Links, Logo Develpoment and Research

Hey everyone! (aka gossip boy, gossip girl, dom, ran and ta)

I added a "links we love" gadget into the sidebar to streamline our research and so that we don't have to sort back through the posts in order to find links that we've compiled. I'll be adding some more soon, its very easy to do, just click the little spanner and it should be pretty straightforward from there!

I think we should link to anything we find of interest, and some of the links we hotlink in our posts as it could become a recourse stockpile! But what do you guys think?

I loved anthony's logo exploration and the butterfy concept inspired by Haran, I hope the blog starts working for her so she can post her beautiful drawings =D Heres another process/ developmental thing for simplifying the logo for swingtags:



Click on it if you want to see it bigger =)

In terms of the research resulting from the logo, I've been a bit inspired by the subconscious shapes I did in the original and ashle's mention of it being art deco, so I've been looking into the movement a bit. I read that it was an amalgam of different styles including art nouveau, and when I looked into art nouveau I found a stunning bit of architecture:

"View across Main Stairs at Upper Landing
Victor Horta House in Brussels, Belgium
Detail showing the art glass laylight and one of a pair of curvaceous mirrors at the top of the home's main stairwell. Victor Horta designed and built the house and studio for his own family from 1893-97. Now home of the Musee Horta."
(see link for source)

The tapered shapes on the wall are reminiscent of the flared ends on the logo, and certainly loving the soft organic curves around the mirrors and even in the iron railings of the staircase itself. Very inspiring and beautiful, if you want to have a look at the gallery, (and to credit the image source) its HERE

Another thing found on recent net travells was something on a woman called Loie Fuller, who was (put shortly) a dancer, and the embodiment of the nouveau period. Below is a portrait of her (dated 1902), again there are these beautiful organic curves and shapes within the image, much like the print on the wall in the image above.


This is just a wiki image, but the actual source was quoted as pertaining to THIS site. Theres a lot of beautiful imagery of her, but seeing as this all sprung out of the logo its probably best not to flood the blog with heavy content, otherwise it may become slow to load.

In summary:

More about Art Deco:
Art Deco Society- What is art deco?
Illustrations- The art deco book in france
Art Deco Objects (the lanvin has interesting shapes and you can look at it in 3d!)

Art Nouveau:
Poster Image of fuller I liked
Loie Fuller
More on the Movement

Research is underway for the 'Stolen Kisses' drop, has the issue with themes been sorted yet? Check dom's post before this one if it hasn't!

xox Holly