My first concern, when we decided to launch the Muzik! Zyklon, was to support the event with a good corporate brand logo and graphics as I was used to do for every project I have collaborated to.
So, I came out with this one.
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| The base graphics of the Muzik! Zyklon logo. |
The idea behind this work was to mimic the original Zyklon B label.
This version was just a black and white wip, a sort of blueprint reference for further work, but we had not much time and we decided to use it for the first edition of the Muzik! Zyklon.
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| The first edition cover for the Muzik! Zyklon Facebook event. |
Yesterday I had to quickly finish the second edition Facebook event cover and I just modified the first edition cover with the images and logos of the bands.
Here is the result.
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| The second edition cover for the Muzik! Zyklon Facebook event. |
Today I decided to go further. My idea was to apply a little bit of grunge effect to the whole cover, using well balanced textures, to reproduce the erosion of old Zyklon B labels found.
I first experimented with the cover for the Muzik! Zyklon page on Facebook and this is the result.
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| Cover for the Muzik! Zyklon page on Facebook, celebrating the passing of 100 likes. |
This cover was to celebrate the passing of 100 likes and I am quite satisfied with it. It is much more interesting and good looking then the first one.
Though I was not totally happy with it yet.
Then I started to experiment with the original one applying some grunge texture with GIMP.
I downloaded two textures from the Web and I modified them using "Desaturate" and "Adjust Color Leves" tools until I reached this results.
Then I placed this two images on two layers on top of the original logo and set their composition modes to "Screen" and adjusted transparency to about 65%.
This is the result.
Then I placed this two images on two layers on top of the original logo and set their composition modes to "Screen" and adjusted transparency to about 65%.
This is the result.
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| Experimental cover with grunge effect. |