http://www.colinbright.com portfolio of a Bright designer Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:11:51 +0000 http://www.colinbright.com en http://www.colinbright.com/Max-Gold http://www.colinbright.com/following/colinbright.com/Max-Gold Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:11:51 +0000 portfolio of a Bright designer 5309945 Max Gold is an upcoming EDM producer. He contacted me to design several elements of his brand. The theme was straightforward enough; he wanted me to reproduce my geometric/nebula design that I've done in the past. I found it interesting to see how my artistic discipline evolved when comparing the same visual aesthetic on pieces separated by several years. <img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8534/8610652427_2c00ec0903_z.jpg" width="414" height="640"/> The tour poster was the first thing I developed. The penrose "impossible" triangle became the main stand-out theme. <img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8251/8611953998_f48058541a_z.jpg" width="640" height="384"/> <img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8526/8611948940_cfa291886d_z.jpg" width="640" height="384"/> Album sleeve+disc design <img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8544/8611847300_76c49e6fde_z.jpg" width="366" height="640"/> Flyer handout <img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8116/8610974287_328bd96e21_n.jpg" width="309" height="320"/> A logo design I pitched for apparel. He wanted something hand-drawn, I used a brush and india ink to create this design, in the same vein as Daft Punk. He ended up wanting to go with a brush script font, despite my protests that you should never use a computer to make something look hand-done. <img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8256/8612058084_a1caffce38_c.jpg" width="320" height="800"/> This was a large 60x24 banner. It was a challenge to find background material at the resolution I was working with. Max Gold is an upcoming EDM producer. He contacted me to design several elements of his brand. The theme was straightforward enough; he wanted me to reproduce my... http://www.colinbright.com/TiGi http://www.colinbright.com/following/colinbright.com/TiGi Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:33:55 +0000 portfolio of a Bright designer 5271631 <img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8371/8601763970_90970466b6.jpg" width="500" height="354"/> Logo I developed for an internal Johnson & Johnson project called TiGi. Pronounced "tee-zhjee," it is an arabic slang word meaning 'to come together.' The project was a platform for sharing ideas, questions and information about information technologies. J&J wanted the logo to be striking, modern, innovative, and convey a sense of excitement to draw the user into the site, where they can explore a variety of decision support aids and collaborate with others about technology solutions. I researched arabic script and typography since I admittedly knew very little about the language. For one, it is written from right to left, and letter forms are subject to change appearance depending on how they are connected to each other. I designed two scripts, one a more traditional cursive, and a second highly modernized and angular. The blue color stemmed from what was being used on the project's website, but I took inspiration from Twitter and Skype's subtle gradients on their marks. They liked the more modern approach, and I iterated on how the english and arabic forms of TiGi meshed together, combining the dots or 'i‘jām' on the "i" letterform. Evolution of the logo. I'm partial to image 5, but since the project was predominantly viewed by english speakers, I balanced the logo in the english version's favor. <img src= "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8237/8600603209_6751eb10cf.jpg" width="304" height="264"/> <img src= "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8391/8601703264_fef4b181ea.jpg" width="304" height="264"/> <img src= "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8376/8600621433_082495993d.jpg" width="304" height="264"/> <img src= "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8510/8601703290_7f92ff57fb.jpg" width="304" height="264"/> <img src= "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8380/8601703246_1fa2374497.jpg" width="304" height="264"/> <img src= "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8523/8600603187_b3efa7ed24.jpg" width="304" height="264"/> Logo I developed for an internal Johnson & Johnson project called TiGi. Pronounced "tee-zhjee," it is an arabic slang word meaning 'to come together.' The project... http://www.colinbright.com/Crossfit-RSX http://www.colinbright.com/following/colinbright.com/Crossfit-RSX Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:44:41 +0000 portfolio of a Bright designer 5270799 Logo design for a Crossfit workout team based in Orlando, FL called R.S.X, meaning "resurrection". They were looking for a shield design with their workout equipment featured, as well as the latin words that embodied the spirit of their group: tolerance, power, agility, flexibility, balance, and speed. A circular emblem seemed the logical choice to organize the words. They ended up wanting more religious symbolism, such as the "chi rho", which I merged with the existing crossed hammers, as well as leaves. They wanted a templar shield as opposed to a round trojan shield; I wasn't sure at first how I would arrange the words on the shield because of its asymmetric design, and ultimately cheated by not having them on the shield at all, but fitting them onto ribbons, for an overall radial aesthetic. I also dumped the kettlebell icon. I was inspired by collegiate designs and based the colorization off military rank insignia. <img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8091/8593856234_2b9b8eee18.jpg" width="500" height="500"/> The work in progress <img src= "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8368/8593811698_5623d89897.jpg" width="360" height="360"/> <img