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Hello. Hello, everyone. My name is Alex Lazaris, and I am so excited for today's stream.
We are going to be doing Design Fix. So if you don't know what Design Fix is, I am one of the two hosts. Kladi is the other host.
We do this every Thursday. So this is really, really exciting. Design Fix is essentially our time to give back to the community.
We take an hour out of our day to work on any of the designs, any brands, projects, maybe have some logos or some social media projects that you've been working on, and we help fix it up for you. So you might be new to making a side hustle. Maybe your business has been around for a long time.
Whatever it is, we're happy to help out. All you have to do is go over to our form, and I will put that in our link right now in chat, and you can fill it out and you can get your company, your business, whatever it is, featured in our show. So it's a great way to get your side hustle up and running, maybe adjust some stuff.
Whatever it is, we're happy to help out. If you are wondering where did this form go, it is in our Behance chat right now. We read our chat from there.
Gareth Sergey. Umicorn, sam penny. I see so many of our consistent viewers here today.
It's awesome to see. Welcome. Welcome.
This is awesome. So anyways, without further ado, sam, just relinked it in there. If you're wondering what this chat is, it's on Slash, Adobe Live.
That's where we read all our chat, all our questions. Feel free to ask away. Today we're going to be working in Exprs.
I'll show you really quickly what we're going to be working on. There we go. That's the button.
That's the button. Let me know if my audio levels are weird or anything like that. There is a slight risk that there might be a fire alarm today in my building, so we don't know.
We'll find out. We were given the window of nine to four yesterday, so we're rolling the dice today. We're going to see what happens, but let me know if you hear anything weird in the background or anything like that.
I'll adjust the volume accordingly. Today we're going to be working on wood window makeover really quickly. We have this gray artboard here.
I'm going to press Command Shift H, and then I have just a full window. You can see this is the logo that was submitted by Tanny. Essentially, this is the journey for a carpenter in San Antonio, Texas.
The little bio about them is my journey from a carpenter to craftsman. Began building country singer George Strait's adobe mansion in San Antonio, Texas, quickly became lead carpenter, responsible for all framing, trim, windows, door ceilings, cabinet, stair, and everything else made of wood. It was here that I learned how to think outside the box as nothing in the helm was conventional, discovering an untapped passion for making and restoring historic type windows, I decided to specialize in historic window preservation.
I now have made and restored thousands of windows. That's amazing. Clever, says Woo San Antonio.
Woo. Woo. San Antonio in the house, the home of some of the best text mechs in the world.
This is George Strait's House. I did some Googling before this stream to get ready. This is apparently a $7.5
million mansion in San Antonio. It's incredible. It's gorgeous.
Since we're going to be working on the logo updates for it, maybe there's some callback to this kind of Adobe mansion that we'd want to bring into the logo. Maybe some of these arches, maybe some of the detail work in the railings. Yeah, even just the ornate, like, hot tub could be fun, too.
So there's a lot of really cool shapes that are just coming from these images that I pulled from Google earlier. Really cool stuff to see, though. And I'm excited to start tapping into this.
So without further ado, let's jump into Express. If you have never used Exprs before, express is kind of the most stripped down, easy to use versions of all your favorite Adobe tools. Maybe you've never worked in Adobe tools before.
You don't need to coming into Exprs. Exprs is kind of your one stop shop to kind of get all your content out, post it on social. You can even print stuff.
You can download it as a PDF, whatever you want to do. You can even make Gifs MP4 s. You can do animations, like literally small animations to it, can remove backgrounds from your images, things like that.
So we're going to do that. We're going to use the logo as a starting point, and then we'll start working on some social stuff as well, which will be super fun. Clever says yes.
Best text mechs. Man I'm going to Houston next weekend for a wedding, and I am very excited to get my queso fix back on. And some barbecue.
We don't really have queso, or we have barbecue, but not really that good of barbecue in Los Angeles, so I'm very, very excited. Penny says Design fix is so fire. Set off the alarm.
I love that you can be my professional copywriter. Perfect. So we're going to jump into this.
