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Critical Analysis of Sports Logo

The Brief:

The brief was to create a logo for a sports team of our choice. The logo had to have a reference of our Ancient Greek God of mythical creature we were assigned earlier in the semester. The logo also had to represent the sport that we had chosen.

Chosen Sport:

The sport that I had chosen was a Japanese novelty sport "Beetle Battles". The reason why i chose this sport was because of a Beetle called a Hercules beetle. I thought it would of been a good concept and motif because both of the sport and theme combined share a good relationship. I thought the sport would relate very well to the theme because of the relationship that they had with Greek God Hercules. The name Hercules is what connected the sport and the God. I chose the sport by after googling the name Hercules in images, then finding and image of a beetle. Then after remembering that there is a Japanese novelty sport called Beetle Battles. But it seemed like the most relative sport to choose because it the name hercules seemed like it wouldn't relate to many sports. Hercules is a strong fierce, strong, masculine name so it wouldn't really suit a sport like racing because it doesn't involve pure strength. Also there aren't many pure strength sports unlike weight lifting but the name Hercules did really suit the sport.

Logo:

The colours that i chose for the logo is so far black and white since it shows most contrast. The name chosen for the logo is aggressive armor, it relates to the sport and Hercules the most. It relates by the beetles having a strong coat of armor because they have exoskeletons, as well as Hercules had a coat of armor from a beat that he skinned. The font that will be chosen will be a strong impactive, bold font which will suit the the masculine style of the theme. It will be also italic to make the sport look extreme and tough.

Sport Logo Critique.

Below in my last blog i uploaded 3 logo concepts for my Japanese Novelty sport Beetle Battle.

The name for my sports team is called the Aggressive Armor. The name originated from my Greek hero, Hercules, and from the stories that had been written about him there was a story about him defeating a wild feral Lion. The lions skin was apparently un-penetrable, so hercules then striped it from the beast and used it's skin as armor. I also chose the sport beetle battle because it was a very un-popular sport and chose to give it a bit of spot light. As well there is such thing as a Hercules beetle so i thought what a great combo. So below in the previous blog you will see my three logos.

The first logo is a black and white shield logo. I portrayed as the top view of a beetle as the shield and then tried to incorporate the face or facial features of Hercule's beast on the beetle. I didn't know what to do with the type, so I just had it wrapped around in a scroll going across the imagery and then had the left over text curve at the bottom.

The second logo i had used the same imagery as the first concept, but had added colour to it. i used an orange from the colour of the wild beast that hercules strangled, incorporating the fur from the beast. The brown colour comes from the club that Hercules roamed around with, the club symbolizes power, might, and strength. As for the type I wrapped it around the imagery to show it more as a shield like logo.

The third logo was trying incorporate all f the elements, so Hercules, the Beast and even beetles. I used Hercules beetle silhouettes as shoulder pads for the armor. I tried to incorporate hercules by having his beard noticeable. For the helmut I incorporated the Beast as the helmet. I wasn't too sure how I was going to lay out the text, but it would probably be underneath or on top with a impactive, strong bold font.

My Team Logo

These are my 3 concepts for the Aggressive Armor.

These are both backwards and my sport is the Spontaneous Japanese Beetle Battles.

Trends and Designers

Trends for 2010

remaking movies
black framed glasses
nerdy look
80's fashion style
textured stadiums
EXPENSIVE BRANDS
Dancing showssinging contests
PixelsPop artStreet art

Geometric shapes.

Typography:

Typography is the art and process of setting and arranging types and printi

ng from them. You can arrange type and letters to arrange to form a piece of work which display the principals and elements of design. Type can also been used just as type for a magazine or poster lay out, thats used for body copy. Type can be manipulated in many ways just by using normal tec

hniques like tracking, leading, point size etc. Or it can manipulated in illustrator by creating outlines and manipulating each individual letter. You can also out line the in

dividual letter or stretch it which can make some fantastic effects.

