Demon Parasol Logo

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BACKGROUND

My sophomore year at DigiPen begin with joining a new team of three other BAGDs in order to create a game together. Considering our game’s theme took place in Japan we decided to come up with a Yōkai-inspired name for our team, Demon Parasol, based off of the kasa-obake creature. Probably the quirkiest logo I’ve made thus far in my life, it is also unique and garnered a lot of attention from other game team’s that school year.

DETAILS

The process for coming up with the kasa-obake style logo for my game team was a learning experience in how to create a recognizable logo out of a not immediately known subject. A western audience will not readily understand what a casa obake is and so creating an abstract logo seemed out of the question. However, for any good logo I needed to be able to communicate what this creature is in as simplest a way as possible.

Thankfully there is no shortage of imagery out there on the internet for what the kasa-obake looks like and I designed my logo off of the image on the left. I boiled the kasa-obake down to being a cycloptic umbrella with a large tongue. I chose to add demon horns to help aid a western audience in understanding that this object is demonic and also chose to omit the hairy leg in favor of a handle in order to help the logo be understood better as a parasol.

This project was a fun undertaking and our game was quite a lot of fun to work on, as well. If you’re interested in the game or more concept art of the weird creatures I made for it, check out my portfolio page for my game, Setsuko.