A logo identity for yacht designer Oliver Stacey. The brief was to design an identity that was clean, simple and fitting with the industry. The final idea of combining Oliver’s initials was inspired by the flowing and balanced lines that appear in his own boat designs. The identity elements can be repositioned into a number … Read More
Branding & Logos
Betty Boyns / Logo design
Betty Boyns specialises in vintage and retro inspired images, producing wrapping paper, fabrics and other homeware products. The logo brief was to have a vintage feel that reflected the name behind the business and for this I decided to use a photographic element. The image of Betty taken in the 40’s had such a great … Read More
ARLA / Logo
Logo design for kitchen and bathroom designers ARLA Design. The brief was very open apart from a modern clean feel. I used a font called DIN as the basis for the wording and then set about modifying it. I wanted the letters sit next to one another without any jarring angles. By cutting away the … Read More
Sevens / Logo
I was asked to design a logo for a new rugby event being held in 2010. I wanted the logo to feel solid and chunky to reflect the nature of the game. I replaced the ‘v’ of seven with the character 7 which allowed me to cut across the rugby ball leaving a negative shape … Read More
St Ives Memory Bay / Logo
SIMB was a new project and Carta was asked to design and construct their website. In the process I also undertook the design of their logo. The project is based on people talking and recording their memories of the artist of St Ives. The speech icons in the logo are divided into three colours, each … Read More
Xpression / Logo
Xpression Event Solutions Ltd, came to Carta do design their corporate identity. They wanted an icon that was strong and bold and could work in a multitude of mediums. From livery branding to shirt embroidered logos. The square element depicts a box opening with each triangular flap forming an arrow pointing inwards to form an … Read More
Audio Journal / Logo
I was asked to devise this logo for a blog page header. As the author writes about music he wanted to use a headphone jack somehow within the design but left the rest for me to play with. When I put the two words together, without the space between, I noticed the two ‘o’s and … Read More