One artist who uses this theme is the New Zealand designer Dean Poole. He had used type to design an identity for these lawyers. The identity is just basically the font helvetica and then further on in the

identity they only use and RGB colour scheme with the letters. I like the thought that just having something real basic can display and make such an impact and be that recognizable, which makes it successful.

Another artist who uses typography is a Melbournian Typographer Wayne Thompson. What Wayne does is that he creates type font families. He creates a few of his families by them just starting off as hand written. Then he scans them in, re traces them

and inks it in so they are all structured. Then he scans them in again an the further manipulates them in illustrator after live tracing them. Then has to kern then and then they get created into a proper font.

Illustration/ hand drawn:

Ghost Patrol: Ghost patrol is a Melbournian artist whose style is very individual, noticeable

and really raw. his motifs are mainly about little characters that he creates which are infused

with animals and his own imagination and creativity. He artwork nearly portrays scenes of fairy tale or children's stories by the way he displays his characters interacting with animals. His style and message of his work also mean that the tools of art can be his canvas of work. as he uses pencils as a canvas. Ghost patrol uses pencil, ink, screen printing, markers and paint as his media for his artwork.

Stuart Campbel

l is an Tasmanian born artist who used to produce interactive programs for the Australian Army Defense. But now creates an online interactive comic, using nothing but his own drawings, talent and skill. Stuart's online comic is called Nawlz where it is a city created by him which is extremely futuristic and really out there. All of the art in Nawlz are Stuart's own illustrations and ideas and work. His illustration style is close to realistic with a hint of abnormality. The like are very wavey and streaky to create movement.

Concept Evaluation:

Robyn Beeche was a Sydney born Photographer who moved to London. Her concepts and techniques of taking photos are unique and are still are mesmerizing today.

Her concept was mainly taking photos of portraits. She had different themes to her work, such and Fantasy, Egyptian, Traveling, 80's, Fashion, Shapes, Geometry, Shadows, Arrows, Geishas and much more. Everything that you see or notice in every picture of hers, was every element was one the model and nothing was ever computer enhanced. They couldn't computer enhance any thing because they didn't have that type of technology back then. When you see her photos you can't believe that they were taken exactly taken in the way its presented. all of the models, props and background were all placed in that arranged position, which were captured as photos.

For example, with the photo straight below, its was taken with the shadows painted on the model. They then later got a got two doubles of the photo then placed them one in front of the other. All the make up was done by a professional artist and friend of hers.

In my opinion I believed she was a successful artist with the amount of photos that she had taken, as well as she started off as a small photographer. Then got renowned to take such magnificent photos, just by her techniques and arrangement of objects that she used and had.

Aboriginal motifs

Functions and Philosophies:

Respect:
Are the rights belonging to indigenous people that’s own and control. This covers Indigenous images, designs, stories and other cultural expressions that should be respected. This means Indigenous art can be shown everywhere and there is no rascism or direpected or no reason for allowing Indigenous art to be produced or exhibitioned.
>Acknowledgment of country

> Aboriginals and Torres Straight Islanders are the original inhabiters of this country which gives them more priority to respect their culture, rituals, art and society.

>Public art acknowledging land. For an Indigenous artist, if they were commissioned to produce art for a government project, they would have to seek approval by the Indigenous community and elders to produce work and ask if they can display their art it public.

Interpretation, integrity and authentication:

>Aboriginals believe that they should have more power and control of what cultural art goes on display for the public.

>Interpretation refers to how cultural information and art is displayed. It means that the Aboriginal community rather respond and inform how at or cultural material should be traditionally spoken about. Rather than have an outsider send the wrong message and interoperate wrong information.

>Integrity refers to the treatment of all the original work, how it it used. Work cannot be tampered, cut, edited, reused, adapting or even enhancing.

