Experience report: Designing my logo

Posted: - Modified: | business, marketing

Update 2012-12-31: Made the swoosh swooshier!

Having come up with a name for my business (I turn experiences into visuals, so ExperiVis!), I decided to spend some time figuring out what a logo might look like. I need this in order to start creating sketchnote templates and choosing colour schemes for marketing materials. Here’s what I sketched:

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I tried a plain lettering style versus typing it in, and I preferred the formality of typing things in. Replacing the X with a stylus made me smile, so I kept it. I liked red more than blue – I think it’s more exciting, even though red might also make people think of grade school teachers, incorrect answers, and negative results.

W- thought bright red was more vivid and energetic than the dark red I’ve been using for my website, so I used bright red. He also suggested adding the little eraser cap like the way the Lenovo stylus is designed:

Here’s the image after I cleaned it up in Inkscape:

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Update 2012-12-31: Now with a swooshier swoosh!

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I think it’s a good starting point. =) Next steps: Sketch my services!

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2 comments

The logo looks great, and what if you take the cleaner underline of the smaller draft versions above?

That smaller underline does look more swooshy, doesn't it? That one was hand-drawn instead of done as a vector. I'll see if I can trace it in Inkscape. =) Thanks for the feedback!