OUGD603 - The Disney Wedding Podcast/ Fairy Tale Weddings Podcast Development 6 & Skype call

I'm up very early this morning to try and work toward completion of The Disney Wedding Podcast logo. I woke up to a reply from Carrie:

'Hi Sarah!

Colorwise, I like the blue, but maybe we can go with the punchier pink from Color Combo #1 that you sent me. Or use gray. Or skip the blue and do it in the pink/gold/gray #3 Color Combo you sent.

Your list sounds good! I think maybe just add a drop-cap with birds and one with a W like you sketched, unless that's a separate day's work.

Thanks a heap!

Cheers,
Carrie'

So all of this morning I have dedicated loads to pulling the logo together:

'Hi Carrie -

Ok, I've worked my way through my list of stuff. Might get chance to have a go at the Drop-cap again, later today.

I turned the opacity down on the ribbon and changed the E to lowercase, but I'm finding it hard to incorporate the 'the disney' and 'podcast' into this design - which is why I ended up changing it, cos it was looking a bit awkward IMO.

I thought that I'd fatten up the lettering in this one, to make it more legible. I also tried a few different colours. I changed 'the disney' and 'podcast' to a serif, and ditched the bounding box altogether.

    

    

    

I added a couple of birds, to get an idea of composition. I've also tried Gold smallcaps here. I wouldn't use these birds, I just got them off google to demonstrate:

    

I also had a go at giving it a water colour effect. If this isn't water colour enough, I can do it better, I just put this together for the sake of decision making.

    

Time zones are hard to work around! 

Talk to you in about 8 hours, no doubt! 

Sarah'

She replied in the same day! 

Hi Sarah!

I LOVE this (with your birds instead, of course)!!!

I'd like to fine-tune the colors and the serif font but am not sure what the best way is to work with you on those. For one thing, my monitor is definitely not professionally calibrated, so the colors I think look good on screen may look totally awful. That said, if we *pretend* my monitor is accurate, I love the look of Pantone's Fandango Pink 17-2033 (Hex # DE5285), and from this color palette generator I found, it looks like there are some complimentary colors that would fall in your first palette idea (like a blue for the birds and a "tropical punch" red-pink).

Main Pink: DE5285 (Wedding)

Lighter Pink: EEA7C1

Gray: 989898

Gold: ??? (The Disney and Podcast)

Punch: DE5156

Blue: 51CADE (Birds)

As to the serif font, I'm not sure which ones you have access to, and my early career as an unexceptional graphic designer has made me super-picky. I have Photoshop and Illustrator on my laptop - maybe I could take your original file and play around with different fonts that I have?

This is really coming together—thanks so much for all your hard work!

Cheers,
Carrie'

I decided to initiate a Skype session, since there were now only minor tweaks to iron out, that could be done in real time with screen sharing.

'Hi Carrie

Yay! OK I shall play around with colours ... if you like, we could skype within the next half hour, screen share and we can try loads of different things in real time?

My skype is just my email address: sarah.heal@hotmail.co.uk

Sarah'

The Skype call went really well, we decided on definite colours but she said she wants to go away and explore different fonts and stuff for the small caps, and should be ok to skype again tomorrow night for an update. In the meantime, I can carry on with my other uni work!