Sometimes, you get the strangest, yet most appealing ideas walking down the street instead of when you’re at your desk nibbling on a pencil. It just hits me, sometimes before I go to sleep, or when I’m waiting in a queue. More often than not, I forget the idea, but lately I’ve been putting them into my iPhone, in a list. And when I looked back at that list yesterday, I found one particularly interesting.
“Design a series of corporate brand identities based on Pokémon.”
Guys? Stay with me here. When I was about eleven years old, I played a Pokémon game on a gameboy emulator on my PC, and I still think the creatures that Ken Sugimori designed are very iconic, characteristic designs. The crazy idea of doing some logotype work for them enticed my curiosity enough to actually do some work on it in my spare time. Here we go: corporate brand design, the Pokémon edition.
If you like it, please digg it.
I’ve already shown you Bulbasaur, a brand of plant chemicals. I had fun representing its poison/grass elemental types.
Onwards to a computer chip manufacturer; Magneton (Steel/Electric type).
And how about the electric company, Pikachu. Very renowned for its cute mascot and powerful slogan.
It’s not all classic brick and mortar corporations, though; Staryu is a friendly, myspace-like web 2.0 startup.
A bed and sofa company, Drowzee: (for obvious reasons, generally considered a ’sleep’ type)
For professional grooming and spa salons, Jigglypuff is the way to go:
And last but not least; Kadabra, the psychic silverware company. Kadabra, the Pokémon, is a psychic that can bend spoons, and constantly carries a spoon around.
I’d like to take this (hilarious) trip across fictional brands to a more serious note; these are merely draft designs, made in a relaxed mood with little attention to detail. I couldn’t say this work is representative of how I’d design actual logotypes. Regardless, it was a lot of fun to design.
Sometimes, people ask me, “Hey, if you design stuff like this, how come you can’t schedule my work on a short-term basis?”. The answer is very simple; this is some free-as-a-bird design. It’s what doodling was to you when you were in school (you doodled in school, right?!). As a designer, I have a lot of fun doing my work. It is, however, important to actually have fn designing and doing what you do for a living. I enjoy doing designs that don’t have to pass the judgment of a client, or with the responsibilities of professional design. That’s why I release freeware icons, and wallpapers, and now, design logotypes for a bunch of pocket monsters.
I hope you understand.
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Monday, 9. March 2009
Awesome ! Especially Bulbasaur and Pikatchu !
Monday, 9. March 2009
Interesting post!
Especially in the final. It’s very important to spend time like this.
Ah! about the pocket monsters logotypes, I love the Magneton one for design and Kadabra for methaphor. Nice idea.
Keep flying Cocoia!
Monday, 9. March 2009
Wow! Very nice! Love Drowzee and Kadabra!
Monday, 9. March 2009
Fantastic idea. I love the Pikachu one, but I think that be because it is so reminiscent of the Wipeout team ident’s and slogans as well as TDR of course. The Magmar indent is nice too.
Monday, 9. March 2009
haha love them.
Monday, 9. March 2009
Thats awesome!
Monday, 9. March 2009
fun stuff. The Kadabra one is nice and subtle
Monday, 9. March 2009
Personal faves (in order) are magmar , bulbasaur, and drowzee … all excellent !!
The others seem kinda rushed or done just for the sake of it. however, massive props for the subtle K on kadabra even tho it could use bolder, shinier spoons :-P
I wish Nintendo didn’t have trademarks for almost all of the pokemon so that these could evolve into something i see everyday
Monday, 9. March 2009
bulbasaur, staryu and magmar are amazing. by the way, how much would one pay for a blog logo like this?
Monday, 9. March 2009
This is really amazing, especially the Magmar logo.
Monday, 9. March 2009
I’m disappointed Seb, why didn’t Squirtle make the cut huh? HUH?!?
:p
Monday, 9. March 2009
Awesome.
Monday, 9. March 2009
The bulbasaur one is really cute
Monday, 9. March 2009
This is some awesome work, mate! I really like it, the logos and the idea behind them :) well done!
Tuesday, 10. March 2009
These are really quite awesome, and it was a clever idea! Any chances you’ll make some wallpaper sized ones of these? :)
Tuesday, 10. March 2009
Amazing logos! These are better than what a lot of big companies have for their real identities (Pepsi comes to mind…).
What font is used for the Bulbasaur text? :)
Tuesday, 10. March 2009
Cute! My little brother loved Pokemon. Jigglypuff is my favorite :)
Tuesday, 10. March 2009
hey these are absolutely awesome
was wondering if it would be possible to get these in a full wallpaper size
once again thanks for sharing these
Tuesday, 10. March 2009
good work! i wonder what you could do with my initials (“DLC”)
Tuesday, 10. March 2009
I’m a graphic designer AND a Pokémon fan.
Needless to say, these designs made me wet myself with glee. Absolutely wonderful.
Tuesday, 10. March 2009
wow. i came up with “Torterra Tortillas” in woodmans once
pretty awesome
Tuesday, 10. March 2009
This is great! I’m looking forward to see all 150. :)
Wednesday, 11. March 2009
This is fantastic and hilarious. I showed a couple of my friends this blog post and they loved it.
Wednesday, 11. March 2009
These are amazing. These look legit, and you should do them for all of the Original Pokemon!
And hi Joec! (I know him :P)
Wednesday, 11. March 2009
I scanned this post the other day and simply thought that these were some nice logo designs you had found around the web!!
I love this idea though, and some these logos look fantastic. Magmar and Bulbasaur look brilliant.
Any clients complaining that you do work like this can go and get stuffed! It shows a creative spirit that not enough people are lucky enough to enjoy.
Thursday, 12. March 2009
Nice logos, they’re very modern-looking; I like the Bulbasaur, Magneton, and Pikachu logos a lot.
Hey, you do know that there is an actual company with a Pokémon’s name in it? It’s called Gallade Chemical. I am not kidding; there really is a company with the name of Pokémon #475 in it. Their website is http://www.galladechem.com/
Monday, 16. March 2009
Kadabra, Staryu, and Bulbasaur were my faves. Those are completely awesome :) I’d like to see more designs!!
Tuesday, 17. March 2009
What, no mudkip?
Wednesday, 18. March 2009
Brilliant. Reminds me of the old days. I know the guy that runs the world’s biggest online Pokemon forums.
Wednesday, 18. March 2009
That bulbasaur mark looks more like an oddish to me.
Wednesday, 18. March 2009
IT´s amazing!! Simple Amazing!
I loved them all !
Thursday, 19. March 2009
Great idea, love all the corp logos, especially pikachu XD
Tuesday, 24. March 2009
Haha, I love ‘em all! I’ve got to remember to show these to the kids.
Thursday, 26. March 2009
Neat idea! And very nice results. Nice one!
Friday, 27. March 2009
lmao, those bent spoons on Kadabra.
Sunday, 29. March 2009
Just joining the chorus of people that love this idea!
Friday, 10. April 2009
Hey, those logos look cool. You’re obviously a fellow Poké-freak. Any idea where I can buy a Poketch? Mom won’t let me go to the Anime convention…thx
Saturday, 11. April 2009
lovely logo designs
Thursday, 14. May 2009
Awesome ideas! Awesome execution! The logos are so liquid and “web 2.0″ styled. Liked them all. I think, I’d better to start a sketchbook, rite now, huh.. :)
Thursday, 14. May 2009
Why my comment doesn’t show up? You have very very very powerful spam filters that avoid this sincerely honest comment to be posted. :(
Monday, 7. September 2009
These needs to be wallpaper sizes!!!