Research & Goals
Print & Identity
About P&W
Business Card
Word Cloud
Promotional Flier
Project Goals Digital Design Guidelines
Website
Logo
Social Media
Logo Usage Common Logo Misuses Color Palette Typefaces Common Type Misuses Layout & Grid
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Research & Brief
About Pimples & Wrinkles
Pimples & Wrinkles is a blog / website providing skin care product reviews and articles. Using personal experiences and product testing to help the public make accurate decisions when purchasing skin care products. Communicating these helpful skin care reviews and tips in the form of a blog. “Our goal is to provide a site that has clear and unbiased reviews of skin care lines, written by women who actually have (or hopefully had) real skin care problems. We want to help arm you with the right products for your skin care arsenal. In short, we want to pass on what we learn to you and provide a forum to hear your thoughts as well.�
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word cloud
conversational social media
feminine
fresh
reviews
skin care community blog
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Project Goals
Branding / Creative
Content
To successfully create a recognizable “face” via color, mark,
CMS: Custom-Style Wordpress implementation
typography, hierarchal grid, and unity—that communicates
Products: Ability to import/export product lists,
the purpose and voice for Pimples & Wrinkles.
automatically generate pages by import Searching: Tag based & text
Functionality
SEO/Analytics: Optimized for SEO. XML Site map, Relevant
User Accounts:
Meta Tags, Analytics tracking Advertising: Click referral
Public Profile—Photo, Location, age, skin type Opt in
programs, randomized ads
& out to newsletter mailing list Ability to create Product
Filtering: The ability to view content based on your interests
lists, and “routines” Ability to Rate & review lists / routines
(not necessary but would be amazing)
The ability to tag, and sort routines for searching Communication: Mailing List sign up Share with ease, Social media Forums / FAQs or Q&A
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Design Guidelines
Basic Logo
Notes:
Logo should be used on a white background, in green only. No smaller than 200 px. (web) or 1.25� (print).
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Logo Sans Talk Bubble
Notes:
Logo should be used on a white background, in green only. No smaller than 200 px. (web) or 1.25� (print).
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Web / Other logos
Notes:
featured article
face off
desert island pick
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Can be used on posts, or images. Can be used with social media as well.
Web / Other logos
P&W F E AT U R E D R E V I E W
P&W F E AT U R E D R E V I E W
Notes:
Can be used on posts, or images. Can be used with social media as well.
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P&W F E AT U R E D R E V I E W
P&W F E AT U R E D R E V I E W
Logo Clearspace
Notes:
Minimum clearspace must equal the x-height of the logo.
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Logo misuses
The logo is designed for a highcontrast background and should not be used on low contrast and or clashing backgrounds.
Not providing the appropriate amount of clearspace between a margin and the logo.
Not providing the appropriate amount of clearspace between content and logo.
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Basic Palette accent colors
R G B : 1 02 , 65, 1 1 6
RGB: 1 65, 89, 129
RGB: 129, 65, 116
RGB: 193, 92, 129
R G B : 121, 122, 125
C : 6 8 m :86 y:26 k:1 0
C:3 6 m:7 7 y:27 k:2
C:52 m:86 y:26 k:10
C:20 m:7 7 y:27 k: 2
C : 0 m: 0 y:0 k: 70
HEX : 6641 74
H EX: a55981
HEX: 814174
HEX: c15c8 1
HE X : 797a 7d
PANTONE: 261 2
PANTON E: 689
PA N TON E: 8125
PA N TON E: 118 -3
PA N TON E : 8 421
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Typefaces
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S c a la Sans
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Type Usage
Headline
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Notes:
Paragraphs should not be indented—paragraphs should be shown as a line space equaling 1.5 x the line height. Line length should not exceed 40 em.
common type misuses
Headline
Uneven line-height and letter spacing.
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Not enough space between header and first paragraph,
layout and grid
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print & identity
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