Wednesday, April 25, 2012

#19 Research & Inspiration

Salon & Spa Logo Design 


Research Colors, industry trends, competition, etc.
Find 2-3 inspiration pieces and brief description of why
Visual hierarchy of elements
3-4 various sketches

Salons and Spas, both are related to health care or personality grooming. They deal in providing people all the facilities related to grooming as well health care. Natural herbs, fruit extracts, vegetables extracts, flowers extracts and plants extracts and chemicals for grooming, are the things they deal in.
Logos for this kind of business are very much related to health care as well as personality grooming. You will generally find these logos on cosmetics; many times, a salon or a spa has its own products being sold in the market.
There are some similarities in these logos that you will find generally. They are as follows:
Colors:
The types of colors you will find in these logos are dull. Usually, you will find cactus green, almond pink, apricot yellow, orange, sandy brown, aqua, etc. If you notice, one thing that all these colors have in common is that they are related to fruits, vegetables or flowers. Yes! This means that all the logos related to it, generally have colors relating to herbs, water, fruits, sand and other materials used for beauty grooming.

[ http://www.logodesignguru.com/A/Salon_and_Spa_Logos.asp ]

Hot wing logos usually are associated with the color red , you can use some greens for like decoration like celery . Browns, fireworks to make the logo look explosive or fire flames.
 

For a candy shop logo you can use bright colors !!! It would be good to have a fun logo.