Developing my identity

For a while i have been thinking about how to develop my identity in a way that it represents me and my work. I have towards the end of year 2 started to develop a more individual style. I also want to show a small aspect of my interest through the design i use. It will need to work across a range of media, as i love pattern work and collage i wanted to push forward with this especially as i haven't had the chance to continue with this for a while. I feel the best way for my 'identity' to work across a range of media and to keep the same theme i have started with a symbol. Im not sure how exactly i will be using this, but a the moment i think i want one of the symbols to work alone as a logo but then to be repeated as a large pattern for the business cards. Below are a selection i feel are the best so far i have achieve using either solid colour or a range of mixed collage.

Identitys

I mentioned earlier i would quite like to create my identity logo so be illustration and type, both most likely illustrated not vector. The images below are an example of image and type logo working together, this is a really simple 1 colour logo. Its really basic but i like that one without the other wouldn't make sense. As my identity logo will need to work across a varied media and possibly materials, i think its best to keep it simple and plain and not fill it with too much detail, but at the same time i need to make it attention grabbing, so people will remember me, or even what to look at it amongst a pile of others.

Identitys

I dont partially like the over all finish of this, what i do like its the quirky side its taken. The second image shows of the logo better than the first image, they have changed the paw print into a 4 leaf clover and in keeping with the irish name used a shamrock silhouette on the eye path of the dog logo. This is so simple and i think its quite clever, to the every day person or dog owner something small like this would easily pull a customer in. This aside i do think it still needs further work, with the colour and type face, but that might just be my taste.

Identity

Over the past few weeks i have randomly been looking at different identities i like, some are for visual reasons and some have clever little quirks in them. I really need to create my own identity which i can use across a wide range of medias so people can recognize me. My next step will be to identify this, at this point i think something like a logo is the best way to move forward, i definitely want to include my name in some way.

These are a collection of images showing how the identity of 'Hotel Boheme' work across a range of different medias, they work really well visually on different materials and on different scales. What i particularly like about this logo is the style of writing, two different type faces are used, but it doesn't look boring it fits in with the theme of the hotel. I want the style of my logo to fit in with my work and who i am.

Design Strategies 1

Getting feedback.

I have emailed various design houses and printers as i want to get different types of feed back but also for later development if i get the opportunity for a placement at some point in the year, i would like to have the chance to work in a design studio and a professional screen print house so i can get a feel for both on a higher end and professional scale. I have pasted below the places i have emailed, they are all local design house/printers as i cant afford to stay away somewhere or i cant leave home :)

http://www.lindleyshosting.biz/web1/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26

http://www.bigcheesedc.com/page/designforprint

http://www.adwebprint.co.uk/shop/index.php#panel-1

http://www.space3.co.uk/

http://www.globalgraphic.co.uk/

http://www.imagetwentyfour.com/index.html

http://www.manlee.co.uk/prom10.html

http://www.fuse8.com/

http://www.frecklecreative.co.uk/

http://www.lizkay.co.uk/risk.html

http://www.rebeccastoner.co.uk

I have decided after emailing the above places and i doubt i will get a response, im going to re email the places i first sent emails out to, it will be interesting to see if my new digital portfolio gets a response over my old one.

New Digital portfolio

I mentioned in my presentation, that from my first attempt of emails to the outside world on gaining some professional feedback i received none. I didn't feel i had submitted my best work on these digital portfolio to them. Since then i feel i have produced much more interesting work that i have enjoyed and it seems my work is taking a much more similar root, rather than everything being so random and varied in style. Below are the few pages i have chosen to send to different agencies, i feel they are some of the best things i have produced so far please let me no what you think or if you want to suggest anything different! cheers :)