Original Design Logos
Original designs for logos – mainly styled text combined with patterns or images.
That’s right, I don’t claim to be a logo designer, but as a one-stop-shop web design guy I know how to use Photoshop and put together some reasonably appealing visual images.
Sometimes clients don’t have a logo and just need something “logo-ish” to go up on their sites where you might expect a logo. Then I say, “I’ll give it a shot” and some of my shots hit the mark and some miss. Usually I come up with a rough design pretty quickly and with a few back & forth emails the client and I zero in on something that is acceptable in an hour or two, sometimes less. It can be a cost effective alternative.
The “imagiNed” logos:
A logo for my creativity blog/magazine, imagiNed.com. Rainbow for creativity, stylized “i” for a (stylized) person expressing an idea.
Same logo adapted for this website: imagiNed-Web-Design.com. Notice that it scales well enough to be recognizable as the favicon in the address bar (and browser tab) of your browser.
Atrium Assisted Living:
This logo doesn’t scale quite so well, but it was created primarily for use on printed materials. Going left to right, notice how the design evolved according to feedback from the client on intermediate stages.
The final version is bottom center, with a gray-scale variation bottom right.
Healthcare Services of America:
This logo also was created for print media, for a health services organization meant to be visually identified with the founder whose name is Daisy. Fair enough, some words curved around a stylized daisy… but there’s a subtle, almost subliminal element to the design.
Consider that the Filipino community was the target audience for these health care services. Next take a look at the Philippine Flag and see if you can find any similar elements in the daisy.
Fabrications:
Fabrications designs unique fabric wall hangings and sells them on the craft sales site, Etsy.com. I took a photo of one of the fabric panels and used it as the “material” for all elements of this visual design.
A little while later, after learning the dimensional restrictions for a shop banner on Etsy.com, I had to radically change the form factor of the design to accommodate the dimensional requirements. This much more vertically compressed graphic was the final result.
Oakland Cosmetic and Restorative Dentistry:
Not really a logo, but this gleaming tooth design element was used both in the header and footer (and the browser window background) of this dental clinic website. Naturally, it works nicely as the favicon too.
