Corporate Identity Ideas

Remember when I said I was going to start sharing some of my work for you guys to give me some critique?? Well, here it is! I've been working on designing a logo for an upcoming travel company called South African Adventures, LLC. They specialize in – you guessed it – travel to South Africa. Founded by Craig and Christel Tirrell, people can set up travel itinerary through them, and get to experience a place people know little about.

I've put some good time into this, changing the design around to where I have it now. I'm still working on it, so of course critique is a good thing at the moment. Any suggestions you guys have (color choices, font choices, etc.) would be greatly appreciated!

Wacky Wednesday: Threadless.com

The graphic designer in me says, "BUY IT DANGIT!"
And for $12? I just may!

Threadless.com has some of the most AMAZING t-shirts, hoodies, and even baby clothes! Personally, I have already gotten my surrogate nephew (I call him Cheese Doodle for personal reasonings) a couple one pieces, which my best friend proceeded to send me a picture of him in one of his new pieces of clothing when she received the package.

The designs are submitted by people (mainly art students or someone with some artistic ability), and then they are screen printed onto the items that the site sells.

Some consist of just type with different colors and in unique font faces, while some are colorful and awesome drawings. Realistic, or playful.

And with the clothes being fairly cheap to begin with (most go for about $12 for reprint t-shirts), it's a wonder I haven't spent half of my paychecks on this site yet!


Visit the site to start looking at some of the items they sell!

PS: They have a $12 T-shirt sale going on right now, so GO GO GO!!

Font Friday

This is just something I'm going to try out, and see how it goes.

For the next few Fridays, I'm going to blog on a typographer. Some you may know, while others you may not. Anyways, I hope you enjoy!

For the first ever Font Friday, our featured typographer will be: *drum roll please*

Erik Spiekermann

A typographer from Germany, Spiekermann is the co-founder of FontShop, had help establish MetaDesign, as well as co-founder of EdenSpiekermann. He also has his own blog, called SpiekerBlog. 

Found on the EdenSpiekermann homepage. SO CUTE!

He is a cool guy, is a great font designer, as well as a great graphic designer. Go check out his company's link (the one I've embedded goes to the English version), and follow him on Twitter (@espiekermann)!