{"id":322,"date":"2012-12-28T22:59:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T22:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=322"},"modified":"2015-01-03T06:12:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T12:12:56","slug":"north-dakota-dance-and-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/north-dakota-dance-and-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota Association of Dance and Drill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndadd.org\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-323\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/ndadd_logo.jpg\" alt=\"NDADD_logo\" width=\"494\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_344\" style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-344\" class=\"size-full wp-image-344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/ndadd_sketches.png\" alt=\"NDADD_thumbs\" width=\"494\" height=\"766\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The initial sketches evolved from a simple acronym to an abstract dancer silhouette<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Interpreting Dance<\/h4>\n<p>It&#8217;s always a challenge to do logos for organizations that have lengthy names. Acronyms certainly help, but unless you find a creative way to utilize an acronym, people won&#8217;t make the connection. To anyone who has ever witnessed a drill team or dance performance knows that they are high energy. I did a number of sketches trying to tap into that energy. Ultimately I decided to use the abstraction of a dancer mid leap and customize the text to make it appear more seamless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interpreting Dance It&#8217;s always a challenge to do logos for organizations that have lengthy names. Acronyms certainly help, but unless you find a creative way to utilize an acronym, people won&#8217;t make the connection. To anyone who has ever witnessed a drill team or dance performance knows that they are high energy. I did a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brand-identity","category-design","category-logo-design"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5d9oW-5c","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/ndadd_thumbs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}