Astral Media Logo

This is our finished product for our Media Company's logo.


I went about creating this by taking the name we had already agreed on 'Astral Media', and trying to make something that looked quite space age but still followed the basic conventions of a logo.

When I thought 'Astral' I instantly thought of some sort of solar/star explosion. I tried countless times to create it in my own way, getting the kind of image i had in my head. After much thought and determination to create it, I decided to look for an alternative route. I found a website called http://www.brushking.eu/ where you can download brush sets to your Photoshop software and use them in your photo creation. I instantly searched for 'space' and 'Explosion'. I found the perfect brush set to go with what i had in my head. I used all of these different brushes and finally found the one above.

For the background I didn't want to just have a block colour so I decided I should experiment with different background ideas. I found a function called 'fibres' and it was a type of break up for a solid image or colour. I put the fibres in black and had a solid crimson background and began to 'decorate' the background with these tiny little fibres and I found that it broke apart the solid image and made it look a lot more professional over the conventional solid background. I also highlighted the fact that I added more fibres to the left and right side of the image to act as a sort of framing technique for the image.

For the text I found a font on a site called http://www.dafont.com/ where I found a recreation of the 'Gears of War' franchise's text, it's very beaten and block capitalised which makes it a very dominant text but the fact that it's beaten up can show that it's a war beaten text, or in my case a meteor beaten text, also linking with the name of the company. All I then needed to do was figure out where I wanted to place the text because that could make or break the whole image. I put it in all of the conventional places, like underneath and on top of the main focus of the image, but it just seemed to look like every other logo. I put it in the top left corner and didn't like it but i did like the offset nature of the text. When I put it on the bottom left it was complete.