This is an illustration that my good friend and brilliant illustrator Matt did for me, you can check out more of his work here. Matt has come up with his own Henry Hoover character which he then makes it look like a celebrity or a comic book character etc. (I'm guessing you get the idea). I asked Matt if he would design me a 'John Lennon Sucka' because I'm a massive fan of The Beatles and John Lennon. As you can see he did an amazing job, so check out his blog and request a 'Sucka' for yourself.
This is a logo that I designed for a local painter and decorator about two years ago in my final year of University. The logo was actually part of a live brief that our tutor set us, we basically had about two hours to produce a logo, business card and van graphics. The winning design would win £100 and have a nice piece of work to put in their portfolio, luckily my design won so I was absolutely chuffed to bits. The idea behind the logo was to keep it simple but to also make it look classy and professional. I chose to use a serif font for the decorators name because I thought it looked quite classy and I chose a sans serif for the painting and decorating part because I thought it looked clean and professional. I put the blue stroke in there firstly to separate the words and secondly I chose blue because I see it as a safe, clean and reliable colour and lets face it nobody wants a messy and unreliable painter and decorator working for them do they! I thought that this was a very valuable project for us to work on because it kind of gave us a glimpse into the kind of pressures and deadlines that we would be working under after we had graduated. I will post images of the business card and van graphics at a later date when I get some good quality photos of them.
