Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Leeds Met Snowsports, Hoody

After talking to the committee members we came to the decision of having a purple hoody with a black&white colour designs, this all dependent on the cost of colours however. 
So i went and firstly changed the colours of the design and then played with the layout of the logo and the type on the hoody itself, 






Here playing around with both the logo and type on the front together till the later two where i have put one on back and one on front. Out of the above i prefer the top left and middle right, with t shirts and hoodys in general i like designs which climb up the body, and the other i like as its nice and simple, easy to read and follow!



These designs above show 3 different layouts, of the front and back of the hoody. I dont have a fave out of them, however i think the type on the back vertically and the logo on the front left breast would be lovely jublee! This again needing the feedback and opinions of the rest of the committee.


 

Leeds Met Snowsports, Logo&Typeface

Leeds Met Snowsports, Website


One of the veterans of Leeds met snowsports is a qualified web designer and out of the kindness of his heart created a page for us, not fully made yet but this is a draft version of the website. 
He took my typeface and colour scheme design and made this beauty!
i love it!
The website itself is here!
Also the website contains the promo video for the club which was created by another committee member, again using my typeface and colour scheme. 


Leeds Met Snowsports, logo



Here taking the logo design, deciding that the /'s look best like so, and then using the same colour scheme as the typeface as to coincide with one another!
It was at this point after showing all my designs to the rest of the committee that i was told i couldnt use rose as the third image due to the uni basically not allowing it, boo! 
Nevermind, after a brief second i thought, well its a bit cliche but a snowflake? 

I think it looks pretty good! Thankfully the committee agreed!
One thing that i knew all along was that i would not be able to use the CMYK colour scheme for the hoody's due to the cost of printing several colours, so i now have to go away and decide with the committee the colour scheme for next years hoody. 

Leeds Met Snowsports, logo

So moving onto the logo, again no real initial ideas, i wasnt sure what people would want or prefer, something that covered a lot of the hoody, or something small that again could be versatile in terms of where it goes and what it is used for. 
Bit of time later i came up with an idea of a l
ittle logo that would go with and compliment the typeface, in my mind it was 3 /'s with each one having a certain image inside, one being a snowboarder, the other a skier and with a bit more thought the 3rd would have the image of the Leeds Met logo, which is a rose. 
Initial Designs:


I found a bit of difficulty with how to place the 3 /'s  and as of yet am not satisfied with the current layouts, however i am quite fond of the 3 images and how the /'s break to form them. 
As of now, a work in progress.  

Leeds Met Snowsports

Earlier this year i managed to hustle my way onto the committee of Leeds Met Snowsports for the year 09/10. One of the aims of this new committee is to drastically expand the club attracting more people from the uni to join, competing for us across the UK and Europe but more importantly getting super silly smashed with us! 
Anyway every year the club has a huge order of designed hoody's made, which we then sell on to the memebers, now being a cheeky designer myself i volunteered to design the hoodys. These consisting of the type, 'Leeds Met Sn
owsports' and a designed logo/pattern. 

The first thing i chose to do was to play around with the title of Leeds Met Snowsports. I didnt have any real initial design ideas but i knew i wanted it to be versatile and something that could be used not only for the hoody's but for a website, flyers, t-shirts, leaflets and any promo stuff. 

 

Excuse the cliche use of Helvetica Neue and CMYK colour scheme, but its just a quick and easy way to make initial ideas look better, then again it will be for commercial use and is targeted at students, and students love CMYK! fact. 
With the layout of the words atm my fave is the leeds met on top and snowsports on bottom and for just for fun putting my own little thing in there with the 3 /'s. 
I was torn after this between the standard helvetica and the bottom typeface, Birth of a Hero.
What i liked about the bottom typeface was the faded, rough edges throughout, so i tried to create that with the Helvetica. 

There it is sportsfans, cheeky bit of splatter, looks a bit like snow no? I was happy with it and although it didnt take long i think i might keep it as the feedback i got from the other committee members was all positive!