I got to work on a listening guide, this week, for an upcoming event this fall. —The design isn’t approved yet, so I’m trying not to share too much. No use in jinxing it! It was a fun project, one of those rare things in design where everything came naturally and easily.
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These are so impressive! Karl Johnson cuts these out in a matter of minutes!
http://mycakies.blogspot.com/
My friend Lydia sent me a link to this blog last week. I love her photography and recipes.
http://kateslaterillustration.blogspot.com
Somehow I stumbled upon Kate Slater’s illustrations this past week. Fantastic work!
http://www.instantshift.com/2010/08/24/88-brilliant-examples-of-forced-perspective-photography/
These are some fun photos to look through.
http://www.nikibrown.com/designoblog/2010/01/29/diagonal-guides-illustrato/
This is a quick tip on how to create diagonal guides in Illustrator.
http://alexwolkov.ru/blognews/Photoshop/Web_Elements/Free_PSD_Web_UI_Element
An excellent resource to add to your toolbox.
http://www.farbeyondthestars.com/7-ways-to-invest-your-time-besides-commenting-on-blogs/
I’m hesitant to include this link. 
It’s a post that discourages you from commenting on blogs. It makes the case that most people don’t leave useful comments. There are always a lot of “Good post.” “Thanks for sharing.” —and for someone (like me) that tries to respond to every comment, it takes more time to maintain your blog. While I always want comments on my blog, I think this blogger makes an excellent point.
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You seem to enjoy reading about it or at least you’re willing to click on the link….so I thought I’d share a little more.
I’ve already shared about the folder of templates I have set up on Dropbox. I also keep all my documentation in Google Docs. Anytime, I get a new client or project, I will duplicate the Google Spreadsheet for them.
I like being able to access it anywhere: on my phone, on my computer at work, at home, etc. I could even share it with a client if neceessary. (Share > Publish as a web page)
Each spreadsheet has five sheets that way I can keep everything together in one file.
This is the project overview.
The username and password information is the most valuable section.
I know some of this information seems obvious if I keep my file structure and naming conventions the same for every project. But, it’s invaluable if I have to hand the project off to someone else or if I have multiple revisions of the same file. Which is the most recent? which one got approved?
This sheet is the one that I visit the most. As soon as I sit down to work on a project, I will record the date and the start time. When I’m ready to move onto someone else, I record the end time, what I was able to accomplish, and the amount of hours I spent on the project.
Believe it or not, I’ve had clients question the amount of time a project took. I was able to pull up my time sheet and explain how every hour was spent. It makes a difference when you’re able to provide documentation!
If I’m doing a site build, this sheet gets visited up front. I try and break down the project by items. One of my problems is I like to operate out of what I would like to accomplish versus what is realistically possible. This sheet helps me. I can say, “Oh that project will take 10 hours,” but if I start breaking it down by task, I quickly realize that my estimate may double: develop assets, design the comp, slice and dice, set up the CMS, hook it up to the CMS… you get the point.
The most helpful line on this document is near the end: 10 - 20% contingency allowance. A lot of times I underestimate the amount of time it will take. This section has saved me. Other times, I’ve been right on. When I only bill for the amount of hours actually spent, this section makes them happy because it looks like I’ve saved them a buck or two. Under promise. Over deliver.
This sheet is self explanatory. Here, I track anything I purchase for the project, an expression engine license, stock photography, fonts, etc. I want to make sure that I foot the bill to the client.
On this sheet I track any meetings and / or conversations I’ve had with the client. This helps when I’m trying to rmemeber what and when something was said. I include:
The thoughts section is good. It allows me to reflect on the meeting, either things that I said or did, things the client mentioned that I may need to consider down the road, etc.
Action points makes sure that I have a record of what I said I would do and what the client said they would do. A meeting is a waste of time unless an action point comes out of it.
If any files were exchanged during the meeting, I’ll list them under attachments.
