understand
What are the key words associated with Super Heroes in Ripped Jeans?

• Animals
• Pets
• Cats
• Dogs
• Rescue
• ??
  

Ideate and Prototype
You created 10 different possibilities for the logo



Test
You received feedback and consider it while creating the next set of prototypes



Repeat 
Go back to any phase of the process and continue



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time 20 min 17 sec

Key to good logos

- Keep it simple
- Make it bold
- Don't use fine details
- Limit the amount of colors 
- Only include whats necessary

Manipulating imagery to create a logo in Photoshop.

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Project Steps

Step 1- Research

(Due Tues Oct 19th beginning of class )

- look up and download 20 "animal rescue" logos that you find interesting or that inspire you. Save them into a folder on your computer or cellphone.

- research Super Heroes in Ripped Jeans on their website and social media. Andswer these questions. Who are they? What do they do? What is their rescue ideology.  What is interesting? What caught your eye? What visuals (colors, fonts, ect ) do they currently use. Write this all down in a Google Doc

- research 3 other "Animal Rescue" websites. What is interesting? What caught your eye? What visuals (colors, fonts, ect ) do they currently use. Write this all down in a Google Doc

Step 2 - Prototype ideas 

 (start by Tue Oct 19 - due Thur Oct 21st)

Using the 20 logos you researched and Google Image search for the key words form the last blog create 10 aesthetically different mock ups of possible logos for"Super Heroes in Ripped Jeans"

If you don't have Photoshop, you can do this with paper and pencil or by using the GIMP.

Size - 5 inch x 5 inch @ 300 dpi

- make prototypes 3 Text only

- make prototypes 3 Image only

- make prototypes 4 Image and Text

Your 10 prototype logos need to be up in the class Google Photos album called "Proj 4 Prototypes" by Thur Oct 21st

Step 3 - Crit and recieve feedback

(Thur Oct 21st at 3pm)

Step 4 - Create 3 versions of the best logo idea

(starts Thur Oct 21st due  Tues Oct 26th by 2pm)

Step 5 - Crit and recieve feedback

(Tue Oct 26th at 2pm)

Step 6 - Create final Logo

(Start  Tue Oct 26th due Thur Oct 28th)

Step 7 - Crit final Logo

(Thur Oct 28th)