Hello, my name is Huseyin Akis and it’s my fifth week interning at City Tech Image & Visual Communications office. I rolled into the office at 10 AM with a smile and said “good morning” to my co-workers. I prepared my desk and my spotify playlist before, I started working on the City Tech Wi-Fi logo. This wasn’t the start of the logo, this was the revision phase.

My supervisor Mr. Vargas wanted me to change the font to Helvetica and the typeface to bold. The problem was the original font I used Xsotik, where I downloaded from DaFont.com. The letters of the font Xsotik were too close to each other. Which ended up leaving a lot of space for the shape of the Wi-Fi symbol. I changed the text to Helvetica bold and adjusted the shape of curve of the Wi-Fi symbol.

I took my lunch time at 1 PM, it was time to take a break from the computer screen and time to eat. I had a roast beef sandwich and a Snapple Lemon Iced Tea. I took my lunch break for an hour and then went back to working on the logo. So, I changed the text to Helvetica bold and using the pen tool, I traced over each of the curves on the bottom of symbol.

Finally, I created outlines of the type and used the pathfinder tool to divide the type and the symbol. Mr. Vargas came to my desk around 3:50 PM and said  ” I want you to make fit the words Wi-Fi in the symbol as well”. Just like the way, I fitted the letters inside the symbol in the sketch.

I was out by 4:00 PM and said to my co-workers “good bye, see you tomorrow”.