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		<title>Case study: Non Juan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been assigned to create a branding for the nonjuan.com — first of all to make a strong character that will be easily recognizable by the audience and carry all the needed traits client wanted. The requirements were more or less as follows: Non Juan is a comical dude who always experience fails of epic [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We’ve been assigned to create a branding for the <a href="http://www.nonjuan.com">nonjuan.com</a> — first of all to make a strong character that will be easily recognizable by the audience and carry all the needed traits client wanted.<br />
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The requirements were more or less as follows: Non Juan is a comical dude who always experience fails of epic proportions trying to date a girl; he is an African-American guy with somewhat unkempt look, a bit nerdish (but not too much), not too upset with the current state of things, cheerful and funny. As Non Juan himself is saying: “I’m just like Don Juan — minus the ladies, money, charm, and everything else.”<br />
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First iteration produced someone too confident in himself rather than awkward.<br />
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<img src="http://www.blogdesignninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/1.jpg" alt="NonJuan" title="NonJuan" width="750" height="321" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-133" /><br />
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Putting glasses on wasn’t much help either.<br />
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<img src="http://www.blogdesignninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/2.jpg" alt="NonJuan" title="NonJuan" width="750" height="321" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-134" /><br />
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After this point was decided to make several sketches for the client to approve the overall look. The sheet with rejected (oh irony — Non Juan [Rejected] is how the logo looks like now!) characters:<br />
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<img src="http://www.blogdesignninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/3.jpg" alt="NonJuan" title="NonJuan" width="750" height="673" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-135" /><br />
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And here is the sheet with the “getting closer” results:<br />
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<img src="http://www.blogdesignninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/4.jpg" alt="NonJuan" title="NonJuan" width="750" height="820" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-136" /><br />
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This is where the current Non Juan was born:<br />
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<img src="http://www.blogdesignninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/nonjuan-character-fullsize.jpg" alt="nonjuan-character-fullsize" title="nonjuan-character-fullsize" width="750" height="528" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-137" /><br />
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In the production of the site itself we created humongous amount of illustrated characters, thingies, backgrounds etc.<br />
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<img src="http://www.blogdesignninja.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/6.jpg" alt="NonJuan" title="NonJuan" width="750" height="884" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-138" /><br />
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Visit online and enjoy at <a href="http://www.nonjuan.com">NonJuan.com</a></p>
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