My logo is a good start, but it needs some work.

My initial idea for the logo was to have the film strips surrounding “Tyler Kee Movie Reviews,” but that was too much text and I did not want to restrain myself to strictly film reviews.  I am open to possibly writing music reviews in the future, so it was important to leave it at “reviews.”  Some might say that the film strips are putting me in a box for film, but that is simply the focus.  I do not want to add a music note, for example, because an album review would be a rarity.  Finally, through the brainstorming process, I arrived at the “TKR” idea.  The acronym stands for “Tyler Kee Reviews,” without cluttering the logo with an abundance of text.  It is nice and simple, but it does not really “pop” as a logo.  I need to work on better shapes for the letters to make them more unique and visually pleasing.  Parts of some of the letters appear to be wider than others, but they should look clean and uniform.  I might try to make a variety of different logos to find the best one for my blog.

To create the logo, I used the pen, line, rectangle, and paintbrush tools.  It was quite difficult for me to create some of these letters, specifically the “R,” but I got the hang of it as I progressed.  I added a second layer to serve as the background and made it blue.  I think that the black and blue look good together, but I might add or change some of the colors to add more variety.  The film reels are made up of several rectangles, and the ruler aided a bunch in their creation.

I drew inspiration from most movie blogs, such as these: Jason’s Movie Blog and Chris Stuckmann. Neither of these really have a logo that stands out, so I want to make mine really pop.  A lot of movie blogs usually have their name followed by “reviews” or some sort of play on words. After evaluating this, I should try to be more original and come up with something that is not very common within this certain community.