Logo Design on the iPad 2
ince getting the iPad 2 about a month ago, I've been trying to figure out how it fits into my professional life beyond consuming design/tech articles and emailing. It's become clear that it's going to make a huge difference in organizing my ideas and my time. But the Holy Grail of course is being able to use it as a straight up design tool.
The project is a lookbook I'm going to create using a print-on-demand service. I wanted to create a nice print piece which shows off my logo designs. But I was going to need a cover and I'd come up with the idea of creating a "logo" for it. I thought that I could possibly sketch out some scripty, handwritten kind of design and then apply a type treatment to it in Photoshop. And that's just what happened.
I used Adobe's Ideas app to start the comps. I sketched out a rough L-O-G-O-S by hand, then grabbed a different color and drew on top of that, repeating this process several times. Each sketch built on the previous sketch until it was nice and tight with the right lines and feeling. Then I just emailed it to myself and opened it up in Illustrator on my main work machine. To my surprise, each color was it's own layer and vector shape. Ideally, it would be just vector lines but this was pretty cool on it's own. Then it was simply a matter of importing the final vector into Photoshop and making the "logo" a different leather texture on top of the background.
The results worked out even better than I'd hoped and I'm looking forward to designing some more on my iPad 2.