All right, so starting off, we're going to start creating a new project. If you see this top tray up here, it already gives you some dimensions and some templates and things that you can already start using for your project. We're just going to click logo really quickly.
Michael asks it's for free. Question mark. It is for free? Michael yeah, absolutely.
For free. But it does get better with an Adobe subscription. That being said, because looking at this logo right here, this is the old one.
It has this kind of kind of see, let me zoom in on it for you. On the top left, you see this crown icon. That crown icon means it's included as part of your Adobe subscription already.
So if you have one, there's a lot of free assets, free templates, stock, photos that all are benefited by you having access to your own creative cloud subscription. But if you don't have it, that's fine. Look, there's so many all free logos without the crowns on there that you can start working with, but you can absolutely just use this one version of it as well.
Cool. Let's go back don't save. Go back to the logo.
And we're going to type in like carpenter save. Carpenter. Whoa.
That's kind of cool, actually. Wow. Okay, so there's that one.
And we're going to duplicate I'm going to build we're going to click this one. Oh, add as a page. There we go.
So now we have a couple of different things. I like that it has got the what is this word? Oh, plane. Thank you.
So if you just notice what I did, I cheated a little bit. I forgot what this was named after. If you click in and try to edit your shape, it'll bring up the shapes panel and give you options around the same keywords that are attached to that object or shape.
So by me just clicking this, it pulled up automatically woodworking plane and reminding me that this is a woodworking plane. I'm so used to pushing pixels, I forget what carpenter tools are called. So it's a good reminder.
Cool. Carpenter plane. I like that a lot.
So I think when we go back to our express file wood window makeover, school of Windowcraft, San Antonio. There's a lot going on in this logo in terms of all the copy being included in it. So I'd like to strip out some of the copy and just make it focused on wood window makeover.
Maybe there's a secondary element or tertiary element where we can get the location and what it is. The school part of it in there. We'll see where we get today on the stream.
But yeah, kind of where we're at right now. All right, so let's go in here and then do wood window. And then the bottom line, we'll go in there and just type in makeover.
Cool. We're just going to expand that shape, just grabbing the corner angles on it and then just kind of filling it out to fill out that blue box. That's kind of fun.
I saw something out of the corner of my eye with the recommended fonts. So we're just going to duplicate this really quickly. Just like I would if I was building logos in Illustrator, I would just move it all over and give myself a little bit of freedom with it.
I saw this really curvy, bubly, fun letters over here. So I really want to incorporate those somehow. And what window makeover.
This feels a little bit San antonio, right? Not San Antonio. It feels a little Austin y right now. Let's see what we can do with it.
Wood window might need an adjustment. Let's see what our font recommendations are. So if you see on the right side, you'll start to see some of the recommendations.
It'll also give you the option to click Explore more. Let me do that as well. I think maybe something like that feels a little bit nicer.
I wonder if it's I don't know if adding a serif to it. The serif does feel pretty nice, especially with all the bubbliness underneath. OOH.
Adobe Express is coming in clutch today. It's giving me some really good recommendations. All right, let me grab this.
Pull that. Pull it over to the side. It's not bad.
Maybe that's an option. Maybe we'll get Chat to vote on it in a second. Let's see what we can do here.
Again, let's find another recommendation for that top one. Let's go with this makeover. Might be too loud.
Now let's see if we have some additional options that aren't. So I like it. It's the hard part.
All right, let me see if I can adjust this shape. That's a rectangle. It's stuck.
All right, let me do grab another thing. Let me ungroup this group. All right.
So I've ungrouped it. Okay. Now I can change the size of this.
Okay. And then I'm just going to pull this over, see if I can center it all up together. I'm going to ungroup that as well by pressing Command Shift G.
And I'm just going to pull this down. Trying to increase our legibility, but it's not let's see here. Let's look back at our pages.
I don't love how bottom heavy it is, but maybe that's okay. Cool. I also really like that green, but if you really want to, you can change it up in the background.