Honestly, some project I’m more diligent about recording these things than others. I’ve found, though, that the more I document, the more smoothly the project goes, the less trouble.
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
One of my favorite names of God right now is Emmanuel, God with us. I cling to those verses: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.” Right now, there is so much change going on that I have to cling to the one unchanging thing in my life, the Rock. That’s where I find my grounding, my footing. I love that I have the promise of His prescence. People will come and go. It’s part of life, but God, I have His unchanging presence.
I believe there’s more to that verse.
We must remind ourselves that, for the Jews, the Temple was where the one true God had promise to make his home. The Temple was the place where heaven and earth were joined together. It was the place you went to meet with God. It was the place of sacrifice, of atonement, the place where you went for festivals because you went to celebrate the prescence and love of God.
John constantly says and implies that Jesus thought and acted as though he were some kind of replacement of the temple.
So, we can re-read John 1:14, God the Creator of the universe, the Author of life, comes to dwell with His people, He pitches His tent, His “tabernacle” among us.
In the Old Testament, the tabernacle was a tent pitched in the center of the camp. It was intended to be a sign of His prescence, always among them that moved with them as they traveled.
In the New Testament, Jesus actually lives inside us, pitches his tent in our hearts.
Let’s keep reading.
He who believes in me — out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.
I never put two and two together, until now. I’ve always read that verse and thought water = life. Most major cities are built around water. We need water to live. But, with God, our heart becomes an actual spring. When everything else is pushing down on us, life comes up out of us. Keep going, though, there’s so much more there! —It’s a picture of the creation story.
A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.) The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush. The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
As God makes a new creation in me, He actually mirrors the creation story. Rivers of living water flow from my heart, just like the Garden of Eden, the way it was meant to be.
But, it’s also a picture of the temple in Ezekiel 47:1-12.
The man brought me back to the entrance of the temple, and I saw water coming out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east (for the temple faced east). The water was coming down from under the south side of the temple, south of the altar. He then brought me out through the north gate and led me around the outside to the outer gate facing east, and the water was flowing from the south side.
That’s where the spring in my heart is. Flowing from the temple, the new creation in me, where Jesus has pitched His tent. Brilliant.
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If I could dribbble it, I would….of course you can always invite me. * HINT * HINT * WINK * WINK * POKE * POKE * GIRLISH GIGGLE *
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My love language is quality time. Time is something where I feel like everyone is on the same playing field. Oh, I know, some people live longer than others, but just for today, we all have 24 hours. We all have a choice in how we want to spend that time. I can’t “buy time,” but I can give it away. I love spending time with people. It’s hard sometimes to “make time” with everything else I have going on, but that’s also what makes my time valuable and special. Once given, it can’t be taken back. It’s one of the best gifts that I can give someone —So, to be at a place where I don’t feel like I can spend quality time with my roommate or one of my best friends makes this change even harder.
Six months ago, at a Thursday night Bible Study, we looked at the verse in Matthew that says “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest…” I had all the girls write down that verse, the date (February 11), and what they needed rest from. I wrote down singleness. I hate being treated like I’m single, like it’s a problem or a sickness. I hate being a singles Bible Study where we either feel like we have to talk about it every week or the exact opposite, it’s taboo. I’m so ready to be in that right relationship! That index card is attached to my dry erase board in my bedroom at the apartment. I look at it daily and wonder when the rest will come.
I came back from Bible Study last night and it hit me. God convicted me. I was complaining about being stripped of these relationships. “You want to spend quality time with everyone else except Me.” So, I pulled out my journal and laid all my cards out. It was a lot of me talking and just outright complaining about where I’m at in life. I went to bed without any answers, still frustrated, but having to accept where I’m at.
This morning, I got up and spend some more time in the Word. I looked at Beth Moore’s 90 Days with John: the Beloved Disciple. (Which is “funny”, because I haven’t looked at this book in about a year and a half!) God picked the conversation back up. This time, He spoke, not me.
