Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Designing for BDS

It was great to create a brand for BDS. They needed a color scheme and a logo and a look and a lot of stuff.

We chose brown for their main color because it was rich, earthy and tied into the color scheme of their parent site (mygurusystem.com). Bright blue represents power and business, to me. The bright blue and Chocolate brown sensation is
one of my very favorites.

Recently I have been trying to stray away from doing so many initial logos; like if your company is called "Tony's Truck Land", it's logo would be like a big TTL, etc. I have been trying to stay away from those because they are just so common, but BDS just screamed out at me - "HEY! DO THE INITIALS!" so I had to obey the voices in my mind. The stack of papers represents the point of the business, which is to duplicate what you have already made, and make it work for you. I strove to find a simple way to represent the word "duplicate".

My favorite aspect, however is the plus signs. That type of simple cross symbol really draws the eye, and the electric blue helps out as well. The symbol is a plus sign, representing duplication (addition) of your work. The plus sign signifies the ability to make a copy of somthing as if you were living inside of some software.

Monday, September 20, 2010

SANDY'S KITCHEN WEBSITE COMPLETE!


Finally our creation is alive! Go and check it out at http://www.sandyskitchen.net
give us feed back by letting us know what you think. You can write on our facebook wall or email us at info@vadastudio.com

This was a great project because it involved giving an existing brand and website a facelift . . . wait no more like TOTAL BODY RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY. Starting from the ground up we wanted to give Sandy's Kitchen a friendly personal feel, that was not too stuffy and corporate. We wanted to walk the line between homey & approachable but professional and high end. We accomplished this by using a softer color palate, that was mild to digest and easy to look at - but very vibrant and fun.

It was wonderful to give this site to Sandy and her Catering business, because her food and her services are awesome, and her old website was not really portraying that. Her new website, in our opinion, more accurately represents how professional she really is!

On this project we collaborated with a new friend. A photographer named Meredith Rodgers did most of the shots in the site. Her photography added a vibrance and life to the pages. We look forward to working with her more in the future. Her photography is SWEET!

More to come from VADA creative studio. Stay updated.

Friday, September 17, 2010

TO DO LIFE

The best problem I can have as a designer is to have too much to do! That is about 300% better than having not enough to do!

This month of september, our studio has been swamped (in the most positive sense possible) with exciting and new projects to do! We are currently pumping out:
1. Sandy's Kitchen's Catering Site
2. Animated banner for LendingWebsites.com
3. Website for Awkward Robot Design
4. Concept for Play Theory Web and Branding
5. Add campaign for BYU Chinese Flagship Program
6. Music for Traveling Books
7. Branding for Business Duplicator
8. Web and Branding for Chance Carter "The Last Desperado"
9. Poster for Sigma Phi Delta
10. Shapes Places and Spaces art installation
11. Racica Branding and Web design

Anyways I am sure that the list goes on! But it is exciting to have so much to do! VADA forever!