Chat, what do you think for a color for this? I think keeping a kind of natural color palette seems pretty wise. Maybe I'll do something like a light blue or sorry, like a pastel blue. All right, grab these and this.
Boom. Cool. It's not too bad.
All right, so we got that option as a quickie. Let's see what else we can do with that. Also like the wood texture on this.
I wonder how this was made. So we have different timber options as well. We can pull from as you see, that shape panel on the left side is starting to give us some additional options as well.
Just go in here. Wood Window Makeover has a nice retro vibe to it. It's feeling pretty good.
Let's change out this background. The orange is a little harsh. That feels pretty good as well.
So just some quick changes with that. And it gave us a lot of really niceness. I really like this type on the bottom.
Is this hobo? Yeah, Hobo. Hobo is fun. It's popular again.
Clever. Says san Antonio is a very colorful cultural area. All colors all over, neon included.
Absolutely. I love San Antonio. San Antonio's.
Great. Yeah, I grew up not too far from San Antonio. Cool.
That's looking good. Clever says, you'll get in trouble with orange or maroon for those two big colleges. That is true.
Yeah. We're going to stay away from the longhorn orange, and we're going to stay away from the Aggie maroon, and then we'll stay away from the Baylor green. We'll stay away from all the college colors.
Jonathan says, I like the slate color. The slate color was really cool. Think we can probably incorporate more of that as there.
Jenny says darker green background. I can do a darker green real quick. Just duplicate it real fast.
Get some olive green in there. Or do you want, like how dark do you want it? Super dark. How's that feeling to you, Jenny? Let me know.
Be my art director chat. I'm here to make great designs with you. We'll do another.
Jenny says leaf. Okay. How much leafier do you need that green to be, like, bright green.
Oh. Jenny says cool. All right, I'll take Cool.
Let's see here. Is there a wood window? Let's see what okay. I wasn't actually expecting wood window to return anything.
Let's see what we can get. I don't love those, so let me do just window. Clever says pink, green, yellow, and cyan are popular now because it's a fiesta.
Nice. What up, Francisco? All right, let's see what we got here. I think maybe that's two.
I wish there was a way to invert some of these. Like, if I could just I guess I could. Okay.
So what I can do is I can take this all into Illustrator and make it do exactly what I want. I think maybe incorporating I'm trying to think from George Strait's house, what do we have? We've got these, like, arches that I was kind of mentioning earlier. Those aren't really windows.
Those are like chimney tops. But we got just, like, a Spanish style window frames like that. So we can throw that in there.
I saw some of those already. Oh, hello, Shauna. What up? Jenny says, check out the house again.
Yep. That's great. Minds think alike.
I love it. Let's see here. Let's get some of these frost doors or Spanish doors in windows, parts of a house.
All right, let's see here. It looks like let me look at that again. It's like three panel.
Three by two like that. Betsy says, can you put the timber behind the could? Let me let me give that a shot in a second. All right, let's do going to grab this, and I'm going to go up to the top right here and duplicate.
Or I can press command. D let's see. I mean, it's very big.
Why is it spacing off there? All right. Wood window makeover. Sean says.
Hey, Laz. How you doing? I'm doing great. How are you? How is the Illinois? I like this window illo in your logo.
Thank you. I made it myself. Just kidding.
These are shapes. Beautiful shapes coming from the asset library. All right.
I need to change the type to make it a little bit more serious if we're doing this. Very rigid. All right, let's just do everybody's favorite beboss.
If I can find change, I'm tired of looking at this orange. I'm sorry, y'all. All right, let's go.
Like Jenny said, leafy green earlier. Boom. Sauce says I'm good.
Weather's warming up. It's nice because I can go outside finally. Yep.
That's awesome. I'm glad that the weather is getting good for you. All right, for those of y'all who don't know who Shauna is, Shauna's a wicked talented illustrator, does children's books, illustrations, and just super talented in all aspects.
She also is a fanatical ice skater wood window makeover. I'm not loving this line on this. Let me see what we can do with the shapes.
All right, I'm just going to duplicate this. We have all this free pixel data and everything, so I don't want to be too stingy. All right, we're going to start messing with just go ham.
