Designing Logo for Children’s Advocacy Center in Hood County. I love designing things that relate to children. Colorful and Fun.

I first went to the CAC of Hood county to help my friend Julia Pannell with a mural. I only helped for a couple of hours that day, but I met the wonderful staff and was enthused to have the opportunity to help with an art program they have recently started. I was also excited when they asked if I could help with a logo design.  They were using a child's drawing, and really liked the idea because the center is all about children. 

Another interesting thing they are doing at the center is having every child that enters put thier handprint on the wall.  It has been really cool to see this wall grow with colorful handprints, and I knew I wanted to incorporate that idea into the logo. 

After working with a few different concepts on how to marry those ideas, I came up with what you see here.  I used my wacom tablet to draw the sun with the handdrawn effect and used a crayon paintbrush in Adobe Illustrator.  The handprint is from another project I never got to use, but I incorporated with the sun, using the fingers of the handprnt as yellow rays of sunshine:)

I am sure this isn't the final version, but I did want to share.

~ by aklemer on July 7, 2009.