Adobe Muse – Website Mock-Up

After I had created the logo and finalised my design I decided I wanted to try and apply the graphic I made to a functioning website, in order  to see how well it worked in a practical application. To create the website I decided that rather than code from scratch I would use Adobe Muse. Muse is a great tool to make a quick professional website, with operational buttons and hyperlinks along with having support for the files I created like the SVG files and Vectors which have transparent backgrounds.
After experimenting with some basic layouts I decided I wanted to keep the theme of using circles as a throwback to my very  first logo. Whilst the website is very much bare bones at the moment  it’s a great start to document the progress I’ve made with it, so far I have the index page, and a page linking to merchandise, the merchandise page will show some previous logo iterations and concept art for the game which can be bought.

For this website I aim to make all pages operational and link them to my work on the project. The development button links to this blog, the Entropia button will link to concept art for the game, and Awards and Review will link to a mock up page of the accolades the game has achieved.

Overall despite the website being in early stages of development I feel as though it’ll be a nice addition to other output formats which can be used to navigate through the project as a whole.

 

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Logo Development (Final)

The first logo below was more of a direct translation towards my company name, compared to prior iterations it plays more with the idea of a literal campfire. Overall I feel as though this logo is weaker compared to previous versions, the design for the logs takes too much away from the central focus of the fire, it’s also quite distracting from the typeface too, which I feel works very well with the basic block colours of the fire.

 

new campfire

After evaluating what I disliked with the previous logo I decided I wanted to keep the fire and the typeface relatively similar, the type by itself felt very weak and looked out of place, however with even the small inclusion of the underlining the piece overall looks visually stronger.
As it currently stands this logo is my final piece I aim to use for the branding of the company. I feel as though it stays true to an imagined colour palette and general aesthetic I chose from the start also it  feels visually appropriate to the IP I propose to create.

new campfire 2

 

Workshop 3 – Vector Graphics

During the workshop this week I followed an instructional document on how to create vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator. Having not used illustrator much before it wasn’t a familiar platform, however the results achieved from it were second to none and the quality of the vectors are far superior to other raster graphics I always created prior.

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Overall I feel a lot more comfortable with the software and will make use of it for further experimentation before making my final design