Weird...

Okay, so I did this charcoal drawing last semester based on a daydream of my friend Layla (shown on my blog in my artwork section in sepia tone). I just happened to look at one section of the drawing which shows a figure ascending from a tile floor in front of a door with a keyhole, reaching for a rope and a key. The rope dangles down and ties to an upside-down chair, and the key is floating in the air, just out of grasp of the figure...At the beginning of my logo process, I experimented with furniture and chairs incorporated into a logo and went on to experiment with a key-hole design before finally setting in on my key logo design, which i am just about to grasp ahold of....kinda funny, wouldn't you say?

Digital Night No 2

So I was thinking that the color applied to my key logo in phtoshp/illstr looks....digital, unrefined, cartoonish... This is not the impression I want the logo to have and when Michelle told me this, it affirmed my stand that I am going to have to apply color/texture by other means. I'm working on an oil painting that might make for an interesting design and would be appropriate for pointing to the fact that there are many paintings that can be found in the showroom. The line etching is still in progress. I've prepared the copper plate but the printmaking lab was apparently all out of any sort of ground when I went tonight. If anyone knows where it might be, let me know...

Meanwhile, I am still pondering the company title description...Interior design showroom....This is what you might call every other one of the numerous showrooms that make up the ADAC building. I need something more specific, more intriguing & more directly connected with his showcase items...The fact that many (if not most) of the products in his showroom are made from rare wood from varying parts of the world, glass from far-away islands & other materials and locals makes me think i should include an adjective like "world", "worldy", "exclusive" (without using exclusive itself...too polarized), "sui generis" (just kidding)...etc. Also, I'm thinking that three words or less would be appropriate. Four is pushing it unless one word is three or four letters.

here's a list of some adjectives, words, ideas i'm thinking about:

Interior Decoration Showroom

Interior Decoration Collection

Exquisite Interior Collection

Distinctive

Specialty Production

World Interiors

Earthly

Sophisticated

Earthy

Exquisite

Fun with Key

I scanned in my inked logo drawing & did a really quick live-trace in illustrator to get an idea of what the drawing would look like in digital format. But...it's about 3 am so I thought, okay, I'm just going to have some quick fun and GO TO BED. I've accomplished a lot today so this is sort of my self-given received award...just some cartoony post-card ideas