Week 4 of the Thirty Logo Challenge is now live on the site portfolio. This weeks logo suffered a fair bit due to the lack of time and effort I was able to put into it but I put up what I had managed to do in order to keep the project going and to stop myself from falling behind.

If you don’t know what the Thirty Logos Challenge is, it’s an awesome new challenge where you get sent 30 fake, yet realistic logo design briefs with the goal being to improve your design skills. You sign up by entering your email on their website, you then get the one design brief sent to your email everyday for 30 days. Each of the briefs are unique and will present you with a new challenge with every brief. The emails also  give you helpful tips in case you need a guiding hand.

Week 3 of the Thirty Logo Challenge has now come and gone now. This weeks logo was pretty much just a redesign job, so considering that half the design was done for me I didn’t spend a whole lot of time on it.

If you don’t know what the Thirty Logos Challenge is, it’s an awesome new challenge where you get sent 30 fake, yet realistic logo design briefs with the goal being to improve your design skills. You sign up by entering your email on their website, you then get the one design brief sent to your email everyday for 30 days. Each of the briefs are unique and will present you with a new challenge with every brief. The emails also  give you helpful tips in case you need a guiding hand.

Week 2 of my Thirty Logo Challenge has now been added to the Thirty Logos section in the portfolio. Truthfully, I struggled with this logo a lot and ended up just pushing out whatever I could to have something done within the time frame I have set for myself. I definitely would have liked to work on it for a bit longer but for the sake of time and to make sure I actually finish this challenge I felt it best to just leave it as is. Maybe I’ll come back to it another time, after the challenge when my skills have hopefully improved.

If you don’t know what the Thirty Logos Challenge is, it’s an awesome new challenge where you get sent 30 fake, yet realistic logo design briefs with the goal being to improve your design skills. You sign up by entering your email on their website, you then get the one design brief sent to your email everyday for 30 days. Each of the briefs are unique and will present you with a new challenge with every brief. The emails also  give you helpful tips in case you need a guiding hand.

For the next little while, whilst I update the website, I will also be taking part in the Thirty Logos Challenge as a way to improve my branding skills. Currently I have all the briefs collected and will be uploading finished challenges sporadically over the next few months. Although the challenge is aimed at daily logos, I am planning to do at least one logo brief a week, due to work and personal commitments, this is as often as I’ll be able to work on the challenge.

If you don’t know what the Thirty Logos Challenge is, it’s an awesome new challenge where you get sent 30 fake, yet realistic logo design briefs with the goal being to improve your design skills. You sign up by entering your email on their website, you then get the one design brief sent to your email everyday for 30 days. Each of the briefs are unique and will present you with a new challenge with every brief. The emails also  give you helpful tips in case you need a guiding hand.

Throughout my project I considered a lot of extra pieces to add in order to create a more robust amount of work.

At one point when talking to Padraic about the project he suggested the potential for creating an entire advertising campaign, and as much as I liked the idea I knew I wouldn’t have had the time to create an advertising campaign on top of the core brochure. The only remnant of this talk is a series of posters I quickly created one night not long after this talk.

Another consideration I had was to separate the brochure out into a series of individual brochures, each concentrating on one section of the initial brochure for example, the first section which talks about culture as a single brochure, a Kanto brochure, a Hokkaido brochure, etc. I had kept this idea in the back of my head throughout the entirety of the project and hoped to implement it if I had time, but unfortunately I didn’t have the time needed to create it.

I really wished I would have had the extra time to implement some of these ideas but I knew from very early on that I shouldn’t put too much pressure on myself to create more, I would rather create one quality piece rather than a lot of half-baked ideas.

The final product is finally done.

I’m pretty happy with how the whole thing turned out. I really wanted a different box and to get it professionally printed but I wasn’t able to afford it/get it printed in time which was disappointing but what I have is fit for purpose.

I was forced to sort the box out myself and the foil on the top isn’t well done, which is completely my own fault and down to the inexperience of working with foil.

I’m really happy with how the final brochure has turned out, although the gold end papers weren’t exactly the ones that I wanted they still look good and I’m still happy with the outcome.

Below is a series of photographs of the final outcome you can also find a digital copy of the brochure here.

This week we had another progress presentations. Although I didn’t get picked to present I would have shown the progress that I had made with the brochure cover and the laser cutting and engraving.

Other than that I hadn’t much other progress to show until the brochure is ready for print with all the images inserted and the type finalised.

You can find a copy of my progress presentation here.

This weekend I went over to visit my sister in Birmingham, which has been the first chill weekend I’ve had in a while. I was a little worried about missing out on a weekend of writing but I worked a good bit longer on it during the week and managed to get the last three sections done. I was still anxious about the laser cutting at this point.

I also got some more feedback on the design of the brochure from Padraic and I think I have it all pretty much sorted, the only thing I have left to do is add the rest of the images and replace the place holder images in the Kanto section.

I also got to go to the Fab Lab this week and got the cover design laser engraved, I had initially thought about laser cutting it but as I tested it in the Fab Lab the engrave looked a lot better and so I decided to go for that instead.

Before the Easter break I got some feedback from Padraic on the initial mock-up, I’ve changed some minor things to do with the design but for the majority this fortnight I’ve just been building content.

I’ve managed to finish the Tohoku, Intro, Chubu and Kansai sections, I’ve also started on the Chugoku section as I begin to move into the final phase of the brochure creation.

I’ve also managed to book a slot into the Fab Lab for the 29th so I can laser cut the brochure cover.