nevsat logo stuff

i've been bouncing around WAY too many ideas for this. but this is what it is starting to boil down to. webiste will be NEVSAT.com and im just gonna go ahead and play out the "never satisfied" phrase. i decided to add spikes to the text in Never. i lean towards the one in the middle. but im torn between top and middle. feedback please?

lizzy loeb / chuck loeb ideas/inspirations

for lizzy i am wanting to do something experimenting with birds on telephone poles and comparing it to musical notes on a music sheet. not sure on a title for that yet though; but i just thought of her saying she wants to put off more time to write. so i think of the birds chilling on a telephone poll relaxing and then showing music notes in the lines would kind of represent finding ideas in new unexpected places. i havent quite figured out a good way to visually pull this off but im working on it and i've went about shooting photographs of phone poles trying to get some of my own visual stimuli. at first i was wanting to do something with photographs placed underneath line drawings but then i realized we weren't creating a cover for the album "drawing lines".

as for Chuck, i plan to use something with a compass i am thinking. I want to title it "viaje" which means "voyage" or "travelling" in Spanish. since that is what is currently taking place in his life right now i figured it would be a relevant route to take. i havent gotten to far with chucks part though. another idea for imagery is using bold typefaces, and having arial views of landscapes. as in google map satellite type of views. every time i go on google maps to look up where somewhere is i start getting carried away looking at the terrain of other countries wishing i could be there. but what is funny about looking at a city scape from a satellite view is it is hard to identify specific buildings. basically i was thinking about just writing chucks name in bold letters, and in "CHUCK" the fill would be an arial view of a rural area and "LOEB" could be a view of a city scape. maybe that could represent travelling all over the place in a way. kind of a simple solution i guess

AT billboard signage

the idea is utilizing rundown / abandoned buildings that are in high traffic areas around Atlanta's neighborhoods. Particularly focusing on locations where there has recently been a publicized crime that has taken place such as The Standard and the package store on moreland. as for the concept, its the same deal as the exterior of the building re-inforcing that look and campaign and using the phrase "be heard" to hint at what Atlantans Together is about without being too obvious.

it aint import, its inbred!

so, the idea came the other week when a friend of mine documented a KKK rally in southern GA the other week. we were laughing at how stupid rednecks are and what not and then i thought maybe i should do a beer package and call it "inbred brewing company" with the tagline "the simple man's brew". so initially i wanted to draw some toothless methadic looking white dude but i figured that was too obvious. so then i thought of all the stupid rednecks i have to be encountered by all the time when i go to see my girlfriend in Athens. "GO DAWGS MAYUN!!!" so then i thought of the imagery of two bulldogs humping.

i designed a (cheesy in my opinion) logo consisting of that. decided it wasn't the look i wanted to go for. started adding wheat leaves to it and all but just wasn't feeling it. i then started thinking about trying to make this appear to be a classy beer. so i thought of how in Victorian times upper class families practiced incest to keep their bloodlines pure so they could remain better than everyone else. so i re-drew the "dawgs", and applied it in a much more elegant manner. then i changed the name to "incestry" with the tag line "the gentlemen's brew" (thanks john). i personally like it; it sounds like ancestry but its something else.

i really want to print this on a shiny paper. i researched a little trying to figure out of there was a way to do a foil stamp for the gold parts. but it really seems like it would be too much trouble right now considering how much other stuff i have to work on.

any thoughts before i continue mocking this up?

Atlantans Together signage complete

outside - handpainted mural on the edge of the building; vinyl stickers on the glass doorway/windows

reception desk - hanging acrylic icon behind desk. acrylic band stretched accross outside of desk with "Atlantans Together" cut out

gallery / hallway - pictures documenting history of the company and hand painted letters in the corner. door signs made from plexiglass

ATLANTANS TOGETHER signage (in progress)

for the interior, i plan to have a plastic strip that stretches across the reception desk with the letters cut out of it. then, the icon would be a painted or large transfer on the wall. also, there will be picture frames hanging through out the space with black and white photographs of people exercising their right to protest.

as for the exterior. the letters up top will more than likely be metal 3D letters. Then main signage would be rapping around the corner of the walls to the right of the building. it would be a hand-painted mural showing silouettes of figures protesting. particularly people with their fists in the air; and in the forward ground there will be a big arm grasping the megaphone. i did a rough sketch of what it would look like.

aside from that, i plan to put the logo real small on the door, the address probably on the corner of the building or on the front glass doors as well, and then the store hours would be on the front glass doors. they would be stuck on with vinyl stickers.

ATLANTANS TOGETHER logo

still feel it needs tweaking but i tend to dwell on stuff too much. so im just going to go ahead and move forward