Front cover - Season's Greetings Card

I love Design T-shirt

Road Signs (creation)

CAGSY Poster

What I wanna do is a simple yet Classy Poster, these are a few poster I picked up from the net, and found it quite interesting and rather providing ideas towards my poster









Reference

http://grandoldmovies.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/lie-poster-1.jpg

http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/103993/103993,1302132101,2/stock-vector-delicious-frozen-yogurt-or-ice-cream-cup-on-retro-background-74746618.jpg

http://rlv.zcache.com/bright_eye_heart_i_love_frozen_yogurt_posters-r8e32cdec49634a3ba735a10e40c01ac0_w2j_152.jpg




Research

As I mentioned before, yes I wanna do a classic poster, retro-ish since my logo has abit of classic taste with a slight touch of modern. Will upload the sketches as soon as they are signed by my lecturer. 

Goal : A simple poster yet eye catchy which reflects teenagers these days





Concept and Idea

This a the sketches I made, the first picture when I showed my parents, they say it looks like your sketching a murderer, what are you trying to sell, ' An assassin service'? Then, I gave it a 2nd thought, it doesn't show much of elegance and simplicity and took my parents feedback into consideration.

Then, I tried with my 2nd sketching, is showing a design of a girl's silhouette jumping with a yogurt cup on her left hand. The background was suppose to be a sunset and the base on the sketch is green grass. I wanted to add elements into the picture as there are too many white spaces around. In conclusion, this sketch shows a girl jumping in joy with my yogurt under the sunset. I showed my parents and they claim is way better than the first sketch

CRAFTING

Sketch traced back the girl jumping, only this time I chose to give her a short hair and its not so messy. I played around the wrinkle and crystallize tool a lot at her hair, making it look more natural and 'hair-like. To add on, I played around with the 'warp-tool' for the mistake of tracing unprofessionally and repairing it.

The next step I use the shape tool and drew a circle which would be the sun in the design. Also, I drew a rectangle below the silhouette and played around with the wrinkle, crystallize and scallop tool. I added a pale yellow to the sun and green to grass. Moreover, I used the yogurt cup with fruits in my logo and placing it at her left hand which lies in front of the sun I drew which emphasizes that is the product and the joy of her leap.

Drew a huge rectangle cover the entire poster then 'sent it to back'. After that, played with the mesh tool and as you can see the lighter yellow with the orange is closer to the silhouette and the sun. Added an extra color to the sun too with the Mesh tool. Moreover, I added the flare tool to show emphasize towards the cup and it shines upon the girl as she's jumping. Last step in this part, I added the brand name along with the caption below it so people would know what my poster is about.

I found out that my poster was a bit too simple and has white space, so I decided to add some coconut trees to fit the theme of the poster. Here is how I started sketching it with the pen tool, drew some circles and filling it in. (ctrl + c and ctrl + v) for the extra coconuts.

Then, I sketch some rectangle and heavily use the scallop, wrinkle, bloat, warp and crystallize tool until I was satisfied. Took me about 20-30 minutes to kept it looking presentable. Then, I rotate and also reflect, placing it nicely behind the coconut. Lines was also added to the trunk of the tree by the use of pen tool.

Then, the leaves are properly placed. Any leaves that was in front of the coconut were 'sent to back'

Colors were added towards the leaves. I played with the mesh tool for the trunk. And increased the stroke for the coconut tree leaves.

I copied the coconut tree and place the coconut at the same tab as the poster. Decreasing its size then duplicating one more of it. Then, I placed it at the bottom right. I decrease the size at it shows a distance between the silhouette and the trees.

Yet when I thought I was done, I showed my lecturer and he thought the poster was some beach party summer stuff. I showed my senior almost the same response was given and he gave me some advice. I then kept the theme but deleted the silhouette of the girl as it doesn't suite the product im selling. Then, I enlarged the yogurt cup and change the color of the cup, re-positioned everything excluding the sun. Then, I added a phrase at the top right. ' Grab it While its Hot'. Using the 'Culrz MT' font. The size of the word 'Hot' is different than the rest. I then added effects to the CAGSY word on the yogurt cup, outer glow with a high opacity and blur.

Then, I changed the color font for the CAGSY brand name and place it at the bottom right with the tag line. So the contrast stands out, and also most white space was covered. Showed the poster to my senior and he say, the color contrast is good and its way better than the previous poster with the silhouette in it.




FINAL Poster

No Smoking Quiz Poster

Pattern

Business card

Exercise CMYK Pantone color guide

Character Creation

Name : Santa Teresa
Hobbies : Kill, drink blood, spread aging, decay
Relationship status : Single
Favorite color: Darkness has a color?
Favorite food : Epidermis and dermis

CAGSY Packaging of Product

Research & Brainstorming

Tutti Frutti has their own size of cup to fill the yogurt in. For large, medium and small. 

