Edits, neverending

So I decided to revisit my ASMR/Tau event logo and I made a couple of changes.  I darkened the tau text because it really wasn't showing up when I re-sized the image.  Then I found a font that actually had a capital T that resembled the tau symbol (with the stem that curves to the right) and I used that.  I found it to be a lot more visually appealing and clear to read.  I added the year because my fake event is going to be such a huge smash that it will become annual.  Lastly, I moved that text up into the centre of the circle shape to form more unity within the piece overall.  Here is the finished result:

It's a quiet, nerdy thing.

The project is this:

For your portfolio, chose your most obscure interest and make it into an imaginary convention.  Then design a logo, poster, access pass, t-shirt etc. to promote your event and supply it with interesting and memorable imagery.

Initially, I was just going to do a Tau-based event, (which for you non-math nerds is simply " the name for the ratio constant of a circle's circumference to its radius") because I'd made it a personal goal of mine to memorize the first 48 decimal points of Tau.  However, when I asked my husband to guess which obscure interest I had chosen, he immediately jumped to ASMR.  Autonomous Meridian Sensory Response: a phenomenon where some people - myself included - get tingles or good sensations from triggers such as whispering, tapping, scratching, etc.  Since I've been listening to ASMR videos at bedtime for relaxation and he likes to tease me about it, he didn't miss this opportunity to rib me.

I immediately thought ASMR would make a hilarious event, (imagine a bunch of very quiet and mellow whispering folk at a huge convention) but was saddened to let me Tau idea go.  So when I thought to combine them to ensure that my interest was absolutely entirely obscure, I was quite excited to get started.

This first piece of design, featured at the beginning of this blog post, will serve as my general branding for the event.  I chose large rounded fonts to emulate the comforting feeling of ASMR, as well as to reflect the circle shape that Tau measures.  Behind my font, I put the first several dozen numbers of Tau around a circle and chose a light colour so that it wouldn't compete with the fore font too much.  The colour palette that I selected was inspired by clouds and the sky - again, round things that remind us of soft, float-y feelings.  And finally, my tagline "Tingles all around" is again in reference to both elements involved in my event.  The capital "T" in Tingles was edited so that the stem curved towards the right instead of the left as that is how the symbol for Tau, τ , is shaped.

This is only the beginning of the project, I have many other elements to design!

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