Document print protection

One of the client had a problem with lack of basic print protection with presaving copyright details. Several protection 'watermark' elements and their properties were designed and applied. Here is the demo image.

Design process of my personal logo

Finally I found a little time to write about my personal logo-trade mark which had been created ~ month ago.

I needed it as watermark for my works, for several social accounts and for business cards.

First, I've had an idea that the main graphic part should be similiar to Teseract graphic representation, as my degree and the main professional business activity was still a System analysis. A little more background for everyone: Any system is "Tesseract" and person can research and describe it only by making projections of this system.

Animation of tesseract (the four-dimensional analog of the cube)

There is also static image:

But first task for me was to simplify it and connect with my Cyrilic initials (УМИ) to personalize it.

I made several sketches:

The simple version looked like Gmail icon even with changeble line types. The struggle was real:)

Then I took a pause and continued on the next day in the morning during breakfast right in the kitchen with papers for shopping-lists. I just left the initials inside the tesseract "form":

After several minutes of sketching with available means I saw one appearnce which I need.

Time to "digitize" using Illustrator:

Building from simple forms, slicing and connecting to each other:

Chosen with Sharp corners:

And maybe with gradient:

Leaves and colors

Recently, I've faced with strong necessity of using colors to open the good mood and positive reaction of the customers that using some service. I've made a test with several images and checked that unusual colors can focus and attract attention for longer time. Maybe it's because of brain processing time, confirmation of the fact: the file-size of the right image is 4x time bigger than left:))

Left image is one of the first photos I've made with my first digital ultrazoomcamera ~ 10 years ago. Taking the photo from the sofa that was 12 meters far from window with the ficus on a sill. Right image is a product of photoshop curves, preapred several days ago for the test:)

As all of the graphic designers are using photos and different color schemas in their work across-the-board, we should also consider colorblind people which are ~ 4.5% of the entire population. With my experience, I've only seen the changeble option once for colorblind mode in the software product.

Main difference

P.S. Two more things:)

My first digital camera. Still works.

Personal business-postcards I've made after main test