walkabout Tag
New WalkAbout Logo
20th of July, 2009 in the year of our Lord
I just finalized a project with Greenville College Resident Life this morning. I was asked to design a logo for WalkAbout— a 10-day hiking trip in the Smokies.
I’ve gone on the trip twice so I had some personal experience to bring to this project. A big part of the trip is a 48-hour experience in which students fast in solitude with nothing but the clothes on their backs, a half-inch foam mat, a sheet of plastic (not quite big enough to completely shield from rain), and a page of the Bible. At the end of the experience, students are encouraged to create a circle of stones as sort of a personal monument.
The time I enjoyed most on the trip was at the end of each night when we would sit in a circle around a fire and just talk.
I drew on these two components of the trip to create this logo (and badge):
The only thing I don’t really like about it is the raised bar on the As, but they’re not too bad. That was one of the clients’ ideas to make them seem more like mountains.
