My Band Logo

I wanted my band logo to be simple and easy to put on clothes, posters, CD's, merchandise etc. It needed to be slightly 'girly' since Fall Out Girl, is a girl's band. My main ideas were...

• F.O.G [Fall Out Girl must be somewhere on the logo]


• A Symbol of some sort


• Colours: greens, light pinks, reds, greys?


• Attractive


• Simple, simple, simple - hardly any detailed areas.

On Xara i then came up with this logo:

The logo is on a half transparent background, so that the writing and symbol could easily be seen. I used grey since i didn't want to draw too much attention to the background.

F.O.G is pink, so there girly effect is shown but the text brings some masculinity :)

The logo, is a logo i draw a lot and i sketched it on Xara and looked really plain. So i contoured it too make it thicker, which makes a big difference. The only problem is the small, purple dots since that is a detail that may be hard to make on clothes.

I am overall very happy with my logo, and meets most of my specifications!

Record Label

I wanted my record label to be really hip and cool.

So, i started looking at record labels and their logo's

There are major record labels, and you can tell from all of them that their logos are simple, and really stress the record label name; like in the middle picture - EMI

I wanted something more though, and as i was searching through record label logos, band logos etc I came across the Rolling Stones signature logo. The mouth, with the tongue sticking out.

I love this idea, and i then created on Xara Xtreme, lips which then i contoured to make a slight 3D effect. I wrote on it with two different fonts - 'SMOOCH Records.'

I think my record label is perfect because it sounds funky and a little but girly which is great since my CD Cover is aimed towards girls/woman.

If i could further develop my logo, i would love to add in more minor detalks to make the lips look as though they are pouting.

Creating my CD Cover

I have been studying a lot of tutorials for using photoshop, and i think i have a good feeling of a range of different tools.

I looked at different CD Covers from bands and realised that the cover can be simple and still look great.

I tried making different sections of my picture black and different sections in full colour, however this effect didn't suit my CD cover Background.

-- Girls Aloud 'Biology' CD Cover --

A lot of my tutorials came from this website > http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials.html

It was extreamely helpful since i could experiment with a huge range of effects.

I loved going into Filter, and seeing all the cool effects we could do to our picture.

http://www.sxc.hu/ is a website i used to get a background for my cd cover. I at first chose a picture of a 'Polaroid picture', however when i brought it into photoshop, it would not allow me to crop it or resize it. So i instantly went back to sxc.hu and got an even better picture. The picture had two tones of colour, so i used the orange/red version for the front, and the black and white one for the back.

I wanted to make my band photo black, like they do in iPod Adverts which i watched for some ideas. I then came to this website

http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/jennifer/ipod.html

which tells me how, however the first thing it says is that you should have a good silhouette, and my picture didn't have a very good silhouette. I forgot about that idea, but i defenitely will keep it in mind for future projects.