Dreambreach Studios

Digital 2D (Illustrator)

A dream catcher, blown apart by it’s own internal forces, spilling out into the world, a pair of wings reaching into the sky, bursting forth and ready to fly. This logo went through several design phases before I arrived at this final version, and it took almost seven months to get here. Typically I wouldn’t spend this long on a design: if something isn’t working after a week, two weeks, a month, it’s often an issue with the core of the design, and it’s probably worth returning to the drawing board, but I was attached to this concept.

These were some of the versions that I stumbled through on my way to the final version. I was fond of the first one for a while; I was absolutely wild about the watercolor aesthetic, and I loved how it looked splattered onto the screen. However, when I stepped back and looked at it, I felt like it would be easier to envision above a hipster clothing store in the mall than on my splash screen. The second version retained the idea of wings, but it was over-simplified and it died because of it. It is, however, where the idea for multiple tones of the same color came from, which I would re-use in future iterations. The third version was definitely a step in the right direction, and was where I became solidified on the idea of including stars within the dream catcher. At the same time though, I felt that it was pale. It was colorful, but not vibrant, it didn’t jump off of the screen the way I wanted it to. After agonizing over this for about a month, version 4 was born.

On previous occasions, I played around with fewer tones, less colors, different colors, black and white, the list goes on and on. Nothing stuck quite as strongly or popped as loudly as a multi-tone color scheme with these gradients. It’s different. It doesn’t look like any other modern game-dev logo that I’ve seen, but that’s what I love about it. It’s a statement, and it says that we aren’t afraid to do things a little differently around here, and we’re proud enough of that to wear it on the outside.

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