Should I have a Camping Logo?
It all started in November 2019 when we took delivery of our 2020 Scamp 13’ travel trailer without any logos… for a clean all-white glossy look. The only Scamp designation on the trailer was on the rear spare tire cover, which is printed with Scamp’s logo and phone number. After a few months, the all-white vinyl tire cover was getting yellowed and didn’t look great. (It was getting to be a bit embarrassing.) Time for a replacement? But, we preferred something unique and special for our next tire cover.
At about the same time the Scamp spare tire cover was ready to be replaced, we thought it would be great to start a small travel trailer blog to help others flatten their learning curve. While developing the website, a friend recommended we have a logo. Although not necessary, we thought this would add a nice touch on each web page as well as on our profile image for our scamptrailer Instagram account. In addition, it would provide an opportunity to order a high quality custom spare tire cover with our own logo to replace the yellowed one we had. So, next project: develop a logo!
The first thing we did to create our logo was develop a concept of what we wanted. Our initial thoughts were that the logo should have a bear, owl, Scamp 13’ travel trailer, some trees, and mountains – things we love to experience while camping. Choose design elements that are meaningful to you when creating your logo. We also wanted the artistic elements to be integrated in some way so that it looks like a real logo design and not just a drawing. To save a lot of time and expense, we sketched out the initial design idea ourselves with pen and paper. Once we were satisfied, we sent the drawing to our illustrator friend and had her professionally draw it out. The initial rendering was created with black lines and then a second drawing added just a few elements yellow (windows, owl’s eyes, and moon). Later, we gave the completed design to a relative who is a graphic artist and he colorized the entire illustration. Having a few color variations provides some design options for different logo uses (e.g. website, Instagram profile, spare tire cover, stickers, t-shirts …..).
The process of creating a logo can be very quick, depending on you and your ideas. It’s also not too expensive. If you are an artist type, then you can probably create your own logo for free in a graphics design program like Photoshop. However, we decided on using a professional for illustrating our design. Our logo cost around $140 to make (although our relative did not charge us to colorize the final illustration). In the end, creating a camping logo is more than worth it if you are actively using your small travel trailer because you can not only use the logo for a spare tire cover, but also for online profile images, giveaway items like stickers, as well as t-shirts you can wear on your trips. If your logo is on your outside spare tire cover, it will be seen quite a bit and you will really enjoy the customized look and most likely get a lot of compliments and questions. The logo gives your small travel trailer a bit more personality, both on the road and in the campground. Additionally, if you choose to make stickers with your logo, you can give them away to new friends you meet at the campgrounds as your calling card as well as trading them on Instagram. You might even create t-shirts with you logo! The list of possibilities for your logo is almost endless!
Email Marianne if interested in Logo design: mariannerf@gmail.com
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