I've been contemplating putting together my own little food and travel blog (for us post-college folks who don't quite have the budget to eat at the places that get written up in the LA Times) for a while now. About 6 months ago I FINALLY got the gumption to start planning and putting it together.
As much as I would like to pay the geniuses ( the dynamic duo of Helen and Janice) at The Think Farm to make my whole site, at this beginning phase I figured it was best to start out with something basic that I could drop into a standard blog template. So I asked about a logo. I wanted something to make my blog stand out--and something that was uniquely mine.
Helen and Janice treated me with such kindness and patience. I've never worked on a logo before and had no idea how hard it would be to communicate the feelings/ideas/color schemes that I had in mind. And as I rambled on and described a bunch of contrasting ideas, somehow Janice found a way to make sense of it all. To figure out the most important elements for me and how to visually represent that. I couldn't even make sense of it all! I just kept getting more and more confused! Gratefully, Janice and Helen always helped me find the focus. To create a logo that is simple and universal. Something that will work with a number of different layouts in case I decide to change the template or layout later.
I worked mostly with Janice (though there was also lots of input from Helen along the way) on the actual design. She was great at suggesting ways for me to explain to her what I wanted. She suggested sending a list of adjectives that I wanted to describe my website, or links to other websites I liked.
The end result is perfect! It's fun and colorful without being cartoonish. I even have a few cute little icons that they made for me to use on the tabs of the different pages of my blog. I can't WAIT to get it all up and running. I just hope the site does justice to the lovely logo they created!
Call The Think Farm for any job , large or small! They will treat you with the utmost professionalism and care. There are many graphic and web designers out there, but I have yet to find any design studio with the ability to articulate themselves and every step of the process as well as Helen and Janice did. Creativity and communication together?
I'll take it! read more