src= "http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8523/8592710591_47a4458553.jpg" width="360" height="360"/> Logo design for a Crossfit workout team based in Orlando, FL called R.S.X, meaning "resurrection". They were looking for a shield design with their workout... http://www.colinbright.com/Corporate-Identity http://www.colinbright.com/following/colinbright.com/Corporate-Identity Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:53:15 +0000 portfolio of a Bright designer 3107388 I developed this logo for the company "Never Never Labs," an IT development firm that is part humanitarian and part government contract; which operates in 3rd world regions including Haiti and Afghanistan. I experimented with a few different logo treatments before settling on a 16th century "piratey" typographic approach. The client originally wanted a logo based off Tinker Bell to go with the Peter Pan themed name, but aside from copyright infringement, fairies are somewhat sacrilegious to the largely muslim community of Afghanistan, so I went in a more neutral direction. I kept the wand though. <img src= "http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7121/6882290838_bd22458eaf_z.jpg" width="640" height="290"/> <img src= "http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7220/7028392279_89fc7ae180_z.jpg" width="640" height="290"/> I developed this logo for the company "Never Never Labs," an IT development firm that is part humanitarian and part government contract; which operates in 3rd world... http://www.colinbright.com/Visual-Persuasion http://www.colinbright.com/following/colinbright.com/Visual-Persuasion Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:26:32 +0000 portfolio of a Bright designer 1735834 -1ess, pronounced "one less" is an advertising campaign to bring awareness to the human overpopulation crisis. The fundamental idea is that every adversity we face today; global warming, animal extinction, food shortages, power consumption, deforestation, everything comes back to the fact that there are simply too many humans on the planet. -1ess' goal is to teach people that by having "one less child," they too can contribute to fixing the man made problems on Earth. Birth control can be a touchy subject with people, and tends to conjure images of China's government enforced birthing restrictions, and so -1ess was made to be a friendlier alternative, teaching people "why not" instead of just being told "no." <img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6149/5948797560_06d0cdc72e.jpg" width="500" height="288"/> The -1 can function independently as a mark for the campaign. <img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6013/5941663849_dc715d8ac9_z.jpg" width="328" height="640"/> <img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6009/5942224874_b576e87cd1_z.jpg" width="328" height="640"/> <img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6009/5941664875_90d1bbcc65_z.jpg" width="328" height="640"/> <img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6140/5949006252_bd32b1bf71_z.jpg" width="640" height="430"/> <img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6141/5949006782_8cd52609a9_z.jpg" width="640" height="430"/> <img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6015/5949006504_0402a35a73_z.jpg" width="640" height="430"/> <img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6127/5948452751_33550b48cb_z.jpg" width="640" height="430"/> The website's primary page featured a clock that gauged the amount of people on the planet, using an algorithm based off birth/death statistics. The site featured information about the movement, safe-sex charity donations to countries in need, and social networking abilities. -1ess, pronounced "one less" is an advertising campaign to bring awareness to the human overpopulation crisis. The fundamental idea is that every adversity we face... http://www.colinbright.com/Studio-Identity http://www.colinbright.com/following/colinbright.com/Studio-Identity Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:34:21 +0000 portfolio of a Bright designer 1703340 A logo I developed for a professional illustrator's studio. He wanted the name to be "Draw Your Sword," a song lyric he liked from a metal band. I worked with him to find the aesthetic he was looking for, and the best fit logo to match his name. I experimented with a graphic of a sword literally being drawn before ultimately going for a "foot print to the foot" approach with a Da Vinci esque blueprint of a sword. <img src= "http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6013/5917470386_969662dfcb_z.jpg" width="640" height="290"/> <img src= "http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6128/5916910027_e58304806b_z.jpg" width="640" height="290"/> <img src= "http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6125/5917470844_8ab61bee8f_z.jpg" width="640" height="290"/> A logo I developed for a professional illustrator's studio. He wanted the name to be "Draw Your Sword," a song lyric he liked from a metal band. I worked with him... http://www.colinbright.com/Timelife-Redesign-Flood http://www.colinbright.com/following/colinbright.com/Timelife-Redesign-Flood Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:13:28 +0000 portfolio of a Bright designer 1602322 Junior year, my graphic design class had to visually update a book in the Time Life series while keeping all the material. I was assigned Flood. I used the serif family Bodoni as the typeface for this book since I felt its timeless nature could appeal to both the biblical history of floods as well as a nod the the book's modern redesign. I made the book wider than it was tall, a detail that implies a river's horizontal nature. The design and graphics are all my own, the photos are all royalty-free that I found on the web. I would've liked to have taken my own photographs, but the subject being what it is, that wasn't going to happen. Open publication - Free publishing - More design <img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5115/5840157582_60be43bd33_z.jpg" width="640" height="427"/> <img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3301/5839611287_77f6d21e76_z.jpg" width="640" height="427"/> <img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5101/5840162626_20ca9f185b_z.jpg" width="640" height="427"/> <img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3066/5839616993_7a9bc74350_z.jpg" width="640" height="427"/> <img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2464/5840168874_beafc40d79_z.jpg" width="640" height="427"/> <img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3114/5840171606_8961a873ee_z.jpg" width="640" height="427"/> <img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3122/5840173744_3af0583e29_z.jpg" width="640" height="427"/> <img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5193/5840176780_9774941f26_z.jpg" width="640" height="427"/> <img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5240/5839632401_27a41e9f56_z.jpg" width="640" height="427"/> <img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3183/5840184258_dd20388dab_z.jpg" width="640" height="427"/> <img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3561/5839638075_19ddec1e9b_z.jpg" width="640" height="427"/> <img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3453/5839646951_9cd11d8745_z.jpg" width="640" height="427"/> Junior year, my graphic design class had to visually update a book in the Time Life series while keeping all the material. I was assigned Flood. I used the serif... http://www.colinbright.com/Selected-Posters http://www.colinbright.com/following/colinbright.com/Selected-Posters Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:46:45 +0000 portfolio of a Bright designer 1528392 <img src= "http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3029/5785492814_f17dca459c_z.jpg"> A tour poster for Acrassicauda, the first Iraqi heavy metal band. <img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2590/5837423040_c2368d367f_z.jpg"> Promotion material for the Graphic Design Senior Show 2011 at Ringling College of Art & Design. Our show's theme was flight and venturing into the beyond, and so this poster represents how we all have our beginnings at the school but move on to make great things. <img src= "http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5063/5867925911_24a092e866_z.jpg"> Poster material for a presentation on alternative energy in a class on current world events. I came up with the symbol in the wake of the Fukushima crisis, a combination of the icon for atomic power with the symbol for "don't" colored green for green energy. <img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2436/5846417051_bbd61c0551_z.jpg"> A tour poster for Acrassicauda, the first Iraqi heavy metal band. Promotion material for the Graphic Design Senior Show 2011 at Ringling College of Art & Design.... http://www.colinbright.com/Music-Branding http://www.colinbright.com/following/colinbright.com/Music-Branding Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:48:26 +0000 portfolio of a Bright designer 1525323 This was a music identity campaign I developed in ‘09. It involved the fictional music band “Deft Adept,” an electronic house music group. I created a logo, tour posters, album art, an Itunes - LP digital album, a vinyl record album, and merchandise including buttons, stickers and t-shirts. <img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5236/5907444105_a0465b4f19_z.jpg" width="640" height="312"/> The logo exists in a graphic and typographic form. The graphic is an abstraction of the band's initials, D and A. <img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5274/5886291657_0450844ba7_z.jpg" width="640" height="464"/> <img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5235/5886857350_fcba528320_z.jpg" width="640" height="464"/> <img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2032/5785316298_3e486ff245_z.jpg" width="454" height="640"/> <img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3399/5785315590_55fda29fa1_z.jpg" width="454" height="640"/> <img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2663/5785314592_19909a6a43_z.jpg" width="454" height="640"/> Tour posters. Deft Adept was this sort of electronica house stuff, and so I made these rhythmic abstractions of what their music sounded like, hence the geometric forms and R G B color scheme. <img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2779/5850924944_664c40fdc5_z.jpg" width="640" height="376"/> <img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5105/5850924724_5014c188fe_z.jpg" width="640" height="376"/> Backgrounds for iPhones included on the iTunes LP. The fractals were an expansion on the band's mathematics in space motif. <img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5080/5907998678_d997cef88b_z.jpg" width="403" height="640"/> <img src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6052/5907998320_8d2b1190e8_z.jpg" width="403" height="640"/> <img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5152/5907999686_3628f11e69_z.jpg" width="403" height="640"/> <img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5314/5908000182_7194650da7_z.jpg" width="403" height="640"/> This was a music identity campaign I developed in ‘09. It involved the fictional music band “Deft Adept,” an electronic house music group. I created a logo,... http://www.colinbright.com/Typeface http://www.colinbright.com/following/colinbright.com/Typeface Fri, 27 May 2011 20:53:37 +0000 portfolio of a Bright designer 1510391 Geotura is a typeface I designed that interprets the famous font Futura with more geometric figures; suitable for display and posters. You may download the font here. Credit me if you plan on using it anywhere. <img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2309/5784758065_2b5d4278ab_z.jpg"> Geotura is a typeface I designed that interprets the famous font Futura with more geometric figures; suitable for display and posters. You may download the font...