THE AFTER
I went back home and applied new ideas from class to creating logos. In each of these I tried to reflect a playful creativity in coming to learn at Souderton Charter School Collaborative, my daughter's school. Here's what I came up with:
The Weave & Butterfly; this is my favorite.
The Butterfly
The Mapleleaf
The Tree
THE BEFORE
For my picture logo, I focused on creating an image for my daughter's school, Souderton Charter School Collaborative (SCSC). As you might guess from the name, one of SCSC's primary goals is to be a community that creatively collaborates. This matches with the abstract meanings I've been drawing out of my Doodad project -- encouraging children to run with their imaginations, to get into the story -- where play is real learning -- confined in safe and appropriate spaces.
The idea, I liked, but flushing it out was a challenge. I started with the image of a woven cloth, then moved to an image where you can't see the seams of the cloth. Then, I added an image of one of the school's front windows, and played around with how to use the cloth there. The last two logos are examples of this.
Why these are in process -- I actually like the concept behind these, but the images don't grab me -- despite the time it took to fill in the colors and weaving patterns!
Woven cloth, with seems and colors I like.
Woven cloth, no seams with school colors.
Window into the world, through a woven cloth. The window frame designates boundaries.
Window into the world, weaving extending it's boundaries.