The concept is nice, as I'm going to use the same concept to differentiate the cup size.

Planning to design fruits to differentiate the cup size. Example would be either strawberry or grapes for small cup size, for medium size either apple or orange and Watermelon as the large cup size.

The background color of CAGSY's cup would come in various color according to the fruit. The brand should also be included on the cup to avoid copyright, as it is originated from the brand itself, CAGSY. The tagline to explain CAGSY would also be included inside. 

The packaging should not be as sophisticated as it is. It shall be a simple image, brand name and color background as customers just use the cup as a platform to fill frozen yogurt in it nothing more. Then, it would be dispose off. 


Reference
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-FsBtQhxU51LuDh0auqwAWe6swaOD5m_Zb0v5nIpLnaAwOspNII9ywJk_o1nwSziJHCb5McIib5wTqJlsi3gnYk_HK4UdvZWenv0FMZjqIHkv8AZxAYQM1Go0_S2ipy29LvnHidIV_0qB/s1600/DSC01844.JPG


Concept and Idea

My first two sketches and still in doubt of which fruits to design.

Still thinking of which part of the watermelon should I design, a slice or the entire watermelon

Planning to design also the spoon and different size for different cup. To add on, I'm also planning to design the cup cover for those customers that decide to have their frozen yogurt take away. Different size would be different design.

After a few days, I decided to decorate a reusable spoon, where customers can use the spoon, wash it and use it again, and it comes in 2 designs.

CRAFTING

Basically, I started off by designing the watermelon spoon. I thought of adding sophisticated colors into it but, yet again I want to keep it simple. Right here, I use the pen tool for tracing, and also shape tool. 

Added the color green onto the handle of the spoon and also drew some spots by using the shape tool (eclipse). Spammed on (ctrl+c and ctrl + v). Besides that, those seeds were adjusted manually to look different in sizes and resemblance a slice of watermelon. 

In the next picture, I used the pen tool and draw lines. Then by using the Wrinkle and Bloat tool the straight lines were then cursive, sharp pointy edges which looks like a radio frequency. Now, it looks more like the pattern of a watermelon. Thus, I added a purplish- pink for the juicy part of the watermelon.

By adding the 3d effect under 'effects'. This is how the final piece of the spoon looked like.

Next, I was trying to design the Apple spoon, traced a picture of an apple, along by using the shape tool to design the handle of the spoon.

Combining both images that I design, I grouped them together and played with the Mesh tool. Adding red to the spoon and playing around with the Mesh tool makes the spoon 'alive'. With that, I avoided using the 3d effects for this spoon, cause it looks real as now it is.

This is just a simple picture, of me designing a simple cover, for those customers that would take away their frozen yogurt, nothing special. The use of pen tool was all I need and just used the 'warp tool' the shape the edges nicely.

Traced a strawberry image (http://www.how-to-draw-cartoons-online.com/image-files/cartoon-strawberry.gif). And then multiply it by 3, by holding alt+ and dragging it. Colored them and adding stroke to all the design in canvas.

By using the same watermelon and enlarging it (shift + drag), planning to use it as a design for the cup. This also applies to the strawberries I drew and the Apple which I reused from the spoon but added the mesh tool and brighter as such Inner glow. Next slide would be showing the design of the cup in 3 sizes (Small, Medium, Large). 

With an outer glow effect, some round shape drawn portraying snow and a multiple numbers of fruits each cup represent its respective sizes. (Small = strawberry; Medium = Apple; Large = Watermelon) *notes size of fruits = size of cup)

Three Different cups, different sizes : Only at CAGSY

Retro & Star

CAGSY Logo Design

Research

Based on that website, I can see that it is colorful and has many sorts of fruits. As mentioned, Tutti Fruiti is targeting people of all ages, generation Y, Generation X, baby boomers and also the new generation Z (Hamid, 2009). In my opinion, due to the attractiveness of the logo and the concept Tutti Fruiti is showing, the target audience is mostly young adults and teenagers. To add on, most youngsters these days, prefer to consume Chatime, which is a bubble tea franchise originated from Taiwan. Asyraf (2011) speculates that Tutti Fruiti is overprice as he added on 100 grams of Tutti Fruiti costs MYR 5.30. Could this be a reason why teenagers these days chose Bubble tea over frozen yogurt as it is much cheaper?

That brings me to my post for today, possibly targeting Generation Y and also Generation Z (iGeneration). The Gen Y considers these 4 areas before purchasing a product or service: cheap cost, quality, fast service and an 'experience' (Fields, n.d). As for myself living in the same generation, I believe we are in a spoiled generation and we are being very selective over things. That brings me to the question how should one logo or brand attract this generation: simplicity, brevity, or sophistication? Furthermore, for the later assignments which includes the merchandise how do I design that 'fits' these generations?

