The “Boom Mafia” has been around what seems to be forever. The name is a representation of how tight the Boom Operator community is. Generally, Boom Operators all hang out together and are relatively close. This is where I came up with the idea of the mafia theme. Designing this, I went through a few different ideas and layouts.

First, I started with the hat and coat from a side and front view. Originally it was just a shadowed face of a person but then I decided on the tiger. The representation of the tiger is historical in the Boom community, dating all the way back to the first boom operators. It has since fallen to the wayside with only a handful of booms that carry on the tiger legacy. Here I saw a great opportunity to design a logo that was entrenched in boom operator history and could potentially be printed out as a physical patch for our uniforms. The tiger made the design much more difficult as I needed to find ways to show what it was without straying away from the overall shadowed gangster theme.

Scouring the internet looking at different logos from all over the place, I saw a lot of sport team type logos and this is what inspired my side profile logo. It also is the reason for the sharpen edges and more condensed look as it follows a lot of attributes that are carried in sport logos.

I scanned my sketch into illustrator and was able to use the pen tool to trace along my sketch and make an outline. It was surprisingly easy to separate everything into different sections for coloring. I would like to add more detail to the face but due to my lack of experience it was as good as I could get it. I would have liked to make the hat seemed shadowed with a blueish tint but again was unable to achieve what I wanted. I found that transforming text in illustrator is incredibly difficult.  Unlike photoshop, Illustrator would not keep items uniform when scaling or skewing. I would like to address the text later on when I have more knowledge. I added a “boom” to the “I” in mafia to give a little more relation to the community. Overall I enjoyed the project and hope you like the logo.