Outland Entertainment recently announced the release of The Barry Blair Library of comics and I was fortunate enough to get to design a logo for the launch.
You can read all about it here:
https://test.outlandentertainment.com/outland-entertainment-brings-collection-of-barry-blairs-comics-to-the-digital-age/
The main thing I needed to consider before I started was how the BBL logo would be incorporated with the current line of OE comic book properties and what that treatment would look like since we had already come up with a layout for the OE line.
We wanted the BBL logo to balance out with the Outland Entertainment logo, so I decided to go with circular layout. I chose a font similar to the font used in the OE logo to keep a consistent look across the brand, but I also needed to come up with something uniquely it‘s own to reflect the uniqueness of the books and wholly set the logo apart. The fonts I used are ITC Franklin Gothic Heavy and Acropolis. I liked the idea of the using the letter “B” back-to-back to represent the “Barry Blair” in the logo. I tried this with a bunch of dierent fonts and settled on Acropolis because I felt it formed a unique looking letter form. A sigil that lead me to think it represented a unique language all of it’s own, much like Barry and the catalog of comics he created.
I submitted these for approval and the final logo was approved.
Read all about ELFLORD here: https://test.outlandentertainment.com/project/elflord/
Until next time…keep on, keepin’ on.
-Ed
I enjoyed reading about your process. The logo caught my eye on your main blog page. Nice work.
Joe,
Glad you found the Barry Blair logo design eye catching and enjoyed reading about my design process. If you have any questions or there is something you would like us to cover in a future blog, let us know. Thanks.