All right, I'm going to make this black. Let's get all right, copy shape. Give me a shape.
What am I trying to do? Curve. That's what I was trying to do. And no, I don't want any of that curve.
Let me change this shape to have a little bit more of an arch in it. Let me go over to the shapes panel left side again and then do arch. I'm going to just type in arch in front of it and see what happens.
Cool. Now we're starting to get some nice little window. Windows.
Cool window. And then I'm going to take out makeover and align. So if you see that kind of magenta line going through there, that pink line, that means that you're centered to the artboard.
I'm just going to drag this boom, boom, boom, quad window, and then make over, type it, text, add your text. Boom, click. Okay.
Boom. And then I'm going to just drag this down, and I'm going to drag that there. Cool.
Jenny says the arch is visually interesting. Is it typically found in adobo houses? I'm in Chicago. No adobo here.
Nope. No, they are not. That's a great question, but the way I'm justifying this creative choice is that the Adobe house was just their starting point, and they do all kinds of woodworking now and restoring historic types of windows.
I don't know if they only do Adobe style houses or not, but I would assume that it's any historic house. So I figured an arch window could work really well, and it would present a nice opportunity for us. But I appreciate you looking out for me.
I'm just trying to make a good logo now, but we'll probably go back to the arch or the other thing. It was just really difficult to make, like, a good looking when you have such a rigid square grid like that. I don't think it's very compelling from a logo perspective.
But chat. If you let me know if you want very rigid square logo, we can do that easily. No problem.
Guys are all my creative directors today. Let's just shrink this down a little bit more. I wish.
Let me just adjust this. That's feeling a little bit closer. What is that typeface? Fairwater.
Sands. Bold. Okay.
Fairwater. Nope, I don't need tattoo style. There we go.
Sands. Regular. No, bold.
There we go. All right, we're seeing let me just upgrade this to is this 20.9? Let's see.
Snap it all together. Jenny says can you throw in the angles? Give it a 3D look, maybe. That's a great idea.
I'm trying to figure out how I can do the 3D inside of Adobe Express, but we can try it is Express is still, like, a limited it doesn't give you all the functionality that you would have in Photoshop or Illustrator, so there are some constraints. It's really good for a lot of things, but also challenging for things like a perspective. Like, if I wanted to throw a perspective grid on this, I can't, but I can always pull that into Illustrator or Photoshop and adjust it manually.
Let's see back shapes on this is there see if I can find square. Oh, it's because I changed the rectangle. Shauna says not sure if it's tenable in Express, but if you added a roughened effect to the window, like a very subtle one, it would add to the wood feel.
You're absolutely right. That's a great idea. Okay.
You've given me so many good ideas. Let's do that. I'll bring it into Illustrator, and we'll see where we can get that's a really good idea.
Once we get a good enough logo that we like, then we can bring it into Illustrator, apply a rough and effect on it, and then be set. Don't like this. Shawna says I'm full of great ideas.
You are. That's why I always talk to you, so I always get your opinion on everything. So funny.
All right, we got some hmm. I like that. We got, like, a Windows key here.
That's good. Some browser windows. These all feel like historic.
At least this one definitely feels like a Sims. Like, if I wasn't playing the Sims right now, I feel like this would be an hmm. All right, let's see here.
Is this actually more balanced? No. Why is it doing that? I don't like when things don't feel balanced optically for a logo. So while those are good illustrations for Windows, that negative space in the middle and how it's, like, offset and everything feels really wonky to my eye.
Okay. Maybe this is our I think they're all going to be kind of like that. That's unfortunate.
We can cheat it. All right. What we'll do is this.
I'll duplicate it by just shift alting and dragging it. Cool. And then what we can do if we wanted to is we can just take another rectangle question from YouTube.
Are all those shapes free to license and use as a logo? I think so. I didn't see any that had a crown on them. But either way, everything you're making in Express, you can use as a logo.
You can use it as whatever. It's fine. It's there for you to use, so go ahead and use it.
