Been working on a little project the past few months. I’m in the process of setting up an online store/gallery dedicated to the stereographic images I make.
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To start off with I needed a name for the site. Calling it Stereographic Projections wouldn’t be very catchy. Thinking of something that would work and hasn’t been used before, turned out to be harder than I originally thought. I spent about a month trying out different names. I decided I wanted the word ‘pano’ to feature in it somewhere. I played with various combinations and eventually settled with Panodrop. Pano being short for panorama and drop describing the feel of the images. The way the logo looked was important too, with it being eight characters I could stack the two words on top of one another and it looked right. Also each word has an ‘o’ in it which works with the rest of the theme. The circle to the left derived from a combination of a lens and the shape these images produce. I wanted the logo to look clean, simple and bold.
Working with Paul and Stuart at Tribe we developed the logo and made a start on how the site could work. After a couple of brain storms we came up with a plan for the lay out. Above is the initial design of the home page. It has come on since this photo was taken. Developing our own ecommerce system has turned out to be quite a mission so the look of the home page may be entirely different to this..
Currently there is a simple holding page on the panodrop.com domain.
One of the things I was keen on doing was getting stickers made. I would use these every time I took a stereographic projection in the hope that people would see it and wonder what it meant, then check out the site. Above is the initial concept I had. I effectively wanted to get two stickers out of one. As far as I know this hasn’t been done (but it probably has). I thought having a donut shaped sticker might be quite unique therefore stand out, also it ties in with the logo nicely.
I did a bit of research, to work out who would be best at getting them produced, and eventually found out about the company awesome merchandise. I got in contact to see if it was possible to create a sticker of this sort. They said it was, so it was all systems go. I sent off the final designs and the stickers arrived the following week.
I’m looking forward to seeing how this one develops. I’ve been wanting to start this project for a long time and its good to finally get it going. Ill try and keep the blog updated with its progress.
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