Thursday, February 14, 2013

My Heart for Valentines Day



Believe it or not, this is a Watermelon
Sadly, I did not carve this, but I LOVE it! Talk about Great Design.

 
 

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Design Evaluation/Design Identity



Hawaiian Restuarant
Great Design
 

 Above is an example of a great restaurant LOGO design for a business card.


 Both of these designs were created for a restaurant, presumably by a designer. The logo design above I think is a winning design because it is clean and is very cleaver with the way the sideways 22 also makes a letter N. You can tell just by looking at it that this is a high end restaurant. This deign would be easy to spot and also to remember which is important for business. It uses the law of similarity, pragnanz and closure to be visually appealing.  It also uses proximity with the equal spacing making it easy on the eye.


 

Chinese Resturant
Bad design
  The business card above is an example of a really bad restaurant logo design. The designers obviously didn’t look at the overall picture at they are showing. I would not recognize this as being from a Chinese restaurant. I am guessing that the yellow she is supposed to be a Chinese temple and the red behind it, a red sun since China uses red in its representations of its flag etc. However, this looks lie someone is sitting on the temple. Not very appealing if you want to eat there.

This is another bad restaurant logo that is trying to do something similar to the first good logo, but is a failure. There is way too much going on beside the restaurant name (Bin 33). The font is distracting also and makes me think this may be a gothic type restaurant rather than an appetizing place to eat. It does have closure, and contrast, but that is the only good design I see.