{"id":1176,"date":"2018-04-26T14:32:27","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T14:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cookandkaye.com\/projects\/?p=1176"},"modified":"2019-12-05T12:28:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T12:28:39","slug":"spinner-logo-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cookandkaye.com\/projects\/spinner-logo-design\/","title":{"rendered":"SPINNER logo design"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part of our remit for designing the Spine repair training website (SPINNER)<\/a> was to develop a new logo and icon for them. Their initial ideas had focussed on a web spinner in medical greens – which was quite attractive, and reflected the name of the programme, but not its role…<\/p>\n

We therefore looked at introducing a more’spinal’ quality to the logo design: Our initial design sheet investigated using ‘s’ shaped spine as the initial ‘S’ in spinner, printing the spinner name with each letter on a separate vertebra, and placing the initial ‘S’ on a single vertebra.<\/p>\n

Through discussion with the client, and many itterations, we came to the final design, in which the spine is used as the body of the ‘i’, with the dot at the head.<\/p>\n

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\nAbove: the final version of the SPINNER logo.<\/p>\n

The logo was built as a vector format (SVG) image, and is used on all pages of the site. The logo is also used in the site icon, and the apple-touch-icon. The best format for the latter is a subject of some debate amongst web professionals (see Apple touch icon: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly<\/a> from Favicon’s blog), we create a 120x120px square icon as a standard for our website clients.<\/p>\n

The vector format allows us to scale the image without distortion, permitting us to easily create versions for high resolution print work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Part of our remit for designing the Spine repair training website (SPINNER) was to develop a new logo and icon for them. Their initial ideas had focussed on a web spinner in medical greens – which was quite attractive, and reflected the name of the programme, but not its role… We therefore looked at introducing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookandkaye.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookandkaye.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookandkaye.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookandkaye.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookandkaye.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cookandkaye.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/cookandkaye.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookandkaye.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookandkaye.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookandkaye.com\/projects\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}