Tutorials, Logo Designs and T-Shirt Designs

Photoshop Tutorials

I've been looking on Youtube for tutorials on different effects on Photoshop, as I would like to create a couple of logos that I could use for my website and for my t-shirt designs. This is the first tutorial I looked at > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rlyv9Juk04 it's quite long but I think I got the hang of it quite quickly. Here are images of the development and an image of my outcome:

Logo Number 1 Development:

Logo Number 1 Outcome

The outcome of my logo was successful but could be improved. I like the shattered glass effect, but I think it could of been portrayed better if I'd of made the shadow effect on my lettering work. I didn't add a separate text layer, therefore the shadowing on my letters didn't work as effectively as I'd like. I'm going to create a logo for a different band in a new effect and see if that works any better than this did.

Logo Number 2 Development

I will now try out a second logo on Photoshop using Youtube, if it comes out successfully i'll add it to a T-Shirt design.

Tutorial Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYGxhiEKGY0

I did a step wrong at this stage and as you can see it went incredibly wrong, I watched over the tutorial again and realised what I'd done wrong, I improved this fault and I got the outcome I wanted. 

Logo Design Number 2 Outcome

I thought that this outcome was more successful than the last and it was a much simpler tutorial to follow, it looks exactly how I wanted it too. I made a mistake in the process but I improved it and I'm satisfied with this now.

T-Shirt Designs

T-Shirt Design Number 1

T-Shirt Design Number 2

I prefer my first design as the background fits with the logo. I prefer the second logo, but it doesn't really fit with the T-Shirt.

Photoshop Website Design

Website Layout on Photoshop

I've been experimenting with designs for my website on Photoshop for when I do it properly on Dreamweaver. I'm mainly looking at colour schemes and the organisation of my images.

Website Template

Free Online Website Template

I used a free online website template to practise making a website on and to show website designing skills. The website is called 'Wix.com' and I found it quite easy to use. After practising on this, I will eventually create a website from scratch using Adobe Dreamweaver CS6. My website is http://bryonywardx.wix.com/bryonyphotography and within my website, I've uploaded some primary images.

Local Website Design Companies

Local Website Design Companies


http://www.creativespark.co.uk

Creative Spark
Creative Sparks are a creative agency based in Manchester. They basically create logos and the graphics for advertisement for large businesses. They've worked with massive companies like JD Sports, the BBC, Universal and the Co-operative.







http://www.fluidcreativity.co.uk

Fluid Creativity 
Fluid Creativity are also an agency based in Manchester that deal with helping companies promote with their Graphics, however, this company does that with website design. They try and boost company sales and etc by making their website really emphasise what the shop's about, they promote the company and give them a huge online presence by creating designs that will attract the businesses more customers. They work with companies all over the place, including America.

Social Networking

Social Networking


Social networking has many pros but also cons. One of the pros of a social network is that it's a good opportunity to spread your work broadly across the internet so that people all over the world can see it. It could be anything from art work, photography, a performance or graphic work, social networks allow you to get feedback on it and gather different opinions. The internet allows you, potentially, to turn a hobby into a profession, as the rest of the population that has social networking sites can bring up your 'views', 'likes' etc and you could be recognised. Places like 'Youtube', millions of people everyday upload videos of them 'Vlogging', singing, making hair and makeup tutorials etc for everyone else to watch. You can also earn money off of the videos you make if you turn it into a career to upload videos.

However, like I said, there are many cons of social networking. You can gain good feedback on your work but you can also receive negative and sometimes rude feedback and comments. There are people on the internet that deliberately go to people's videos to abuse the person, people like this are commonly known as 'internet trolls' and this is a definite con because people deliver abuse on a regular basis to people trying to get their point across on a social network, or uploading a video or even just on personal pictures that you put on to your profile.

These are the most known social networking sites where you can upload your work:

- Facebook

- Twitter

- Tumblr

- Youtube

- Blogger

- Flickr

I think that Youtube and Tumblr are the best two websites you can use to put your work onto the internet. My reasons for this is because, firstly, on Youtube, it's so popular that most of the population are on it, therefore if you upload a video, because it's a website used solely for sharing videos, you're more likely to get views on your video and feedback, it also spreads extremely quickly as you can share  Youtube videos on all other social networking sites. Secondly, I think Tumblr is a fantastic website to share primary images if you're interested in Photography, you can tag the images you share to your followers. If someone searched the same word you used as a tag, your picture would come up and people can then re-blog your photo to their followers and it seems to me the quickest way for your images to be seen.

http://thisisgen0cid3.tumblr.com/photography *sorry for the swearing*

I've uploaded some of my photography to Tumblr to illustrate my point of social networking sites being convenient for people that want to make sure their work is seen.

Good Websites and Bad Websites

Good and Bad Websites

I've been looking at a range of websites and deciding which I like and dislike for various reasons, some of them being the ones I'm writing about below.