If you are over at YouTube and you want to just directly chat with me rather than liaise through Sam, come on over be Net slash Adobe Live. Ask all the questions you might have. Happy to kind of get there and answer it for you.
But yeah, everything in Express that you create is open for you to use and Exprs is free. So take advantage of it. There might be, like, time where you want something a little bit more ownable, but for the most part, as long as your client's happy, then you'll be happy.
Cool. So what I'm doing here is I'm just cheating it making that thicker in that middle. I'm going to just zoom in on it and then shrink it down.
Let me see. It's going to be enough. It's going to feel off center, but whatever.
All right, duplicate that right. Top right. Boom.
Pulled over. Cool. Now it's feeling a little bit more balanced.
I'm liking that. Let's see what we can do with the type here. I'm going to duplicate this as well.
Um, there's a type treatment that I rarely ever use. Well, I have a drop cap. That's cool.
No, don't want that. Okay. It's the this I never really used it before for, like, an actual logo or project just because it's sometimes a little bit too fussy.
Why is it giving me a shape? I don't want that. Okay. I just want this to be white.
But something like this could work. Or like, the idea could work. I want a little bit more custom control than it sometimes wants to give, though.
Stop doing the shape thing. Jenny says I'm freaking out. I just did that.
Are you designing with me in real time? That's awesome. I love that. That's great.
Yeah, there's some fun stuff you can do with this. Honestly, though, if I was to do this, I would just do it where I have more manual control. So that being if I change this type to be a grid view, if I wanted, the grid view could actually be really cool.
Let's see here. Wood window. No, it's not going to work.
The magic tool. Magic is one of the most used tools that I use for the type in Exprs. What I love about it is that it'll fit whatever bounding box you kind of drag and pull.
So if you want three words stacked, boom. Super simple. If you want one know horizontal, just two stacked with one big word underneath.
Also does that really easily for you. Jenny says looks very simple but cool and very custom. Good messaging.
Yeah, absolutely. Sean says it's like an HGTV interstitial logo that way. That's so funny.
I always wonder where, you know, those shows get all their logos done so this feels balanced at least. Let's just duplicate it. What I'll do here is I will start stripping out some words.
I'll do wood window on one and makeover on the other. Just grab that boom wood window. And then I'll do wood window on the top.
And then I'll duplicate this. I'm going to rotate it 90 degrees, and then I'm going to change it out to makeover boom. And then I'm going to grab these all.
I'm going to grab these two and group them. Group that to the let me just center it. Cool.
Group those two together, making all the groups. I'm just going to actually take this and pull it down. I forgot my little bars.
Those poor bars. Let me pull them over. Boom.
Let me just make sure that those are both aligned. Cool. Another option.
I do like the idea of pulling them onto a perspective or even does this need to go? Do we need just one? Let's see. Just duplicate this really quick. I'm going to move this over here and then pull it up.
And then I'm going to duplicate it and I'm going to go here. Wood boom. I'm going to rotate this around.
Cool. Not loving that. Just going to back out.
Control z my way out of this shenanigans I made. All right, let's see here. What do we got so far? Yeah, we're going to do the wood texture thing.
Right. Duplicate that really quickly. Who was asking for the window and the wood? I forget.
Might be too fussy. Let's see. I think it's see where if we can find a wood texture.
Oh, okay. I really like some of this. We already duplicated it, so let's do this.
I'm going to command shift g to ungroup everything. Just take this color palette boom. I think that this or something like this could work really well for especially using, like, a hobo, the typeface that's really fun.
And then you can start pulling that texture into everything. Let's duplicate that. Let's keep riffing with it real quick.
That's actually pretty cool. I actually am liking that. Okay, what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to just download this really quickly.
Is that the one? Let's see here. Hold on. Chat, what do you think? Is that the one? Do we need to change out this shape? Jay says keeps the message more general.
I think that's not a bad thing. I agree. Let's see.
Let's do another quick pass at this. I think that this if we were to try to make that a logo. It look really bad at small sizes.
