My New Project - Expedition Bureau
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- mg33
http://www.expeditionbureau.com/…
I've been working on this project for a couple months, and really excited to get the site fully up and running within the next month and put out the first issue. Some of you will hopefully see yourselves in here. :)
FYI, that's using the Colfax font from Process Type Foundry that duckseason posted here: http://www.qbn.com/topics/678761…
- ideaist0
I'd tie your E, B & Flag in a bit better to the weight of EXPEDITION BUREAU or vice versa; perhaps simply a lighter weight of Gotham or whatever it is brother!
Way to get something personal going; you're bringing it, not singing it!
Godspeed mg33...
- 23kon0
sounds interesting.
look forward to seeing this launch
- mg330
Thanks Ideaist. Originally I was trying to do something that looked like an old camp pennant, such as this:
I do have flag logo image that does use the Bold version of the font, with smaller text. I've considered switching to that so might think about it a bit more.At a small size the thin weight does get a little thin.
- albums0
If you're going to do a pennant, the text should be inside it, distorted to fit the triangle.
You might consider distorting the EB in this manner. Maybe adding a contrast color to the left edge.
With the name over the EB pennant, it seems top heavy, I believe it should be below.
Bureau gets lost on the black background.
I would try making the stroke width the same for the logo and name when they are paired together if you are going to continue down the pennant outline path.
You might try making the pennants different colors instead of outlines, then experimenting with color combinations of EB or just knockout the text showing the background color.
- mg330
Thanks albums. The pennant approach was my original idea, and i did a few sketches but it just didn't look the way I wanted to after working with it in Illustrator and PS. So, started to think of it more like a nautical symbol, or some kind of wayfinding symbol.
I'd actually go with the image posted in my first post as the banner image (with updates to the triangular logo) however, I don't like seeing Expedition Bureau right-aligned, but the combo of text and logo left aligned on the page. It's just the way my mind works I guess; I don't like the empty space in front of Bureau. Believe me, I've obsessed over it plenty.
- albums0
- Jesus dude... you're a machine.mg33
- :)albums
- I'm with you though, the more I pushed the distorted pennant, it wasn't working.albums
- Yeah, I came to realize that good old ones were all hand made.mg33
- exactly, it was going to take more time than skewingalbums
- The second one in the series takes it. Stays simple and true to the original concept.Arvizu
- mg330
- albums0
- Spent too much $ on Colfax to deviate. :)mg33
- was kidding, an Eddie Bauer knockoff. http://www.shopherit…albums
- Ha - I thought that was Eddie Bauer.mg33
- utopian0
- You know what sucks? An X of sorts doesn't look that bad, but indeed too trendy.mg33
- lol, vintage that mother fucker!Hombre_Lobo
- oey0
damn! you guys are on fire!
E aligned with B...nice!albums, you must shit design man!
fuck!
- mg330
albums,
How does something like this feel? Just a quick, rough example.
I want the overal logo/name to have something that draws a connection to an expedition (hence the triangle / flag) or photography from around the world, and that made me think of a globe, then a wireframe globe. I'm actually going to be using a mapping plugin to track locations; not that that necessarily creates a connection between the two. The globe sort of has a connection to Bureau when I think of old news organizations from the 50s, 60s.