Good:

Tumblr
Tumblr is a popular social networking site where you can upload your own pictures and reblog other people's pictures to put on your own personal blog. I like this website, I think the layout including the theme and the way the posts are on your dashboard is simple, it's very easy to use. It's a good way of advertising and it's also good to promote your photography.





Youtube
Youtube is a popular video streaming website. It's a website where you can upload primary and secondary videos and watch other people's videos. You can find near enough any video you want to see by typing it into the search bar. Thousands of people use Youtube everyday. It's a good website because you can advertise yourself singing, playing instruments or just making a video that will go viral. It's a good place to be recognised for a talent or etc. I like Youtube because it's extremely entertaining and you can listen to any music you want free of download or fuss, which you can't do on many other websites. I also like the layout and it's really easy to use.



















Bad:


Primark 
The Primark website is very basic. It doesn't advertise the clothes very well at all and you can barely browse the products as they don't have an online shopping option. This means that to browse their clothing properly you have to actually go into the store, which isn't a very popular option in this day and age, as a lot of people find it much more convenient and just easier in general to shop online. The fact that you can't purchase anything online on the Primark website means that you can't see the prices of the clothing either, so you'd have to go in store if you saw one of the few things they do advertise on the website and if you wanted to purchase it, you wouldn't know the cost.





Tesco
The Tesco website is very busy. I think that if you put a lot of images and colours on your homepage, it looks like you're trying to advertise everything at once and it's too much for the customer. There should be a drop down option in stead of all the icons placed all over the main page. You can however purchase your food online and get it delivered to your house, but I can't imagine it being easy to shop on this website because it's so busy against a white background, it could be organised much better.

My Chosen Topic

My Chosen Topic


For my project, I'm looking at t-shirt designs and designing t-shirts for bands. I will take pictures of existing t-shirts which I can use on my website and then take the designs that I already have and try and find inspiration in them. I will also design logos for t-shirts, as well as band art, and once I have my designs I'll put my primary images onto my website.

I've been looking at band t-shirt websites to inspire me for my own website. I like this website because the layout is really simple and it tells you all the information you need to know about purchase and other details. The designs are really complex yet nice, they have a lot of modern designs for old bands which is what i'd like to do. ------>

• http://store.amplifiedclothing.com/index.php

Another website I looked at is 'Electric T-shirts'. I didn't like this website as much because the layout is a bit all over the place, there's too many fonts and colours and also they don't show a lot of their merchandise on the homepage, so it fails draw you in as much. ------>

• http://www.electrictshirts.co.uk

Inspiration
I've been looking at different band logos from all different eras and their designers to inspire me for my own work.

I started researching who designed a few of my favourite logos. The first designer I looked at is called Ivor Arbiter, he designed the famous "drop-T" logo for The Beatles, which started out on Ringo Starr's drum kit and then became registered as a Trademark by Apple Corps in the 1990's. I love this logo as it's so simple, but when you see this font, you instantly think of Ringo Starr's drum kit in the 60's.

I then looked at another designer called  John Pasche who designed the logo for The Rolling Stones. It was a cartoon-style huge pair of lips and the designer said he was influenced by Mick Jagger's appearance. The design of the lips was simple yet very effective. I think that most people would know that logo if you showed it to them. It also became very popular in this generation as a print on a t-shirt, a lot of places like H&M made their own designs of this t-shirt and people bought it solely for the design, not because they were a fan of or even knew who The Rolling Stones were.

20th Century- Mood board

Mood Boards

This is a mood board I made for art in the 20th century from around the 1940's to the early 2000's.

This is a mood board I made specifically for the era between the 1960’s and the 1980’s, using Pinterest, because this was a very influential era.

Overview

20th Century Art Movement

I'm looking at art in the 20th century and the movement which art made throughout time. I have used the website Pinterest because it allows you to 'pin' photos and organise them into a mood board.





Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau is a form of art which was quite popular and recognised in the 1890's until 1910. It was then re-descovered in the 1960's. It's considered a New Art because of the style it's in, it's inspired by natural floral patterns and curvy effect. This specific form of art is found around Europe, like Paris, London and Vienna. I like this style of art because of the floral and natural patterns, I think it was a really important movement.

http://pinterest.com/bryonywardx/art-nouveau/










Cubism and Picasso      

Cubism is another form of art in which many artists were inspired by and created many different outcomes from the style. Cubism began between 1907 and 1911 and has increased in popularity throughout time. The creator of Cubism was Picasso. He was an artist who was around in the 20th century. He created many cubism pieces and has made multiple famous paintings including Les Demoiselles d'Avignon which was created in 1907. I really like Picasso's cubism work, I think his work would of been really inspiring to many artists.

http://pinterest.com/bryonywardx/cubism/












Surrealism 

Surrealism is a cultural movement which was discovered in the 1920's, it's a form of art that's best known for its style. This is because surrealism is more creative and different to the original art. It's best known for it's originality.


http://pinterest.com/bryonywardx/surrealism/

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