Logo Projects

I recently decided I'm going to make a few new different logos for my portfolio and also for practice. My sister, Jessica, a creative writer gave me help with coming up with some pretend businesses.
The first one she came up with was Carol's Flowers. I drew up a few logo sketches and then after creating it using Photoshop and Illustrator, this is the logo I decided on.

My first all-black design

I changed it up a little with a lower opacity, I like this version better than the all-black.

And finally here's what it looks like in colour, though all the colours could be easily changed, keeping the same shades.

I figure this new logo project will also give me something to use as examples if I ever decide to start selling graphics on Etsy. 

Keep watching for new logos! I have a lot of sketches (and pretend businesses) to create logos from.

-Heather

A Brand New Logo!

Hey again everyone!

So, recently I had been thinking about starting my own business. As I went to school for graphic design, I was thinking I should do some freelance stuff and start my own shop online on Etsy.

I knew I'd need a shop name and logo and everything so I started brainstorming with everyone who would help me out and eventually my mom helped me come up with the name Happenstance! ( My initials are H. A. P.) The name just seemed to fit perfectly. 

I decided I would use a Dandelion as part of my logo as well, the original idea was to make some of the dandelion poofs blowing away across the logo but I didn't quite get to that part. 

While I was going through this whole process, I came up with an amazing business plan for something completely different but I'm so excited about it! Unfortunately I won't be using this logo and a completely different logo is in the works.

Curious what my business is going to be?! We'll you're just going to have to wait as I'm keeping it sort of under wraps. I'll give you a hint though, lingerie! :)
Keep checkin' out the blog to see some super sweet stuff.

-Heather

Recipe Template Page 2

Hi again!

As I mentioned before, for Christmas, my boyfriend Dan and I made a recipe binder for his mom! I unfortunately didn't get a picture of it yet but I do have the recipe template page that I created for it so I thought I would show that to you for now.
The idea was for Dan to draw up some artwork for the templates and then me to put that in and create the page layout.

This is what we came up with.

Dan drew up the flower in black ink and then we scanned it in and played with the whole thing in Photoshop. A while ago I had made the watercolour background for fun so I place that in, added some shading and highlights and it was ready to go. We went for a brown and blue theme, and the binder had some lace inside it so I also added that to the template. 

And that's all I've got for today! You can check out more of Dan Auld's work HERE.

Comments welcome!

-Heather