Idea Inspiration:
I decided to create a organization called “Run for Fun” which is related to my topic of running. For my inspiration, I decided to go create a person-like figure running through a banner with the words run and fun. To add creativity, I wanted the person running to have a form or figure of a four because it’s another way of representing the word for.
When I was first thinking about ideas of my logo, I thought of marathon runners which typically relates to my topic. This relates to my topic because my whole topic is running in general and marathon running is a form of running. The idea of running through the banner also comes from marathon running which is represented in my logo draft.
Design Process:
The whole principle of my logo is based on marathon running. From the person running and the banner that’s ran through by the runners is represented. I also added a creative aspect of the design by making the form of the man running close to the number four. The significance of my design would be how uniform the logo looks and how it visually shows an image of a man running through a banner.
The design process went smoothly and certain parts were done more difficultly than it should. I started off tracing off my running man figure I created on my sketch with the pen tool. Having a reference to trace made it easier to do. Next, I separately designed each side of the banner which is pretty difficult to do. I created two rectangles for the most part, but towards the end I had to curve the edges to make seem like the figure was running through the banner. Then I added texts run and fun to finish of my design. The final step was added color to the design and thickening the strokes to make things stand out more.
Technical Detail
The tools I used were the pen tool, stroke, text tool, and the color palette.
A difficulty I faced was trying my best to matched the edges of my rectangles for my banner to the middle figure. In order to do this, I needed to take my time and focus, and not rush.
Sources and Material:
There were no outside material used to design my logo, but there were a few references that I used to help create my draft. For instance, I made a banner that is similar to the tutorials we were assigned to do for class. The idea of incorporating banners was big for me because it makes designs look more organize. The font I used was “Arial Rounded MT Bold” because I felt it was one of the few fonts that were simple but stood out the most. I also used the outline of a four to create the person running.
Aljon Almarez 