All right, I think we're going to go back to I think this is the one. So what I'm going to do here is I'm actually going to just download this as a PDF, start download, and then I'm going to pull that PDF directly into Illustrator, and then we're going to roughen it up, or we'll roughen Hobo up a little bit, and maybe we might adjust some of these little nudges in there. Okay, so we've got these layers.
Let me make them black so everybody sees what we're doing. Cool. So if we go into effect, I actually just try to go into all of them.
Effect stylize. Oh, it's not stylized. Is it? On path? Distort and transform.
There we go. Distort and transform. You'll get your roughen.
This is obviously way too much roughening. We're going to try to keep let's see all the detail. Whoa.
Too much detail. All right, so we're going to just start messing with stuff. Smooth.
Let's see smooth. How much detail size going on? Too much detail. 55 to.
All right. Not feeling a bit TexTory right now. Let's see absolute.
What does the absolute do? Okay, shauna says smooth option. I know. I got it, I got it.
Just not doing everything else right. Maybe that's fine. I think we're okay.
Is that too much? Does this feel like a tiger now? Sometimes to make rough and work, I need to make things I'm applying really large and expand it. You're right. That's smart.
Shawna, Lynn, Panchez, and everyone. There you go. All right, command shift h.
Bring the whole entire artboard into perspective effect. Why does it say effect? It's not effect. It's distort and transform and then click roughen, click smooth, and then do absolute, and then make it a little bit more detail.
Was that a zebra emote you dropped? Clever. That's so funny. I was, like, trying to figure out what emote you were using in Chat.
Two zebra or fingerprintees? What? She said both used a zebra like emoji. Oh, my goodness. Come on, Ruffin, figure it out.
This might not be smooth enough. Clover says, yep. Zebra y yep.
That's that's how I'm feeling right now about it. But, you know, maybe people like zebra wood. All right, this is getting way too pointy and not close enough to where I want, so I'm going to go back to what I had a second ago.
I don't want to spend the entire stream smoothing roughens out. That's not too bad. All right, cool.
Now we got that. What I'm going to do is actually just train shift H, and then I'm just going to make this bigger. I'm snapping centered to the artboard, and what I'm going to do is going to click export.
And then do what's this artboard. There's a perspective tool. Accidentally brought it up shifto to look at your artboard in Illustrator.
I'm going to export this. It's just artboard. One export wood logo.
Cool. Sean says, I'm pretty sure striper wood exists. So it would work.
It would wait. Garrett says zebra wood is a very nice wood. In fact, no way is zebra wood a real thing.
Hold on. Oh, chatters are right. What a thank you chat.
Look at me learning learn today. Look at that. That's zebra wood.
That's pretty cool. That is pretty cool. That is actually a really cool wood.
All right, tangent aside, sorry, I got derailed. That very cool. I like it.
All right, did I export this correctly? All right, what we're going to do now that we've got our zebra wood thing, let me wood window makeover. Cool. I got that there.
We're going to go back to discover just go back to our homepage. Click home, top left corner. Clever says it does.
It's cool. There's a place in San Antonio that I could get some right now. First of all, the fact that you know where to supply where to get supplies of zebrawood is already amazing.
And the fact that you have one locally is pretty awesome. So Clever is coming in clutch today. All right, we're going to go to the brands page.
For those of you all who've not ever seen this before, what you can do here is you can upload your own brand. So I'm taking the wood logo. I'm just going to upload it really quickly.
Boom, pick my color. We're going to do as cliche as it is. Try to go with, like, a brown.
I actually had a brown here that I liked enough. Seven three. Just grab it.
Boom, save. Then choose your font. We're just going to choose whatever for that section.
And then we'll do wood window makeover create Your Brand. So we got about seven minutes left, so I'm going to show you really quickly how you can bring this in and start bringing your brand to life. So go back to the Brands panel.
You'll see all these brands we built on stream. What you can do here is go to the three dots on the top right corner and then click the star button that says Make Default. You'll see it come to the very front in front of all the other logos you've worked on, and that's how you know you're working within that brand space.
