Web Design

This is my very first logo that I came up with. There was too much going on in this picture, plus the plant to the left isn't actually my idea. From there I went straight to color which is not a good idea. I should of put my idea into black and white first I probably would have come up with a better idea quicker, because if you can put your logo on a black background AND a white background, then you can make any color work. This text ended up being very bland and everyone could pretty much sight what font it was. So, I came up with the next idea. Since I'm herbal and mineral remedies I need the pill to represent that it's medicine and the leaves to represent the herbal side of it. I moved on to my next idea with the pill and leaf and made plenty of variations of it.  I ended up picking something like this: The graphic design teacher ultimately told me to start off in black and white so I redid it in black and white.            ...

The article Steal Like An Artist By Austin Kleon  is about using others ideas or creations and making the idea your own, but not just imitating it. Kleon states that nothing is original; he states that "All creative work builds on what came before. Nothing is completely original." He is saying that you can't get something from nothing. You have to get it from somewhere, so take others ideas and expand. Don't just simply copy an artist, steal what they have made and make it better, or different. Kleon quotes several artists in his book, but one that really stands out is by T. S. Eliot "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn." This means that when an artist "copies" another  artist, it is instantly apparent, this sh...