Day: February 3, 2016

From my logo design, I have created a colour palette to match. I have incorporated some lighter and darker greys as they go well with a bright aqua blue colour, as well as some darker shades of blue which I may or may not need with my website and brochure.

This are my chosen colours (unless I change my mind a bit):

The colours conform to the nautical theme that my tattoo parlour has. I feel they are also pleasing shades of blue and grey (I used the swatch board to help me) and therefore should hopefully be appealing for potential customers.

The main logo uses the bright blue in the bottom left-hand corner (#5cc3dc). This will be the company’s main colour and will be the most prominently used colour too.

The greys will mostly be used for small details as well as possibly vectors in the background. The darker blues are most likely to be for just detailing too.

I also had a play about with the patterns and colours to see how they would appear on a brochure:

Pulling out various patterns and shapes from the lighthouse and using them elsewhere could be potentially a very good idea. So far I feel the designs that I have created work well together.

Today in our lesson we looked at selecting an object in a photo and turning it into a vector graphic. I have done such things before but not for a while so I found this quite a useful exercise. I have never known much about the mask tool before either so it was handy to learn a little about what that does.

This is the photo we used:

This is what I created from it:

It is possible that I will need to select certain areas of photos and create vectors from them for my High Seas project, so I am glad that I completed this workshop.