I came up to several ideas that the logo should be colorful. Not many colors should be involved only certain ones to make the logo unique, simple and memorable, such as Nike, Adidas and McDonald. 

Logo such as this is simple yet eye catching. Previously, my lecturer taught me about balancing and alignment, this logo has a good example of it. The blue spoon shows authority, dignity and faithfulness (Reed, 2007). In my opinion, the blue represents a guy, where as the pink represents the girl. Pink is a color which shows femininity innocence, softness and healthy (Reed, 2007). 

This would just be a rough idea on how I'm getting started on my logo although there is not much time left. Still there are few other research that has to be done which includes the words below the picture and what color to use for the logo as well as what image to sketch.

Reference

http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles25/721052/projects/3799199/868991cd207f1254c97b56f8c01a0fab.jpg

Reed, N. (2007, March 5). Color Psychology of Logos. In Top 10 Logo Designers . Retrieved September 30, 2012, from http://www.logoblog.org/wordpress/color-psychology-of-logos/

Fields, B. (n.d.). Small Business Marketing. In Marketing to Gen Y: What you can''t afford not to know. Retrieved September 30, 2012, from http://www.startupnation.com/business-articles/9011/1/marketing-GenY.htm

Rahim, A. (2011, July 3). Tutti Frutti Yogurt Ice Cream; Why is it so damn expensive?. In Caim . Retrieved September 30, 2012, from http://asyrafhjrahim.wordpress.com/author/asyrafhjrahim/

Hamid, H. (2009, October 22). Naza Tutti Frutti expects fruitful growth in first year Read more: Naza Tutti Frutti expects fruitful growth in first year . In Business Times. Retrieved September 30, 2012, from http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_News/BTIMES/articles/21FRUTTI/Article

Brainstorming/Concept and Idea

As I did some brainstorming with myself and some college friends, I came across 3 names that I should put for my brand/logo

You-HO (Its about how Yogurt greets you)

YOGO (Inspired by YOLO* = You only Live once)

YFL = Yogurt for Life

I came to the conclusion noticing Generation Y likes catchy words, conform and be trendy cause they do like to feel left out. Therefore, I planning to come up either one of these name as my logo as for the sketch I already have an idea and will begin work tomorrow

MY SKETCHES

Messy I know, that is how I sketch till I come up with the final art piece.

Even though that's my final sketch piece, I done a lot of changes in Adobe Illustrator to enhance its texture.

CRAFTING

After scanning the sketch, I adjust the stroke to 2pt. To add on, changing the lines from uniform to Width profile 2, I tested the rest but seems it looks better on this option. 

After playing around with the stroke and variable width profile. I head over to the line segment tool and drew a line. By holding shift and drag I manage to get a fine straight line. Then after, I play each letter 'C,A,G,S and Y' on the line ensuring it is straight and applying the Typography theory which includes baseline and adjusting the X-height.

Once all the letters were placed strategically and in an order, I began grouping all of the letters to avoid missing pieces when I drag and also to make future editing a lot easier (effects).

Without wasting time, I took out the fruits from the basket one by one and began to color them. For the grapes, I was just putting a purple color. Gradient didn't come to my mind as each grape is minute and does not need any gradient fill as I want to keep it simple as for the rest of the fruits I touch on something else.

For the banana, I used the Mesh tool and played around with it. I chose a slightly light yellow and played around with it. As for the end of the banana I used a black solid color to fill in.

Same goes for the remaining fruits I used mesh tool and play around with it. Then I deleted the CAGSY word on the yogurt cup and copy/paste the huge CAGSY word and play around with it. I readjust the size by holding shift + drag to get a proper size and drag it back to the yogurt cup space.

Once I placed the words back, I added peppermint color towards the cup. I thought of staying for white but it was to dull and simple, besides the fruits covered the color red,pink,green,purple and yellow. Then, I readjusted the CAGSY next to the yogurt cup along by using Typography I added a phrase. 

Besides that, I put the effect Drop Shadow towards all element on the canvas. 85% opacity. To add on, I change the font of the phrase to 'Comic Sans MS' and set a distance towards each word. Also, I aligned those words in the middle. 

Then, I clicked on the warp tool and readjust the CAGSY due to some crooked line I traced when I used the pen tool easier, making it smoother and fine. Then, I grouped all of the elements on the canvas together. By putting grids and readjusting the logo, and putting 'balance' into practice the final product is as follow.

Colorful, classy and simple. Colors can attract people and instill in people's mind easier. The word 'CAGSY' is cursive to show classy and class. It shows that the brand is not merely a cheap brand. Its more of an exclusive brand but not that expensive as the casualness of the font from ' Come and get some yogurt'. To add on, the fruits shown in the yogurt cup are the flavors served in the CAGSY.