Luke Young conducted experiments to design an Xbox magazine logo. He started with a basic square box but made it more interesting by extending two sides. He added a green circle to represent Xbox and a white ring around the circle. In later experiments, he tried different colors and positioning of shapes. He landed on a black, white, and green design to match Xbox's colors. He used ellipse and rectangle tools in Photoshop to create and modify the shapes. For another project, Luke designed logos for t-shirts, placing the logos on mockups to see how they would look. He also created a poster for the video game Red Dead Redemption 2, adding the game title, company logo, edition details,

1. Experiments
Luke Young

2. Process
I started off by making a small box and then I thought that the box it self was boring and basic so then I extended two of
the sides of the square to make it look more interesting. After that I made a circle and made the colour green because it
was going to be a Xbox gaming logo so I thought it would make it fit in more as green but not if it was blue then people
may think it has something to do with play station. After that I made a white ring on the out side of the green circle to
make it feel more of a Xbox magazine logo because when to see a Xbox magazine they are mostly green and white. The
last step of I added a black background to add the extra feeling to the Xbox feel to the logo.
I started off with other different designs but they didn’t look right so then I started to experiment with the size of them
and extend parts and use different colours for the logo I used blue but I wanted the logo to be for Xbox so I made it
green black and white.
Then I went on to make the background white and then have a black circle but then I moved it to the right so it didn't’t
fully cover the circle and I think It made it look more interesting as a logo so it looks like its got a shadow to make it look
a bit 3D.
For the last few steps I added a gradient to the logo so I was not just one solid colour it went from white to light green
and then I removed the black line what was sticking out from the green part of the logo to make it look better and
more smooth.
The reason why I am doing the logo for Xbox is because Xbox is the console I prefer the most out of Xbox PlayStation
and pc and the reason why the logo is black, white and green Is because the colours for Xbox is black, white and green
so I thought that it would suit the magazine logo. The tools I have used to make the logo is the ellipse tool I used that
one because it’s the only one that’s lets you make a circle and you can make it how you want it so that was the best one
in my opinion. And I used the ellipse tool for most of the logo because I needed to make a circle in the middle of the
circle that I have made at the start. And I also used the rectangle tool to make the square in the middle and also used
the rectangle tool to make the extinctions on the end and when the were on the outside of the circle I used the eraser
tool to make it so its smooth on the edge of the circle

3. T-shirt & logos
I have made some extra logos to see what else I have come up with. I
made a similar one to the green one but made it red and black and a
circle instead of a square in the middle and made the circle on the
outside bigger also added a gradient to both of the circles.
I've added the designs to re bubble to see what they would look like
on a hoodie and I've used two different logos for the hoodie and I have
used two different colour hoodie for each logo so I used the black and
green one on a grey one so you can see the black part of the logo and
with the black and red one I have used a black hoodie so it looks like it
has faded in from the black part of the hoodie to the red part of the
logo.

4. Experiments (poster)
I started out by finding an image online of the game red dead
redemption 2 and I was going to make a poster of that game.
When I found an image that fitted the image well, I then found
the title of the game what was white and red this fits the theme
of red dead redemption 1 because that was red, black and white.
The next step to making the poster I added the company logo I
did this because on posters most of them have the company
logos on their posters so you know who they are made by, and
the logo that I found was red and black I did this because it also
fitted the colour scheme of the poster which is red, white and
black. The next step of the poster that I made I added a edition
of the game so where you get things with the game such as with
this one you get bonus stuff in the game and you get a map with
it. So I thought I would add that to add to the poster and also to
make it feel more like a poster so you can see the base game and
an edition to the game. The final part to the poster is I added a
release date to the poster, I did this because if people was to
look at this poster then they would look at the bottom of the
poster then they will then know when the game is released.
The tools that I have used to make the poster are the magic wand tool, I used this
tool to get rid of the backgrounds of the titles and the logo of rock star. I like this
tool over others because it allows you to get rid if larges areas at once and if you
wanted to get rid of small parts you can turn up the tolerance if you wanted to. The
other tool I have used is the colour picker tool to change the colour of the R from
yellow to red I did this because I thought that it would look better by fitting the
colour theme of the poster. This is good because it allows you to match the colours
exactly so they match together well. I have also used the spot healing tool to get rid
of unwanted parts on the image that I found for the poster. This is also good
because you can be precise with what you want to heal on the image so if there was
a logo on the bottom you don’t want then you can get rid of it easily. I also
downloaded a font for the release date at the bottom of the poster. I did this
because I was unable to find a font that I liked on photoshop.

5. Reflection
• What elements of your experiments will you include in your final product?
• -The elements that I will add to the final product is the logos. I started
with the green black and white one and then decided to move onto
different shapes like a triangle but then I thought that the triangle was not
good for a logo so then I developed on the circle. I made it a bit bigger
changed the colour of the logo and the design from a square to a circle
with lines coming off it. I made the newer logo by copying the original one
but then moving the shapes around changing the gradient from green to
white then to black to red. With the circle what's on the back makes it
look like the logo has a shadow and fades in with the inner circle. The
second logo looked similar to the beats so I had to change it e.g. I had to
change the colour of it to black to red and not bright red and as well I have
added a extra line and tilted the design so its left to right then pointing
upwards. And I'm also going to make a similar version of the circle and
maybe change the colour of it if I want to make it a different colour