I read Acts 3. It’s a story about a crippled begger. He sits outside a temple called Beautiful. Peter and John both walk by. They looked at the beggar and requested his attention. “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.” (verse 6) Peter grabbed him by the right hand, instantly the crippled man’s ankles and feet became strong. He jumped to his feet and began walking and jumping, praising God.
We talked about this passage a few weeks ago in Sunday School. Funny, then, we assumed the perspective of Peter and John. We talked about previous instances when they were visiting the temple and probably saw the beggar. We focused on the importance of really looking the poor in the face, of giving them dignity. But, the truth is, I can identify much more with the beggar.
Someone today has been begging God for trivial things like silver and gold when God wants to raise her to her feet and jump, dance and praise Him. Why do we wnat God to help us stay like we are? Grab a handful of faith and be changed!
That’s me! I keep begging God to “relieve” me of singleness. I’ve thought that rest would come in the form of Prince Charming, but a guy can’t stand up under that pressure, the pressure of all the things that I want and hope for him to be. There’s idolatry there.
I shared Matthew 11:28 earlier, but the thing is, I stopped where I end the verse in my head. In reality, the following verse is equally as important. “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.”
It’s ironic that it talks about rest and a yoke. I’m not much for farming, but I do know that an ox wears a yoke, unique to them, that enables them to pull the load. They seem like opposites. But, the difference with God’s yoke? It’s His yoke, not mine. It’s custom fit for me and no one else.
The burden of singleness, of loneliness, of friends leaving, this is not the yoke the Lord wants me to carry. Why do I continue to bring myself back to this place, allowing myself to be pulled down under its weight? He has called me to get up and walk, to jump, to praise His name. It’s so hard for me to walk when I’m so used to begging.
Instead of giving me what I’ve been asking for, God has chosen to give me more, so much more.
It’s no mistake that the temple is called Beautiful. This is a beautiful sotry. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says that “He has made everything beautiful in its time.” In the world, beauty dimenshes over time, but with God and the things that are really important, beauty increases over time. If you look at the ten verses before 3:11, it’s a series of “there is a time for…”
There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
…it keeps going. But the thing is, it’s all those times when strung together that make life beautiful. It’s this season of singleness that will make marriage beautiful. It’s the season of leaving and loneliness that make community so beautiful. I know it sounds cliche, but it’s the rainy days that make you appreicate the sunshine. It’s the winter that makes you appreciate the summer. This is beautiful.
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
When you see people walking, it’s normal, expected. There’s not much beauty in it. It’s getting from point A to point B. But, with this man, this crippled man, it was the season of being paralyzed that made his walk beautiful.
When all the people saw him walking and praising God, they recognized him as the same man who used to sit begging at the temple gate called Beautiful, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. While the beggar held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running…
http://www.fastcompany.com/1684739/chad-ochocinco-fined-25000-for-tweeting
This article was a fascinating read. Apparently, the NFL prevents players from posting on social networking sites 30 minutes bfeore and after the game. If you ask me, this a HUGE mistake on their part, a huge opportunity missed. I feel like they could really capitalize on the players’ thoughts throughout the game.
http://creativefan.com/40-places-to-get-best-graphic-design/
Here are 40 different sites (that are supposed) to inspire you. Everything is covered from patterns, to icons, to ads.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/08/09/business-card-design-starter-kit-showcase-tutorials-templates/
This post has been out for a few weeks, but for whatever reason, I just now found it. I appreicate it because it included some business cards that I haven’t seen yet.
http://marnette.canalblog.com/
Here are some beautiful illustrations. I love her style. They remind me of some of the illustrations in my favorite children’s books when I was little.
http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/15-logos-with-hidden-messages
Some of these logos are older than others. But, the commentary on the new Facebook Place logo? There’s a 4 in the map. A bunch at FourSquare? definitely.
Judge me: I never saw the 31 in the new Baskin Robins logo until today. Brilliant.
