Logo Final

For this project, I was supposed to create a logo that represents my blog. My blog is about my journey to becoming an Athletic Director, so it only fit that I add a basketball. I was inspired by most sports teams and brands logos because in sports there is a tendency to make logos that are fairly basic and straight forward. My goal was to create one that was like this too. I began the design process by googling how to create a basketball within illustrator. I used the elliptical tool to create a shape of the ball, and then used the line tool and reshaped the lines to create the lines on the ball. Next, I used the text box creator to add my name and created it in a cool color and font.

After reviewing the comments that people left on my draft I decided to make a few changes. These included adding a gray background to really make the orange on the ball really pop. I also changed the color of my name to be red because this popped better then the initial blue color did. The final change that I made that I think made it look a lot better and more like a real logo was to warp the text on my name so that it would sort of wrap around the ball. This logo is special to me because it embodies my favorite thing on earth, being basketball. I feel that this logo really captures the purpose of my blog within it. My dream of being an Athletic Director is shown by the fact that I used a basketball. The fact that I am advertising myself instead of an actual company is the reason that I used my name on it. Overall I am very happy with the way that my logo turned out, and I can’t wait to use it on my website.