This past week I worked on a logo for a good friend of mine, Shingo. Shingo is a hairstylist from Japan, and he’s here in Ottawa to study english. He asked me to design a logo for him so that he could make business cards later down the road.

One thing that I learned from this exercise is that scissors are really freaking hard to draw. I must have drawn scissors dozens of times before getting it right. I would often screw up the proportion ratio between the blade and the ring, and the scissors would end up looking phallic (as silly as that sounds, haha).

A book that I picked up last week called Vector Basic Training: A Systematic Creative Process for Building Precision Vector Artork helped me a lot with my workflow. I’m not finished reading it but I took some tips from it as I worked on Shingo’s logo. In particular, Von Glitschka’s advice on going back-and-forth between analog and digital (i.e. from pencil on paper to the pen tool in Illustrator, and vice versa). I’m planning on writing a full review of the book later on, but it’s definitely pretty awesome so far.

What are your thoughts on the logo? Any feedback/criticism would be awesome :)