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http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/17/wired-web-dead/
This is an interesting read. The post makes a good point, the Internet isn’t necessarily dead, it’s the former way of browsing and using the Internet that’s dead. —More and more, we’re using applications or watching video. It’s fascinating how stuff technology morphs and changes. Our concerns and interestes are different now than they were 10 years ago. — Check out the article from Smashing Magazine that I posted on Monday.
http://dvice.com/archives/2010/08/image-of-the-da-14.php
This post came through my Reader. The funny / awesome thing about this photo? I have a friend that was one of the 133!
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/wordpress/an-introduction-to-split-testing-in-wordpress/
I’ve been wanting to experiment with A/B Testing. —not that I want the crowd to dictate design for me, but I’d be interested to see what the data shows. I posted a bunch of UI links about a month ago, including A Complete Guide to UI Testing.
http://iconsweets.com/
I came across the icon set yesterday. I got a little excited, just because you can use this set commercial or non-commercially. (On the web that’s as free as free gets.)
http://www.meettheboss.tv/articles/?contributorFullName=adam-burns&mediaTitle=the-worlds-happiest&articleId=445
This post is a few weeks old. But, I do love the infographic. — I think the important take away here is if you’re thinking about moving, but don’t know where, strongly consider Denmark.
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Inspired, this morning, I made a banana, peanut butter, and egg sandwich. (The Elvis Sandwich also has bacon) It was so good!
http://blog.appboy.com/2010/07/7-lessons-app-developers-should-learn-from-flipboard/
I linked to Flipboard about a month ago on 5 at 5.. It’s a beautiful app that turns your Facebook and Twitter stream into a magazine.
As the title suggests, this post looks at lessons app developers should learn from Flipboard:
http://thinkvitamin.com/dev/does-anyone-want-normal-websites/
This post talks about how recently there’s been a shift in the type of web requests being made. People want more brochure sites, iPhone apps, and CMS integration. — This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone.
http://identityworks.com/tools/guidelines_and_standards_manuals.htm
This is a list of various companies and institutions style guidelines and standards. —It’s always interesting to flip through these. Includes a range, to name a few: FedEx, The Neilson Company, and UPS.
http://www.copyblogger.com/increase-influence-online/
This is a great list:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/08/11/the-future-of-the-internet/
This is an interesting discussion on freedom, security and the future.
I have grown to despise waiting, especially when I’m not in control, when what I do hinges on someone else. But, the things I have to keep reminding myself: there’s purpose in waiting. The journey is just part of the process. The journey is just as important, if not more so, than the destination. It’s the journey that prepares you for the end result. It’s the journey that makes you stronger, teaches you, and molds you into the person you will become.
We’ve become a microwave society, wanting instant gratification, wanting everything now. We get frustrated when we’re told to wait. — whether it’s waiting in traffic or waiting on God’s timing. We stomp our feet and complain, “Why is this happening to me?” We stomp our feet and shake our fists. We make it all about us and forget to say thank you for bringing us to this place. Thank you for this breath, this pause.
The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters,
he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your road and your staff they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
Thank you for what you’re teaching me in this season.
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My roommate is getting ready to move out.
One of my best friends at work is changing her career. Leaving Tennsee, moving to Texas.
One of my sisters has 1 semester left of college. She’s planning on moving to Kentucky within the next year.
My cousin is moving out next weekend to start college. The options seem endless.
Several other friends are wrapping up their masters. Others are going back to school.
Life is full of change.
I’m realizing more and more that I’m a Type-A personality. I hate admitting that because Type-A people have such a bad rap. I just like having plans. I like knowing where things are going. I’m decisive. Driven.
This season has been all about realizing that I’m not as in control as I think I am. I can plan all I want, but that doesn’t necesarrily mean my plans will come to fruition. So much of my life is effected by decisions other people make and I have no control over that. For better or worse.
I’m learning to let go. I’m learning not to fear, not to worry. Worrying isn’t going to make anything better, all it does is pile agony on myself. I’m the one that has to carry that burden. So why put it on? I have the power to choose.
