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I made a thing.

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chris | 5/21/2008 at 10:21 PM | Tags: , ,
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Logo design is a lot of fun, so I always jump at the chance when an opportunity arises.     It can be extremely frustrating if the client is picky, but luckily, I’ve been able to work with some really good people over the years.    Here’s a design which was just cranked out in the last week.  

 

 
This is based on the (beautiful) typeface “Gotham”, which is quickly becoming my favorite font currently out there for the sans-serif world.  It’s an incredibly flexible font with just about as many width variants as a Helvetica (not quite, but still, a lot), and just looks great on whatever backdrop you put behind it.  In my opinion, it’s kind of a mix of Helvetica and Futura, two incredibly influential font faces.  

 In any case, Gotham rules, and I’m not the only one who thinks so.  Barack Obama’s website is lately designed with Gotham. It’s a font-face which appears strong, but not overly strong.  It’s modern, sleek, and yet very timeless in its shapes.  You could easily see this used in an advertisement today as you would in the 1930’s.

Combined with the Gotham width/colour/size differences in the logo, there are a series of dots moving outward from the logo, which represent the aperture of a camera lens at different light levels.    I’m quite fond of the simplicity of the logo, and it really does look great on about every background color.

 

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chris | 5/21/2008 at 9:14 PM | Tags: , ,
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