And then you can go back to your recent project, go to your Projects tab and then click your edit project. Clever says, I have too many hobbies. And Gareth says, I get told all the time I have too many hobbies.
That's awesome. Having hobbies is know keeps you you. I mean, I'm streaming in front of all of my racing mothers and stuff, so I completely understand.
All right, we're going to do a new post. We'll say, like, this is like an Instagram post. Just build one by one.
What I'm going to do is actually see if I can find a carpentry photo I can't even spell carpentry correctly. Cool. All right, so like I said earlier, if you look over here on the left corner, on the left corner of your screen, but the right side of the image there, if you see that crown, that means that these are part of your Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.
I'm going to just grab this image of this guy doing the woodworks, and I'm going to take the logo that we already have and I'm going to go into oops, I messed it up. There we go. Should fit my screen again.
There we go. Cool. All right, let's go back to where is my UI? There we go.
I had to zoom out a little bit. Sorry. All right, we're back.
Go here, go to this image. What I'm going to do is click logos. Why is that? That's not the correct brand, but this is the correct brand.
Hmm. Well, it should be the Career Copilot logo, but let's just got four minutes anyway, so we'll just try it again. See? No.
All right. That feature is not working the way I want it to. I'm going to go to desktop or sorry, downloads really quickly.
I'm going to grab that logo, and then I can apply it anywhere I want. But really what I wanted to do with this is I wanted to see if I could use it as a texture really quickly and just cut off elements of the page. Go to, like, multiply.
Let's do screen multiply it is. And then just lower it down. Start using it as, like, a textural element.
I think that the rough in effect that I did on this is looking like it's pixelated. And so that's not an ideal situation. Like, that feels pixelated when it's not.
Well, that's something I can adjust, obviously. Let me go in here real quick and flip this. Boom.
There little flip. Grab some text, throw the text here, and then window making workshop. And then I'll go here.
And then I'll type in Hobo Sands. I'm sorry. It'd be hobo standard, I think.
STD. Yeah. Cool.
And then adjust the copy the color palette. I'll just adjust this like a cream. And then window making workshop.
And then I can duplicate this really quickly and then take this down and say, like, April 27 at 05:00 P.m. At near the river walk. I was going to say near the Alamo, but, like, I don't know.
Those are my two landmark references in San Antonio right now. Oh, no, it's stuck. Don't be stuck.
All right, there we go. Oh, no. What's my screen doing? Hello.
All right. Looks like it's doing some thinking. Jenny says corny.
That's funny. I mean, I don't know. I don't know any addresses.
I can say One, two, three street, but, like, near the riverwalk. Boom. Everybody loves it.
Let's see here. Oh, my gosh. My computer.
All right, we've got three minutes left. Let's do this. Duplicate that I'm just going to drag this down ever so slightly below it.
BYOC oh, no. KQ, bring your own queso. These are important.
You got to make sure everybody who's going to your workshop knows that they should expect to bring your own queso. I could really go for some queso right now. Okay, so if we were doing this as an actual social post, though, we would want to make sure that everybody you have that in the description as well.
Cool. Janice says quesadilla. Yeah, it could work for quesadilla as well.
All right, so let's go refresh really quickly. We did a bunch of different explorations for the logo. We looked at kind of like some of the shape languages, how to swap those out, how you can do, like, an arch logo if you wanted to, or you can start using some of these default logo templates that you've already got available to you.
I really like the Hobo with this organic shape pattern, and then that's kind of where we led to some of this stuff. I think with this brand especially, you could use a bunch of different textures, and it doesn't always have to be the same one. I think keep it dynamic, keep it organic, keep it feeling like it's a new plank of wood every time.
I think that could work really well. Just kind of build some rules around that. If you were to take this on as a client project, and then you found out how you can download your PDF and start making some final tweaks yourself in Illustrator and make it really your own, and then boom.
Clever says BYO queso, because this is nacho cheese. I think that is the perfect way to just say we're going to wrap this stream up. But thank you, everyone.
Thank you, Clever, for just bringing in some San Antonio vibes and Texas vibes into this chat. A pleasure.