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Like the set, I drew everything first in my moleskine, scanned it in, and then traced it on the computer, in Illustrator. I did this for a couple of reasons. First, I’m not as good at freehanding it on the computer. Second, (and more important) when you create things on the computer, they tend to look perfect, exact. Take a straight line, for example. I can draw the straightest line you’ve ever seen on the computer. Click and drag. Cake. Give me a pen (no ruler), I’ll draw a “straight” line. It will have waves. I couldn’t draw a truly straight line if my life depended on it. —part of the kid art direction this year celebrated those waves. It embraaced the jagged edges and crooked angles. It was easier for me to keep the integrity of those lines if I drew it by hand first.
I did a lot of visual research for this project. First off, if you’re not a graphic designer, you may giggle at the term “visual research.” I know when we throw it around at work, people snicker because it sounds like a fluff task, an excuse to play around online, but there is so much value there. When I went to a design conference at the beginning of June one of the things they talked about was your art collection, images of things (or the actual objects themseves) that inspired you, challenged you, things you admired. A big chunk of graphic design is being able to make connections with things that you’ve already seen.
So I googled pictures of chefs, trying to think of new poses I could put the characters in. See the sprinkling in the bottom left picture, look familar? Look at the drawing included above
I also spent a lot of time going through Flickr. There are several collections there where users have uploaded pictures of vintage cookbooks. — These proved invaluable.
The first thing I designed was the cover. It actually went through several variations before we finally landed on the one that went to print.
This one was never finalized. You can tell, I’m struggling with spacing with the logo and title of the book.
I made headway here, by moving the logo to the top. But, I’m still struggling with spacing with this cover.
This one is getting close. I haven’t added the circle around the logo and the CentriKid logo is at the bottom on the back cover.
Here’s the final.—Definitely the strongest option. It’s all part of the process.
Then, I began to lay out the copy. —and there was a ton of copy! That’s the thing about working for a publishing company, they their love copy.
In some cases, I could pull from the library of characters I had already created and design the page layouts with them in place. But, on other pages, I added the characters last. I printed out what I had already designed and overlaid tracing paper and drew the characters on the tracing paper to see if I could get the positioning and spacing right.
The thing that I loved about this project was I was able to interject some of my personality and hide some easter eggs.
When I was working on the copyright page, I was trying to figure out what to write. I couldn’t delete that page, we had to have it. So, I included “boring copyright information, the lawyers made us” — which is so true!
For the memory card cutouts page, I put “cut along the jagged line.” When, I was creating it, I thought “this sure is a jagged line more than a dotted line.” —So I used that.
A clean kitchen is a happy kitchen? Anyone?
The last few pages were reserved for notes. When, I was creating it, I thought, “How many kids are actually going to take notes? They will draw all over these pages.” So, I wrote “Notes or Doodles.” *Plus, I got to draw a pie in the face
If you look carefully in the bowl of alphabet soup, I hid my name.
I’ve already started working on next year’s theme, Shipwreck Island. In fact, yesterday, we finalized the logo. It should be a fun project too.
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/beyond_social_web_internet_of_things.php
This is an excellent read on the direction of the Internet, extremely insightful. There are a couple of excellent quotes in there worth chewing on:
It’s not how much content you consume that is important, it’s about what you do with data.
If I was an entrepreneur or developer, I wouldn’t be thinking about social anymore. I’d be thinking: How can I use all of this data and build on top of it?
http://www.danlockton.com/dwi/Main_Page
The site defines design with intent:
design that’s intended to influence or result in certain user behaviour.
The site has cards that can be downloaded for free or ordered to print. The 101 cards are divided into “8 lenses” or fields of research:
It’s pretty interesting.
http://52weeksofux.com/post/800723783/the-distance-between-maker-and-user
This is a good reminder of the importance of usability testing.
As the distance between the maker and user increases, so does the difficulty of designing a great user experience.
