Graphic Design 1: Self Promotional Projects: Part 1

I'm taking four classes this semester and one of them is called (whad'ya know?) Graphic Design 1.   For this class we have mainly focused on self promotional projects, each one stacking on top of the other.  My choice was to work on my imaginary freelance design business, hoping that maybe one day I could put what I've made to a good use.

We started out by making ourselves a logo for our business, company, idea, whatever.  Now the design process is more complicated then I'll explain here, but basically you start out with some thoughts and "thumbnails" ideas for where you project will go and what it will look like.  Then you must work on actually bringing that to life.  But are you done when that part is done?  Not a chance! ;)  All projects could use a critique or two (or a couple million in my teachers case) and there is always something that can be fixed or tweaked.

Here below is my first go at designing my logo design.  It looked very similar to my flowy scripted sketch, but me and my teacher decided that this was not the right style for this project and to save it for later.

These are various other variations to my design.

After setting this design aside, I took a totally different turn and started from scratch on another style.  
This is what I got.

I wasn't very happy with what I got, and my teacher had quite a few things about it that she thought I should change so I decided to just go ahead and scratch this one too! ;P

This is what I finally came up with, and I'm pretty happy with it. :) 

(sorry, the picture is a little dark, not sure why...) 













So, there you have it, my journey to create my Logo Design!  :) 


I will post about creating my business card and other projects in Graphic Design Part 2.