Blitzkrieg Bop

I've been tasked, by a band, with designing a logo.

At present I've been given some sample images - one explicitly being the lightning bolt design they want - depicting some classic comicbook-style imagery. Including some pop art and Kryptonian sigils.

I'm awaiting to hear back about a few queries I've had, including colouring, etc. Since I'm unsure if the logo I've been provided is their existing design or just another example piece (it does look a lot like it belongs to Black Adam.)

In the meantime, I've been doing some rough edits on the design and playing with colour variations. Also investigating typefaces, as they would like the band name included in the design.

I'm having to be careful since the colours most of the example images are using are the classic red & yellow, which - when applied to a lightning bolt - basically give you the logo for The Flash.

Examples of potential typefaces. Some may need a little more tweaking than others.

Fight For Your Right...

I recently applied to work at another company that responded asking me to complete a design exercise audition type thing.
I just learnt today that I didn't get an interview, so I've decided to publish the design I did for them.

I had to jazz up a plain text television pitch, for a new show, ready to be sent to a major network. The content of the document is strictly confidential (so I've blurred out the details) but, for context, I will say it was a kinda "teen tropical holiday/party themed reality show".

 

I wouldn't normally use such a garish colour palette, but it fit with the subject matter of the show.

Preliminary sketches & ideas.

 

More Carter

At this stage in the project, the overall layouts and imagery have been finalised, but there are 3 potential stylistic options for the final imagery: Handdrawn linework, Vector graphics or Inkwash drawings.
The ink drawings were definitely the first intended final images, but the simplicity of the line images is much clearer to read. Unfortunately they're not as clean as the vector graphics, but the latter have a stale quality to them.
I'm not sure I really like the way this project is panning out.
In addition to the images, I drew out some hand-rendered lettering for the story to be written in. The one I chose is based on ornate, slightly gothic-looking serif typefaces I looked at.

The lengthy passages mean I had to convert the letters into an actual font, so I could just type out what was needed, rather than assemble it by hand. It's called CarterScript and it's not a functional typeface, per se, more just a means of creating large volumes of readily formatted words in the letters for me to edit.

 

Examples of the vector versions of the scene elements I'm using to illustrate the story.