Logo design is one of the most interesting design of all. A logo stands for the whole company, it represents the company (group, organization...) and the spirit of that company. A catchy and impressive logo may do better in attracting people and getting more people know more about the company than a good marketing plan. There are extremely successful logos that we recognize at once and their brands are also globally famous such as NIKE, APPLE, LOUIS VUITTON... All those logos are quite simple but powerful and impressive.

Following is two logo designs that I found interesting and I want to share with you those logos as well as my thought about why they are meaningful and impressive. There are many kinds of logo, initial logo (letters), shape logo, graphic logo...And the two logo below is initial logos and they are quite simple.

Here's the first one
This is a logo of a website about sharing service, specifically mail, and we can send and store mails with big storage capacity up to 1Gb.

As we look at the box symbol, with the down-directed arrow, we can partly recognize what the web is about. The box is used when something big and heavy is store, but here, the box is empty, presents light condition. This is the idea of the designer with the meaning that however big or heavy the mails are, they can be stored easily.

About the letters, "Drop" is black, creates heavy feelings, along with down-directed tail "p". "Send" is orange, cleverly changed from dark to light orange at the end of "d", subtly creates a light feeling. Moreover, the up-directed "d" tail means there is no weight at all. The logo is simply impressive.

The second logo is also a website's name.

Look at the name we can recognize that the web provides searching service. Let's look at deep inside. This one is completely initial logo, it doesn't contain any shape. "Path" and "finder" are creatively combined to make a Path in the center. About the color, "path" has a darker color and a thicker type font than "finder", it might presents contrast but they stay together to make the color more catchy. Besides, the darker "path" and the lighter "find" stay together makes us feel like whenever we're lost, we need to find (dark), it's always there beside us to help us (light). And the dot above the "i" has yellow color, the color of leading, of sign, add more motion on that. Really good design.

Your eyes are not always loyal, sometimes they cheat you. Below are some pictures in which you can see how your eyes are cheating you.

Hey, the truck doesn't load only one bottle of wine, but it seems like that


what do you see in this pic? I see nine dolphins :D


which one of the two center circles is bigger? the left one? be careful. they are exactly the same


Oh, he's a big "LIAR"


Can you believe what's happening in this pic?


They are all parallel straight lines!!! Don't you believe? Hint is all the black and white rectangulars are in same size


Sometimes the outside is "good" but the inside is " evil"


Hey! Be cool! Nothing's moving. It's just a till picture.

If you want to see more optical illusion, here's the source: http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/illusion/illusions.htm
Cheers

After a couple of week wrestling with flash, this is my interface for my portfolio. The idea came from the movie industry, which I'm really interested in, I thought "what's something that you see remind you of the movie, that you recognize it at once when you see it?", so I came up with the clapper, because the clapper is used in every film producing progress.

The white letters which dedicate to each categoriy of my portfolio are also buttons for that category. Once you click on it, a yellow line with run along the rectangle box then the clapper will clap tremendously (not that much) to start one category. But this is just the image version, not flash, so you can't click on itself (of course). Besides, the film roll is slowly rolling all the time, it's also one of the most important part in film industry.

I think this interface is not really catchy but I like the idea of it. Cause I'm a person who love film a lot.

How do you think about it? Tell me, I won't bite you. :D

When this assignment was given, I thought that a crying tiger may be a good idea, with the slogan "teardrop of the king". But on the second thought, it wasn't a good and meaningful idea. Then I came up with the ideal with the skeleton. Actually, my thought was about a short advertising video with movement not just a poster, but I was about to make a poster, so I decided to took out a scene on that video to make this poster. I'll do that video later, with flash I guess, cause I can't go outside and shoot anything I want for that video. And now is my work. what do you think?



Actually, this is not what I gave Liping as my official poster, I fixed it a little bit. In this one, the phrase "the only thing left" is just a little more higher than in the real one. This makes the poster looks not so tight, so narrow. Indeed, when I was working with this poster, I was working on a quite bigger background, like an A3, so it had more space. Then I crop it into an A4, I had to adjust the words to fit in an A4, so everything looks tight. And the WWF logo distributes to make the poster look even more narrow. You see, a little bit but makes difference.

One more interesting thing was when I had this poster printed, the one who printed for me say "You're making a book cover or something?" I suddenly realized that it looks really like a book cover, hohoho. Don't you recognize that? that left haft is the back, and the right haft is the front of the book. I think it's also really nice when it's a real book cover.

I'm sure that you all know Heineken and used to see some of its ads on TV. They're fantastic. I've seen a lot of ads from Heineken and some are boring, normal, but some are really awesome. Following is one of my most favorite ads all the time that I can found. There are a lot more interesting ads I used to see but I couldn't find them.



I love the way the story is. The man runs out of beer, goes out to pick up more, when he realizes that everything is transforming, turning back into old days like 1930s. The way they make everything transformed is spectacular, look really cool and lively. All the cars, buildings, stores' hoardings, people, fashion, and even the road, everything. Then he goes out of the cab to make it clear, when he finds out the truth, everything changes but HEINEKEN. "It's exactly the same". COOL.

Here is another funny and interesting Heineken advertisement.



I love advertising, not only Heineken's, it's just one of my favorite.

How do you think about advertising? and what other ads you have seen that you find interesting? Why? Can you share them with me?

At the beginning, I decided to choose REVENTON for my car tracing assignemnt, I even got started, but when I found out that lots of people were doing with Lamborghini, I changed my mind. And I turned to find my other favorite brands, BMW, but the problem was I intended to find a traced edition BMW 6-series which I'm really love, just like I had done with my Reventon to make it easier, I didn't find one. But still do it though it's more difficult for me.

This is the original image i found on internet



And this my work



Maybe it's the only BMW that has been traced in this semester :D, however I'm not satisfied with this work so much actually. I'm really not. It doesn't look like what I've planned it to be, hichic. What do you think? It's not excellent, I know, but is it good enough?

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When you first look at his work, I bet you thought it's weird, right? Even when he nearly finished his painting, I still could not get what he was doing.However, I kept watching him because I thought that he tried to do something and dance with the light music. Amazingly, lastly he turn it, it was a man smiling in his picture. Moreover, he's so talent when he was spinning and drawing by just using his hands.