> Authentication refers to who produced the art, as in was it a true Aboriginal artist or someone else. Its raises many issues on which art can be displayed. The Artworks and materials can only be displayed if it is issued and authenticated by an Aboriginal elder and if the artist is Indigenous them self. Otherwise it would be massively produced by foreigners and be forging unauthentic art.

Moral Rights and Issues:

> If any material is offensive, should be used.

>Ask Indigenous elders for permission of use and colours to be used.

>Make sure you have a good lawyer just incase and get your logo registered asap.

>Does the work contain anything that has be used for created before?

>Is the work intended for a specific gender.

Bibliography:

Protocols for producing Indigenous Australian visual arts

Australian Council 2007

Native American Motifs

Image provided by:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Washington_Redskins_logo.svg
Washington Redskins

The Washington Redskins is the logo and mascot for the NFL team in America.

(Talking about the main logo from the top) The logo is of a circular enclosed logo with the Native American side profile in the middle. The logo consists of the elements shape, colour, line, texture.

http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=168

To break this logo down the main element is shape, how the logo is enclosed by a golden/yellow circle which captures the native American in the middle. Second element is colour how they used the golden/yellow on the circle and use of the feather. i guess they used yellow since it was one of the first colours that native americans discovered. As well as the Maroon/brown which is depicting the colour of the skin of native American. Also they used black for the use of the outline of the mascot and the colour of the hair. They Used line to actually create texture for the logo. The way that they used that is by breaking the lines taking very sharp corners giving the texture of the feather.

http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=168

The concept behind the logo is that it very tribal team by having a native american as the mascot as well as having the feathers on the left side coming off the circle. It also depicts that when they verse another team they should be considered the enemy and as a threat to other teams for when they play.

http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=168

I believe that it this pretty nice logo compared to the other cultural american team logos. This shows respect to native americans how they dont depict them as a cartoony animated mascot like the Cleveland Indians, which looks demeaning.

Bibliography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Redskins

Melbourne Spots Museum Critiques

The Olympic Rings
The Olympic are five colours which are red, yellow, blue, green and black. The design of the Olympic rings was designed by Pierre de Coubertin who said of the colours when combined with the white background of the flag; "These five rings represent the five parts of the world now won over by Olympism. . . the colours thus combined represented those of all nation with no exceptions. This is a real international emblem". The Olympic rings is to said that at-least one out of the 6 colours is to be in every countries flag. The first time the flag was flown was at the Antwerp Olympic games in 1920. Flag was emblem was created in 1913.

The flag consists of five rings, which are made up of 5 round lines which create circles. The rings over lap and link up to create form. The Emblem is also a structured in a structured way how all the elements are placed in the middle, making the rings the focal point. The colour of the flag are effective because they are bright and strong and all are link together with a right amount of space which captures the audience attention.

If there had to be any style about the emblem i reckon it could be De Stijl. Reason behind this is that it is a very structured design and includes all the primary colours + black and green.

I believe the motif behind this design in unity, by the logo represent the colours as the parts of the world all linked up together and being a community.

I also reckon its a strong and effective logo because it represents the world in the one flag. It also is globally recognized by everyone and hanst been changed since 1913.

Bibliography:http://www.janecky.com/olympics/rings.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_symbols
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_do_the_five_rings_on_the_Olympics_emblem_stand_for

The sydney 2000 olympics games logo, also known as the millennium athlete, depicts the portrayal of an athlete running with a touch or stream of some substance off it's hand.

The logo is inspired by the ochre colours of the country, representing the earth, water and sun. The depiction of the elements portray the boomerang as a pair of running legs, the head as the sun and the stream of blue representing the sydney opera house. The technique used for the logo is a rough/raw sandy painted, brushed stroke look.

The motifs behind this logo would be two, which include, aboriginal, by incorporating the tradional colours of ochre to incorporating aboriginal tools (boomerang) into the logo. The other motif is the city or Sydney by representing the Sydney Opera House which is one of the most recognizable of Australia.