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/visible_narratives_understanding_visual_organization
This is an excellent article on how we visually organize information on the web. I really appreicate how they’ve applied standard design principles to information design.
http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/07/redesigning-the-new-york-city.html
The KickMap Designer talks about the design process of creating the New York Subway maps.
What do you think about these links?
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A year ago, last spring, Darrel (Creative Director) and I sat down to brainstorm the Kid art direction. We had already decided on a cooking motif, titled “Bon Appetit.” (For you CentriKid Trivia lovers out there, for a while it was going to be “Taste and See.” “Dig In” was another option, but we finally went with “Bon Appetit”).
Darrel had found an artist named Derek Yaniger that had a very distinct style.
This style is not unique to Derek, though. Jim Flora was an artist (1914-1998) known for his jazz and classical album covers. He also did children’s books and illustrated for magazines.
You can see the same feel in the Monsters, Inc title sequence.
We decided to stay within that same flavor (no pun intended).
I was one of those weird kids that always knew that I wanted to be an artist. Hey, I spent all my birthday money when I turned 10 on Disney’s Art of Animation, from Mickey Mouse to Beauty and the Beast. I would judge babysitters on their artistic ability. My favorite ones would sit and draw with me. My mom talked about how you could always entertain me at a resteraunt by giving me a pen and a piece of paper.
I believe that when God created us, he placed a part of himself in everyone. “Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness…” (Genesis 1:26) It’s the Imago Deo. We each have a diffrent piece and it’s only when everyone gets together that we should look even more like Him. My piece? I’m a creator, a builder. One of my favorite stories in the Bible is the creation story. Creating something out of nothing. But, it doesn’t end there. The entire Bible, our lives even, are all stories of God molding us and making us. The book of Isaiah talks about the potter and the clay. Jesus was a carpenter. Priscilla and Aquala, tent makers.
Can I do it? I think that’s every creative’s secret fear. Can I do it? Will my last idea be just that, my last idea. For me, it’s that insecurity, that “thorn” that forces me to literally pray everyday for inspiration, to ask the author of the universe to inspire me, grant me the ability to create something today.
I fear the well will one day run dry, but look at Jesus’ encounter with the woman at the well in John 4. “…whoever drinks the water I gve him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
So, like the boy with only five loaves and two fish, I ask God to multiply my efforts to the point where I have basketfuls left over.
The pieces that I work on that people enjoy and appreciate the most are the ones that I’ve prayed over the most. That’s not a coincidence.
So, just like any other project, I asked myself “Can I do this?” I wouldn’t categorize myself as an Illustrator. We were curious if we would need to hire a freelancer. I began to do some tests.
The blue lady was the first thing I drew. She actually made it to the Camper Devotional book, but I flipped her in the final piece.
The chef was my next attempt. He never made it.
The third and final charaacter test I did was a food critic. This character also made it into the camper devotional book, except in blue and sans wine bottle.
Last fall, I designed the CentriKid website. When we had designed the logo, a year ago, last spring, we determined our main color would be orange. When, I designed the site, Darrel and I decided that each section would have a different background color. I developed the other 3 colors based on the orange. —For the non graphic designers out there, that means that I needed to find colors that would compliment the orange. No clashing here!
Since we were really trying to reinforce the new CentriKid look, we decided to use the same colors with the theme. —And actually, we’re planning on allowing these colors to make another appearance next year with Shipwreck Island.
For the logo, I always knew I wanted the type to be in a script.
I began looking at different fonts online and hand letting different options.
I ended up pulling some of my favorite letters together and creating what eventually became Bon Appetit.
Then, it became the issue of adding the character. I started drawing different options. This was the first one.
But, we decided the man made the overall shape too tall. The work did not go wasted, though. He made an appearance inside the camper devotional book.
The next option was the one that we finally landed on. I think it’s a good case in point: never go with your first idea unless you’ve explored several other options. Nine times out of ten, your next idea will be better than the first.
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