Le Troll Illustration Thingy

You'll never guess what we got to do in Visual Design.  Never.

Try anyway.

I'll wait.

Go on.

Guess.

Did you guess?

I don't care, I'm going on anyway.

We did a tutorial.  I know, it's quite shocking.

We made Trolls.  Internet Trolls, to be precise.

Here's the little gremlin I made:

Le Logo Thingy

So, we're working on logos for fictional companies.  I can feel your excitement through the interwebz.

We had choices of a helicopter company, an eco-friendly water bottling company, a custom furniture company, and a bakery.  I chose the latter.

So, I tasked myself with creating a logo for Mama B's Bakery, a fictional company whom I knew nothing about.  All we had to go on was inferences we made from the name.

I decided that Mama B's Bakery should be a modern take on an ancient profession.  Instead of brick ovens and flour bags stacked in the corner, Mama B's Bakery would be a chic, stylish place, with a modern flair.

Simple, clean, and delicious.

So I made these:

Things didn't start off all clean and simple, though.  Originally, I was going to use the Pacifico font for the B in the circle, but it wasn't installed on the computer I'm using.  The chef's hat was going to be more elaborate, and the color scheme would have used pink, rather than the dark purple seen above.

Instead, I opted to create my own B using the pen tool, as well as the the simple, amorphous blog I call a chef's hat.

I like it, and I hope my fictional client would, too.