This was a fun project for a client who recently purchased a catamaran that he named the Tacocat. He wanted to create a decal to put on the boat, and had an event planned that he wanted to make t-shirts for as well, so he wanted something that would work well on a variety of scales. I started out with a series of rough sketches, with this one coming out on top very quickly.
This sketch served as the base design for the vector graphic with the request to add the crossed swords from the bottom right sample in the image above. Using Illustrator, I built out the vector graphic maintaining a mostly symmetrical appearance. The word Tacocat is a palindrome, which means it is spelled the same way backwards or forwards, so the idea there was to make a vector palindrome of sorts as well.
After that I worked on the text. The client wanted a very particular style of typeface to be used and this one was the closest fit for what they were wanting. The c just after the o and the a just before the last t are flipped, another fun use of the palindrome idea, making the second half a perfect reflection of the first.
Two different layout styles were created to make it a bit more versatile for use in a variety of ways. And an all white version was created to be used on dark backgrounds.
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