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OUGD603 | Extended Practice | Brief 02 | Research | Ed's Hairdressers Logo Design

Inspiration & Research
Before commencing this brief it is essential to begin looking at previous and current hair dresser logo designs. Specifically one which only use typefaces this will help narrow down which particular hair dresser logo designs is suitable for redesigning 'Ed's Hair'. The recurring theme of a hair dresser logo is that majority of them are: bold, simple, have at least one to two or three colours. Which Ed's hairdresser colour scheme is: Black, purple and white.

By referring back to these different kinds of hairdresser logos some of them have illustrations of scissors and hair which are semiotic of being a hairdresser. Thus using these existing logo designs as a guide I will take some of their illustrations e.g. hair dresser equipment on the Ed's hair logo.

Personal Idea

The client and owner of the hairdresser is Brazilian and specialises in Brazilian blow dry. Instead of using Ed's icon black, white and purple colour scheme a peer mention to me to use Brazilian influential colours such as the flag. These colours are blue, green, yellow and white this colour selection can be risky to work with due to it the colours being quite bright and is unprofessional for a logo design.

Brazilian colour scheme

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