Myga logo design

Hi all. I know I haven't written an article for an long time. It has been pretty busy. One of the things that happened was the start of a collaboration with some other independent designers,under the name Indyvisuals. The Indyvisuals is a four member design band: Masterview, Design Insane, The Rut and me.
The latest project we have been working on is the branding of a live bar named
Μύγα, which means fly(the insect) in greek. The first brief we got was "We want a fly", so we tried to get more information we got "People don't like flies cos they come and bother you and flies spread deceases. And we want to open a bar that will have good music, good acts and it won't be low quality like the most of the clubs and bars in greece". So, we started working on flies. We worked on many ideas with various applications, flies on many surfaces, flies on records, with guitar picks, flies flying leaving traces, flies,flies,flies...


At one point we started working with an M and we tried to make a continuous one-stroke M which gave us the idea that it could look like a fly. And this actually led to the "winning" logo, not known at the time.


So we created the grid of the logo.


When the time came to meet with the client, we decided that we would present all the logos we designed, as we think it is good to show the ideas you have regardless of what you think the client might like or not. Because you never know.. We were surprised that they picked the logo we liked the most. After that we started working on the typography, we wanted to create a unique type to compliment the logo and not just use something common. Based on the logo we needed something geometric with straight lines and circles, we needed to create glyphs and we wrote the word μύγα with a marker a couple of times to see how the hand writing connects the letters.


Always we work the logos on white and black because that it is important to be able to communicate in neutral colors. When time came to pick colors, we first thought of the warning colors yellow and black but then decided we needed to soften them up a bit, so we used a hazy yellow and grey instead..


We also created a pattern based on the logo, to use on posters etc. We took inspiration from the arabic patterns and motifs.


This is the first promotion poster that we created for the bar.



indyvisuals
Masterview
Design Insane
Til01
Myga in Athens website

Think Twice

One of the last projects i have been working on was for the new record of Palov & Mishkin from Cast-a-blast. it was actually a collaboration project with Petros Aka Design Insane. When Blend approached us to design the cover, he only gave us a clue: "Tree". Me and Petros started to thing about trees and typography but we gave it up as soon after we started playing with the papers that we used for the sketches and we thought it would be a nice to create a tree made out of paper and photograph it. So the first results looked like this.We thought that this would bring an ecology feeling which was not in the brief, so i continued playing with the papers and i came to this idea and afterwords i added the typography.Petros on the other side used a brain vector with the typography in to it and came to this one.When Blend visited us back in the office to see the final layouts he could never figure out what we were up to 2 weeks working on his new cover. The final decision was the graphic version of the brain.

Design Walk 09 "First of all we think the world must changed"

Well i know it is thursday but still i try to find my after this years design walk. It was my first time to participate in this event comparing to the other 2 years that i was a vier.
In an earlier article i said a few things about the event, but now its the time to write the review.
For me it was 3 days full of fun with good friends and beers. / no beer no friends around.
For me the project was one great month hugging out with friends trying to find the brief of our project allot of chat in small bar called cazu drinking coffee and beers from Barack O'barman. When finally we got our ideas in a box we just couldn't close it and then there were popping out even more, better and worst, But what can you do with them? Thats a deferent story.
The 3 day of the main event I was at the office, with the other lads and chatting with people, designer architects, what ever can you imagine there were allot of fun in the crew. and people seemed to be enjoying it as much as we did, Saturday night the Dj of the crew Jeff & Blend from Cast a blast gave to the office a little Club mode with people dancing. after the party what? Well probably we went out for a drink You know after beers sure you need a drink to relax
Yes sure the 3rd day was so cool having interesting chats,
What was the damage? A nice project that we all enjoyed it, a great party, lots of friends new and old-ones and a lot of passion for the future to work harder.
At this point i would like to thank (for the first time) the crew
Petro aka design insane
Kosta aka design indyvisual
Xristos aka cynic desgin
Blend & Jeff form Cast A Blast
Giorgos S Vlahos
Psit, Nasso K and every one who gave the support so this project could be done.