NAME BADGE

Name badge development.

After my name badge research I decided to experiment with a few idea's until I created something I liked, In the end I chose to create a name badge and sticker as I couldn't decide upon two of my designs and would receive feedback from my partner on which one he preferred.

Firstly I began experimenting with the weight and spacing of the font before applying any of my patterns to see which one would be more effective. I decided to use the second image as it was consistent with my original type and I wanted the designs to flow consistently.

One of my first design idea's I wanted to experiment with a star burst, I did a rough outline of one using a paint brush and added a face within the text like in my original font, but due to it being a name badge I just chose the sketch of Jasper and coloured it in to add life, thus making it more personal. I thought the badge looked a bit plain so I then went to experiment with colour and more defined shapes.

For my second idea I chose to experiment with colour and stock photo's to make it more bright and fit in with the comic book genre more. I came up with this design but thought it was over powering the typeface and also the colours didn't match up to my partners likes. I also thought the style was rather tacky and cheap looking.


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I then experimented with another stock photo I found through my research and like how it framed the text and image, however I still thought it distracted from the typography and I wanted to stay true to my own design instead of borrowing someone else's so I kept this as a second option and created it into a name sticker.

I then decided to go back a revisit my original design that was on my typography and added a little bit of colour into the design.

I then used a layer mask and placed it over the text but on a bigger scale, I chose to use this design as the final for my name badge as I thought it was the most effective, went well with the overall typography and was my own design.