Our son is getting married in a few weeks to a wonderful young woman in D.C., and we spent this past weekend working on wedding gifts and favors for the guests that incorporate both their Irish and Hindu heritage. Our daughter thought of the idea of screenprinting an Irish and Hindu blessing on a piece of Irish linen. I thought it would be cool to create their own custom image of interlocking Irish love knots and the Ohm, the sacred Hindu symbol. Here’s what I came up with:
It was a fun exercise after so many weeks of intense corporate design work to do something creative and personal. I liked the idea of incorporating a heart into the mix too. I may tweak my line weights a little more to equalize the white space, and perhaps try to get the Ohm in the center to appear to be part of the continuous interlocking rope. What’s stopped me from messing too much with the Ohm is that I don’t know how far you can stylize it while still retaining its meaning. I don’t want to end up making it read “Bite the wax tadpole.”
Here were some of my preliminary sketches. I ended up deciding on encasing it in a circular shape instead of a triangle because a circle is a more eternal shape, and more peaceful to me than a triangle or something with too many points:
There is one spot that is driving me a bit crazy because I had to break the continuous knot in order to form the outer line of the heart:
But I decided to let it just disappear into the fold of the loop and forget about it. More important is the appearance of the continuous knot, the evenness of the space, and the feeling of balance.
Okay, back to my regularly scheduled work now…
October 28th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
I would love to have my own personal logo representing my marriage. What a great idea! I love it.
November 6th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Ok, this is beautiful! Incredible work!
November 24th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Hi,
I am an Irish gal marrying and Indian man in May 2009. When I showed him this design–he fell in love with it! How do I find out about using it?
Great work.
December 20th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Excellent logo. Ohm surrounded by the heart. I wish I had known you when I got married 8 years ago to come up with creative logo for my wedding.
April 26th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Hi
I came across your logo. Its amazing and I really like it! I’m Hindu and my partner is Irish, and were getting married in London in July. Could we use this logo as one of our images for our wedding invitation card?
We would acknowledge your work of course! Please advise.
Many Thanks
April 27th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Hello Ranjita,
Thanks for your nice comment about the logo. I sent you back an email. I’m happy to let you use this logo as long as you credit Stewart Design on the invitation. Thanks!