I decided to make a crest for a group of family friends.  We call ourselves the "Wally World Wanderers" or just "the Wanderers" for short.  

The origin of the group predates my birth, but the story that has been passed down to me is as follows: Someone once got mad at one of our friends and said that he looked like a walrus. From that point on everyone called him "Wally". "Wally" owned a RV, which was then called "Wally World". We would all go on group camping trips and we called ourselves the "Wally World Wanderers".

Back in the early nineties they had tank tops, sweatshirts and camp flags printed with this logo that my mom drew.

This walrus has been an icon throughout my childhood and continues to be into my adulthood, so I knew this must be the center point of the crest.  I wanted to create a cleaner, more logo-friendly version of the walrus, so I sketched out something with simple shapes and started working in illustrator.

Next, based off of some sketches I began putting some things together. The flamingo-laurels are a reference to the flamingo lawn oranaments that everyone would put outside of their tent/trailer.

Here is the final version I came up with.

and some color

Finally, some application:




Thank you for taking the time to view my project! Any constructive criticism is appreciated.