Thursday, 8 October 2015

OUGD403 - Study Task 01 Rebranding Development


My team and I noted down lots of ideas and thoughts on Help Link that we thought would be useful to us before going away and rebranding the company. Here is an image of the ideas that we noted down.




To begin rebranding Help Link, I decided to sketch out some ideas of what the new logo could look like. In my sketches I experimented with composition and visual elements such as links and physically linking parts of type together to play on the word “link”.



After this initial experimentation I decided to move on from focusing on the link element as I felt it didn’t really have much to do with a boiler company. And so I decided to focus on the element of a boiler company bringing warmth to a home. So I experimented with ways of making the type look like it was glowing. This however made the type difficult to read so I did not think I would take this experiment any further.



Next I decided to digitally develop my initial ideas but experiment more with the different fonts that I was allocated to use. I decided that Helvetica and Futura where much more inviting fonts as they are simple and look modern. I experimented with different boldness and decided that a light font was more inviting than a bold font.



After initially experimenting with type, my team and me tried to bring together all of our best ideas to create our logo. And so with the best elements from everyone’s experiments we brought together these two ideas.




After much debate we decided to settle with this logo as it reads easier and looks much more appealing.

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