Logo Designer, Newcastle

I am currently sat in a chair waiting for a scan on my knee- as I recently had an acl reconstruction, so thought with aid of my beloved iPhone would do something useful and blog about Logo design.

If you take a trip to my site, you will notice that some of my portfolio is found on Design Crowd. Design Crowd for any free-lance designer is a great way to start out building a decent set of cross-industry pieces for graphic and web design work. Plus, a great way to earn a little extra cash from time to time!

I have been working on Design Crowd for around 12 months and currently rank 41/2nd in the UK.

I only tend to respond to project invites nowadays and the example below was a result of a recent project invite.

After looking at current trends with logo design, what is seeming to be emerging is "stamp" type branding - simple, one colour, print type logos. I am guessing that this may well be down to print costs being lower if the brand is a print rather than a "gradient-powered" piece.

Taking this into account, I have looked to create designs using solid shapes, one colour and essentially what would come from using negative space. In the below instance, take a look at how I have achieved this. The actual example
did not get selected, but I feel that the Klimt expressions the client was looking for was achieved. But never mind.

Film Logos From Newcastle

PARADOX FILM LOGOS: 

A week or so ago, I posted up a DVD Cover I drew up for Layer Cake. All part of the paradox approach or falsidical paradox approach to creating design work. 

The first piece of work I brought together was a series of logos which I post daily on Tumblr and have been gaining some interest and the odd follower or two. 

The above are the first crop of icons that to explain use an iconic or well known film and look a little closer into the name and the plot of them. Using a little bit of lateral thinking, some comic touches and at times, common sense the above examples are the result. 

ALL EXAMPLES CAN BE FOUND HERE ON TUMBLR

Falsidical Paradox Design

The other day, whilst watching a movie, I came up with the idea of taking on something totally mad and trying to produce a solution from the insane notion that this idea conjured.

What I drew up was the falsidical paradox approach to logo design. Taking a well known logo or brand and totally changing it based on logical thinking, sometimes lateral and in rare cases, comical.

Falsidical paradox, taking the absurd and applying a logical solution to it, thus: Falsidical Paradox Design!

Enjoy.