I honestly reckon its a successful logo just how its really recognizable, its creativity to represent Australia as a country and to also represent the city. It is such a simplistic design but makes such a massive impact which is really successful.



Bibliography:
http://www.mapsofworld.com/olympic-trivia/images/olympic-emblem/sydney2000.gif
http://www.marimari.com/content/australia/best_of/2000_olympics/main.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics

Critiquing Tools

Art Vocabulary List
Value: Is the lightness and Darkness of a colour, showing the difference between light and dark
Art: Is the complete work of an artist that displays, their expression, creativity and imagination on a canvas or their choice. Can be displayed 2d, 3d, portrait, landscape or the following of the artists choice.
Technique: A skill that an artist picks up or posses. It displays how they use that skill applied to their work. Such skills can be splatter, cut outs, sculpture, drawing, painting, stencil etc.
Media: Is a range of equipment, utensils and tools that an artist uses to create their work. Range of media can be paint, brushes, ink, pencil, texters, aerosol paint, air brush, paper etc.
Monochromatic: Is a colour scheme of a single hue which displays the shades and tints on the one hue.

Adjective List:
Colour: bright, dull, heavy, light, monochromatic, analogous, inspiring, distressing, boring, shady, dark, impact, strong.
Line: stright, bent, zig zag, grided, dynamic, align, stoked, rough, clean, crisp, paintily.
Shape: 2d, 3d, abstract, structured, even, bulk, skinny, symbolic, satanic.
Point: stipple, dashed, focal point, repeated, dense, light, align, aim, added up, directed, symbolised.
Textured: pebbles, rough, smooth, prickly, spiky, dense, dangerous, mild, strong, organic, man made,

Elements:
Shape/Form: Shape and form can be; 2d or 3d, dynamic, structure, hollow, full, negative space, positive space.
Texture: Many techniques of texture are; stipple, pointed, dots, rough, smooth, harsh, painterly, cross hatched, lined, shaded, rendered, grass, metallic, glossy.
Colour: Bright, dark, shaded, tinted, opacity, dull, PMS, CMYK, RGB, monochromatic, analogous, inspiring, blinding, distracting, attractive, hideous etc.
Line: Can be; short, long, wavy, zig zag, strong, weak, broken, bent, swirly, rhythmic, dashing, structured, tall etc.

Principles:
Stability: When a placement of objects are position with on a grid in a specific place. Also the elements are positioned with in the canvas.
Dynamic: When a placement of object are position on mainly angles and nothing is really vertical or horizontal. Also the elements are placed going off the canvas to create a dynamic effect.
Rhythm: Rhythm can be created by and element or some kind being continuously repeated creating a movement effect.
Scale: Scale refers to the comparison of the size of the element, big to small. But mainly refers to the proportion of the size such as 1:100 which is 1mm to every 100mm, mainly used in architecture to compare size of building in plans.

Bibliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_elements_and_principles
http://www.johnlovett.com/test.htm
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/elements_of_design/
http://www.artincanada.com/arttalk/arttermsanddefinitions.html
http://www.artlex.com/

Style Time Line

Symbolism:

18th-19th century. Still currently around.
Jean Michel Basquiat, Carlos Schwabe

Impressionism:

1870s-1880s. 19th century.
Claude Monet,Alfred Sisley

Neo-Impressionism:

1880s-1890s
Georges Seurat, Paul Signac

Romanticism:

second half of 18th century- second half of 19th century.
Francisco Goya, J.M.W. Turner

Post-Impressionism:

1900s
Vincent Van Gogh, Mischa Askenazy

Pop Art:

1950-Present
Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton

Realism:

1850-19th century
August Rodin,Goustave Courbet

Cubism:

1907-1911
Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque

Luminism:

1850s-1870s
David Johnson, Fitz Henry

Futurism:

1910s-1930s
Umberto Boccioni, Giocommo Balla

Symbols

Some symbols that are relacted to Masculine Muscular bodies suchs as the mantel piece on trophies. They show the symbol of masculine, being a hero and number one in the world just like how Heracles was a god. Also his club weapon is a symbol of many meaning today. They are used by police, but they are called batons, so show power and authority. Also they are used for Recreational use, such as baseball, portraying power accuracy and strength. Heracles was very much like an athlete that was like a champion wrestler, fighter and archer. The Lion skin that Heracles traveled around in can be a symbol of victory and wealth, how people have lion skin carpets because they are rich, as well as victory even killing a lion on safari (or poaching).

images provided by:
http://www.policehow.com/img/police%20baton.jpg
http://www.northjerseymall.com/id-1343//ImgUpload/P_36897621_2189013.JPG

Bibliography

http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Heroes/Heracles/heracles.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcmene
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labours_of_Hercules#The_labours
http://www.mythweb.com/hercules/herc02.html
http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/fact-heracles.html#Companions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracles
http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/fact-heracles.html
http://messagenetcommresearch.com/myths/bios/heracles.html
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/labors.html
http://www.mythweb.com/hercules/
http://listverse.com/2007/10/20/12-labors-of-heracles/

About Heracles

Hercules is the Roman name after the Greek God Named Heracles. He was the son of a God, Zeus, son of mortal, Alcmene, a foster son to Amphitryon and a great grandson to Perseus (whom turned out to be a half brother as well). He was Strongest of all mortals, due to being half a god, but still considered as a full god. He was born from Alcmene then was given up and lived with Zeus and Hera. Hera didn’t like Heracles, the fact he was born from a mortal. One day baby Heracles was breast feeding on Hera then bit her nipple. Hera got angry and threw baby Heracles in his cot then later try to assassinate him and put two snakes in his cot. She then later checked up on Baby Heracles and saw him, with no harm done to him, but both snakes strangled in both of his baby hands.

Appearance:
Hercules was a very large and masculine man who was skilled in wrestling and possessed super human strength. He had a full face beard like the beard’s they have in the movie 300. He had a very broad shoulder, wide chest, biceps that could curl 100kg dumbbells on a first set, massive traps that would stick out when wearing a toga and tree trunk legs that could lift up columns in a flex of an ankle. Heracles is usually sculpted where he has a tree trunk or a branch which looks like a bat or blunt weapon.

Adventures:
Some of the adventures that Heracles had journeyed, avoiding any assassination attempts from his step mother Hera. But the most recited adventures he was known for was the 12 Labours. Heracles had to accomplish all these labours to atone his crime. Heracles’ crime was the murder of his children, after being driven to madness by Hera. These labours were treated as a punishment. First Labour he had was to slay the Mighty and Dangerous Nemean Lion, which was more of a beast rather then a large cat. Heracle defeated the lion by closing it off in a cave then took it down with his bare hands and wore the lion as a cloak with the lion’s head being a helmet. Second labour was to take down the intimidating Lernaean Hydra which looked like a giant serpent with a lizard/dragon’s body and came with 9 heads. Heracles overcame this Labor by getting the help from Iolaus searing the serpent’s neck with a torch. Heracles would have eventually ended up cutting each head off and Iolaus prevented them from growing back. The third Labor was to capture Cerynitian hind which was a female deer with golden horns. It was a sacred to Artemis (being the god of the hunt). Heracles eventually hunted this deer down after a year and carefully aimed his bow pinning its forelegs down without making it bleed. Artemis found out and wasn’t very happy with Heracles but he eventually told Atremis and Blamed his taskmaster for the Labor, so he was saved from her wrath. He ended up completing all his labours and lived happily ever after until he was poisoned and died.

Relations of Heracles
Alceme – Mother of Heracles
Zeus – Father of Heracles
Amphyitryon – Step mother of Heracles
Perseus – Grand father of Heracles
Iolaus – Son of Iphicles and Automedusa: Nephew of Heracles

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