19 Anteater's Logo

For this project, I created a business called 19 Anteaters, and it's a family owned farm that breeds anteaters. For this project, we had to create a logo and record our progress. First, I tried just a simple logo that had a solid background and had the words 19 Anteaters tracing around the edges of the shape. It's much like what you see on the bottom on top of the letterhead, just without the name of the business. Eventually I tried creating outlines of different anteaters and replicated them to make them seem like they're dancing, and I thought that was a fun way to show our different anteaters, and that not all anteaters are boring animals that eat ants all day (but I guess that's what people assume from the name?). Finally, I love light rustic wood. So I searched an image and created a clipping mask with my original anteater, and tested out a few different fonts, and I got my logo! My peers agreed that it was in fact the best one I had created. Now that I've decided on my logo, my teacher assigned to put your logo on different types of objects such as storefronts, business cards, letterheads, a phone app, an envelope, and a billboard. I got to use different forms of my logo and put them on all of the different types of objects, even though I may use my wooden logo for my website.

Steal Like an Artist Review

If you look to the right, I stole that picture. It's not mine, I didn't make it, and I sure didn't check the "free to use for use" setting on Google, so therefore I stole that picture. After reading the first chapter of Austin Kleon's Steal Like an Artist I learned that being a designer was more then just being creative. Kleon went over the fact that nothing is original, and everything you make is just stolen from someone else. There was a quote I really liked in the book, "What is originality? Undetected plagiarism" -William Inge. I feel like this quote summarizes this chapter very well, considering it's everything from genetics to always reading. Kleon also stated to always carry a pen and paper with it, because you never know what you'll see. I get a creative block quite a lot, so I feel like this tool would be handy considering I could just pull out my paper and see what creative ideas I might've gotten in the past. Overall, I will use the strategies in this book for all my future projects (If you click the image, you can buy me this book for Christmas!! :)))))

Project Proposal

Mineral: Ruby
Animal: Anteater
Letters: A, F
Number: 19

For my company name, I came up with "19 Anteaters", which is a family owned farm that breeds anteaters, which is located on Ruby and Farner. This is targeted toward families or other farmers looking to purchase anteaters. Our anteaters are fed the best source of protein, Science Diet. It helps reduce fleas as well as allergies, to help keep your future anteater