portfolio & design blog of logo & identity designer, Graham Smith
The Brain Bureau Logo
These are my Freelance Logo Design Snapshots, just an initial glimpse of ongoing and completed logo and brand identity projects from my portfolio. This one is for ‘The Brain Bureau’, a retro styled identity for a psychology group.
An in-depth logo design process post will follow sometime in the future.
The Brain Logomark
A hand drawn brain from my mouse, no clip art here. A few filters to get it a bit ‘lumpy’ and bob’s your uncle. Felt a subtle distressing of the logomark would look neat, so found a nice concrete texture from Mayang Free Textures and applied it over the top.
The logomark is entirely vector, created in Illustrator, other than the cracked effect on top which is a greyscale texture.
Then styled the black version with bold colour options for variety and website navigation. Not to mention different coloured business cards for added interest.
Typography
As on my previous snapshot post for Drevland Consultants, I have used a quality free Open Source font. This one being from ‘The League of Movable Type’ and was a perfect fit for the look and feel I wanted to convey for this logo design. It’s called League Gothic which you can download for free from this Font Library.
CargoCollective
I also have this logo appearing on my other portfolio site, over at CargoCollective. If you like clean minimal styled folio sites, then check out CargoCollective. Best of all it’s free.
Categories: Logo & Brand Identity, Vintage & Retro
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I like the logo and the texture idea! Is that link to view the texture broken? Tried opening there to check it out but seems broke.
I’m curious… do you ever use a drawing tablet? I bought a Wacom one recently and still getting used to it, but liking it so far!
I am actually looking at tablets right now, well, not right now, but sort of now. :)
For my sins, I have never EVER used one, and for some reason, I feel I would certainly benefit from one. I am sketching more than I used to, and feel this would be useful to my arsenal.
Which size and model did you get?
I like the logo and the texture idea! Is that link to view the texture broken? Tried opening there to check it out but seems broke.
I’m curious… do you ever use a drawing tablet? I bought a Wacom one recently and still getting used to it, but liking it so far!
I am actually looking at tablets right now, well, not right now, but sort of now. :)
For my sins, I have never EVER used one, and for some reason, I feel I would certainly benefit from one. I am sketching more than I used to, and feel this would be useful to my arsenal.
Which size and model did you get?
You should definitely check out the Wacom Bamboo tablet, that’s the one I got. The Wacom’s are like the Apple’s of tablets – very cool and a popular choice.
The drawing area on mine is 6″ x 4″, but it’s all you need really. From looking at your portfolio I’d say you’d definitely benefit from one.
Check out this review video here, this is the one I have – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZixEkjgQA0
You should definitely check out the Wacom Bamboo tablet, that’s the one I got. The Wacom’s are like the Apple’s of tablets – very cool and a popular choice.
The drawing area on mine is 6″ x 4″, but it’s all you need really. From looking at your portfolio I’d say you’d definitely benefit from one.
Check out this review video here, this is the one I have – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZixEkjgQA0