Friends Tattoo

Designed this for a friend. He already has the turtle on his shoulder and wanted some tribal design around the out. We looked at a lot of tribal designs and he picked out a circle on to start with. I then created a vector design similar in Illustrator. Tattoo design is fun and I like the swirl effect of this design. He said the meaning behind his turtle is that turtle are slow and steady and just continue forward. The tattoo reminds him to do that when he is stressed. So I added that the outside circle was like the whirlpool that is life. It is all the spinning and craziness the turtle swims through.

Growing Circle

These are the logos and the mastheads that I designed for Growing Circle.

For the color and the black and white logos, I darkened all the grays so you can actually see it. The only thing I think I need to work on yet is from far away the stroke around the small logo standing as the "o" worries me. Otherwise, I really like the logo and the background works well to give it shape.

On the mastheads, I added the logo background in the lower right corner and the water color border. I tried adding a color background but didn't think it worked. I like that on the color one, the only color is the logo like the center of a queen anne's lace flower. The background colors were either to dark and then when I tried changing the value, it either looked orange or pink. I think the border works because of the the outline text: Gr wing. Another change I might make is flipping the logo so the swirls direct the viewers eye back on to the masthead. The stroke also worries me on this design.

The reason I wanted to have the black stroke around the small logo is because it matched the outline text and made it stand out just a little bit more than the letters. I think it could be successful it i got the size right. Other things I tried were a drop shadow and duplicating the logo a little larger in black behind it but it just didn't look as nice.