your own brand
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- hitsuji
just curious how some of you go about designing and creating your own brand/website/logo?
whats your thought process or routine?
it's something i've always really struggled with. its the hardest thing in the world for me to design things for myself.
- jamesomega0
start with your name and a classy font.
- that's where I started and ended, and I didn't even choose a classy fontmonospaced
- probably a monospaced font, eh? wink, wink, nudge, nudge. knowwhatimean?formula
- jamesomega0
If you're in film, start with Trajan and Bank Gothic
If you're in print, start with Archer
If you're a religious blogger, try MrsEaves
- lolabettertomorrow
- <jaylarson
- coders, stick to dinkingsteven
- Bahaha.gramme
- am i the only one that hates archer, ffs?formula
- i'm in film and fully used trajan in my bookscarabin
- liveforever0
if you're from wales, start with dragons
- and douch'esliveforever
- why the apostrophe?monospaced
- "Here be douch'es"abettertomorrow
- cool yeah... maybe the dragon could breath out my name in flameshitsuji
- abettertomorrow0
Put some text inside a colored circle.
- Always worksabettertomorrow
- good idea. never thought of that onehitsuji
- dbloc0
just make it you. you know your own style and what you like.
- Glitterati_Duane0
Very hard at first. Fun now cause I don't care as much.
- jfletcher0
worry about the work you put out and how you're percieved :)
- pinkfloyd0
My brand is one big middle finger.
- bjladams0
the best thing you could do, would be to start by posting your best effort here, then qbn-ers will guide you peacefully towards a perfect end.
- abettertomorrow0
The new style is not to have a logo
- i_monk0
If you've never done branding before, start to finish, then start by reading up on successful brands and branding techniques. That's what I'm doing, as it's finally sinking in that a brand is more than the logo, typeface, and swatch palette.
- Fax_Benson0
pretend you're not you, and thatyou (not you) have approached you with a really interesting branding job that you (actually you) have free reign over.
- and keep track of your hours and charge yourself accordingly. and dont take advantage of yourselfbjladams
- Then reject your first three concepts and make yourself combine elements of the next 3.i_monk
- The worst elements, that is.i_monk
- hahaha...lol, then when your ready to go to print change your mind and don't return your own calls for a week.duhsign
- akrok0
- done. *invoice sent*akrok
- http://new.myfonts.c…akrok
- lolGlitterati_Duane
- G_D - likes it. :-)akrok
- how much? $20?hitsuji
- 20k, yes.akrok
- standard branding fees.akrok
- monospaced0
- me?bjladams
- you're in fashion. lol.akrok
- cant wait to tell my wife.bjladams
- no, not you, memonospaced
- oh... i'll change mine to arialbjladams
- you kern like carson! lol.akrok
- nothing wrong with the kerningmonospaced
- carson, agrees. hah.akrok
- me?mydo
- youmonospaced
- oh good. i thought it was.mydo