Written By: Chris Orsello
For my logo project, I created a logo of my name involved with the sport I love: basketball. I wanted to create a logo similar to what professional athletes have for brands that have their initials on it, like LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Steph Curry do.
In this, I attempted to make the C in my name as the rim that a basketball goes through. This is why I decided to give the C in my name a reddish hue, to match the color of a rim. Next, I decided to make the O in my name a basketball. For the O, I used the circle tool and manipulated it to look like the letter O. I made the visual of the O in my graphic going through the C of my name, which is the rim, to give off the impression the ball going through the rim from a bird’s eye view. Finally, I replaced the L’s in my last name “Orsello” as the number eleven “11” because that is my number on the basketball team.
I think this project was the most difficult initially because it was very challenging to warp the letters to the way I wanted. This resulted in me having to settle for a vision I did not really intend and prevented me from being able to mess around with different ideas I was thinking about doing. However, I thought this project was fun and set a good foundation for Illustrator.