25 Jul 2013
Horse Gulch Blog logo design by Austin Hatala: a creative design process worth experiencing
We as a society tend to, at times, judge books by their covers.
Austin Hatala’s final colored logo design for Horse Gulch Blog LLC.
It’s Austin Hatala’s job to make your “cover” be memorable to those passersby–whether it be with a fresh logo design, branding, websites, mobile websites, videography, or some other form of graphic design.
Hatala did his job well indeed at designing a memorable logo for Horse Gulch Blog LLC that incorporates elements of symbolism (a shield), shading and texturing to give the design multiple dimensions, and cartoon-quality landscapes drawn with rich colors.
More than just a mono-centric artistic design, Hatala puts much thought and time into a systematic creative design process.
Starting with the process of discovery, he writes up a design brief and begins researching and brainstorming how the design will take into account such things as your products and services, the history of your business, the future, and the prospective audience.
A black and white version of the logo.
Following the brainstorming comes the process of exploration, where he sketches a word map and later begins digitizing three different conceptual designs in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
After a few weeks of exploration, Hatala reveals the design concepts with context using digital mock-ups for you to peruse in a PDF file.
Lastly, Hatala revises the final design after receiving feedback from the client. He says that there’s always flexibility in the process.
Overall, the creative design process worked well for me, and I’d recommend him to any prospective clients down the road.
Hatala also builds wine racks and furniture.
He can be reached at www.NordinaryDesigns.com
One of several conceptual designs that Austin Hatala drafted as part of a creative design process.
One of several conceptual logo designs for Horse Gulch Blog by Austin Hatala.
Another conceptual logo design for Horse Gulch Blog by Austin Hatala.
This is the conceptual logo design that I had Austin Hatala expand on as part of the revisionist phase of his creative design process.
This is the black and white inverse logo design that Hatala made. I dig it.
Austin did a great job, indeed! I love the new logo!
Sarah Lovering
August 8th, 2013 at 1:43 pmpermalink
Creative drafting with many concepts great work by Austin all logos are really professional.
henry
August 27th, 2013 at 4:27 ampermalink
phenomenal drafting with professionalism. Your work should be highly appreciated.
George Finecott
January 7th, 2014 at 7:07 ampermalink