Follow Up - Futuristic Organic Button

I was at the library the other day when an idea struck me involving the already made organic styled futuristic button. I quickly drew it down in my sketchbook, which I had bought along to take notes.

Design Process
There's not much for this one.

I worked off the rough sketch, which featured different energy sources all grouped around the futuristic "power" button. My end product was pretty satisfying, which is below here.

Logo Concept - Sync

I drew up a logo concept for "Sync" in December last year, but I never got around to making it. So here I am, bored over the summer break, and hey, why not work on all those logo concepts lying around in my sketchbook? Here's my second one I've worked on during the summer break, which has been a lot more busier than I've expected.

The Design Process
Let's start with the small thumbnail sketch a jotted down. It wasn't much to work with, being a bit more than 4 cm across, but it was sufficient enough to scan into my computer and to work from there.

After scanning it into my computer, I made the logo shapes on Illustrator, and the text font in Flash. I then transferred both into Photoshop. Not being able to decide on a good colour palette, I consulted Kuler and my own experimentations with colour styles in the past. What I ended up with was a multitude of different versions, shown below here.

After talking with my friends and having them look over it, I finalized the colour palettes down to these two:

With further experimentation, and a friend who pointed out that sleek designs with plenty of curves looked good on the cooler end of the spectrum, I chose the lower one out of my finalized two. I did so somewhat reluctantly, as I felt that I've made too many logos with a cooler palette of colours than I have made warm, but looking back, I've made logos with all different sorts of colours, just that my main Notitia logo seemed to have the biggest influence on my thoughts. My doubts assuaged, I continued onto the next step, which was just a small makeover to pretty up my logo design, which, as fine as it looked, was still pretty simple. After 45 minutes or so with tinkering around on Photoshop I ended up with what you see below.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it!

Discrepancies with Ford
Now I understand that many of you are aware that Ford has included a Sync system software in all their new cars, in cooperation with Microsoft. However, I'd like to point out that I made my logo and name completely separately without the knowledge of the fact that Ford had already patented official software under the same name. It was not until I was looking for colour palettes that I realized this flaw. This is merely a disclaimer showing the fact that I did not intend to copy their trademark.

Innovation Project

For a recent history project, my teacher assigned us a project to improve people's lives in the time frame of 1890 - 1910. We could do this in the form of an invention, whether it be a technological invention, or inventing a new law or social system. I chose to do a technological invention, this being solving the fires that happened on steamships such as the Mackinaw in 1890.

Here is a brief diagram of my invention.

Warning: If you do not want to read through my following brief technical explanation, this post ends here.

The steam engine now does not only supply power for the transport system but help as a fire retardant device. Its pistons will power a pump at the bottom of the ship, diverting water to a main water tank. This in turn distributes water to a pump system which permeates throughout the ship, leading the water to essential hotspots, such as on the deck, near the crew quarters, and by the steam engine itself.

Logo Concept - Arcani

My friend opened a conversation with me recently, asking for a logo concept. I gladly accepted, what else can I do when I'm not doing my homework, right?

After a couple minutes pouting over ideas, he gave me a rough concept of a logo idea:

It soon went from that to this:

And then this:

And finally, after 30 minutes of tweaking the font and logo around, I came up with the final design:

Arcani. Break free. That's its motto. Pretty dang awesome if you ask me.

Logo Concept - Teturia

A friend of mine showed me a rough sketch for a logo idea today. I did a few changes here and there, and my end result is shown here. Props to him for coming up with this in the first place.

March Break Concept

Now, I know this is a little late, but here's a concept for a "March Break" design I drew in Literacy class. I would have elaborated on it further during the actual break if I was bogged down with math homework though. Enjoy!

Manhatta

Recently I have been assigned a Geography project from my good-natured homeroom teacher. The project was centred around settlement design, and like every Gifted student I decided to go overboard with the requirements and model an entire city on my computer. This new city will be called Manhatta, and it will be built where Manhattan island currently is. The term "Manhatta" come from the ancient Lenape name for the island, before the British came along and plopped an "n" at the end of it.

Here are a few renders of the entire city. A few glitches were encountered during the rendering process, rendering everything to completely white, but the end result is still very satisfying.

A few more colour renders will follow this post detialing Manhatta's landmarks.

Video Game Design

A while back, a friend and I came up with an idea for a video game called "Fracture". We completed sketches and designs and all, but of course, it never reached past early design stages. Here are a couple of HUD  (Heads Up Display) samples as well as a planned out logo: